skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> time on a train can be better spent than time in a car because one doesn’t need to pay as much attention, which could be a small improvement to many people’s lives.

This is not really true on busy trains. I've commuted both on trains and in cars, and when comparing transportation methods near the saturation point, cars win when it comes to personal comfort.

A traffic jam is no fun, but you can still sit, aren't jostled about by other people, have your personal space, and keep your climate controlled to a good level.

In a full train, you will be standing up, pressed against a bunch of other people. The climate will be other people's sweat. You may be able to use your phone, but not much more.

On a longer quiet route the train can be very nice. Get your laptop out, do a little work, nice coffee or tea with you. But on a busy commuter line it's more annoying than a car.
Regarding the question why scientists don't buy the sequencing machines themselves I think a major factor is likely that sequencing is something that everyone expects to be a service and not something you do yourself. I would not even have considered doing this in-house.

At $15 per plasmid there is also no real advantage for typical labs, they're unlikely to save much money here. It could be quicker because you don't have to send the samples, but that likely isn't a big factor here. And having another device that either someone has to run as a service locally or that you have to teach everyone is a rather big effort.
I've been wondering lately how these USB execution attacks happen. Surely no modern system auto-runs things from a USB, so there has to be some kind of executable on the drive which the user of the drive either A. Expects to be there, or B. Doesn't notice is there. A sounds a bit strange, but maybe the system is updated over USB, that means that the hackers got into the update pipeline which is very bad. B might be more likely, create an EXE with the thumbnail of an image and maybe you could trick a user into clicking it. Or maybe some nefarious excel macro. But in this case it's strange that the system allows these things to be executed.

Does anyone have more details on how this is done?
Ars debunked this weird idea that batteries aren't improving a few years back: https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/05/eternally-five-years...
Everyone should be held to the same standards. If my professed principle was to be evil, then would you judge me negatively if I acted good?

I release software under a permissive license too. But I understand the only reason I'm able to do it, is because companies like Google and Mozilla believe in supporting people like me. There's this unwritten rule that the most successful people in our society should be philanthropic, because they're the only ones who can. However nothing formally requires this.

It's similar to how a company might officially give you unlimited vacation days. Imagine if one person tests that rule, and makes every day a vacation day. It would probably take years before someone tries that, but once someone actually does, the rules are going to quickly change for everyone and you might end up with a lot less freedom than before.

WPEngine has certainly tested the limits of the open source gift economy and the way Automattic is reacting isn't helping either. It's a sad thing to witness.
I’m spending maybe one minute a day clicking Cookie banners. While people in the US spend two hours more every day driving a car. So when put into perspective, it does not seem such a big deal (though Cookie banners suck for sure, and from a PR perspective they are bad for the image of mostly effective EU regulation efforts in many other areas).
- public $version = '6.3.6';
+ public $version = '6.3.6.2';

Why would you break the version standard? Maybe there are scripts expecting a specific format or some such. Also, given the majority of this change, I think 6.4.0 or even 7.0.0 is more in order, but at least 6.3.7.

Edit: To make matters worse, elsewhere in the code, it's referenced as 6.3.8. Very confusing.
The Swiss ride anywhere ticket is 4000 CHF annually [1]. (330 CHF/month -> 350 EUR/month)

That's still less than an average car. A commonly quoted figure is 10'000 CHF per year. [2]

[1] https://www.sbb.ch/de/billette-angebote/abos/ga/ga-preise.ht...

[2] https://www.comparis.ch/carfinder/autofahren/auto-kosten
Taking neutron star temperatures with telescopes
You don't need to be lucky to live in places with good connections. There are many such places.

That car traffic has generally less problems than the train system is a myth. Check the ADAC traffic event overview on a random workday.
At this point I wouldn't be surprised if he'd had secured funding for a new CMS platform startup and is secretly working on it. He seems absolutely hellbent on assuring nobody should use Wordpress.
German here: do yourself and every German visiting that site a favor and drop the machine-translated German version. And just show it in English. What I assume is "local first" is translated as something like "local with utmost importance", to name just one example. It’s barely comprehensible and most Germans who care at all about local first, will be fine with English. I can only assume it’s a similar situation for many languages.
Food ingredients changed over 150 years
i've bought a moderately expensive, very comfy foam bed which is however much hotter than my previous absolutely cheap 20yr old spring mattress...

I'm apalled by the fact that in 20 years we have regressed rather than improved on the temperature aspect of mattresses
Until 2024 the budget for German Autobahn company ("subsidy") was at 6.2bn EUR for comparison.

And this is JUST the roads. No other subsidies and incentives given to car manufacturing and car transport.
Does jamming over the internet requires special techniques on the musician side ? Whenever i played with my DAW, any kind of hardware latency made it impossible to play correctly. I can’t imagine how that would work with two or more people over the net.
There are many ways. A simple way is to simulate a USB hub with an input device and a usb drive. You use the input device to execute whatever is on the drive. Another way is to identify as a device whose driver has some vulnerability. Windows auto-installs that driver, then you exploit it.
It took me a few hours to be able to do things I could never do in Latex, which I have had used for a number of documents like thesis, project reports, etc.

In Latex I always relied on googling random packages to fix weird stuff while in Typist I feel like I can do anything I want myself.
The scripting capabilities are powerful and compared to latex insanely easy to use.
Mystery Drones Swarmed a U.S. Military Base for 17 Days. The Pentagon Is Stumped
I have often see some fellow coworkers start up their fairly complex vim/neovim/other-vim setups and quite frankly… they ended up recreating a poor emacs implementation.

Yeah it’s faster at starting up but it’s worse in pretty much everything else.

Oh and they end up typing Ctrl-this Ctrl-that anyway.

Might as well use gnu emacs.
Before chip cards were introduced in Europe (which was 20 years ago so most of my experience was as a child) this could happen.

My parents would avoid using a credit card in some restaurants and (less often) at remote petrol stations.
The author of a library has lost all control over the codebase, and a third party is now making changes to it. That's pretty much the textbook definition of stage one of a supply chain attack.

Considering what Matt has already done, it wouldn't even remotely come as a surprise if a future ACF update would, say, brick all WP installations using ACF on a WP Engine host.
I would
1. Make it more capable as a full GUI - currently I have trouble displaying jupyter notebooks with images/progress bars etc in it.
2. Make an 'emacs app store' where you can get paid plugins (I'm going for Cursor).
3. Make collaborative editing possible.
Alright, I will cancel the German translation on the official website. I deeply apologize for the inconvenience caused by my oversight.
Yep, it's not really meant for tourists.
They really want everyone to stay in the subscription model, because it's heavily subsidized, so they need to hit a high enough LTV anyways.
Many "other externalities" are priceless: Many poor people cannot afford a car.
Refurb weekend: the Symbolics MacIvory Lisp machine I have hated
I just cancelled my ACF subscription as it's up for renewal in 30 days. I'll wait and see how the dust settles.
can do this with any image generation model.

Disclaimer: I'm not behind any
Also

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41821336 (165 comments, including 5 by photomatt)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41824852 (63 comments)
I assume they have access to the full GPS resolution. They had a ship in the vicinity AFAIK, so could use that to improve accuracy through data augmentation.
Great demo! The drone-space is really interesting at the moment. There's great hardware and open source software available to hobbyists.

Potential use cases are almost endless: agriculture, first responders, defense, maintenance, planning, transportation...

A lot of the value proposition will probably come from getting these drones to be as effective and autonomous as possible - this is easier to do if you have a domain-specific product.

As for myself, I am currently writing my own flight controller for Quadcopters in Rust targeting Linux and STM32s - quite the journey as I had no embedded programming experience before starting that project.
Fundamentally yes, though it hasn't really been tested in court and I'm not sure that plugins really are obviously derivative works - you can create a plugin that doesn't depend on WP but can be used with WP, but I'm not a lawyer.

Matt and WP's position however includes that this applies to the PHP code but not to accompanying assets like images, CSS, JS (because those can obviously be used without WP). Those only need to be GPL if you want to host it on wordpress.org which the commercial versions of those freemium-plugins are not.
Who is she, though?
OpenBSD Is Hard to Show Off
The additional steps of processing:

1. Soak in water

2. Filter and keep what’s left.
Tut uns leid; wir sind mittendrin*... Think of it as swarm conversing: if any noun phrase catches your fancy I'd be glad to explain/load your context cache. (für Hesse-Könner: es ist eine Art Glasperlenspiel)

* most natural noises are either bangs or buzzes (localised in time or localised in frequency) so animals commonly use chirps to distinguish their communication from the background; in this case although the typical HN convo approximates a dirac delta: highly time-localised...

EDIT: PS. what are your thoughts on risk reduction as opposed to maturity reliance?
The option "Close Account" is halfway down the page under "Settings". So just a single press to find it after logging in.

(EU here.)
As far as I've understood, the copyleftness of the Wordpress's GPL tainting themes and plugins is or at least has been controversial (I'm not in the WP community, but have read stuff regarding this drama). Wordpress itself uses React and other non-GPL licensed software in the core that yes, may be GPL-compatible but doesn't enforce everything to be GPL'd. When it comes to themes and plugins, I'd consider that userspace, akin to installing Spotify on Ubuntu doesn't make Spotify suddenly GPL'd.
Diffusion for World Modeling
Yes this is the best course. Pay with credit card and then charge the hell back of everything for the entire vacation or trip.
> using standards that should not be applied

There were plenty of people willing to apply those standards back in those days, even if they rarely had significant political influence outside of a handful of cases. e.g. Las Casas (almost a contemporary of Columbus) even managed to convince the Spanish state to pass legislation in 1542 that might be even considered progressive by the standards of the of the 1700s or even 1800s (of course it wasn’t necessarily very effective).

Why do you want to erase them from history?

> we are led to be miserable in everything.

Are we? How does saying that Columbus was greedy and cruel (even by contemporary standards) somehow makes us miserable? Seems entirely tangential..
So many crypto scams masquerading as official SpaceX streams on YouTube right now. This has been going on for years.
The appropriate twist here would be to have WPEngine find a trusted third party (one or more), start a foundation together and successfully fork wordpress.
Interesting - is there any science / maths behind the choice of greyscale values? Looks sigmoid-esque to me.
Matt isn't being held to a higher standard, he's being held to a different standard, a standard he chose.

WP Engine is a company that chose to build a business around a piece of software released under a license that permits their commercialisation of the software.

Matt is an individual who chose to release software under a license that permits companies to build a business around the software and has then chosen to initiate a "nuclear war" against one of those companies who is complying with the license he chose to release the software under because they are not contributing to the software in a way that he deems acceptable.

They're fundamentally different actors in fundamentally different positions. WP Engine has behaved exactly as one would expect from the start. Matt has behaved in a way that suggests he has lost his damn mind, doing everything in his power to harm a business that is complying with the license he chose.

I don't disagree with the idea that WP Engine should contribute more, I don't disagree that Private Equity is harmful to Open Source, but I fundamentally disagree with Matt's weaponisation of Open Source to make a point. There is a lot of great prior thinking on this subject[1], Matt has many options, he is making the choice to behave in this way, it is not a foregone conclusion.

Our discussion isn't going to lead anywhere, but we can revisit it in a month when Matt's downward spiral has resulted in the inevitable. Perhaps, at that point, you'll reflect on whether Matt's behaviour was worth supporting.

[1] https://dri.es/solving-the-maker-taker-problem
If you don't pass you are universally treated as a freak, and if you transition late you have usually wasted your time dissociating. At the same time regardless if you pass or not, you have to deal with transphobia (if you are not stealth) and with people with good intentions who are uninformed and try to discourage you and make you repress and waste your life.
Being treated as a male is not something that a trans female will benefit from, even if male upbringing is commonly associated with privilege.
Even if they find a middle ground to this mess that Matt has created, I very much fear that the damage to the community is done and it's only a matter of time before the popularity of the once famous platform that almost everyone uses in one way or another collapses.
genuine question (the maths lost me): this seems like a philosophical problem. Did the writing of that dilemma into mathematical language bring any interesting result, compared to using regular english ?
It's extra funny when you consider all the recent acts where some plugin developer sells his plugin to some shady company, they go and add "functionality" to it that fundamentally changes the plugin, adds forced widgets to users' websites to promote their services etc, and the WP security team is like "they're allowed to do that, that's perfectly fine".

I don't know how much overlap there is between the Automattic and WP security teams but I assume there's some like with most things in WP.
Mullengweg taking a leaf out of Musk PR playbook, clearly.
> brick all WP installations using ACF on a WP Engine host

That tactic would work, if WP Engine had access to the update server hosted at wordpress.org.
You need the criteria in advance to even know if the thing is impossible.

We don't know the extent of our ignorance about intelligence.

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

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

Ok, but text adventures are a thing, so that doesn't rule out learning from text.

And all RHLF has humans as part of the environment and giving feedback (that's the H and the F in RLHF).
This is a topic I love to study. The mathematical analysis is reasonable; the policy gradient is a classic approach; I love Sutton’s RL book on it: http://incompleteideas.net/book/RLbook2020.pdf
Even though nowadays many people rather use cross-entropy for training RL, which I believe leads to more stable training.

Some of the equations feel a bit imprecise. I prefer to use random variables (rather than the U term), so that uncertainty permeates every value. As a result, the epsilon-t formula might be a perfectible fit (it goes negative past a certain t, which is unrealistic).
I like this whole so-called debate because it mostly shows that if 40% of Websites can be run on top WP then there is clear telling that we either haven't gone very far as an industry or that people that make websites couldn't give less fucks about who owns what plugin and what the fuck else people are yapping about.

Hats of to Matt for at least showing some personality and showing a bit of faith.

Now, go build another CMS. Use Rust or Go perhaps and make sure it can scale wildly
I would love to know from somebody with an Apple watch how you use HRV.

I wear a Garmin, which I mostly like. The HRV measurement is predictive enough to be useful. Two occasions from the past 18 months are worth noting:

1) The measure dropped from green through yellow and into red. It was in yellow 7 days. On the first day it was in red, I was hit with covid symptoms. It stayed in red 2 1/2 weeks before starting to climb again; my symptoms had mostly cleared by the end of the first week, but I still felt sluggish for some time after. The kicker is that I hadn't looked at the HRV at all until sometime during the week of symptoms.

2) I went on a trip to a location +8 hours off my usual timezone, and jet lag symptoms were brutal. HRV dropped into yellow on day one of the trip, and stayed there during the 2 weeks of travel. A couple days after I returned it dropped into red, exactly coinciding with the onset of flu/covid symptoms. Again, it stayed in red throughout the illness, and then as I started to get fit again on the other side it ramped up through yellow and into green.

So even with 20% accuracy (if that is the case), it's a useful data point! What does 90% accuracy give you?
These are all standard security requirements for NATO accredited systems.
The human drive for convenience and perhaps a bit darker, to rebel against rules, will always serve as pathways to compromise. And in the case of a powerful hostile actor, bribing someone.
This is such a ridiculously wide divide that I'm surprised Apple hasn't used this, or something similar to this, as a marketing tactic. Imagine being able to say your medical insights are 70 percentage points more accurate than your competitors. I do understand this is apples to oranges, since these are often devices in a completely different price range, but still. I was surprised to hear this and I have been loosely following the medical wearables space for awhile.
I'm literally using ASP and Clingo to do logic programming for school. And you're telling it became relevant to you in your work??
What Apple is doing is significantly better. Instead of a single popup that grants access to everything and shows before the app even opens. You can granularly accept or deny individual access to things. And the program keeps working when you decline.
You would think so, but both Azure and Amazon have dragged their feet deploying the last couple of CPU generations from both Intel and AMD.

I suspect it's a sign of the global downturn, cloud adoption in general seems to have stalled. Hence, no new CPU models being deployed at scale.

When the downturn lifts, I full expect the big cloud providers to start deploying huge numbers of these but that seems to be at least a year away.
Well, Emacs does ship with a browser (because of course it does, that kind of thing is what makes Emacs so amazing) and we all remember the XZ Utils near-backdoor, so I think that security measures would be useful for people who decide to use a less trustworthy archive like MELPA or who install extensions with package-vc.
If I release a fox into my hen house, who is at fault for the death of my hens: me or the fox?
> Everyone has access to a road. Not everyone has access to rail.

Similar argument can be made about highways to which not everybody has (direct) access, they are not a matter of life and death for most businesses and are heavily subsidized.
Agree, I feel relieved I don't have to eat meat and that people acknowledge I won't. The mouth feel of tendons etc., that always comes with meat, disgusts me.
Isn't the simplest solution here to not support SSO at all?

I get there's a convenience factor, but even more convenient is the password manager built into every modern browser and smartphone. If the client decides to use bad passwords, that's will hurt them whether or not they're using SSO.
> Do you think they were all of the sudden going to dramatically start contributing?

It's possible if they had been approached in a calm, polite and constructive way, they might have.

After Matt stormed in, set the bridges on fire and started pissing on everything?

lol. lmao even

> Nothing in this ongoing situation is about more than optics now

You're not wrong there! And since you apparently created this account purely to respond to my post, what do you think these optics make you look like, Matt? Do you think they make you look good?
But the roads and cars are used less, which means they require less maintenance. CO2 emission isn't the only pollution caused by cars either. People get cheaper transport options available to them.

All those other wins for society should be counted too, there may not even be a cost left to count towards CO2 reduction.

But most importantly, taking 3 billion in taxes and handing them out as subsidised pricing to some of the people isnt really a cost (to society as a whole), it's an income redistribution.
New Gmail Security Alert for 2.5B Users as AI Hack Confirmed
For those reviewing the changeset: There are two places where they read a value directly from $POST into an $args array. There is no validation applied, which means an attacker can inject whatever value they wish.
What does "head canon" mean?
The safety net also provides people with cheaper tickets. At least in my city, the ticket costs much less for people who depend on the social safety net.
Out of curiosity, what would be a "credible" proof for you in this context? Filed police reports with confirmations that those threats have indeed been made?
Actually, it has teeth. If a worker can prove their boss allowed or encouraged customer harrassment*, they can sue their company for power harassment**, and expect a decent cash payout and protection from retaliatory acts.

* I’m 40 and most people my age have a story of when they were forced by a manager to beg a customer or client for forgiveness for a “mistake” that often existed only in the customer’s head.

** IANAL but pressuring your subordinate to do something illegal sounds like a textbook case of power harassment
If not for Microsoft I'd suggest calling it "Word", no need for the Press.
After this, who would trust his second try?
It's like claiming going to the bank is stage one in a robbery. So if you go to the bank you're a thief.

WordPress have the rights, just like the responsibility and possible liability of everything distrubted on their platform.
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