skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Will it finally make it to orbit?

No. "Starship will fly a similar trajectory as the previous flight test" [1]. IFT-4 was a suborbital flight test [2].

[1] https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=starship-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_flight_test_4
Honolulu is like 100 miles further south than the Florida keys
> cannot just let a private company do whatever industrial processes wherever they want in the name of progress

We don't.

The question was why the FAA was enforcing rules that have nothing to do with its remit. There is protocol of regulatory agencies having each others' backs. But it was silly in this situation—it probably calls for reviewing the regime.
Summary: Patent system stops useful technology. Invention can save
fingers and lives. Inventor (patent-holder) is greedy and lobbied
government to mandate it. It should be mandated as its benefit
outweighs cost in all economic analyses. Manufacturers (rightly) dig
in their heels.

"SUSAN ORENGA: I don't think any manufacturer should petition a
government agency to mandate a technology that is
self-interest. That would then create a monopoly."

My solution: Eminent domain. Government say's "We will mandate this
technology, and you already built a time-to-market advantage, but now
we're taking away your patent and making it public. Have fun making
loads of money (but less than you hoped)"
The thing about Turkish is that the grammar is very forgiving to mistakes while preserving meaning: word order can be leveraged for subtle emphasis but pretty much doesn't matter for general meaning. Conjugations are pretty much always standard. There is a "correct" ordering for the suffixes but the meaning is generally obvious even without them. If you mess up the vowel harmony it just sounds odd but again the meaning is clear. You can often omit articles because the suffixes mirror them. It's also a phonetic language - there's no "sounds different at the end of the word" etc.

It's really the perfect language to pick up on a visit even ... except the vocabulary doesn't resemble anything that most of the rest of the world speaks. There's lots of loanwords from farsi, arabic, french and english of course but beyond that and speakers of other Turkic languages, it's struggle for most people.

But yes, it's true that we're often over the moon that someone put in the effort to speak it :-)
Unless they are planning a 2-bench version of the cyber taxi, same basic chassis and internals but a conventional passenger car, then yes, probably their next move has to be discounts to Model 3. Would require some significant cost savings even beyond the giga press and other strategies being employed. Maybe make it in Monterey...
It can be done. I do it every few days, so the mechanisms to do that exist, but there is no agreed upon exchange format to form a community around to reuse work packaging application deployments.
> Most of the person’s post and responses here are about Zendesk’s issue, but Zendesk was never informed

It's not clear whether they were informed. The mediator's email says "after consultations with *the team*", which is likely referring to Zendesk's security team.
They are not mutually exclusive; you can use both deterministic tools and AI. If deterministic tooling gives better results, it is the right tool for the job, and to use an AI tool for that specific job is “holding it [AI] wrong.” Use AI tools for the things it is better for than alternative methods.
Sure, but its just not "billionaires" that need to be checked. Sometimes the checkers need some checking as well...

"California officials cite Elon Musk’s politics in rejecting SpaceX launches" (https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/10/california-reject-m...)

Whether you like Elon Musk or his politics... or not I hope you can see that these actions demonstrate the danger of an overly powerful regulatory body. California Costal Commission members acting in their regulatory capacity while citing Musk's politics is out of line, abusive of their power, and not consistent with guarantees of freedom of expression or the democratic process. You don't win against MAGA or Trump by becoming them... and if you try to beat Trump at his own game... you aren't any damn better.
So WordPress-the-org — which is effectively Matt, as far as I can tell — just Sherlocked a developer's plug-in using the developer's own code, ostensibly as retribution for a security issue that the developer had already fixed. https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/blog/acf-6-3-8-security...

What am I missing?
If anyone is interested in the extended controversy surrounding Wordpress, there is a site that has been tracking everything.[0]

[0] https://bullenweg.com
California officials reject more SpaceX rocket launches
Jared Isaacman responds to this: https://x.com/rookisaacman/status/1845173768722792500
Show HN: I built a no-code tool to add custom popups to your website
Hey Hackers,

Over the last year i've launched a number of small start-ups and side projects. I was able to drive traffic to these projects but when it came to converting on that traffic I struggled...

One of the best ways I found to increase conversions was to implement a popup strategy for my sites. I built PopupPilot so that I could quickly generate popups and experiment with different ideas. I have found the tool useful so I am rolling it out as a little product.
Which raises the question what would be the point of LLMs when the majority of their training data is just the fluff generated by other LLMs. When the output of an LLM becomes indistinguishable from its input, why go to the trouble of training it at all?
I'm rooting for this to happen. Best of luck to the new king of the market.
Seems to me there is a lack of supply for low cost semaglutide (and similar). That should be enough for the FDA to say “I’ll allow it”
> the dual landings from the first Falcon Heavy flight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyO-h59RO5g
> This update is as minimal as possible to fix the security issue.

> This is a rare and unusual situation brought on by WP Engine’s legal attacks, we do not anticipate this happening for other plugins.

So.. is this fixing a security issue.. or is this because of WP Engine?

> and are forking Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) into a new plugin

And stealing their place in the plugin store. A fork generally implies that you are going to set off on your own, and not inhabit the dead flesh of the project you just killed.

Matt Mullenweg is the biggest child I have ever seen in operation.
Either this or they worship Progress and Poverty like a lost religious text
Worth a read https://www.npr.org/2024/10/10/nx-s1-5145776/spacex-texas-we...

Title: SpaceX wants to go to Mars. To get there, environmentalists say it’s trashing Texas
Note that French does have a tense for gossip.

You can say: julie aurait couché avec pierre hier, meaning julie allegedly selpt with pierre yesterday.

But it's not a cultural thing to use it outside of tv or books.
You just launch the day before...

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/10/european-mission-depar...
Must be in the air? Seriously, maybe abundant low-quality sources? AI sez:

The diet in North Korea is characterized by a heavy focus on grains, but has changed over time to include more animal protein:

Grains, Rice, wheat, and maize are the main sources of calories in the North Korean diet. In 1961, over 70% of calories came from grains, and that number dropped to 61% five decades later.

Animal protein
Before 2000, North Korea's diet was mostly vegetarian, with meat eaten only a few times a year. However, since 2005, the availability of animal protein has increased, with an emphasis on poultry, pigs, rabbits, sheep, goats, and cattle.

Other foods
Popular foods in North Korea include kimchi, red pepper paste, soybean paste, soup, and rice dishes. A traditional meal might include side dishes, a main course like noodles, porridge, or grilled meat, and rice dishes.

Regional differences
People in rural areas and mountain valleys eat more vegetables and herbs, while people in coastal areas have access to seafood.

Healthy options
The upper class in North Korea favor healthy, balanced diets, including chicken wraps and tofu rice.
They also use google and stackoverflow
This is excellent!

Is there a repo of this website?

It would be good to have for preservation purposes.
retail stores have inventory and limited space to store it. they do need to get rid of old inventory before they can store new products. because of long timespans from production to delivery, they need to anticipate demand, and sometimes they get that wrong and they don't sell their current inventory before the new stuff arrives. then they can either try to sell more through sales, or rent extra storage.
> But you're only as good as your last hit. You can never stop. The business will milk until there's no more milk to give. Even if it's your own business.

Fits my intuition. I'm about to launch niche "content" site, as an indie side project, and this reality has been at the back of my mind.

For content planning, I have a funnel with a dozen topics in it, and maybe I'll think of a dozen more.

But after that, it's only half a machine: an audience, a formula, some bureaucratic&infrastructure stuff, a little bespoke tech, and a trailing period of recurring revenue from some partnerships.

The half that's not a machine scales only linearly with skilled human effort: a combination of quality content developing, partnership courting, and guerilla marketing.

There's a way to throw LLM methods and some nontrivial code at scaling the content, but the LLM component to the quality will be awful. So the resulting LLM-involved content would be no better than the existing SEO sewage farms that are already polluting Google hits.

One of the reasons I'm not branding it with my personal name is that, once I've handmade the 1-2 dozen content topics that I can do fairly easily, and the monthly recurring revenue (guessing) trends flat and eventually down, I'm thinking I might be willing to sell the business. To grow it, the buyer would have to throw in other humans, to continue to make quality content. (Though, throwing in the humans, to mesh with the gears of the machine, isn't the right imagery.)

(Or, there's a potential pivot to a VC-backed type of company, loosely based on related know-how that's not obvious from the modest, kitchen-table indie content. But I think that pivot involves either B2B enterprise sales to brands doing direct-to-consumer sales, or a different PoC and then acquisition by one of a few massive online retailers. (Google would have the resources to do something related, as a third party to the brands and retailers, with necessarily more of an AI spin, but I guess the first person there to whom you pitched the idea would probably run with it, in-house, since they're no longer acquihiring everyone.) None of those business options I'd attempt without a lot of funding and complementary skillset firepower. Also, none of the possibly very lucrative options I see is a content business.)
What confused me was that the project is still using the Qt framework. Is that compatible with the new license?
I have several lifetime AdGuard licenses and went back to using them, which actually simplifies filtering for all of my browsers and virtual machines. It's so far been great, and it blocks YouTube ads on desktop (and mobile but less seamlessly).
Mono is not large. It is, however, outdated. That is, the Mono that is used here. Otherwise, you should really not use it over vanilla .NET's CoreCLR.

(and surely you can do better than immediately resort to "the windows world smell surrounding the project is pungent"?)
Making my own sharpening blocks
> up until just a few days ago, the FAA was saying that they didn't plan to issue a license until late November

This might be a case where the FAA's PR department should link to a press release instead of repeatig it contemporaneously.
The perfect is the enemy of the good, and SpaceX lives by this. If they have time to spare, why not spend it improving nice-to-haves?
Yeah, I've been thinking about it for a bit, and the "problem" is that the captured environment needs to be stored somewhere in order to be modified.

applyc could be bundled in the closure to use via `{*}$closure args...` but the fact that it needs to be named defeats the concept of anonymous functions, eh.
'great fun' seems like a weird way to describe a 500ug trip. Did you have some tolerance before this, and do you have very high confidence that the dosage is accurate?
As an outside observer, I have to notice that doctors and "the system" have lost such trust that people prefer self-medicating with illegal drugs.
Pathetic. Matt banned one of the most popular WordPress plugins. Then, he forked the code and hosted it on WP.org, which is against the Terms of Service. He also hosted it in the plugin directory on the same path as ACF, stealing its SEO traffic. Wow!

Matt's state of mind is clearly not good. If I were an investor in WordPress, I would start thinking about cutting my losses. WordPress will not recover from this self-inflicted destruction

*Update*
Oh, it's worse than that. He just renamed the ACF to SCF and claimed all the installations and reviews from ACF. I still can't believe this happened. This can't be legal!
Il paraît que quelqu'un voudrait faire croire que ce genre de phrase n'est employé que dans des œuvres littéraires et télévisuelles. :)
Not you in particular, but I hear this common refrain that the "LLM landscape is shifting", but what exactly is shifting? Yes new models are constantly announced, but at the end of the day, interacting with the LLMs involves making calls to an API, and the OpenAI API (and perhaps Anthropic's variant) has become fairly established, and this API will obviously not change significantly any time soon.

Given that there is (a fairly standard) API to interact with LLMs, the next question is, what abstractions and primitives help easily build applications on top of these, while giving enough flexibility for complex use cases.

The features in Langroid have evolved in response to the requirements of various use-cases that arose while building applications for clients, or companies that have requested them.
I fully believe at this point that Microsoft will port their GUI and APIs to Linux within the next 10 years.
Jet-Assisted Take-Off
I’ll never understand the people that want their offense at being labeled a “Typhoid Mary” to be taken as seriously as their anti-social, Typhoid Mary behavior.
> So.. is this fixing a security issue.. or is this because of WP Engine?

It's fixing a security issue WP Engine cannot fix because they are banned from wordpress.org.
You are missing nothing they used to do brain surgery.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/in-roughly-150...
TentHash: A simple, portable, large-size hash for data fingerprinting
TentHash is a new large-size non-cryptographic hash. Unlike hashes intended for use in hash maps, TentHash's target use cases are things like data fingerprinting and content addressable systems, which don't tolerate collisions.

Rather than aiming to be the fastest hash, TentHash aims to be simple to implement, portable, and conservative about hash quality. However, it does still have reasonable performance at around 9 GB/s.

Note that although the specification is currently at v0.4, the intention is to declare that version final in a few months if no issues are found in that time.
In Detroit, Creating a New Hub for Innovation
Anyone who's spent substantial time using one of the state of the art AIs today can attest that this statement is clueless and ridiculous. Makes me wonder about the fitness of Yann Lecun to lead a major research lab. It does appear to me 1) he's blind to existing data 2) he doesn't know how to collect data (namely spend 10-30 mins with a SoTA AI) 3) He's blinded by his theoretical biases.

AI is clearly in the right track regarding performance and the speed of progress. Is it human level in every task? Not really. It clearly has room to grow. Is it super human in many tasks? I think so. Just learn how to use it. Peace.
Details haven't been made public yet: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-9529

Though, Automattic posted publicly that there was a vulnerability shortly after filing the CVE, while simultaneously blocking WPEngine from being able to push a fix to it because they'd cut off access to wp.org
I can't even follow what's going on here, and I used to be an expert in software licensing drama. All I see is a bunch of unilateral actions driven by Matt Mullenweg that breaks so many implicit promises of how a free software steward should behave.

Wordpress sites quite often seen to be a hodge-podge of plugins, each with their own UI and conventions, and (as a host) I'm never an expert in anye one of them. Has one of the site designers used a plugin that has offended Matt? Or that might offend him in the near future? How do I even audit for that?

I don't need much of a push to move my position on this. Before: "eh, use Wordpress if it's cheaper" Now: "please don't, that decision will probably cost me".
The worst part is, there is no need to have cookie banner if you avoid unnecessary tracking.

Even today you go on websites and there are 20-30 trackers, often duplicating functionalality.

Or reCAPTCHA, Google Tag Manager or others.

You can get same level of experience and functionality without these tools.

Either by more EU friendly alternatives or simply by using none.

We often help customers stop using Cookie Banners for web analytics. Some end up ditching them altogether. There is almost universal agreement that it feels better to the user and more (yes more) data is visible for website owners.
As of right now it downloads the latest minor versions of libraries. I am open to suggestions on best practices here.
it never made sense to me why these white-hat hackers don't require payment before disclosing the vulnerability
> I’m sure if we continued this conversation and it was allowed on this forum you too would verbally wish at my death

Do you think it might be personal rather than anything to do with your opinions?
Good point! Although, what they call 'Turk' is actually Azeri :)
(Part of the historical Azerbaijan is in Iran.)
This one has a much clearer title, though.
What scares me so much about the Covid debacle is that despite all the information that's been coming out about how most of the restrictions placed on people -- like hindering people from gathering _outside in the sun_ -- and effectiveness of both pharmaceuticals and PPE's -- of which I won't name any because then I'll be booted out of here quite quickly I imagine -- despite all of this data, government hearings around the world, and respected studies.

Despite all that, people still cling to the fantasy that it was comply or be complicit in the death of anyone who died from covid.

You're absolutely right. It was and remains scary as all hell.
Does it need to be performance competitive if the price is right?
*Has fixed, but can't post the fixed version to wordpress.org, to be clear
As others have mentioned in this thread, russia is a terrorist state. This is but one example.

How about at least pushing officials to give an honest answer as to why they are not on the list of terrorist states?
> earn money by running fleets of servers and software that do the work that generates income

If they're owning the servers and/or software, that's a capital asset. That puts them in the "petit bourgeois" category, like small shopkeepers.

If they don't own the capital assets they're economically dependent on, that roughly corresponds to sharecropping. We've had a few stories on here of what happens when the landlord decides to obliterate such businesses by changing the terms.
If you're not a NYT subscriber: https://archive.is/F78rk#selection-4661.0-4661.45
Why "fiddly"?

It seems to work very well...
The fucked thing is that per the article, they're not even dedicating any resources to maintain it going forward, they've just made this one fix and are throwing it to other people to maintain if they want:

> Going forward, Secure Custom Fields is now a non-commercial plugin, and if any developers want to get involved in maintaining and improving it, please get in touch.
> 15 August + 60 days = now

Close enough. Sixty days is October 14. Today is the twelfth. Tomorrow, 13 October, is the launch.
Reminds me of my time in boarding school, my grades were awesome there and I read alot cause I can't play video games, unfortunately it didn't make me wiser so I struggled a lot with self discipline later on.
That ACF security update was not made available on WordPress.org due to ACF maintainers being blocked from accessing WordPress.org, according to WordPress.org's blog https://wordpress.org/news/2024/09/wp-engine-banned/
French learner here: I read that as "Julie would have slept with Pierre yesterday." I take it there's some mood subtlety I'm missing?
Support prettier typography (if the user is not interacting with Emacs through a terminal, in which case of course the typography is up to the terminal-emulation app). If text in Emacs looked as pretty as text on the web does, it would be less of a struggle for me to stay focused on the Emacs text. (Text on the web was already much above average in pleasantness to look at and to read in the 1990s.)

Get rid of any keybinding or UI convention that is there because that is the way they did it the AI Lab in 1967. Make the UI as familiar to the average computer user as possible (but keep the general design of a large rectangle of text) by using mainstream conventions (which come mainly from the Mac and Windows) for how to respond to this or that keypress or to clicking or dragging with this or that mouse button.

Inside Emacs is a cross-platform toolkit (where the platforms are MacOS, other Unix derivatives, Windows and the terminal) I would split Emacs into 2 projects: a toolkit and an app that uses the toolkit. That way, if someone wants to create an "standalone" org-mode app, Magit app or Gemini browser designed to appeal to people who do not want to spend any time learning to use Emacs the app or "Emacs the generalized interface to information", they have a straightforward way to do so. (These "standalone" apps that are as easy to learn as any other GUI app will I hope help popularize the Emacs ecosystem.)

One thing I definitely would not change is I would not make Emacs dependent on or closely integrated with a browser engine.
> there is the cultural issue of speaking directly in English versus trying a very basic "Parlez vous Anglais?" as initial question

In my experience in the Netherlands you should definitely just start speaking English to people, as asking someone if they speak English is a bit like asking if they can read
Wow, I hadn't heard about the nosebleed incident. Absurd, even if he ain't snorting coke, it's deeply weird to continue an interview while profusely bleeding as if nothing is happening.
I'm interested. Please do share.
That’s not what I was saying at all. AT&T, for instance, has mostly reassembled itself. I’m in favor of breaking them up but steps should be taken to prevent the problem from happening in the future.
Wasn't a lot of the authoritarian concern around COVID based on the idea that "this is just the beginning, today they require masks, tomorrow they'll require implanted tracking devices"?

I think history will look at the COVID years and see a remarkable and worldwide pandemic, and society made some rules to try to deal with it, some of the rules may have been a bit much, or poorly informed, but after a few years things were back to normal.

I don't see COVID being more than a blip on any radar. If future historians analyze the history of authoritarianism, there will be lots of things more significant than the COVID years I think.
Yes I built a lot of stuff (at batch, not to respond to user queries). Mostly large scale code generation and testing tasks.