skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To me it's quite sad that for a lot of things, the "standard" way of doing something is not actually part of the standard (XDG portals, third party protocols, etc.). Yes, X.org is old, bloated, unmaintainable and whathever, but at least every desktop environment used the same X server implementation and the same tools worked everywhere.

Besides the duplication of efforts in implementing the same stuff over and over, now someone developing somewhat non-trivial programs needs to be aware of the differences in supported features and non-standard extensions in all desktops, for example [1].

[1]: https://wayland.app/protocols/cursor-shape-v1#compositor-sup...
Let's all move to little-endian while we're at it. Don't accept anything else!
Check the same build on your existing lot now, $400k
> So I agree, no reason to give him any more attention then any of the many other half assed villains which lucked out in human history.

I mean that version of the story is pretty interesting too, right?

One can see a lot of parallels between startup culture, really. You start off with a dumb idea, you pitch it over and over for years till you find a sucker, you get funding because of nepotism / connections, your dumb idea fails but you stumble across something that works on the way, then you move fast and break things (like... the entire indigenous population).
tldr: I make more money than you so your points don't matter

What's really embarrassing is the same few Automattic employees arguing for Matt online.
> I was at WordCamp 2014 or 2015 where Matt was asked about improving security in WordPress and he literally laughed at the question. So, yeah...

The illusion that everyone's under assumes that WordPress Core is secure, and vulnerabilities are quickly patched and pushed out via the dot org update system.

Plugins are a whole different mess that people often exclude, but plugins are also what makes WordPress the success it is today.
> How much are we altering it over coming out of the last ice age and the natural CO2 effects of volcanos? That is still unknown and constantly shifting in predictions.

No, it's not an unknown. Please stop with this cowardly delusion. Human activity is changing the Earth's climate at unbelievable rates compared to the historical norm. XKCD for scale: https://xkcd.com/1732/
Interesting toy, but in my world none of my friends are going to pay $189 for that. Even when the the dollar sign is on the wrong side.
Didnt Eric Trump pretty much tweet this?
That really isn't even remotely the same as "segregating rallies by race and gender"
That's awesome flexibility. I'm guessing that meant they could omit landing legs, whatever powers them, and anything to do with engine re-pressurization and restart. Any extra fuel for boostback and landing can now go into S2 delta v.
What does this mean?

The reality of the human condition is that humans will always GREATLY favor the status-quo, no matter what. Because they're already living it and, if they're not dying, they have a strong survival incentive to maintain it. Change is risk, and risk is bad.

When I get in my car to drive, I don't think "oh God this has the greatest chance of killing me out anything I can do". Even though it's true. Do you know why I don't think that?

Because that sucks ass. If I had to live like that, I'd probably kill myself. I'm here, with the status-quo. So, I must make the best of it.

I'm not unique. Every single person, you included, lives like this. You have no choice but to ignore as much of the bad shit as you can, because you can't fix it in your lifetime.

It's much easier, and better for your own health, to believe people are getting stabbed like kabobs in the subway and you're oh so safe and comfy in your nice suburban home. That's a much better thought process than the reality, which is that you're much more likely to die and it's not even close. So that's what you choose to believe and that's the belief you nourish.

It's comfirmation bias, but it's the life blood of the human condition. The alternative is worse.
Isn't that what the article talks about in the section that begins with this?

>Given their AI ambitions, a solution could be building data centers in multiple locations to avoid overloading any one region’s power grid. It would be technically challenging, but it may be necessary, Russinovich told Semafor.
This article tries to provide cover for slamming DHH by opening with "this is a respectful debate".

DHH, like anybody else, is imperfect. But the author acts like he is superior. He isn't.

But I will say there is not much worse than a person who feigns respect and then goes on to say things like:

"toxic personality and inability to scale teams"

"it would be good to explore with a therapist or coach" (therapist really being the dig, here)

"Why are you still so small?"

"Instead of bragging about your beautiful office in the clouds, you should question why you can’t scale teams."

If your respect for DHH was real, you would have given your feedback in a respectful way instead of writing some blog post with such incendiary comments.
Well neither is WordPress, in practice.
The "funny" thing (in a bleak and dark way) is that we heard lots of FEMA conspiracies in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina (2005) right in the middle of the Bush (Republican, for those not in the US) presidency.

So, it seems FEMA is this mysterious Democratic boogeyman shadow army that also uh, transcends both Republican and Democratic administrations?
Depends on the mass of the object, of course, but at at this speed (i.e. energy) it will become a stream of particles going through atmosphere and vaporizing anything in it’s way.
The original pinephone was an allwinner soc that had like 4x a53 cores, a weak GPU, and pretty meh ram. This phone has a fairly modern mediatek soc with a78 cores, a fairly modern Mali GPU, ufs storage, and lpddrx5 ram.
I'd be more surprised if you linked to any of Krugman's recent columns and I actually thought they were worthwhile.
> The concern regarding a drug as a crutch is stil valid.

People with pacemakers can't get off of them either, but it doesn't have the same stigma. Diabetics often need regular insulin injections, but it doesn't have the same stigma. People with high-blood pressure often need regular medication, but it doesn't have the same stigma. It's mostly antidepressants and now Ozempic which have this stigma.

> A set of habits and lifestyle are pretty much the same thing.

I believe the DSM does not consider them "pretty much the same thing".
This post says pretty much nothing. Irrelevant to what exactly? It is all subjective. Wordpress is highly relevant in many markets and use cases. So is Cobol, and IBM mainframes.

What the author actually means is that WordPress isn't trendy or popular.

The problem though with all these managed solutions is that every time you want to setup a new site you need to start paying a new monthly fee. Setup Wordpress (or any other open source CMS) on a web host and you can host as many websites from that one installation as you'd like for the same small hosting fee. If one thing takes off then dedicate resources to it.

Speaking from experience, many customers prefer not to manage their site content themselves. They want to hire a local person they can call and have things done for them on their website. These small web shops will always choose something like WordPress over say Webflow because of cost, control, and not having to worry if the investors give up on the trendy startup you tied your business to.

Open source still has many advantages over the paid services. But just like the Linux desktop, open source CMSs need to work on UX and on telling their story better.
I don't even know how to describe this: https://x.com/ThePrimeagen/status/1845851330063028718
Ugh didn't notice until too late to edit, but apparently HN interpreted my asterisk as an instruction to italicize everything between it and the footnote it referred to.
Suggesting that DHH should seek therapy is way out of line.

> I’m unsure why you felt you had to insert yourself into this fight with Silver Lake / WP Engine and take their side, but here we are.

It seems that the fight has been made public with photomatt's constant commentary, at least on HN.

Unconvincing.
Build costs are so high that prefab is already pricing that in. Nothing looks attractive these days. Huge capital sink.
The natural follow up would be: How often do I have to plug it in? If I have to charge it daily it is probably too much of a hassle and I'll have to have it plugged-in all the time.
> $200 billion was the launch vehicle

Million I'd assume?
Open source Android has been increasingly neglected by Google, and is (essentially) unusable at this point unless you are ok with the look and feel of very early Android. It also isn't likely to improve as Google's strategy seems to be to move toward more and more proprietaryness.

I think a much more sustainable approach is to focus on existing Linux distros and get them more usable on phones.
Microsoft at one point was running full NT on ARM on phones. I think they could've done it within such price range, but didn't.
Can anybody present a TL;DR of the specific conspiracy theories in play here?
> you should question why you can’t scale teams.

They can afford not to.
Indeed. He is more politico and less economist these days: https://www.nytimes.com/column/paul-krugman
But it’s true for any orbital-based weapon that needs to de-orbit for striking. Once it starts retro burn you know it’s going for strike and know where it’s going to strike.
Yeah that's a mistaken take to begin with. It also doesn't make a lot of sense to absolve WP Core of allowing plugins to cause chaos. If WP had a secure model for plugins then they could be far more limited in what they can do. But security was never a concern for Automattic.
Please stop posting political/ideological battle comments to HN. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I could sue you for writing the word "could" in your comment. Doesn't mean I'd win. I expect WPEngine to win its trademark case too.
David, perhaps it would be good to explore with a therapist or coach why you keep having these great ideas but cannot scale them beyond a handful of niche customers. I will give full credit and respect. 37signals inspired tons of what Automattic does! We’re now half a billion in revenue. Why are you still so small?

Gonna go out on a limb here and say that following this paragraph with links to DHH's $2MM sports cars and his home office that costs an integer multiple of what my entire house costs sort of undercuts his argument.
I find it tragic that it’s easier for scientists to perform miracles than it is for humanity to care for the planet.

I understand the issue is complex, fraught with incentive, and has disparity between the developed and undeveloped world. But if the outcome is a clear collective benefit, why don’t we do it?

More practically. What will it take to create a world where humanity can align to help ourselves?
Makerfaire Ottawa: Rule 110 (2015)
I get that this is a super low level API, but yet, my expectation about an API that parses a buffer with length to a number and which has a specific enum for error cases as its return type would be that when asked to parse "9not a number" that I would get an error response and not a "the number you asked me to parse is 9 and everything went well" as the result.

The whole reason for returning a result enum would be so I don't forget to also check somewhere else whether something could possibly have gone wrong.

Especially when there is a specific result type.
> For solo/small teams? Think of yourself as a street cart vendor that sells hamburgers, and is located on the front of mac donalds.

What a great analogy! I always thought of how many lawyer offices there are, from single lawyer to multiple lawyers, but I like your take on it much better.
I agree that WordPress has saturated their market and the drama certainly appears to be a cynical move to try to pry customers away from the competition. I agree that future websites won't be built with WordPress. But I disagree that WordPress and its drama therefore don't matter for the future.

If WordPress dies a slow death as it's phased out over decades, that gives us plenty of time to develop the next generation open source replacement. Given time, those of us who still want to have control over our web presence (which is a significant number of businesses in addition to those here) will develop alternatives.

But if it dies a fiery death over the next year (as Matt seems determined it shall), then the author's prediction will come true—the proprietary locked-in stacks will welcome the WordPress refugees, many of whom will be businesses that will have soured on the idea of using "open source" if that means they're subject to the whims of some guy they've never heard of and have no relationship with.

That's why the drama matters. Currently 43% of the web runs on an open source platform. Matt is putting that short-lived victory for open source in jeopardy.
Automattic has been actively diversifying, with acquisitions like Tumblr, Day One, Gravatar, Beeper, Pocket Casts, and many more.
Since php 7.4 there's been opcache preload to keep a lot of the framework instantiated, in php 8.1 opcache inheritance cache covered some ground with preload.

Some frameworks like symfony considered removing preload support but they were still seeing benchmarks of 10% better performance with it so it was kept.

The biggest pain point with preload IMO is it's global, not per pool, and php-fpm needs to be restarted to update the preload script.
The Berkeley Function-Calling Leaderboard tracks function calling/structured data performance from multiple models: https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.html

Llama isn't on there but a few finetunes of it (Hermes) are OSS.
>You ought to do some basic research before making a post like this. Honestly might be the most baffling comment I've ever seen on HN---what kind of mindset does it take to have this kind of overriding confidence in one's own lay speculation?

Don't appreciate this at all. I can be wrong, but there's no need to make personal comments on my mindset.
Is this simply the OCR bits to feed to openai structured output?
Ask HN: Anyone able to get a response from Cursor?
I've reached out to Cursor multiple times via their email address hi@cursor.com and filled out their pricing request form a few weeks ago, and got zero response. I'm trying to procure their product for my engineering team.
Missed out ", age 4" from the title.
Yeah, any sane person looks at Paris and their first thought is "hmm, this needs more cars".
Some recent discussion on Hugo with many comments on how it often breaks backward compatibility: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41822449
Keeping Teeth Healthy
This is not in scope for the FCC. Anyone can use the ISM bands however they'd like, with certain power and bandwidth restrictions.

It's in-scope for the WiFi alliance, but I don't see this as "poking" them. It's either a bug, or it's a way to get your devices to work a bit better than the competition, but in a way that the WiFi alliance would never notice.
I agree that "accepted answer" is a misfeature; but the default is for questions to remain open to new answers indefinitely.

On the one hand, good new answers can remain buried under mediocre and outdated answers more or less indefinitely, because they received hundreds of questionable upvotes in the past. (Despite popular perception, the average culture of Stack Overflow is very heavily weighted towards upvoting. I have statistical analysis of this on the meta site somewhere.)

On the other hand, there are tons of popular reference questions that had to be "protected" so that people couldn't just sign up and contribute the 100th answer (yes, the count really does range into triple digits in several cases, especially if you have access to deleted answers) to a question where there are maybe five actually reasonable-considered-distinct answers possible. And this protection is a quite low barrier - 10 reputation, IIRC. (I'm not sure what motivates people to write these new answers. It might have something to do with being able to point to a Stack Overflow profile which boasts that you've "reached" millions of people, due to its laughably naive algorithm for that.)
Oh god, absolutely. It appears that nobody writes straight HTML any more, and yet it’s so freaking easy. Skinning a semantically well formed html5 document with CSS is actually pretty darned easy.

I tried rewriting an absolutely dreadfully written, bastardized version of a bootstrap based static website from scratch. After writing the raw html5 pages, I included a bunch of small CSS files and emulated a CSS Zen Garden methodology. It was all done in a few hours and included some more advanced options like a background video with opacity as the hero image on the front page… and the site went from megabytes (!!!) to just under 200kb (including hero video).

It ran incredibly fast, and super responsive. It was easy to read and debug.
Been watching this episode unfold on Twitter and has read about Matt’s domain hijacking of thesis, etc.

It seems to me like Matt is the type of person who likes to hide behind character and other ad hominem attacks rather than addressing actual issues at hand. Perhaps this is because of a psychological issue but I can’t really know. Normally I would think the community would be repulsed by this and would find an alternative.

What is remarkable is that there has not been enough community animus to fork relative to Terraform and OpenTofu. It shows the power of the underlying GPL license and “plugin” approach. Something to think about for other companies that may be thinking about relicensing versus just building a durable ecosystem around their proprietary brand and assets.
Chemists use light to replace an oxygen atom with a nitrogen atom in a molecule
If people read "fury" as "furry" then that's a literacy problem.
I mean, those aren't comparable models. I wonder how the 405b version compares.
I think the remarkable is better because it's not a full tablet.

It's an incredibly good scratchpad and is fine for reading papers. The epub reflow and layout is incredibly slow though, and PDFs suck because you can't resize them.

If I didn't have kids/made more money I'd probably buy the Pro but that's not my life now.
Saying nothing is always an option. It’s too bad that Automattic won’t consider that option because over the last 24 hours this has gone from embarrassing to nasty.

I didn’t expect a supply chain attack yesterday. And sure didn’t expect Mullenweg’s reply to DHH to be so childish.
This seems kinda confused. The Nobel is now controversial because after all, Nobel invented dynamite and he wanted to expunge his guilt. Yet you said it was "prestigious" -- but you want to cancel that, regardless?

But somehow the Nobel Prize in Computer Science would be too controversial even given all that.

OK, I get that you don't like Bezos-Gates-Zuck-Musk. Maybe you're just jealous.
This is a very important update. Where would we find out more about this? Was this in a YouTube video somewhere?
> It also means you need to replace everyones radio at the same time because everyone needs to hear everyone on the channel.

In the public safety context it's not uncommon to phase in new systems (like digital trunked systems) incrementally. You accomplish that by simulcasting the dispatch audio over both systems, and monitoring incoming audio from both systems.

A common pattern for how this plays out would be something like this: all the fire departments and ems agencies in a given jurisdiction are dispatched using two-tone (eg, motorola) paging over a VHF frequency. New digital radios are introduced, and all the fire/ems personnel keep their existing pagers, and (some|most|all) are given the new digital radios. People without the new radios can still talk to dispatch using VHF. And of course systems can be configured to mirror audio around so that if one person is transmitting on VHF they can be heard on the digital system (usually on a channel in the 800mhz or 900mhz band). It's basically a fancy version of a repeater.

Dispatches are then given out over the same old VHF channel AND the new digital channel. In theory you can eventually replace all the old pagers and radios and quit with the simulcast deal, but IME, sometimes things stay in "parallel" mode more or less indefinitely for whatever reason[1]. That said, to your original point, you typically do want to get at least radios standardized as much as possible, even if you maintain the split for (paging|operational communications).

To illustrate, two jurisdictions I'm familiar with: Orange County NC, and Brunswick County, NC. Both followed the path I talked about above: all VHF dispatch for fire/ems, then adopted the NC VIPER digital trunking system, but continue to page on VHF and simulcast the dispatch information over both channels. I'm not sure exactly when Orange County adopted VIPER but it's been quite some time and they're still doing both. FSM only knows if/when they'll ever completely abandon the old VHF system.

[1]: and that reason is often as simple as "money". Plenty of volunteer fire departments in rural areas are skating by with barely enough money to keep their apparatus road-worthy. Replacing every hand-held and mobile radio they own in one fell swoop is often out of reach.

[Source: was a firefighter and 911 dispatcher in a previous life]
> would like to force you to live like they do

Okay, so it's exactly a question of moral standing and identity.
Interested in why this is your position. PHP 8.0 is pretty awesome at this point ... Is it just that JavaScript is a more predominant language?
if you lost your wealth, you have lost nothing

if you lost your health, you have lost something

if you lost your peace, you have lost everything
For local searches (meaning in your city or even more local) I find Google better.

For national searches, I find Kagi good at long as you specify the country. That’s one of my favorite features actually, you can leave it international by default, and add “!es” to search in Spain.
Note for those suffering from deja vu: this was extensively highlighted and touted by critics back in July 2023 as "Are Large Language Models a Threat to Digital Public Goods? Evidence from Activity on Stack Overflow" https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.07367 including HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36763718
My concern is less about actionability and more about practicality.

Money is fungible, so it's easier for the company to donate. Providing in-kind donations is more expensive for them because then they would need to hire people who have the right skills to contribute to that product, regardless of whether they have any independent need for that skill set.

Money is fungible, so it's also easier for the project to work with. Need to shift some resources toward server hosting? Can't do that if your incoming donations are engineer-hours instead of money. Need to hire a lawyer because some patent troll is on your case? Too bad, no law firms are donating lawyer-hours this year. Need someone with skill in writing compilers? Too bad, the incoming donations are all time from front-end developers.

The Cathedral and the Bazaar, for what it's worth, was not talking about funding models. It was talking about whether the general public is allowed to see development branches in real time and submit their own changes, or only gets to see source tarballs for official releases. Nowadays there are very few true "cathedral" projects that generally don't accept incoming patch submissions from the public. The most noteworthy one I can think of offhand is SQLite.