skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is not the army, but military posturing. It can too easily transition into an actual war.

Case in point: Russia. Putin's ratings were falling, and he decided to commit "a small victorious war", based on faulty assumptions. And his assumptions were faulty because all the secret agencies were filled with yes-men who were just telling Putin what he wanted to hear.

That's the problem with the authoritarian regimes: they don't have people who can stop the Dear Leader if the Dear Leader starts seriously believing in conspiracy theories and/or just goes mad with power.
> Ok, this might be a phone for people that want to prove a point but it's too cumbersome. How about starting with something reasonable and fit it with only what fits within those bounds? An example: 160 x 80 x 9 and 200 g. That would be a big phone but not bigger than many phones on sale.

Because in that universe your comment would be about how awful the specs were and how tiny the battery is. I'm reasonably confident that price-size-performance is a "pick at most 2" situation.
I have no idea what is the point of this article.

> Looks like ~943k lines of code, 143k from Basecamp org. Automattic publishes 6.58M lines of open source code, 6.9x more than you. Yet, we’re “doing open source dirty”?

Whaaat! Since when is LoC metric of “dirtiness”? Your hostility towards community Matt is what makes you and Automattic “dirty”, your toxic leadership.

Matt is clearly having a mental breakdown. I hope investors force him out.
Not a distraction at all.

It is not just about shift of complexity from A and B. Anything that stays on Earth permanently can be built without particular regard to its weight, e.g. much stronger, much more resilient, with bigger safety factors etc.

With any flight hardware, you need to make painful tradeoffs between reliability/sturdiness and weight.

If anything out of the ordinary happens, massive steel chopsticks can take a lot more strain than a landing leg which needs to be carried to the edge of space and back.
I’m not convinced that managed solutions are the solution. I say this as a professional web developer with a range of clients. Webflow tends to fall apart with complexity. It creates the illusion of simplicity. For example, a designer will update a component, not understanding the underlying CSS classes, and end up breaking every other components relying on that class. Even worse, trying to do anything sufficiently complex, like embedding a third party form, becomes a mess of copy pasted JS embeds. And forget global components, the edge cases make them virtually unusable.

On the other end of the spectrum are headless solutions with your pick of framework, let’s say Contentful + Next.js. While far less flexible for a non-developer, the outcome is a rock solid, repeatable, maintainable template. You can democratize editing much more reliably. Although, yes, you need a dev for every customization.

Different solutions for different scales I suppose. I’d love to see the marriage of these two approaches. Something that gives the greatest experience to both editors and developers. I’m trying to tackle this problem in my free time, but it is a massive problem. The more I work on it, the more I recognize why it hasn’t been solved. And admittedly, WP has done a decent job of solving it with its massive ecosystem. There is a need for innovation, but it’s a shame to see the baby being tossed out with the bathwater.
I remember Motorola showing off a concept like this in ~2012.
I'm assuming the child is question is not so much adversarial so much as ADHD. They'll be actively looking to divert their attention to more stimulating activities than playing an instrument but not attempting to cheat the system. And I'm assuming a parent is present but not necessarily in full control of the child. Or it could work equally well for an adult in a similar situation.
Scientists "performing miracles" is humanity caring for the planet.

Ask yourself why you (apparently) prefer degrowth to this.
Also with starship launches only needing about a million dollars in fuel, it makes a ton of sense to just launch fuel to orbit versus sacrificing an entire ship
And I mean the “squashed” history. Because that’s what this subthread is about: the claim that it is available in GitHub so therefore it is fine.

I want the meaningful commits to be in the Git history. Because that’s a better place than the forge.
I'm in the same boat and I'm definitely not successful yet. Here are some HN discussions that I found helpful. If anybody else has input, I'm all ears.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41180492

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18905234

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39076700

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41693844
Wow, I hadn't realized that MySQL and MariaDB diverged so much! In the last year I've started seeing some prominent applications like Apache Superset and Apache AirFlow claiming they don't support—or even test on—MariaDB at all.
Discussed at the time:

Exploring 120 Years of Timezones - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28537438 - Sept 2021 (9 comments)
is copilot improving behind the scenes ?

I assume you get the latest model, plus some goodies that GH is working on
Why Do We Vote in November?
I've seen several class-action emails in my spam folder. I have no reliable way of ascertaining whether they're real, or some sort of nefarious information collection scheme.

Given that at best, I stand to gain two dollars sometime in 2028, I ignore them all.
Every scam website ever made that pretends to be part of a known business copies that business's footer text, it's not remotely relevant in trying to judge whether a website is telling the truth or not about who owns it.

(And in case anyone reads my comment without seeing that the founder of Flipper already commented confirming this is theirs, not a scam: that's the case.)
> The Breakthrough Prize, renowned as the “Oscars of Science”, recognizes the world’s top scientists working in the fundamental sciences – the disciplines that ask the biggest questions and find the deepest explanations.

> Each prize is $3 million and presented in the fields of Life Sciences, Fundamental Physics and Mathematics.

> The Breakthrough Prizes were founded by Sergey Brin, Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg, Yuri and Julia Milner, and Anne Wojcicki. The Prizes have been sponsored by the personal foundations established by Sergey Brin, Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg, Ma Huateng, Jack Ma, Yuri and Julia Milner, and Anne Wojcicki.

https://breakthroughprize.org/About
If it's kind of close it just sounds like someone talking in a slightly lower or higher pitch. It can still be pretty intelligible with the frequency slightly off. Eventually it gets very distorted though and you start losing a big part of the waveform entirely. Try listening in to some websdrs and you'll see what it's like.
DHH's response to Mullenweg's response of DHH's blog post
Twenty-four years ago, Python already looked better to me. I maintained a big Perl 5 app. Yuck. The problem wasn't that you couldn't write it, the problem was that you had to be able to read widely differing styles of Perl... and if you wanted to read library code, it was a huge pain. I quit maintaining that system in 2005, and it has barely changed since, from what I'm told.

Viability of a language is certainly a consideration, but the characteristics of the language also matter.

What you couldn't really predict about Java in, say, 2000, was how much the complexity of its ecosystem would grow. In 2000 (or 2005) it was fairly easy to move in and out of Java from project to project. That is not true today. My fear on the Rust front is that it's going to be another C++, where the complexity is considerable and requires more or less full-time expertise.
> https://codex.wordpress.org/License

It looks pretty free and open source to me, in practice!
That too! It's definitely not an LLM. It would be a bad architecture choice (almost certainly...). For math an LLM would be a good choice. Arbitrary length input, sequential data, unclear where/which symbols to pay most attention to. Math notation is a human built language just like english.

Search is a great tool for AI, but you have to have a reasonable search space (like chess or go or poker). I'm not close enough to Lean to understand if it can do something like that (i believe not), but math doesn't feel like a thing where you can reasonably "search" next steps, for most problems.
Can you recommend any good write ups or articles for this topic?
In latest move against WP Engine, WordPress takes control of ACF plugin
A couple of years ago, I optimize some shit and reduced the annual billing of 150k€/y, for a 3 days of work

I might say, "hardware" is expensive compared to (my) salary :)
I still don’t understand what advising has to do with homoiconicity. When you advise a function in emacs you’re not traversing its code as data, you’re adding some code to run at a predefined hook like :before, :after, etc., and I don’t see any reason why you couldn’t write a python interpreter that also lets you do the same thing. You could also have a repl implemented on top of this interpreter in python itself and advise and modify the running repl — just like you can with emacs.

So I’m again asking for a specific, concrete example of something you can do in emacs lisp that you couldn’t make a python interpreter do — not just waxing lyrical about how great lisp is.
More accurately, there are over 300 SIGGRAPH papers on hair.

Slide 3, with this headline:

> Curly hair in graphics research is limited to “classical European locks”

Contains this phrase:

> which varies from an elongated ellipse for African hair

Which leads me to think the Eurocentricity of the other 300 papers is being rather oversold. The Beethoven-looking redhead on the previous slide has two hair styles which are unmistakably models of common African hair textures. Being generous I would guess that the hair was made lighter to show details better? Caucasians presenting with that level of frizz is also not unheard of.

Afro-textured hair is certainly a topic worth a few SIGGRAPH monographs all on its own, and a dedicated library is also great. But I suspect that a thorough review of the 300 papers in question would find that the insinuation that none of them treat on the subject of African hair is somewhere between "not supported" and "wildly false".
Asus did that in 2011 with the PadFone, it was an Android mobile phone that you could plug into the provided tabled and then plug a keyboard into that.
It's all just webhooks...
Just my experience, but I had my wife and I on Wordpress on an AWS managed EC2 instance for probably a decade. Neither one of us really felt like we were in control of our content since they it locked up in mySQL. And yeah, if I cared to touch phpMyAdmin more than once every few years, then maybe I wouldn't feel like it was "locked up".

Anyway, I transferred us over to 11ty without a real plan how she was going to manage content. She's smart and computer savvy, but never opened a command prompt for example.

In the end, I had her install a Markdown exporter for MS Word, as well as Github desktop, and VSCode for mass editing files and editing front-matter.

Its a learning curve, and she'll still get front-matter syntax wrong occasionally breaking the build, so it's not perfect by any means.

But in terms of deploy, she just presses the push button on Github desktop, and then our free Netlify account handles the CI and deployment automatically. I share my AWS account with her which is where we store our images.

Anyway, like i said, it's not perfect, but I feel like it wouldn't be hard to package up these loose ends into a friendlier UX.

I'm also really liking that our 3 blogs have gone from a $15 a month EC2 instance to around 12 cents for AWS S3 hosting for the images
This is getting too into the weeds, of course individual situations can be analyzed, but this doesn’t apply to ‘the political and ruling class’ as a whole.

To be more precise in wording, the net increase, or decrease, in net negative authoritarian decision making is what matters for me and probably most HN readers.

Since this increase, or decrease, may be positive and negative to varying degrees for various people and factions, it’s practically impossible to tell if it’s net negative for the class as a whole.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lt2xYy2ArQ
>When you, as a human, use SO, you assign your rights to the content to SO.

No, you don't. You license it. The community gets a Creative Commons license (https://stackoverflow.com/help/licensing), and the company gets a few additional rights (https://stackoverflow.com/legal/terms-of-service/public#lice...). You retain copyright.
What do you mean by "permanent"?
A couple of years ago I made a bot to notify me about HN comment replies, but it's kind of abandoned now. I probably should get it up and running again, checking this manually is such a hassle

https://github.com/golergka/hn-comment-bot
Definitely valid callout. I was also looking for an excuse to play with audio ML, but you're totally right that just examining a Fourier series could very likely do a great job of determining whether a given type of instrument is being played.
Gettiers in software engineering (2019)
> I think everyone wants this.

You asked for it. I don't want that. I don't want an "integrated experience" and "flagship quality". The first sounds juvenile and the second sounds unnecessarily expensive and probably containing shit I don't need, like fancy cameras to look good on my nonexistent socials.

What I want is a simple, slow, old, efficient, simple phone with the interface of an 80s era 8bit computer that can actually, imagine this, make and, to complicate matters even further, even take calls.

I basically want an open source dumb phone. Do these exist? If not, why not focus on this first? Why go for fancy cameras and apps when we can't even make calls? Looking at your PinePhone.
First off, it is factually correct to say 1) Columbus' expeditions connected (for better or worse) groups of people that never had had contact before and 2) the Native Americans specifically killed by disease (which was roughly 80 to 90% of the population) was an inevitable result of travel and trade with the Americas.

You can use whatever moralizing language or comparisons to modern day conflicts you want to analyze these events because that's not what I took issue with. As I stated before, my problem with your comment was that you wrongly tried to label a descriptive statement about history as "culturally insensitive".
> That's the point. This is not your individual repo

The point? You’re not making sense.

This is a discussion. This is not your team pow-wow where the boss makes a show of hearing everyone out and then going with what he decided with beforehand. Or whatever your process is.

This right here is a discussion. It makes no sense to pull the “we all wear leotards because that’s the team policy”. That’s not an argument that I can recognize.

You should, in a discussion, make where you come from clear. If three comments in on the topic of X you say “but of course we use Y, how dare you suggest something else than Y?” then you’re not having an argument any more.
This is great HN fodder but IMO, it's b/s.

I think what's being missed here is that yes there are sites being built using Webflow / Shopify / whatever. And there are solutions for landing pages, or simple blog sites. And yes, flat file stuff with a GruntNodeDockerWhatever deploy pipeline is always going to make dev types happy.

But this is missing a big old chunk of people - those with relatively complex sites with a fair amount of content (say, I dunno, 100-1000+ pages), the requirement to link between pages, custom taxonomies, custom posts, have custom fields, multiple authors, different roles, requirements on things like member access, an API, feeds...

I think you'd be hard pushed to name a solution that isn't 1) Drupal (cos no-one wants to go there) or 2) Bespoke and stupidly expensive.

WordPress gets a bad rap on HN, some of which is warranted. But I also think there is a lot of hate which is unfounded, possibly from people who haven't touched it in years and years.
Counterpoint, nearly half of the internet uses WordPress. Learning that it's fully under the control of a vindictive techbro who is showing an ability and willingness to damage large swaths of the internet at a time is kinda a big deal.
As someone who reads/watches a lot of Japanese media, "fury" isn't how I would first read "furi".

I do like "FuriOS" and think it avoids this issue, but other portmanteaus might be better avoided.
The way I had this explained to me when I was in highschool was something like:

Imagine someone is shining a flashlight at you through some trees. It's a lot easier to tell what color it is, than how bright it is.
This presumes that an additional SLS rocket would have been completed and ready to launch in the same timeframe as this launch on Falcon Heavy. From what I have seen of the SLS program I think that is an unlikely scenario.
I like this perspective and I share it. It frustrates me to watch the initial Demo of Apple's concept of a touch oriented computer, seeing multi touch demonstrated, moving objects around, and to sit here typing this on something like it, except it's one finger at a time and multitouch was dumbed down into pinch to zoom and little else. I can't stand the fact that almost all computer interfaces outside smartphones are interacted with using only the right wrist and index finger. The future is what we have now but transparent, what we have now with no bezels, what we have now but made of disposable paper, what we have now but the size of a table. It's just not compelling to me.

And it's because it's hard imagining a completely new way of interacting with computing technology. People that are able to do that don't get paid script writers salaries, they get paid Steve Jobs salaries. And they are worth billions to organizations capable of making them a reality.
Hopefully you won't be overwhelmed too quickly. =)
What's the point of profiling for performance without optimizations if it leads you where the OP winds up hand rolling the same transformations?
fast is latency, performant is bandwidth
No, my advice to people is always that you are not defined by your job.

I had a very memorable experience at Intel when I came to the Bay Area just as the "semiconductor recession" hit. A friend of mine there was a process engineer and getting laid off. He was super depressed and wailing about how there were no jobs for "people like him" any more and how he was going to end up homeless. Two weeks into his job search I asked him, "Why do you have to have a process engineering job?" and he said it was what he studied for, what he knew, so he felt the only thing he was qualified for. We talked about it some more and I suggested he had lots of skills that were transferable to lots of jobs. He spent the next 6 months as a math coach for AP calculus students and then got a job at an early ISP as an installer. He prospered in that job and from then on 'job flexibility' was more of his mantra than 'I'm a <can do this one thing> person.'

So my advice to people in tech with Google and Meta on their CV who are struggling to find employment again is to ask themselves if they are defining themselves by the job or by what they can do? I find asking them if they have considered the trades has two positive effects, one it pulls them waaaay outside their self defined box, and it gets them to actually think about how they define themselves.
I dunno. Java was pretty easy to learn for its first decade. Eventually, the complexity of Java and, especially, its toolchain ballooned. By then there were already a lot of Java developers, though.

Rust is a different beast, much more complex from the outset, and not trivial to learn (as Java was). It will grow if that's where the best jobs are, but I don't think it is going to grow in the way Java did, because the difficulty and dynamics are different. There was a good stretch at the beginning where Java was both very helpful on your resume and really easy to learn.
Then what makes you think the same people will let you insert a bomb-looking thing with wires sticking out into a credit card terminal?
But it is always legitimate to wonder about where the culture's attention is cast, and why. The present always holds great sway on how we perceive the past. Consider the example of Karl Marx, who's ideology fed his historical narrative, and vice-versa. I don't think it's coincidence that we never heard of Columbus' villainy prior to ~2005 and we never heard of his Jewishness until 2024.
It looks very neat, and I love all the physical controls, but it seems like kind of a device from another time where everyone worked in-person all the time. I work a hybrid schedule, with a mostly distributed team, and hotdesk/hotel when I'm in the office, so I don't have the luxury of a physical device to indicate my status, nor much use for one.

That said, I really want something designed like this that I can use.
At what point do you hit that scale with project management software, though? Maybe you can't get to the point where you're managing all projects across all of Walmart from the same instance, but certainly you can run pretty much anything of reasonable size.
It's not a well informed article. Sure WordPress install growth has flattened. The revenue of both Automattic and WP Engine has not, in fact they've both been on an absolute tear. There's a fair bit of buzz around WebFlow but it's only around 1% of the market. WordPress has a long, long way to fall.

WP started out as blogging software and expanded the mission to include pretty much anyone whose main focus is publishing content on their own website. It's still pretty good at the things that matter, namely that doing the above is still very easy for a totally non-technical user, and the plugin ecosystem is absolutely massive and adds almost any kind of functionality you can think of (if your experience that there is never a plugin that will do what you need, you're definitely atypical).

Mullenweg's antics have been ridiculous - but outside of the WP community itself I don't think they've having a huge impact. Like the people whose businesses depend on a website that a developer set up on WordPress for them - 99% either heard of this issue in passing (maybe because their plugins wouldn't update for a few days) and have now forgotten about it, or they didn't even become aware of it in the first place.

Developers constantly underestimate or misunderstand what this space (publishing content) requires. I don't know why so many of them think you can replace a CMS with a bunch of static HTML files - Dunning-Kruger I guess. The plugin ecosystem is an absolutely massive moat. It's large enough that you would need to spend a billion dollars building an equivalent. Yeah WP has its problems but the most likely competitor to spring up is probably a fork of WP that can stay plugin-compatible at least for a while. The other big open source CMSes that shriveled away did so largely because they could never match the breadth of functionality that plugins made available to nontechnical users. NASA, the White House, Rolling Stone magazine the New York Post, and basically the entire News Corp empire all run WordPress just to name a few off the top of my head. Maybe its days are numbered but more likely it is big enough to be like say IBM and live on in some massive form or another forever. It never needed to be cool in Silicon Valley to exist.
I don’t think it does OCR. It’s able to use the structure of the PDF to guide the parsing.
Worth noting Stack Overflow's own meta discussion of that: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/425651 ; relatedly https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/425635 and https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/422392.