skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If people didn’t make their identity their personality and just wrote code then it wouldn’t be a problem.
> This is only related to the recent WP Engine drama insofar as the author says it made them lose trust in Matt.

I think that's understating the situation a bit, because the WP Engine drama was the provocation for the current action. Very Good Plugins learned of the WP Fusion copy in September 2023 but did nothing about it until October 2024.

"I didn’t want to start a legal dispute with Automattic and possibly damage our reputation. And, generally, I trusted Matt. I assumed he had a competent legal team that had already reviewed the legality of copying our plugins, and that he was acting in the best interest of the community."
> Each man can sleep at night, regardless if the murdered man was surely deserving of death

Surely this line of reasoning requires the presence of omniscient judgement (ie the abrahamic god) to make sense. Otherwise all gunmen would (and should) assume practical responsibility
Yeah there's donuts, there's also stiff flat collars. Both seem better tolerated than cones except only cones can protect some injuries (like to the face for example).
QUIC was invented to provide better performance for multiplexed HTTP/3 streams and the bufferbloat people love that it avoids middlebox protocol interference.

QUIC has never been about "worse performance" to avoid TCP packet injection.

Anybody who cares about TCP packet injection is using crypto (IPSec/Wireguard). If performant crypto is needed there are appliances which do it at wirespeed.
closely related but in reverse: subsidiarity.
I use Clay (https://clay.earth/) but haven't used it much as I found the search was lacking (my primary use case is searching for contacts that fulfill X criteria)
Does any other living entity have recursive grammars? It seems uniquely human.

It seems that the second link may indicate otherwise but I'm still pretty skeptical. This requires extraordinary evidence. Furthermore there may be a more practical limit of "stack size" or "context size" that effectively exceptionalizes humans (especially considering the size and proportional energy consumption of our brains).
I'll add that it randomly brakes hard on the interstate because it thinks the speed limit drops to 45. There aren't speed limit signs anywhere nearby on different roads that it could be mistakenly reading either.
The fact that none of the other space startups prior to SpaceX, which had access to more resources, succeeded? Same goes with Tesla. You have to really stretch believability to argue that the one factor in common between two companies which broke into extremely hard to break into industries and ushered in paradigm shifts, happened to do so for no reason related to that common factor, let alone arguing that they did so in-spite of that common factor.

We also have pretty detailed books on the history of SpaceX, written from employee interviews, which also indicate that Musk is fairly hands on. There's also this tweet from the designer of the Merlin rocket engine that is usually thrown around when these kinds of claims are made: https://old.reddit.com/r/SpaceXMasterrace/comments/15am9pl/t...
I wouldn’t be surprised if that hash fragment is sent to URL previews in otherwise encrypted chats. I did that too in my own program and it felt wrong. https://codeberg.org/macchiato/encshare-app I think I’ll change it, if not in my old project then in the next one.
For reference, there are 2 lists of such functions in signal(7).

The first list is for syscalls that obey `SA_RESTART` - generally, these are operations on single objects - read, lock, etc.

The second list is for syscalls that don't restart - generally, these look for an event on any of a set of objects - pause, select, etc.
Nice idea. In the zone, I don't think about the code. I am the code and the code is me.

That is, until the code refuses to work. Then the code is a bitch and I need a break.
It’s not marginal utility it’s supply vs demand. The reason SWEs can demand so much is because there are a lot of options to branch out solo or small company so companies need to pay competitive wages. The employees are therefore able to capture more of their value.

For chemical or mechanical engineers they need a lot of infrastructure to do work so employees are more locked to employers and wages are not as competitive. Employees are unable to capture their value without the employer therefore they get a smaller piece.

Also SV has an obsession with hiring the best while most large manufacturers consider heads interchangeable with only a few spots reserved for top talent.
Previous post on HN (326 comments - 40 days ago):

QUIC is not quick enough over fast internet:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41484991
I don't think that recursive grammar is linked to self awareness. Certainly not strongly. Many animals that don't appear to have ability to interpret recursive grammar seem to have self awareness.
Yes, you understand exactly the point I’m making.
We need to relieve the pressure. Pythons in the everglades have ate 90% of the mammals in the 'glades. The bigger they grow, the more they consume. While they may also eat a few other pythons, it's not a common occurrence.

If only we could make a virus or alter their DNA to wipe them out ;-)
And which machine is that? The only computers that I can think of with only 64-bit integers are the old Cray vector supercomputers, and they used word addressing to begin with.
I was about to say the same. At a time when the plurality of kids want to be YouTubers when they grow up^, I can’t help but feel that more investment into the “cool factor” of STEM would not be misplaced. What kind of impact would kids across the nation seeing astronauts decked out in head to toe custom Prada have on the future of our domestic research&development efforts? It’s hard to quantify, but I imagine it has to be more than whatever the minuscule additional cost a bit of flair on the space suits might add to the program.

https://www.statista.com/chart/31014/most-popular-future-job...
OS threads can be put to sleep for many reasons, or they can be preempted for no explicit reason at all.

On such reason could be accessing memory that is currently not paged in. This could be memory in the rext section, memory mapped from the executable you are running.

I doubt that you would want to include such context switches in your "blocking" definition, as it makes every function blocking, rendering the taxonomy useless.
It's not just semantics. With synchronous code, the blocking aspects are invisible in when reading code:

size_t rcnt = read (fd, buf, sizeof (buf)); /* nobody knows if we will block */

With some async code, the fact that there will be a wait and then a continuation is visible from just reading the code.
Ironically from not-Italy:

Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead

Firefox detected a potential security threat and did not continue to mil04s43-in-f1.1e100.net

Error code: SSL_ERROR_BAD_CERT_DOMAIN
I think that’s a smart approach. You might be interested in https://starfx.bower.sh which has similar design goals
What percentage of UGC do you think is human?
Specifically an “anonymous” coward named Drew DeVault who enjoys “NSFW” drawings of prepubescent girls[0] and has creepy opinions on female teen body autonomy[1], amongst other things.

[0] = https://web.archive.org/web/20131007121950/http://www.reddit... (specifically “Kaname [Madoka] in her swimsuit”. I assume the rules regarding linking to what is legally considered drawn CSAM is rather harsh, so for those who need proof of said claims Pixiv utilizes an ID string on every URL, and the “Sauce” hyperlink will direct you to it.

[1] “I'm of the opinion that 14 year old girls should be required to have an IUD installed. Ten years of contraception that requires a visit to the doctor to remove prematurely.” - https://web.archive.org/web/20130523180641/http://www.reddit...
Making IPv4 headers resistant to tampering wouldn't have helped with IPv6 rollout, as routers (both customer and ISP) would still need to be updated to be able to understand how to route packets with the new headers.
The right to a trial by jury was specifically meant to prevent personal bias from the judge affecting the outcome of the trial.

Letting juries perform executions and judges be responsible for the imprisonment of the guilty just creates a massive perverse incentive for sadistic individuals.

You wrongly assume that either judge or jury would be more empathetic if they were burdened with the weight of these things. Instead, you'll get the people you least want in charge of these things doing them.

Aside from the method of using blanks at executions, everything else about the system protects the convicted, not the people in the system itself.
I'd guess that a 555 is also tougher than a microcontroller. I'm putting together an HV supply and thought about using a microcontroller but opted for a 555-based oscillator. Either one won't survive HV but I think the 555 will handle stray charges better.
> Isn't that a stressful experience?

It's actually really easy and kind of relaxing. For long drives, it dramatically reduces cognitive load leading to less fatigue and more alertness on the road.

My hand is always on the wheel so I can react as soon as I feel the car doing something weird.
Interestingly, the wording of this title painted a VERY different image in my head. Consider the difference between these two:

1. "Love being interrupted..."

2. "I love being interrupted..."
Because people don't go surfing on the web anymore, they stay in the same facebook-twitter-instagram-netflix-amazon-reddit loop forever.
I was thinking about something similar today. Sometimes accountability can be a blocker, for example for hiring.

If you have 1 candidate, it's an easy call, if you have 3 candidates, you evaluate in less than a week. If you have 200 candidates, you need to hire somebody to sift through the resumes, have like 5 rounds on interview and everybody chiming in, whoever pulls the trigger or recommends someone is now on the hook for their performance.

You can't evaluate all the information and make an informed decision, the optimal strategy is to flip a 100 sided die, but no one is going to be on the hook for that.
The aim of the game was Intel getting a 64 bit CPU without having to share the instruction set with AMD.

Intel was crossing many lines in terms of the anti-competitive practices they were willing to engage in, of which hobbling their own internal development was probably the least damaging to the market overall.
Checkout https://pipe.pico.sh which is a system for networked Unix pipes using ssh.
I get a lot of shit for saying this, but I agree completely!

I don’t think there’s anything inherently wrong with eating animals. But I have a particularly carnivorous friend who thinks hunting is for sociopaths, because he “loves animals”.

If I wouldn’t harvest it, I won’t eat it. And I definitely would be too timid to slaughter a freaking cow lol
Yup, technical project manager.
Iran's Hitmen: The New Rise of Western Terror Agents Working for Tehran
Had to do with connection pooling.
Intelligent design is a code word for the creation myth of the Abrahamic religions in an attempt to make it seem like it has some basis in science.

Please point to a theory of intelligent design that is verifiable and doesn’t involve magic.
Spot on. The number of times me and spouse resolved arguments by realizing we dont share common definitions have been eye opening for us both.
Very relatable, I have a post from 2021 describing the same thing and I haven't made much progress since then despite big life changes. I have a buddy who's similar to me in that regard, but he found developer work, but couldn't stand the uninteresting problem space and left after a few months. He's been trying to get back into tech for a few years now to no avail. From the outside it's easy to ask "why?", but perhaps employment isn't the endgame that one hopes it will be with regard to focus.
You missed the last sentence where I explicitly stated that other companies could produce similar products, but it’d very likely be more expensive and less functional?

I’m sure we could spin up some other custom suit production facility, but it wouldn’t save us money vs using the existing fully in-house pipelines already battle-tested by the industry leaders.
>The trademark dispute here is the use of the phrase "Advanced Custom Fields" in Automatic's marketing and on their website, as illustrated in the picture just above that section of the article.

Yes, I read that section. But two things. I feel like that's restating the same point I was already making as though it were an elaboration, which is frustrating. Yes, they are using the disputed terms, not just "Advanced Custom Fields" but also "WP Engine".

And secondly, it may be true in some notional sense that doing such a thing as using the term just in a comparative reference to something else (e.g. OpenOffice vs Microsoft Office) is fair use. But that's not what Automattic is doing, which is precisely why it's puzzling that invoking that sense of "fair use" is their response to a charge that is about their use in a much more specifically commercial context.
Is nostalgia bad? Why?
> Landlords are disincentivized to ever renovate or improve rent-controlled units.

This is already true in low-vacancy housing markets. Besides, renovating units with active tenants is extraordinarily rare. Outside of active units (among common american rent control schemes) units without active unita may be freely repriced.

> Developers may constrain supply, since it would be more profitable to develop housing somewhere without rent control, all other things being equal.

Developers are not landlords. Why would developers care about rent when they aren't renting? Outside of cartel activity this shouldn't happen.

> The market rent (paid by newcomers or movers) often increases, owing to constrained supply caused by multiple of the above points.

Neither supply nor rent control are sufficient to keep rents stable to a given metric. Surely this can't be news to anyone. You need to provide both to competently manage a rental market.

But neither rent control nor supply will remove homelessness. Only decommodification will.
I agree with the description. But make no judgment of its morality or pretend to have a better system, no shred of humility in that.

Of course you can run a political party suggesting that this division of powers thing was a step in the wrong direction, or better yet, take a trip to any of the dozens of countries with superdictators.
Yes, how else would it be covered?
This looks cool! I would be a causal user of this, but $7 puts it out of my price range, even with a free trial.

Though I think there is something interesting you are exploring here —- I imagine this is backed by an LLM API? If that’s the case, I would naively assume that I can get similar information using my chat gpt subscription directly — personally that’s where I find myself going for many of the random questions that come up in my life these days.

That brings up a couple of interesting questions that I would be curious to hear the results over time on (not that you have any obligation to share) 1) is there a wide audience that finds a value in this that don’t otherwise have access to ChatGPT/claude/whatever llm — and value this enough to pay just for this sort of ‘niche’ AI product? Or 2) alternatively — is the prompting/fine tuning/curation of the ai content you are providing better than what a naive LLM user could do on their own in a casual chat, that paying for this directly in addition to an LLM service would be worth it?
The man who issues the sentence must swing the sword
Everything We Teach at Y Combinator in 10 Minutes
>it helps to have the relevant individual buy in

How about having a single post buy-in ?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41891694

It may be that im being hypernormal and you’re being weird here*

It may be that while the half-domesticated subspecies died out, the tech that was in-bundled survived? (Or even the morphology.. cf Kiso breed, which i suspect was also rode like donkeys?)
https://archive.is/B7FBn

(Seems either E2L effects or the authors were trying hard to claim but not claim that they found Przewalski (note, merely nominative, not philosophical :) genetic material)

*hmm, re:31-60 upvote:comment ratio hasnt burnt into my HN reflexes yet. Watching how submission time and day plays with that.. the post may draw out the partisans, but also, later into the depths of night, the loquacious but neurotic Old Guard..

Edit: u2c ratio seems to have a downweighting threshold of around 1.25 so far, not factoring in the rise speed or moderator intervention yet

Edit2: MITI- cocytarchy not enough (or phronetocracy, for that matter)

Edit3: top comment is already softflagging TFA as “nonsequitur/histrionic”

Edit4: if the lion is an article and not a person, then nothing prevents the discourse from degenerating into a brown noise canid fight, especially if the initial article hasnt been properly formalized into code
Also the crow. Yes the stupid movie. Stalking with idiots quoting the movie or acting out parts of it. Neat. You're assholes. I already knew that and now I can't enjoy this movie. Gee whiz you're so fucking sophisticated. What a waste of talent. You could have been doing literally anything else. Ugh.

This would also explain making me repeatedly sick and then seeing if you can field test a cure on me and use that as a pay off not to have me murdered. Like tin tin from the movie. Wonderful. Am I going to be made sick and hurt to every death of a character in every film ever until I die?

This is what they're doing rather than make buildings that don't fall over. slow clap.

And the water at 555 Beule street in San Francisco has been making me sick so I've been drinking large amounts of milk and now I wonder if it has morphine in it. I'm in physical pain all the time. These people are just so fucking evil and shitty. If I had a billion dollars I'd just put it in front of the ferry building and burn it out of spite.

They're probably just having sick homeless cough on my things when I'm not looking. They're a walking public health hazard. The best part is when idiots will cough on each other, throw a mask on so no one coughs on them, and then cough on someone else on the other side of the city. It's just so fucking sad.
Makes sense. If I am the code and the code is me, and the code doesn't work, then I'm done working too.
It's funny to say that, when propping up Boeing is a bipartisan thing. They're both willing to move Heaven and Earth to give taxpayer money to Boeing, regardless of performance.
I just use Google lens in the Google mobile app for this because the price is right
My guess is because it returned to earth (unmanned) without any problems
Taleb's Skin in the Game seem to be related to this, but from a different optic. Goodhart's Law is also mentioned, but is not the core argument. In the end, is about agency, who have it, and system dynamics to get rid of responsibility.
The hardest part for me is understanding the difference between legitimate diagnoses and people who use it as a sort of veneer for antisocial behavior.
Node uses libuv[1] for all its IO operations[2]. The sync versions still use libuv, but block the main thread until they receive the result.

[1] https://libuv.org
[2] https://nodejs.org/en/learn/asynchronous-work/overview-of-bl...
I don't hate Google. I admire it what for what it is; an extremely efficient and inherently scalable corporate structure designed to exploit the Internet and the web in the most brutal and profitable way imaginable.

It's just that their interests in certain aspects don't align with ours.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.18988
Are bloggers required to meet a quota?
Increased spending on AI data centers diverts resources from crypto, reducing competition and potentially boosting Bitcoin prices.
Hot tip. also delete and create a new HN account often then you're not invested in the replies to your posts or how many upvotes you get
That sucks, will cancel my account
What I meant is that the comment said that you can learn soldering in a weekend and described only the physical aspect of getting solder onto some components.

I spent a number of weekends trying to get any intuition over basic circuitry components and how you might debug things and got basically nowhere. I can put some hot metal on stuff but it's not useful if you can't debug and the knowledge needed to debug isn't remotely obtainable in a weekend.
> /etc/ethers

Since this uses NSS you're "supposed" to use `getent ethers` to read the file. But since there's no enumeration ...
My point stands. An atheist claiming God gave him exclusive rights to anything is rank hypocrisy.
> Mark tried to think of the most harmless thing: keeping track of your friends, and organizing group photos. With comments!

Regarding "Facemash":

> Zuckerberg faced expulsion and was charged with breaching security, violating copyrights and violating individual privacy. Ultimately the charges were dropped.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook
Fair but it does say Prada on the label and they were revealed in the capital of fashion...
Not to poopoo this, but there are multiple apps for this, some with master Gardeners behind them. Some that are straight up suggested by states for use, based on the input from their master Gardeners.

What makes yours different?
At what price would you pay for it? I'm trying to identify a price for an early consumer product in a different market
> Anyone who lives in Asia or Australia should relate to this. 100ms RTT latency can be devastating.

When I used to (try to) play online games in NZ a few years ago, RTT to US West servers sometimes exceeded 200ms.
That stood out to me, too. The fastest I've been seen in a US emergency room was when I presented with an infection laying red tracks up my arm (cat bite: I'd been to the GP in the morning, but his antibiotics weren't working). That was a 3.5 hour wait, during which the infection progressed a further six inches.

My sister once bailed after 12+ hours, when the doctor's office that instructed her (in no uncertain terms) to take her child in was about to open the next morning.
Being in internets from before there were internets... I just cannot believe what I read nowadays.

This tldr I reply to is especially pathetic. If your beliefs are so fragile, if someone's post can crush them then you must, MUST question yourself, not some irrelevant JSON sitting who knows where.

Otherwise you do not deserve any respect or attention. You do not even have a right to be listened to.

This thing is called self-respect. If you do not have it then you are nothing. It follows .. well 4chan follows. For some time I and many others thought that this mocking taken to extreme would tell people basic truths. Alas. Still we had some fun
You can go to prison or die for being a bad driver, yet people choose to drive.
I had my own utility distributed in Simtel CDs. It was an offline mail reader for FidoNet called Wolverine. I think the filename was w230.zip :)
WordPress Spam
Is anyone else getting phishing emails from Wordpress associated links?