skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anecdote: I was having trouble accessing wordpress.org. When I started using Wordpress, I could access the documentation just fine, but then suddenly I couldn't access the website anymore. I dual boot Linux, so it wasn't Windows fault. I could ping them just fine. I tried three different browsers with the same issue. It's just that when I accessed the website, it would get stuck and not load at all, and sometimes pages would just stop loading mid-way.

Today I found the solution. Disable "Experimental QUIC Protocol" in Chrome settings.

This makes me kind of worried because I've had issues accessing wordpress.org for months. There was no indication that this was caused by QUIC. I just managed to realize it because there was QUIC-related error in devtools that appeared only sometimes.

I wonder what other websites are rendered inaccessible by this protocol and users have no idea what is causing it.
Retro is very au courant.
I'm clearly not using the FSD today because I refused to complete my free trial of it a few months ago. The post of mine that you're responding to doesn't mention my troubles with Autopilot, which I highly doubt are addressed by today's update (see my other comment for a list of problems). They need to really, really prove to me that Autopilot is working reliably before I'd even consider accepting another free trial of FSD, which I doubt they'd do anyway.
Reckless spending has consequences and neither major party cares. Not closely related but The Dictator’s Handbook is good reading for understanding politicians and their motivations.
True, but the submission refers to something called 'Piracy Shield', so copyrighted material seems pretty relevant.
It’s impossible to overstate how crude and useless blood flow MRI studies are, at least relative to the hype they receive.

Spoiler alert: brains require a lot of blood, constantly, just to not die. Looking at blood flow on an MRI to determine neural circuitry has to deal with the double whammy of both an extremely crude tool and a correlation/causation fallacy.

This article and the study are arguably useless.
So?

These were procedural errors - the company cut back on previously enforced protocols to check and double check work.

In general unions are pro health and safety procedures and have no objection to work quality procedural checks either.

It's the cost cutting culture imported from the non-Boeing crowd imported post merger that is at fault here.

You're simply having a cheap shot at unions here rather than making any observation of depth.
Librewolf is too strict: for example, on slickdeals.net, a link there is like this https://slickdeals.net/click?pno=1011750&lno=1&sdtid=1783030... which leads me to https://www.kqzyfj.com/click-4485850-13804... with which ublock origin asks if I want to continue, I click on the Proceed button and I go the the page https://www.kqzyfj.com/click-4485850-13804171?url=https%253A...... and librewolf sometimes says that it's unable to connect (maybe librewolf doesn't like www.kqzyfj.com?).
It's really just 1050 calories the 1st day, and 750 calories on day 2-5.
The exact balance of protein / carb / fat doesn't seem critical.
> the comedy of spacex

What?
Going Local Only
I haven't heard of dvc, so I had to google it, which took me to: https://dvc.org/

But I'm still confused as to what is dvc is after a cursory glance at their homepage.
Why am I beta testing unstable software?
s/should/will/
High-latency networks are going away, too, with Cloudflare eating the web alive and all the other major clouds adding PoPs like crazy.
Good to see that proved wrong with a controlled experiment.
On reflection, I wish they had gone in for stronger comparisons. Shown old and new side by side and talked about where they kept things classic versus styled them up.

I also think of some things like a white shirt and black tie will never look “new” but will always look good. I’m not sure how much of “it should look like how people think a spacious should look” played a part versus is accidental.

They talked about white being functional. But did they have any choice in the matter? Could a subtle off white have been on the table? What elements of style were they allowed? Could they add extra seams? Or change angles or is it just that they slapped their logo on it? I’m genuinely curious on the details of the work.
> The trademark dispute ...

Is something Matt started, when he suddenly went after WPEngine for trademark use after decades of their use - during which time Matt praised and even invested in their business.

And he has publicly admitted trademark use not the real issue he has, but that he's using it as leverage in his attempt to extort WPEngine out of a huge amount of money that he's not legally entitled to - telling The Verge what he's doing is like Al Capone getting arrested/charged for taxes.

The last sentence in the OP is 100% true: "But as long as Matt’s motivations with WordPress are tied to his profits at Automattic, he can’t be trusted." (I'd go further and say there's pretty much nothing Matt can do now to regain the trust in him that's been lost.)

“In my role as owning WordPress.org, I don’t want to promote a company, which is A: legally threatening me and B: using the WordPress trademark. That’s part of why we cut off access from the servers.”

From: https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/4/24262232/matt-mullenweg-w...

“The analogy I made is they got Al Capone for taxes,” Mullenweg says. “So, if a company was making half a billion dollars from WordPress and contributing back about $100,000 a year, yes, I would be trying to get them to contribute more.”
These things are nice-to-have until they become sufficiently widespread that typical consumer applications start to require the bandwidth. That comes much later.

E.g.: 8K 60 fps video streaming benefits from data rates up to about 1 Gbps in a noticeable way, but that's at least a decade away form mainstream availability.
Generally the definition of "intermittent fasting" is limiting eating to a limited time window (e.g. 8 hours) per day. E.g. you "fast" for 16 hours, meaning you're not fasting for the other 8.
They said Japan would collapse with their spending (which is far more then ours per cap). Not only has that claim been proven false it has been the opposite.

Japan has the highest debt-to-GDP ratio in the world at 262%. The country's debt has been above 100% of its GDP for more than two decades. This is due to a combination of factors, including economic policies and an aging population.
You mean he was warning about TDS? Surprising, given how he is the poster boy for "psychology is not a science"
>> In The Unaccountability Machine, Dan Davies argues that organizations form “accountability sinks,” structures that absorb or obscure the consequences of a decision such that no one can be held directly accountable for it.

Government and Civil Servant are the biggest example. I guess its time to re-watch "Yes Minister".
I heard from several sources that what they do is give the apartment builder a paper bag of cash in exchange for the right to use their wires instead of the NBN. Then they gouge the users with higher monthly fees.
Isn't the expensive part more the assembly aspect? For Cat 6 the plugs and keystone jacks add up to a few dollars per port, and the crimper is like $20. I understand building your own fibre cables-- if you don't want to thread them through walls without the heads pre-attached, for example-- involves more sophisticated glass-fusion tools that are fairly expensive.

A rental service might help there, or a call-in service-- the 6 hours of drilling holes and pulling fibre can be done by yourself, and once it's all cut to rough length, bring out a guy who can fuse on 10 plugs in an hour for $150.
"Advanced Custom Fields" is a trademarkable term?

Beyond the point that custom fields are pretty much always advanced, there has to be a point at which a term is so fundamentally non-specific that it cannot be subject to trademark.

I just think it's bloody madness sometimes.
I hope they soon rename it into "Fully Supervised Driving".
I'm on my second free FSD trial, just started for me today. Gave it another shot, and it seems largely similar to the last free trial they gave. Fun party trick, surprisingly good, right up until it's not. A hallmark of AI everywhere, is how great it is and just how abruptly and catastrophically it fails occasionally.

Please, if you're going to try it, keep both hands on the wheel and your foot ready for the brake. When it goes off the rails, it usually does so in surprising ways with little warning and little time to correct. And since it's so good much of the time, you can get lulled into complacence.

I never really understand the comments from people who think it's the greatest thing ever and makes their drive less stressful. Does the opposite for me. Entertaining but exhausting to supervise.
My wife and I are on the spectrum hence we read up on it regularly. Especially when we were first diagnosed. Lately we read more on it given our kids are likely on the spectrum with our oldest being in a diagnosis trajectory.

One major thing which annoys me is when autism is being used as a curse-word. Such as 'no autism please' when looking for people to play with in an online game. The irony being this is possibly (non-diagnosed) high functioning autistic who don't want to play with low(er) functioning autistic. One thing to do in such a case is join and prove them wrong (that you are good enough) and then leave saying 'btw I am on the spectrum'. But it generally isn't worth the hassle. If someone uses such language, they're likely toxic, so I just avoid them. Plus, there is the ignore list. This works reasonably well. Though I also use this to ignore people whom I find under-performing.

But one thing which comes to mind is that even though I am on the spectrum it is simply untrue you are compatible with other people who are on the spectrum. For example, when I am under stress I make certain sounds (coping) which my wife finds super annoying. I also remember a guy being hardcore Christian and on the spectrum (he gets annoyed when I curse), while we are agnostic.
I remember me and another guy at work bringing home a Solaris CD and trying to install it on our commodity hardware (we were both enamored by Unix and wanted to have access to it at home for programming and tinkering). As expected (not by us then though), it didn't install. Around the same time, magazines started including Linux CDs and I was able to get one of those going. But the credit for lighting the sparc still goes to Sun.
The medium is shifting just like it shifted 25-ish years ago. People would write and publish on paper or fax. Then came email and websites. Eventually the blog came up because the self publishing process at the time was cumbersome and people didn’t want to be writing html.
Musk is getting older. I bet his motivation is to fulfill the mission of humanity on Mars before he passes.
The First Brown Dwarf Ever Found Was the Strangest, Now We Know Why
And yet the US President didn't even congratulate the first private spacewalk ever in the world recently accomplished by an American company, for purely political reasons. So sad to see.
Microsoft is basically discontinuing Windows. What will happen, then?
My Thoughts on AWS CodeCommit Deprecation
I never suggested that I was the first person to think of this; not having dealt with any Lisp since (hmmm) 1990 via Scheme in my introductory CS 212 class at Cornell probably has something to do with my ignorance of the prior art in this area. I do like your approach of breadcrumbing me instead of giving me the answer, though... best I can guess is "tooling" and simply that S-expressions are simply too embedded in the minds of the Lisp community at this (or previous) point(s).

I also don't deal with significant-indentation in languages usually (and have a strong Python distaste); though I've been playing with Roc (https://www.roc-lang.org/), which has this, and have used HAML (https://haml.info/) in the past, where it seemed useful. I suppose auto-indenting is impossible in a significant-indentation language depending on what the editor can intuit based on how the previous line ended, but I don't think I'd need that feature as long as it simply held the current indentation and just let me hit Tab or Backspace. (I could see things becoming a mess if you manage to screw up the indentation, though.)

I did research "sweet expressions" (which are apparently also called T-expressions) and found the prior art there in Scheme and Lisp, and a library called "sweet" for Racket (which is another intriguing lisp dialect!). These might have gotchas, but apparently they've sufficiently solved the problem enough to be usable.

I do simply like how "T-expressions" look. Which is something I guess I care about, although I know that's not a universal among coders. (My guess is that those who care about such things are simply not 100% left-brained about their coding and are invested in the "writing" aspect of the craft.)
> One reason might that LLMs are successful because of the architecture, but also, just as importantly because they can be trained over a volume and diversity of human thought that’s encapsulated in language (that is on the internet). Where are we going to find the equivalent data set that will train this other kind of thinking?

Probably by putting simulated animals into simulated environments where they have to survive and thrive.

Working at animal level is uncool, but necessary for progress. I had this argument with Rod Brooks a few decades back. He had some good artificial insects, and wanted to immediately jump to human level, with a project called Cog.[1] I asked him why he didn't go for mouse level AI next. He said "Because I don't want to go down in history as the inventor of the world's greatest artificial mouse."

Cog was a dud, and Brooks goes down in history as the inventor of the world's first good robotic vacuum cleaner.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cog_(project)
The projects mapping the brain, combined with research on what areas do, should tell us what components are necessary for our design. Studying the behavior of their specialist structures will tell us how to make purpose-built components for these tasks. Even if not, just attempting to split up the global behavior in that many ways with specialist architecture might help. We can also imitate how the components synchronize together, too.

An example was the problem of memory shared between systems. ML people started doing LLM’s with RAG. I looked into neuroscience which suggested we need a hippocampus model. I found several papers with hippocampus-like models. Combining LLM’s, vision, etc with hippocampus-like model might get better results. Rinse repeat for these other brain areas wherever we can understand them.

I also agree on testing the architectures with small, animal brains. Many do impressive behaviors that we should be able to recreate in simulators or with robotics. Some are useful, too, like how geese are good at security. Maybe embed a trained, goose brain into a camera system.
>Tech journalism (all journalism really) can hardly be trusted to publish grounded news with the focus on clicks and revenue they need to survive.

Right now the only way to gain real knowledge is actually to read comments of those articles.
For those missing context:

> "This blog was sponsored by ZIRP. The future historians who dive into these archives for archaeological research will likely be economic rather than cultural historians, trying to reconstruct the play-by-play impact of ZIRP. Many of the big hits of this blog, such as The Premium Mediocre Life of Maya Millennial, and The Locust Economy (a forgotten hit from 2013) had ZIRPy subtexts."

I think the author might he referring to their own blog (ribbonfarm) as a ZIRP phenomenon, not the whole blogosphere.
I was going to ask what Prada brings to the table, but I guess it’s industrial knowledge in clothing fabrication? I can’t imagine NASA really cares what they look like as long as they don’t look like total dorks.
jank is still under heavy development. It is not released yet. A lot of features are working, or complete, but the language is at least several months out from being alpha released.

The majority of this is captured here: https://jank-lang.org/progress/
But I can make an RC car without it too. It’s a WiFi RC car. I too am curious who wants to modify a WiFi phone’s firmware and for what.
But dont subreddits have rules against advertising and stuff
ratatui in particular seems like a fine piece of work (I'm currently at a Rust shop and expect to use it a bit going forward).
tl;dr version:

"Hey, that trademark is mine, take it down."

"Okay."

I don't get why there are still so many articles being written about Wordpress drama. There are no gotchas. Nobody can force Wordpress to provide anybody updates for free. You have all the right to enforce your trademarks if you think Wordpress wronged you.

Somehow, despite all of these articles, I still haven't seen a single one from WP Engine itself. I'm fairly sure they just deployed their own update repository in the deadline they were given and that was it. I have no idea where it will go from here, but I doubt it matters much.
Lying is part of the company culture at Tesla.

For example, Tesla lied about the Cybertruck towing a Porsche over a quarter mile. It's a dumb thing to lie about, there was absolutely no need to lie about it, and yet Tesla went ahead and lied:

https://insideevs.com/news/699260/tesla-cybertruck-porsche-r...

https://www.motortrend.com/reviews/tesla-cybertruck-beast-vs...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J3H8--CQRE

Tesla never ran that quarter mile. And the worst thing about it was the Cybertruck's lead engineer trying to rationalize the lie:

https://x.com/wmorrill3/status/1746266437088645551

When your engineers lack commitment to basic honesty then you've got a sick company culture.

You can't take anything Musk or Tesla says at face value.
Gut feel: doing this in two steps (1. write an algorithm for and 2. write code for) or even chain-of-thought prompting might yield better results.
It is true of every field I can think of. Food gets salmonella and what not frequently. Surgeons forget sponges inside of people (and worse). Truckers run over cars. Manufacturers miss some failures in QA.

Literally everywhere else, we accept that the costs of 100% safety are just unreasonably high. People would rather have a mostly safe device for $1 than a definitely safe one for $5. No one wants to pay to have every head of lettuce tested for E Coli, or truckers to drive at 10mph so they can’t kill anyone.

Software isn’t different. For the vast majority of applications where the costs of failure are low to none, people want it to be free and rapidly iterated on even if it fails. No one wants to pay for a formally verified Facebook or DoorDash.
The very short summary is Matt basically told DHH he sucked for not making billions off Rails and patronizingly suggested he get a business coach.

DHH replied that made him happy / proud, giving a gift like that to the world.
> I strongly believe we should be taxing the absolute shit out of people and working hard to flatten society

We wouldn't have SpaceX or Tesla with that policy.

> I genuinely believe SpaceX wouldn't be achieving nearly what it is without him

It simply wouldn't have existed without him and the conventional wisdom would instead be that what he's accomplished is impossible.

> insane people

Musk is the sane one. It's the rest of us that are insane.
Would you use Astro for other type of sites apart from static ones?

I'm not sure if I understand well its use case. It's not for cases when there's complex backend logic, right? What other technologies can be replaced by Astro, to have an example?
We propose here a previously unknown mechanism due to tissue autodigestion by the digestive enzymes. After synthesis in the pancreas, these powerful enzymes are activated and transported inside the lumen of the small intestine to which they are compartmentalized by the mucin/epithelial barrier. We hypothesize that this barrier leaks active digestive enzymes (e.g. during meals) and leads to their accumulation in tissues outside the gastrointestinal tract.
No. Because I never joined in the first place.
At least for me, the ".com .org duality" looked OK, because the existence of The WordPress Foundation as a non profit which owned trademarks, and the as it turns out incorrect assumption that they owned and ran the .org platform.

The revelation that Matt considers he personally owns wordpress.org outright and can do whatever he chooses there even if it's diametrically opposed to the Foundations stated goals, dramatically changes the risk evaluation in relying on anything to do with Wordpress.
If they had human controls, they might well show that some humans can’t do any better, but based on how they generated test cases, it seems unlikely to me that doing so would prove that humans cannot reason (of course, if that’s actually the case, we cannot trust ourselves to devise, execute and interpret these tests in the first place!)

Some people will use any limitation of LLMs to deny there is anything to see here, while others will call this ‘moving the goalposts’, but the most interesting questions, I believe, involve figuring out what the differences are, putting aside the question of whether LLMs are or are not AGIs.
By increased margins? Common enough when your target market is not consumer.
> but they leave a trail of human wreckage behind them.

Musk has not left a trail of human wreckage behind.
I find that the word "accountability" almost always obscures what's being talked about. If we remove it, we can instead talk about understanding and feedback:

As organizations become more complex, it's difficult to understand the consequences of many high-level decisions. Unless great effort is made to gather feedback, it won't happen.

Not only that: the lack of immediate, human communication results in one-way feedback mechanisms, like suggestion boxes and surveys. Many companies clearly want to make this work, because we're constantly prompted and sometimes paid to fill out surveys. But the result is survey fatigue.

The person giving feedback needs to be reassured (by people, not machines) that their feedback matters, or they won't be bothered to do it. Often, it's socially awkward to give negative feedback, so people don't. And often, the employees directly on the scene have incentive to encourage customers to avoid negativity when they fill out surveys.

One way to show that feedback matters is to respond to complaints with some sort of assistance. In the example in the article, that's a voucher. Perhaps somewhere in the organization, that voucher counts as a cost, but it's pretty unsatisfying.

In some organizations, managers are encouraged to work at the support desk occasionally as a more immediate way to understand what's going on. (I remember reading about how Craig Newmark would do this for his website.)
original paper: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41784591
Yep, came to this realization awhile ago, about the superiority of digital in many cases, when I had an amplifier project with a dizzying number of requirements and a very large dynamic range and (log) linearity needed. Ended up using a few ranges of ADC’s, doing the required mathematical transform on a MCU, then outputting the required voltage with a DAC. The previous gen was some fairly complex circuit designed by a smart analog guy and still wasn’t nearly as performant