skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is pure "I own all of Wordpress and it's no longer open source and I can charge anything I want" or he's going to be bankrupted by the lawsuits.

Automattic doesn't own WordPress, for two reasons:

1. WordPress is a fork of b2/cafelog, developed by Michel Valdrighi, and that fork was made under GPL terms

2. WordPress does not have a contributor license agreement or other policy that would require licensing or assigning ownership of upstream contributions to Automattic in a way that would allow them to shirk their responsibilities under the GPL

They're betting on those bankrupting lawsuits never coming because the plaintiffs can't afford to front them. That's a common risk calculation made by private equity owned companies - of which Automattic is also one[0], they're owned by BlackRock.

Automattic does not have a monopoly over WordPress hosting. They bullied several of the major players in the managed WordPress space into paying trademark licensing fees. WP Engine, being exactly the kind of skinflint operation Matt accuses them of, didn't pay up, but they're absolutely going to stick around. The worst thing Matt can do is extract damages and demand a rebrand (since, well, "WP Engine" really does sound like "WordPress Engine"). He can't legally prevent anyone from hosting WordPress.

[0] Yes, every accusation really is a confession.
I was looking at laptops recently, and I noticed that the marketing blurbs on product pages are really getting extreme with the AI stuff in a weird SEO-like way. For example, this is on Costco's page for an Acer:

> AI Ready for Tomorrow

> Ready for the ever-evolving possibilities of AI? This Swift Go AI PC integrates Intel’s new dedicated AI engine—Intel® AI Boost—with Acer’s own AI solutions, for more intuitive and enjoyable AI experiences.

It really seems like some kind of stupid joke.
Just casually reading r/fidelity on Reddit (which is a subreddit run by Fidelity) would make me run fast and far from using their cash management account for anything. Widespread check fraud has caused Fidelity to be extremely cautious -- read slow -- in giving people access to checks they deposit into their CMAs. I'm not saying this is a bad thing, at least Fidelity is being cautious about taking care of their customers' money, but it's created a good deal of pain and anger for people who are depending on Fidelity for everyday banking-style transactions. I'll invest with Fidelity, but I prefer to keep my everyday money in a traditional bank or credit union.
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For a nice UI, I'd personally use Read You on Android, and NetNewsWire on iOS
Histogram uses bars but it illustrates frequency in buckets whereas by bars OP likely means more categorical in terms of what the bar represents.
Not working in Firefox on Android either
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Macintosh apps have great compatibility as do Google.
It really is typical in Europe. BUT, there are employers / teams in the US that don't treat people like crap. I promise. Now is a difficult time to switch jobs, but please do consider it in the future! No reason to settle, life is too short to be chained to a computer every day.

I work as a SWE at FAANG-adjacent company in the US, according to workday I'm scheduled to use up 250 hours of time off this year (that's about 6 work-weeks), and we get 10 paid holidays. I take time off in 1-2 week increments, hard to take off 6 weeks all at once. Most of my team takes a similar amount of time off, it's part of the "culture" if you will.

It would be nice if the US had more favorable employee laws (sick time + time off + maternity/paternity leave). Maybe one day...
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Sorry, you’re right. Doctors have it way easier than software engineers.
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Perhaps they could work hard at reporting the news and not reporting their opinion. Perhaps, instead of having a 24 hr news cycle, they could produce less, but higher quality content.
> Only in the same sense that bottom-level employees are the CEO's superior. Which is to say, they aren't.

Fascinating: What companies do you know of that have democratic elections of CEOs?
A knife's function is deterministic. LLMs are not.

They routinely misinterpret the information they've ingested and confidently spit out incorrect statements. Worse - they confidently spit out incorrect statements in ways we cannot anticipate.

This isn't comparable to a person. This isn't comparable to human intelligence. This isn't a problem that can be handwaved away by saying "people are sometimes wrong too!"
When I was in the college, I'd made some consultancies to final students from CS degree which don't know how to program and even bad, the project was a simple copy and paste some classes, change attributes and manually test it. So, the main problem I'd seen was they don't have the ability to figures out the system and it's a basic expectation!
UT99 did it for me. The game had a built in IRC client. That exposed me to the community outside of the game itself. And then once I heard the game ran better under Linux… my fate was sealed.
The name is widely used as a placeholder. Here's how Wikipedia describes it [1]:

> John Doe (male) and Jane Doe (female) are multiple-use placeholder names that are used in the British and US-American legal system and aside generally in the United Kingdom and the United States when the true name of a person is unknown or is being intentionally concealed.

I'd imagine that could lead to some difficulties when someone really named Jane Doe has to deal with some system that uses that name as a placeholder. Similar to the way people whose surname is Null sometimes run into problems because of poorly written computer systems.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doe
Ah, thanks for the clarification. In that case apologies for my confusion - I fully agree with your question regarding the GP.
I dont know.

I am a "heavy" calc and writer user. I use them daily in my office job.

I dont need much macros (the ones I created for excel do with for calc) so it works.

I do get formatting issues with files every often but with next release, its usually fixed.

I have been using of before it was libreoffice so I know.

Yes, it does crash sometimes but that is getting less and less obvious now.

I encourage you to give it a spin. Its not half as bad as it sounds
Why do I give a single shit about the software having an issue at 2am? I don't own the company. I don't care. If they care they can hire night shift triage.
In this modern age of .md and similar files why not try for "blue water sailing" and instead create an office suite which specifically plays to only open standards?

A word processor which supports the same style options as Google Docs and used pandoc to import/export would be as much as most users need.

That said, I'd really like to see an office suite put together out of the various opensource tools which try to approach documents/graphics in new and striking ways:

- LyX --- a "What You See Is What You Mean" document processor, it can offer quite professional capabilities (when I was doing STEM composition, the book which came in as LaTeX exported from LyX was the cleanest and most straight-forward manuscript I ever worked on)

- PySpread --- (or maybe Flexisheet if someone can get it to a usable state) Way more than most folks need, this Pythonic spreadsheet where every cell can be either a Python program or the output of a Python program could revolutionize what folks do w/ spreadsheets and data

- Jupyter Notebooks --- almost a de facto standard, getting wider adoption would be a good thing

- ipe --- https://ipe.otfried.org/ --- this, or TikzEdit or maybe xasy for Asymptote would be more drawing tool than most users would ever want, and able to make anything anyone really needs
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Nary a username more apt.
Probably all of them because no one loses money for bad InfoSec practices.
With that setup I'd almost cheer when I get paged. As long as that time off doesn't become "why you now behind on X"
My phone won't open the link but I hope 80087322 is on there
I implemented a copying collector a while ago while working on a python runtime and this is the article I wish I had then. Great read
Agriculture started around 12k years ago. Prior to that, all of humanity lived in hunter-gatherer tribal bands. Why would you need writing, when you could just talk to the person who knew the thing you wanted to learn? Not to mention that prior to the invention of the printing press, writing was very laborious to produce at scale.

Even as recently as the 1800s, nearly 90% of the world was illiterate [1]. We live in a hyper-literate society, so it's almost unimaginable, but it's really how the world worked!

1: https://www.weforum.org/stories/2022/09/reading-writing-glob...
Over 90% of news AND entertainment in the US are owned by just 6 companies.

Same companies, same investors, same incentives, same evils.
>How many deaths do you need before it becomes part of your reality?

Deaths of Immediate family or a few close friends. Most people didn't think they would die and the overwhelming majority didn't.

For a lot of people, I think their intuitive reaction works out pretty close to chance of death vs years lost due to quarantine.
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Damn stuff like this motivates me to start a union
Well said, "Better unsaid."

Shame is the best moderator.

Also, HN's miscellaneous audience of rule breakers benefit from having some rules be better off not stated. Especially this one, as it is almost as good as a "Gun-Free Zone"
Crystal sounds like a good choice, performance without being too hard to learn. I have been thinking about changing language because its been so slow-going. Without chatgpt it would have been nigh-impossible to solve a segfault in a destructor caused by a missing & in a parameter causing a shallow copy.
> where
Talk to current students/forum/visit etc. If you're gonna spend 3-6 years of your life there it's worth putting in the legwork. And figuring out the amount taught by adjuncts etc - you can just ask.

and on the percentage of classes under 20 - that's the exact metric I'm talking about being easy to game. You'd want to figure out what the sizes of the classes you actually take are.
I don’t expect people to get their news from AI chat, but the training data might improve the results a bit when current events are somehow relevant to the question.

Meanwhile, as a source of revenue for news organizations, it seems no worse than advertising, particularly since unlike ads, it doesn’t require them to degrade their websites.

The money might not last and they shouldn’t count on it continuing. But it seems okay to take it when it’s available?
Its human users can infer it, the other uses can't, yet.
> With a free price tag, it could easily do that. But, it first needs to provide the required functionality, and today, it stubbornly refused to that, for ideological reasons.

Very confused by the article, even after re-reading it. The author keeps bringing up ideology throughout the article, but is there any arguments or evidence given that this is a factor? The simplest explanation to me is that OOXML is a de-facto proprietary format, and implementing full compatibility with it is simply a large technical undertaking that LibreOffice doesn't have the resources to effectively achieve right now. They even hint at that themselves: "From what I've been able to decipher, no non-Microsoft Office program implements the full specification and follows it to the letter."
>> state of health in the world nowadays

You mean with people having longer lifespans than ever before?
Fascinating that very minor variations on established sampling techniques still generate papers. :) Afaik, neither top-p nor top-k sampling has conclusively been proven superior to good old-fashioned temperature sampling. Certainly, recent sampling techniques can make the text "sound different", but not necessarily read better. I.e., you're replacing one kind of bot generated "slop" with another.
Plus there is VC subsidies for the best models when you use their clouds.
So now we're just posting straight out ads? For lifestyle gurus no less?
How do we know humans did "counting" when there weren't no written text? Just a few marks on the stone? Does it not count as writing?
Another advantage. Chrome also have 65% market share according to google search, and they get to default the search to Google.com.
Even just reducing traffic, noise and pollution is a pro.
Additionally, IMHO it's not bad, per se, if someone invests in replying to an LLM. The fact they are replying indicates its an argument worth furthering with their own contribution

And once those floodgates are open, what exactly makes you think that they're not just also using an LLM to generate their "contribution"?
For most people the minimum acceptable quality of journalism is quite low and AI journ may be enough.

It’s a bit like people saying they want organic cruelty free food if you interview them. Yet the cheap stuff sells too.

If you actually subscribe to the wsj/economist/whatever - adds up quick. So few do it.

No market means not much room for journalists. Doing journalism better won’t fix that unfortunately
Docker can run ARM64 linux kernel, no need to emulate x86
Yes, sure. It's still not relevant to what the parent comment said.
Don't most just straight track through undergrad/masters;phd/postdoc without ever entering industry?
Well "elders" are the people who have been there for the most amount of time, so if the industry has >30 year veterans wandering around then the elders will have around that much experience. But the learning in an industry is generally logarithmic where most of the lessons get picked up in the first 1-3 years and then after that there are only occasional new things to pick up.

If anything software seems to be unusually favourable to experience because the first 5 years of learning how to think like a computer is so punishing.
Oh duh, right. Thanks!
I remember how promising AbiWord (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AbiWord) and GNUmeric (http://www.gnumeric.org/) were 20 years ago when I first started using Linux and FreeBSD. Back in 2004, OpenOffice was slow on my hand-me-down PC running a 475MHz AMD K6-2 processor and with only 64MB RAM, but AbiWord ran well; it was a nice, lightweight word processor that was decently compatible with Microsoft Word for my needs as a high school student who needed to turn in essays and other reports. I've never tried GNUmeric, but I remember people singing its praises back in 2004.

I haven't heard anything about AbiWord and GNUmeric in recent years, though. I haven't kept up with them since my college days.
Hangul is a very new alphabet. The Koreans didn’t have their own script until something like a century ago. Swahili has its own alphabet too.
just because they have a high percentage, it doesn't mean they should be pushed to divest it. Google is likely found to be severely abusing it's powers beyond what you can actually see on the surface
Legally speaking how is California able to require a permit? Not looking to debate the pros and cons but I am just curious on how they achieved that.
Not much to add other than: I love this.
not when PG called him that. Even now i would say there is tough competition.
I think the biggest fuckup last time was the government taking a paternalistic controlling approach instead of an advisory one.
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I think you're absolutely on-point. There's literally no end to the amount of money they could innovate for themselves if we'd just let them do whatever the hell they want and then claim it's too confusing to figure out what happened when they steal it all. Won't someone think of the innovators?!
The biggest issue IMO is that an AI cannot be held accountable, so if it makes a mistake, there will have to be years of new legal precedent developed on who is accountable. Is it the company who bought the AI SaaS? Is it the company who developed the AI SaaS? Who do you sue for damages?
True, but the ending of "80% off" style sales was a very visible problem for them.
StumpWM is in a special position here as "compile-time" on Common Lisp is roughly the same thing as "runtime".
There is a constant conflation of the two sides of journalism - the news gathering and the writing/distribution.

AI can only do the second half. They need information to write about.

If the money goes away to support the whole enterprise, who actually makes the phone calls?
> electrons shells

Not going away. It's based too directly in quantum mechanics principles, and the same tools are used in too may other problems with good results. If you talk to a hard core physicist, they may explain some minor corrections, but the simple model is 99% accurate and the corrections quite technical. Perhaps there is a better theory in the future, but it will be very weird, you really don't want to know it.

> wave function collapse

It's going away, but it may take 500 years. Nobody likes wave function colapse. There is people working to eliminate it, but we have no clue if it's hard, very hard or impossible. I think that a combination of the so-called-many-worlds-interpretation and something-something-decoherence will solve it in 50 years, or 100 years or 500 years. I'm optimistic, but it may take a while......

> pseudo-vectors

Solved? The problem is drawing normal vectors that are 1-forms and pseudo-vectors that are mostly 2-forms in the same space. Most pseudo-vectors are like a tiny surface area instead of a tiny arrow. But people love to draw all of them as arrows and that causes the problem. Also, in special relativity the electric field (vector) and magnetic field (pseudo-vector) are combined in a single weird entity that fixes the problem. There is still the problem with the weak force, but I think it's solved once you replace mass with the Higgs boson. So it's "solved" if you like to use a little more math and want to translate it to everyone else that likes arrows.

> relativistic mass

Solved. Most modern Special Relativity books try to avoid relativistic mass. The problem is that you need number to accelerate to one side and a different number to accelerate to the front/rear. So it's better to skip it and use other equations. The usual "relativistic mass" is good for accelerations to one side to get circular movements, so it's nice for some problems.

> xyz

I have no idea what it means.
I still bemoan the demise of openlook and especially the "motorized" scrollbar. It was amazing how functional something as simple as a scrollbar can be when pushed ot its limits.

I hate the "clean" look of modern UI toolkits where functionality is being removed in the name of some "minimalist" ideal and the choices of what stays seem completely arbitrary or at best are a common source denominator between what's viable with a mouse pointer and a finger touch.
Business users don't want .md files
I am practicing a different approach lately. Rather than spending energy on taking good decision I'd pick a decent one out of the options I have and work on it to make it good in the timeframe available for execution.
Why? The alphabet seems like a huge abstraction I don’t think I could come up with on my own. I could see myself coming up with structures, drawing, counting etc. on my own given enough free time.
OK examples. Here's one out of thousands: During the closing days of the 2008 presidential race, Sydney Schanberg, former New York Times editor, leading Vietnam War journalist, and pulitzer prize winner, published a very lengthy, detailed, and credible piece that strongly suggested that John McCain had played a leading role in abandoning American POWs in Vietnam and hiding their existence from the American public. This story, despite being of obvious interest to the public, was uniformly ignored by every major media outlet in America, conservative and liberal alike.

See also the uniform blackouts of some of the most important details surrounding many other events, such as: The USS Liberty. TWA flight 800. the hannibal directive. Bobby Kennedy's assassination. Flight MH17. The venona papers. The deaths of 6 of America's top political figures at the end of WW2 (W. Wilkie, G. Patton, H. Hopkins, H.D. White, L. Duggan, J Forrestal). Should I keep going?

The point is: regardless of what you think about any of these events, it's indisputable that many of the most relevant details have been uniformly ignored by every mainstream outlet.

The book "Encountering American Pravda" by Ron Unz will give you many more examples with abundant sources, if that's your thing.
"Democratize" used to have positive connotations, as in "democratize access to information". I didn't anticipate that it would have negative ones.
.md is a terrible format for serious work. It only supports a few opinionated types of formatting. This is reasonable when you want to directly write one (the intended use of the format). For interchange you want at least RTF or XHTML.
Sarcasm simply serves to undermine any valid points that you have.

The point was that "on call" is specifically confined as an expectation only to certain types of doctors or under very urgent circumstances.

In addition, doctors have extra special dysfunctions like "too many hours in a shift".

However, many of these are because doctors also have been fighting various efforts to teach more of them which would enable distributing the required extra labor across more people.
Great point. This points to the related issue: what do we want to compress? Do we want to compress "the answer", here the arithmetic expression's solution, or do we want to compress the image?

You can formalize this with rate--distortion theory, by defining a distortion function that says what your objective is. That implies a well-defined complexity relative to that distortion function.

Okay to be clear, I've written a paper on exactly this topic which will be announced in a week or so. So you won't find anything on the subject yet, haha. But I use almost exactly this example.