skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's difficult to do, but time will tell. There are already established forks, there are obvious leaders, there are known mechanisms to go around wordpress.org... something at some point will pick up steam and that'll be that. Maybe it will be Mullenweg himself who will continue to dig his own grave, maybe it will be the lawsuit that will be the final nail in his coffin... who knows. But WordPress will be fine.

And if it isn't, really, who cares. It's not a particularly well built or unique piece of software. Maybe it's time for something else.
Well if we agree that Elon's regime is pretty ban-happy (his own published data agrees too), I don't see how we come to the conclusion that a statement praising Elon for making Twitter "neutral" and "without censorship" after literally seeing his posts censored under Elon policy is an "even handed assessment". It's precisely because I think PG is smart and has agency that I assume he's someone that's aware of obvious benefits to ingratiating himself with the new regime rather than oblivious to how Elon actually runs the place.
Tetris and Doom Built in a PDF
>you can wager by deciding which item to buy

This is the flimsiest argument I've seen for this so far!

For the record, Luck Be a Landlord's items and symbols do not cost money.

But if we followed your logic, any game that has a shop you can visit multiple times has a gambling feature. That sounds kinda silly to me.
Consider a static site. They cannot be hacked, they are cheaper to host, and once the files are generated they are immutable
FWIW medical workers often belong to unions
Author's tweet mentions PDFium-only for now: https://x.com/thomasrinsma/status/1878549178227269941

GitHub source: https://github.com/ThomasRinsma/pdfdoom
So anyone discussing/posting thoughts about "woke" and "wokeness" are using it in bad faith? Would it matter if the person puts a positive or negative spin on it, or are some topics just straight up "no no" to discuss?

Seems like we should aim to critique the content of articles, not just critique the usage of a single word. But you do you.
I’ve been working on a side hobby project for a year in an attempt to solve these problems.

It keeps growing in interest, and the demand has become more than I can handle currently.

If anyone is interested in helping to build an open and secure platform that is an alternative to WordPress, please reach out or comment.
Movement in the billions - isn't this what multi trillion dollar caps do?

The stock is off ~3%. https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/NVDA/
I don't know what an "AI Engineer" is, but, is reading research papers actually necessary if the half life of the relevancy of many of these papers is only a few months until the next breakthrough happens?

I have a feeling, unless you're dabbling at the cutting edge of AI, there's no point in reading research papers. Just get a feel for how these LLMs respond then build a pretty and user friendly app on top of them. Knowing the difference between "multi head attention" and "single head attention" isn't very useful if you're just using OpenAI or Groq's API.

Am I missing something here? I'd love to know where I'm wrong
Why is the changing terminology something that needs to be stopped? Does the language used to describe an identity need to be frozen in time?
As a content creator, it's mostly dealing with Gutenberg and the new theme editor. I couldn't care less what these people are up to.
Yeah, and who is doing the killing?
You seem to be referring to the United States' First Amendment, whereas freedom of speech is a western liberal value. The parent comment was pointing out that Zuckerberg does not uphold the value.
It isn’t just the commute. Life is greatly simplified and improved when you can run the dishwasher or throw a load of laundry in during the day. God forbid you want to, you know, visit a business during business hours as well.

Of course management doesn’t like to hear this. They’d rather you stare at a wall when there is nothing in front of you I guess.
I agree this is the actual issue; I don't agree with allowing the argument to manifest itself by bozos who use misinformation and pseudoscience to reframe it as a chemical/biological danger or even a taste/quality issue as it is neither of those.
Workers need to tread carefully here. If you there's no need to be in the office, what's to stop corporate from replacing you with an Indian that costs 1/3rd as much?

Push back too hard on RTO and you may not have a job at all in five years.
Blog about it and get it on HN?
I bought a Sonos Move 2 and it's a good speaker for what it is, but the connectivity is abysmal. AirPlay only works after I open the Sonos app, and sometimes wouldn't start at all until I put my phone into airplane mode and back on. I thought I was buying into something sure, but it's really disappointing.

Meanwhile, although twice the price, the Naim Mu-So Qb 2 I also bought recently is simply a marvel. Highly recommended.
'most people' meaning, all us non-creatives. Clickbait.
Yes, Tor was developed by the US Government for US spies in Russia.

GPS was developed by the US Government.

RSA was classified by the US Government.

Lots of other stuff is also connected to the US government.

The title is misleading.
Kinda yeah, but with a lot of caveats.

AI output is in a frustrating half way place where the results are simultaneously better than an amateur and worse than someone with a few years of professional experience.

Makes it very tempting to use, but unless you're good at attention to detail and reviewing the output, it's also by default[0] producing certain tells that make many people very weary — think of the meme "if you didn't bother to write it, why should I bother to read it".

[0] you can get past this fairly easily, but IMO learning that is a skill that only comes to the kind of technical person who would also not have any trouble learning the markup/markdown anyway
It's a great talk! I have stolen your "if you smell smoke, find the source" advice and put it in some of my own talks on the subject.
But surely the main reason for declining sales is the app.

And not just the app itself but the fact that despite mounting criticism from the community they didn't immediately revert it. Thus demonstrating that they don't really care about their own, up until that point, very loyal customers.
> The trick is to find the exact best number of test for each color so that we have good statistical significance

Yes, A/B testing will force through enough trials to get statistical significance(it is definitely a “exploration first strategy), but in many cases, you care about maximizing reward as well, in particular during testing. A/B testing does very poorly at balancing exploitation with exploitation in general.

This is especially true if the situation is dynamic. Will you A/B test forever in case something has changed and give up that long term loss in reward value?
The Chumby hardware I’m thinking of is from 2010 or so. So if that’s it, it would certainly be old. And it would explain a possible relation with the OLPC having a similar chip.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chumby
> Why then [...] rather than coming up with even a single conclusion on what must be done instead?

Because (a) that's not the topic at hand, and (b) in American discourse, it's rather obvious what the correct (or at least default) position is with regard to racial discrimination and injustice: Don't discriminate on the basis of skin color, national origin, or any number of other things that have nothing to do with a person's character. Love your neighbor as yourself. It's even been written into law, including an amendment to our constitution.

> sounds very dishonest

I can assure you, I am sincere and not drying to deceive. What do you think my real intent is?
It's really only constricting to state machines which are dependent upon a fixed instruction set to function.
There are CMSes that work with static site generators. Static site generators do not imply that the input is markdown, though this is often the usecase. Any CMS that is decoupled from presentation, in fact, could be used for static site generation. Just read the structure and generate an appropriate HTML tree statically. Here are some CMSes with specific thought given to this use:

https://decapcms.org/

https://getkirby.com/

https://tina.io/

https://statamic.com/

ect ect
I deleted my account long ago. What happens if you type that?
> When you couch the problem as being one of unearned advantages, the obvious implication is that you believe the solution is to take away something from the "privileged" group...

That's one possible interpretation, yes. Not everything works that way, though. Gay people getting married didn't take anything away from me. As the meme goes, "it's not pie".
The "Monopoly money" was a nice touch to the photo.
I find it an interesting question to what degree the design decisions of WordPress are still the right ones in 2025. A PHP backend and frontend running on the same machine, serving dynamically rendered content from a MySql database.

Personally, I prefer to have my content in text files, which are using a DSL similar to Yaml but optimized for use in a CMS. And render it to static html files via Python. A process that happens on a different machine. The html files are then pushed to the server that serves the frontend.
Building on Shaky Ground
I've read white papers seemingly claiming with the right prompt these sketches would turn into the indicated art.

That would be quite the compression scheme.
New on-device LLM in iOS app for psychological card readings
Hey hackers! We just launched Qybala (https://qybala.ai), an app powered by a built-in LLM custom fine-tuned for psychological tarot readings with a new unique dataset we created from scratch.

Our beta testers really like it, commenting on the quality of the generated text and people are surprised it's running on device. We achieved this by decomposing the problem into subtasks and balancing them out in our dataset.

It's supposed to be a fun toy, with original artwork & metaphysics too, so do check it out and share your thoughts! :D
What I wish I knew before I quit my job
Sonos is dead. You can get a better sounding and cheaper multi-room setup with WiiM devices.
It's less the app, more the business decision to tell people who had spent thousands and thousands of dollars on elaborate sound systems to go throw it all in the trash and start over, all at once.

Even Apple has never been that bad. They drop support for things over time but even their roughest transitions (x86, Apple Silicon) have come with extensive day 1 support for previous functionality.
Our home is pretty typical, with a few touches for my partner and I. It was definitely a more modest project for this particular builder, who typically builds homes 3x the size of ours.
If the new app is such a disaster, why can't they just re-release the old one?
(not arguing with you, but arguing with the statement that neither are being censored)

There is definitely censorship on Twitter these days. A local strip club has its account suspended for "hate speech"

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/the-penthous...

> Twitter took action after a photo of the club's latest marquee reading, "Forever neighbours, never neighbors" went viral.

> The wording references president-elect Donald Trump's recent trolling of Canada by calling it America's 51st state, and uses the juxtaposition of the Canadian spelling of "neighbour" against the U.S. "neighbor" for political satire.

> ... the free speech social media platform shut down the club's account saying "it violates the X Hateful Profile Policy."
It's the story of good hardware but bad software all over again.
I always wondered why except for Apple nobody gets this right. I know, it's somewhat totally different, but man, it surely can't be that hard (especially not effing 30 million bucks hard).

Luckily I only use my Sonos IKEA lamp only with Air Play, but the few times I have to use their app? Bonkers. Absolutely trash.
When working on a test that has several asserts, I have adopted the process of adding one final assert, "assert 'TEST DEBUGGED' is False", so that even when I succeed, the test fails -- and I could review to consider if any other tests should be added or adjusted.

Once I'm satisfied with the test, I remove the line.
I have never liked Wordpress. If it dies, that's ok with me. I just don't like it.
Perhaps he tried some Ayahuasca and now "doesn't care about anything" and it reinforced his narcissism.

Ayahuasca (and DMT for that matter) tend to make people not care about anything, so I wonder if he did some and has been affected by it. Just a guess, though.
Right, and maybe one of the reasons that we don't see a split is because there is no clear definition, no clear boundaries. But perhaps we can find splits if we look more carefully. One notion that could be indicative of a split is "white women's tears".
Can someone explain to me what kind of bugfixes cost between $20 and $30 million to fix?
"They lowered their bills by 53 percent, on aggregate"

About the premium (45%) Dutch households paid over U.S. energy prices in March 2024 [1]. (Mostly gas and coal [2].)

[1] https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/cost-of-e...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_the_Neth...
Locking them down also makes supporting them *FAR* simpler.
Sucrose itself is a disaccharide composed of glucose and fructose.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sucrose

Fructose is only processed by the liver, and can contribute to non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.

Using maltose instead of sucrose will reduce the liver burden.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maltose
I love the "if you didn't fix it, it ain't fixed". It's too easy to convince yourself something is fixed when you haven't fully root-caused it. If you don't understand exactly how the thing your seeing manifested, papering over the cracks will only cause more pain later on.

As someone who has been working on a debugging tool (https://undo.io) for close to two decades now, I totally agree that it's just weird how little attention debugging as a whole gets. I'm somewhat encouraged to see this topic staying near the top of hacker news for as long as it has.
https://archive.ph/JvqSU
The incoming administration has never been unkind to minorities. If they have been unkind to criminals, yes, but minorities, never. If you conflate that with minorities, then that kind of demonstrates who you protect: Not the minorities.

It’s all words anyway. Wokes hate white people with passion, and that’s why they are not getting half the USA against them.
Yeah, that's where he lost me too. I get the impression that in his head the firing of a college president is a bigger problem than racism.... like bro 24% of the world lives in a caste system. I don't know if human kind will ever be capable of treating people without preference across beauty, age, race, etc.

I'd be curious how he "sizes" the import of these problems (priggishness, prejudice) and whether it's just drawn directly from personal frustrations of a wealthy white billionaire in the most progressive state in the world.
Well, maybe Denmark should have done something to help the crowds of homeless elderly people in the supermarket, so Don couldn't use them a a photo op. The entire island is 75k people, how could Don round up 20 homeless people in an hour at a single grocery store?

Either this is the entire homeless population of Greenland or Denmark isn't really doing a great support job.
wait, this is amazing !

I am tempted to make a slightly sillier version of this w/ a circular lcd rather than the uhh retro-cool smt leds honestly just to avoid the multiplexing design

great work!! super cool
Well, in Spain you have to pay a minimum 200€ fee every month just for the government to let you be self-employed, even if you make 0€ (and it gets steeper and steeper the higher your income is), on top of every other tax you also need to account for. Talk about immoral.
Correct; by converting about half to fructose you get a product that is functionally equivalent to sucrose. You could take it a step further and perform a condensation reaction to chemically convert it into the disaccharide (actual sucrose) but considering it's going back into something where it would just disassociate again, it would not be worth doing.
Same deal with other industries with hybrid public/private, like the postal service or insurance. Arithmetic is based on serving some people at a loss but amortizing those losses against the wider public. Private entities come in and eat the winners while leaving the losers. Public option is left with only the clients that were never profitable, and private businesses have no obligation to serve them.
Could someone link to a higher-level history of the WordPress situation, going further back? For the benefit of those of us that don't know much beyond the fact that it's an established blogging and website-building platform?
This seems to have been posted here as a response to Paul Graham's "The Origins of Wokeness" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42682305, whose content/mindset it explains.
Honestly I think the whole system runs on "let's pretend we're doing stuff for the workers but create loopholes so big business doesn't have to actually comply."
Yes. All analogies suck to various extents, but, "murder" and "robbery" are pretty apt analogies.

A lot of problems can only addressed systemically.

Murder? Yes, an excellent start to solving this problem is to not murder anybody. That's really the single most important thing you do.

And yet, history shows, other people are going to do murders and simply not murdering people yourself is not sufficient to deal with this problem. You need to intervene or call for help if you see somebody getting murdered, and we need some sort of system to deal with murderers and protect other people from them, etc.

If murder is too extreme a metaphor for the anti-woke crowd, how about pissing on the bathroom floor? It's great if you are not pissing on the floor, but somebody is and we all have to walk on that floor, so we need to have some kind of community standards around it, and also somebody needs to clean up that piss.
Focusing on corn syrup suggests that you think we'd be in any different of a situation if junk food were made with cane sugar which is just as palatable as any other sweetener.

Corn vs sugar is not the problem.

Anti seed oil memers make the exact same mistake. Since we use seed oils in junk food, it must be the seed oils making us fat instead of how we guzzle down junk food. Therefore replacing canola with butter in junk food would somehow make junk food less appetizing or something?

It makes no sense.
A Poem in Chrome
I found this book so helpful I created a worksheet based on it - might be helpful for some: https://andypi.co.uk/2024/01/26/concise-guide-to-debugging-a...
Well... we will lose handwriting ability, and also the ability to read handwritten texts, but we have already (almost) substitute such abilities with something more efficient. This means than on one side we "popularize" things before "to far from common people knowledge" while we live more room for different skilled people in more specific segments of the human knowledge.

This means that cognitive abilities have to change, as are always changed through history. We will have some "generic workers" able to do something like small potatoes IT, data science, architectural design etc, without really much competences and few who decide to dig something and acquire skills "like in the past". I see not much difference in the old adage "with the printed books we will lose the real knowledge and epistemological skills", it was a bit true indeed, but back then 99% of the people was even unable to read, after a sizeable amount of people acquire poor but still present reading skills, and some still remain knowledgeable anyway.

I expect in the future not very cultured people been able to do stuff now done only by few, while still some will be really cultured like today.
I think "linear narrative" is exactly the hard part. Most programs don't have a linear narrative, they have a "hub-and-spoke" narrative of some sort, a central core then a bunch of branches of "features" that may or may not interact. Some of that is "do one thing" is great in the Unix philosophy but doesn't really describe things like business-oriented development. But I think more interestingly as Diataxis [0] maybe suggests learning about any project is maybe necessarily "two-dimensional" at best/least. Someone entirely new to a codebase is probably going to need a different "narrative" than someone familiar with it. Maintenance and new work are different narratives from the original design.

Perhaps literate programming is so "hard" simply because we aren't able to nail down a single linear narrative.

I don't know what the Diataxis of Literate Programming looks like, but it does wriggle with some ideas.

[0] https://diataxis.fr/
Britain, had no separation of church and state.

People who objected had no right to express their displeasure.

And the United States was a twinkle in the eye of men who wouldn't be born for like 70 years. In other words, non-existent.

Nowadays, we have the right to ask for something back if we give universities money man.
Yarn and pnpm didn’t kill npm. I don’t see how pip could ever be fully supplanted by uv. And if it is, that would probably mean the python foundation is stewarding it.
The blogosphere is keeping us entertained - with meta drama about blogging itself as growth turns negative.
IIRC seem to recall they changed the infra and software on the devices and it just wasn't possible.... take that marketing messaging as you will.
> try to find an actual proper double blind academic study that demonstrates a taste difference between sucrose and high fructose corn syrup. I'll be here waiting.

That doesn't imply there isn't a taste difference, just that nobody's funded research for this. I certainly ascribe a certain flavor to HFCS, and "mexican cokes" also has a distinct flavor. Now might I be imagining stuff, and might there be other recipe differences that can explain peoples' preference? Of course. But I'd hope there's at least some evidence to point to that's at least as strong as my (very weak and anecdotal) evidence to advance if you're going to push this narrative that they taste the same.
The most ardent tattletales from pre-Musk Twitter, angry that their sandbox has been opened up, have now co-opted the free speech argument to act like complete assholes. They're not one and the same.

To those I suggest they move on to BlueSky, where the preshared blacklists and ability to inform on others they despise would be more to their liking.

Alternatively, they could go touch grass.
You my friend, most likely have mining malware on your systems. They’ll shutdown when they detect task manager is opened so you don’t notice them.
It’s a lot easier to move a project that hasn’t started than to turn off a project that’s become necessary. Once a project like this is built the investment is so large and returns so desired and the workers lives have moved there it’ll never - in any meaningful sense - be turned off.

Or, they could just build elsewhere.

Astronomy and science is not for the few - it’s for everyone everywhere until the end of history. The energy produced in this project is for the project not for the many. The project is for profit, and the output is short lived consumed by the relative few compared to science which benefits all people from then on.

I’m not saying don’t build the project. Just build it somewhere else where we’ve fucked it up already. The fact this is a singular resource means that’s literally everywhere all over the earth other than this one location.
"Scorpion Swamp" has a map-style story layout, you are also encouraged to re-create the map on paper as you explore. This also means that you can get back to earlier locations where enemies will either respawn or rest on the second read-through.
ASML-Backed Dutch University Suspends Classes After Cyber Attack
https://archive.ph/ZfJvY