skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was never taught English grammar and have no clue what an antecedent is, nor any clue how to make a pronoun match it.
I am not supporting either side, but wpengine is a shit company that treats their customers like they are sheeple. They remove critical functions from the original WordPress, selling $1 worth of hosting for $79. Not providing a "hosting" environment but only providing one site per account (additional sites are billed). This is a shitty hosting platform using WordPress' name and not benefiting WordPress itself.

I had a comment where Matt refused to believe what I said about ACF but this doesn't make me hate him. I don't care about wpengine at all and they can go to hell instead of hurting WordPress any further. They are just using an open-source project to make money and not giving back.

People are fighting with the original creator of the software and supporting 3rd party for-profit companies like wpengine. For what reason? This is clear propaganda.
A CI infra just needs to communicate. It can communicate over email, like it does for the kernel.

A bug tracker is just assorted communication. One can easily build it over email.

You're just indulging in hyperbole for the sake of it. Nobody said git has an issue tracker in it.
I was just looking for something like this. Awesome!
I pay around $120 a month for a Toyota 4Runner (much less expensive than a Tesla S). I haven't been in an accident ever and haven't had a ticket since around 2002. I guess it's just more expensive in the US.
Minor note, on the federal level and most states, the “estate” is taxed, not the inheritance which has some subtle differences and loopholes. Also, very very wealthy families can pass much of their wealth through family office funds, blind trusts and company share transfers while living, that are taxed differently.

Between the very high caps before an estate tax is used and the loopholes, extremely few dollars are taxed this way.

https://taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/how-many-people-pa...
We all want history information to be lost. (Unless you are running a version control system that timestamps every keystroke.) Reasonable people may disagree on what information should be kept.
SGLT inhibitors for improving Healthspan and lifespan
Really? I guess I didn't know that, TIL! I knew it wasn't pure maple syrup, but I figured it was, I dunno, similar.
AI engineering is more applied than research and in that regard this list is great.

swyx and teams podcast, newsletter and discord has been the highest signal to noise ratio for keeping up and learning.
Everyone agrees with this. Obviously, the problem is determining what is true. There is significant disagreement. This is the root of the problem, not that people are preventing other people from saying things that they themselves believe are true.
[Citation pending]
Good luck migrating to another platform when they jack up the prices. You can pick any host for wp and migrate within minutes. With closed systems like wix and Squarespace you are locked in forever.
In my family history more or less every generation had to acquire their wealth simply because there was more than one child. It’s not like every child’s family all crowded into some generational family home. Given branching since my family first came to America 150 or so years ago there would be nearly a thousand children squeezed into a 1200sqft 150 year old house. By quirk of fate I ended up moving across the country about 2 miles away from that house. I’m not sure when it left the families control but my relatives are spread over the entire country, and every one of us worked hard and bought our homes. Most of the family homes when the parents die have ended up being sold because the kids left to college and careers and their own homes. Very few homes physically stay with a family branch, especially because the estate is shared and a home isn’t easily divisible.

I’m sorry you feel ripped off and I have seen a lot of this mentality on HN over the years - that somehow we are entitled to own property and it’s our ancestors that deprived us, and in current times safety codes and zoning drove the nail in. My generation - gen x - had no illusions we would get jack shit from anyone. I know I never did. But I bought my first home as a total junk fixer upper far from anything and commuted a lot and fixed it by myself into a nice place to live, sold it and moved into a tiny dilapidated studio in an unfashionable part of Brooklyn, committed a lot and fixed it by myself into a nice place to live, etc etc. Now I have a place that’s quite nice due to luck in my life and career and a lot of living in crappy places and fixing them up, saving 80% of my take home to invest, etc. I hope my daughter doesn’t have to work and struggle as hard as I did, but I never blamed my family for not giving me everything on a silver platter and I’ll never understand people that do. Even if my life hadn’t been so lucky and I was living in a crappy apartment, the idea of blaming my parents for not giving me an easy path would never occur to me, and I suspect that’s the case for most people of my generation.
There must something different between corn syrup and sucrose.

I have a corn intolerance where corn and corn byproducts trigger a migraine type headache.

I assume there must be corn byproducts in corn syrup because it absolutely triggers my corn reaction, but cane sugar does not.

Also from a purely taste standpoint there is a big difference to me as well.

Lastly, you can’t make peanut brittle chewy without corn syrup, with sugar alone (which is how I make it) it’s very crunchy.
this is totally true - subsidizing the rich by the poor

I always thought congestion pricing was always mis-priced, and it should be tied to income/wealth.

The only way to do this is to let the poor apply and get free electronic tokens and get that missing 43k back.

fyi - my MD can easily manage a 10x the mid-town tolls
You don't need to "beat" the established authors (probably). You don't need to beat SEO-optimized tutorials garbage (probably). If you want speaking gigs, job offers and meaningful connections then for sure you don't need to beat the AI-generated garbage - nobody is inviting them to speak, and not yet for jobs.

What is it you are hoping for? What is the cost (in time) you can throw at it? Would this be fun or a major enterprise to you?

If you like to write then sure why not? Do you write fast?

If you do write, then participating in reddit, HN, twitter?, and the relevant discords or bulletin boards for your field is propably still a way to slowly send traffic to your writing.

For example: if you want support for your job applications, then you don't need to beat anyone, you only need a small boost. Will a few writings give you a boost? Only if you write and edit well. But beyond that, it probably doesn't matter if you get much traffic. If you write and edit poorly... this will not help you!
This seems to be the goto method for most cities now. Got something that isn’t working anymore or the public needs more of it? Just start charging for it and make it a revenue source!
> existing remotely exploitable wireless security vulnerabilities

That's just it though, in my opinion being able to flash the thing at all would count as a remotely exploitable wireless security vulnerability. The first thing I'd do if mine was flashable is lock it down to make sure it was no longer flashable. Does that make sense? I might not be articulating myself well here.
Yeah, it is probably what I would start with and all the messages the book is sending you will resurface in the others. You have to cultivate that debugging mind, but once it starts to grow, it can't be stopped.
Nice. Finally easy way to test them!!
Is that true at 7k ft on a train line that only has 1 train on it? I can understand next to a busy freight line or something like that but it seems like freshly blown snow (to the volume that it stops a train) wouldn't have much in it. I can't say I know the purity of snow at that altitude though.
When I see things like:

> Bus speeds also increased after the tolls were turned on. The Manhattan-bound B39 bus, which crosses the Williamsburg Bridge, ran 28% faster compared to a similar January week last year. Other buses like the SIM24 and and the M50 saw increases in speeds, as well.

I wonder how much cherry picking there is. Did they give the B39 because it's the most improved? Or for some other reason (especially busy?)

(Generally strongly in favor of congestion pricing)
Comment from previous discussion:

If you search thru HN for the various submissions over the course of this case (over a decade old at this point!) you can see the wildly changing values of the bitcoin in the headlines.
Once it was 6M, then 181M, then 80M, now it's 598M! Haha
Yea - definitely. Just not ideal and something that needs to be built out, tested, etc.
Last time I looked, the anti "cargo cult" article was still on the front page...
I have a notion that the idea of a necktie mimics the bright plumage of male birds. Just an amateur photographer.
Israel has mandatory military service. If anyone who has ever served in the IDF is tarnished and has that part of their life periodically dragged out as evidence that they may be untrustworthy, you're saying that the entire Jewish population of the state of Israel needs to have a giant asterisk attached to them reminding everyone that they were in the IDF.

That may not be strictly antisemitic—maybe you're totally fine with Jews as long as they were raised anywhere else—but it's still not a healthy way to treat people.
4) complain about too much government.

5) buy yourself a president.

6) doge.
Yes!

The simplest and most direct and useful implementation Generative UI is to have a settings / form react to the context — e.g. an email form, or a bunch of sliders. I have a zod-based form schema, and set of forms and schemas. If there's a new schema (e.g. if I want to add name and comments) I can just have the AI generate and save a new schema, and the UI will know how to handle the changes. This makes updating interfaces really easy. (this is personalized to the dev)

For UIs generated per user, ideally you'd have a lot of guardrails around what it's able to generate and what the underlying data and use case is. I haven't built any of this in production yet, but I think accessibility may get a boost. Some video games already have a "verbose mode" for new players, and a "bare bones" mode for players who already get the mechanisms. One might consider building an "explanation" layer where some of the concepts can be explained to the user dynamically, and some more complex options can be either revealed under an "advanced mode" or when the UI determines the user "understands" the underlying concepts, as not to overwhelm them. I'm currently experimenting and designing/thinking through some bioinformatics (gene annotation) tools with this approach, but it's early days.
only the rich get to live in nice houses; drive Lamborghinis, fly private... welcome to capitalism!

To paraphrase Churchill, capitalism is the worst economic system, except for all the others.
Beefy ChatGPT prompt for "authentic" sounding cover letter
Well yes, Apple's internal software development teams aren't bound by Apple's standard external developer license.

Though I suppose the EU might eventually insist that external developers gain access to the same APIs that Apple itself can use.
He's an artist. :-)
> Where does this wish to spread baseless misinformation come from?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42668637
As opposed to nobody getting to go anywhere on the roads?

Driving is expensive. Cars are complicated large machines and roads in the 4 seasons of the American north eastern seaboard require a lot to maintain. Real estate in New York is even more expensive, and it’s expensive to hire people who live in the area. The state can subsidize this only so much.
> If you are morally right, and your aim is social justice, you should stop lecturing people, because it doesn't actually achieve what you are aiming for or really even advance the cause (in fact it may run backwards).

Actually it's through Internet conversations and mostly online education that my mind was changed, my whole worldview in fact.

Quietly doing good is admirable. So is speaking up where people are talking. Both is even better still.
Did they arrive in town sequentially as well?
To expound, "black people are more likely to be felons" is only true (in the truest sense of the word "true") given a clear definition of what "likely" means, and the conditions under which the statement is true.

The statement could easily be interpreted as either:

- when selecting a random black person and a random white person out of the current American population, there is a statistically higher chance that the black person is a felon than the white person

- black people are more inclined towards committing felonies than white people, and will continue to do so at a higher rate

These have very different meanings, but are both fair and natural interpretations of the information-deficient statement "black people are more likely to be felons". Given that, the statement will likely cause more confusion and argument than clarity, and so is a bad statement.
> I always thought congestion pricing was always mis-priced, and it should be tied to income/wealth.

NYC has a low-income discount system: https://new.mta.info/tolls/congestion-relief-zone/discounts-...

But also, the money is going to fund public transit, which disproportionately benefits poorer people.
WordPress leader Matthew Mullenweg exiles five contributors
How do you ensure the same user always gets the same treatment, even on subsequent visits to the site? You need the bucket sizes to be consistent for consistent hashing.
WallSmash
I've run into a scenario where one of our rarely used environments needed a hotfix and the GitHub action we used to deploy there was broken. Was easy enough to translate GitHub action steps to shell scripting for a quick, manual deployment.
[EDIT: See the response by a Cursor dev below — looks like it was not authorized by them]

Sounds to me like Cursor internally has a private NPM registry with those packages. Because of how NPM works, it's quite easy to trick it to fetch the packages from the public registry instead, which could be used by an attacker [0].

Assumably, this Snyk employee either found or suspected that some part of Cursor's build is misconfigured as above, and uploaded those packages as a POC. (Given the package description "for Cursor", I'd think they were hired for this purpose.)

If that's the case, then there's not much to see here. The security researcher couldn't have used a private NPM registry to perform the POC if the point is to demonstrate a misconfiguration which skips the private registry.

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[0] In particular, many proxies will choose the public over the private registry if the latest package version is higher: https://snyk.io/blog/detect-prevent-dependency-confusion-att...
> Most of the article is spent elaborating on what that means and providing examples of it.

More like starting with existing conclusions and working backwards from them. Even in the example you quote, Graham begs the question of "woke" and "politically correct" being equivalent and works backwards from that assumption - in the process incorrectly pinning the origins of political correctness on university social science / humanities programs and the hippie kids being hired into them in the 70's (never mind the multiple-centuries-long history of the political right policing speech and expression in service of the exact opposite of the intellectual pursuits universities foster; apparently that doesn't count as "political correctness" because reasons).
> 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.

My low effort recollection is that seed oil memers go on about how consuming a lot of seed oil leads to inflammation, and inflammation is bad.

Indeed, it looks like they are right on that particular datum:

https://health.clevelandclinic.org/seed-oils-are-they-actual...

Now, their low cost makes them associated with ultra-processed foods, and overconsumption of those foods is what generates the significant digits of inflammation/health risk (as it appears you are pointing out above).

As the article points out, another problem with seed oils is that they themselves are also highly processed. So "seed oils bad" isn't orthogonal to avoiding highly processed food-- it's just a limited and error-prone approach subject to occasional exploit (e.g., some "healthy" alternative to cheezits that uses olive oil instead of seed oil).

Still, a memer's dogma to avoid seed oil probably cuts out a supermajority of the junk food found at the average supermarket. There's a good chance a memer gets bored and leaves before they even find the "healthy" cheezits! (Or, more likely these days, they scoff at the price.)

Edit: clarifications

Edit 2: I guess to be realistic, seed oil memers probably meme about any amount of seed oil leading to inflammation. Even so, seed oil saturates so much fast food (heh) that the memer dogma almost certainly would have a positive effect on overall health.
I'm surprised I'm not seeing more 'Are You Human' captures to view content.
I did yeah, apologies. Thanks for pointing that out.
None of that is true, sorry
But again, a 2 second google search will show that Mullenweg spoke openly about his plans for a sabbatical before taking it, and has spoken about the sabbatical numerous times afterwards on his blogs, on podcasts, and at conferences. Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHPzdmks-HY

The Ayahuasca comments in this thread are the people putting their own narrative on it, and as the OP of the thread, this was not my intention at all. This thread has just become made-up gossip.
It would be terrible for air pollution - this isn’t just a big pile of trash, it’s years of compacted municipal refuse that has to be excavated and pulled apart. If you dig through 100k tons of landfil, you will fill the surrounding air with toxic/pathogenic dust.
I wouldn’t be surprised if this was across the board for buses into lower Manhattan/around bridges into Manhattan. When living in cities I usually use both buses and trains but when living in NYC I tried to avoid buses when possible as you are at the behest of an insane amount of traffic usually; meaning you can’t reliably be places on time if you are using the bus.
Popular in 2022 on a Show HN (114 points, 32 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29959642
Tangential point:

With two kids, my wife and I still need one or other of our parents to ferry the kids back and forth to school and sports at various, sometimes regular, times. We're lucky / privileged enough to have both sets of parents and one bro/sis in-law all within a 15 minute drive. My MIL is ferrying one or other of her grandkids somewhere at least twice a week. Truly, these kids have been raised by the village / extended family.

I had a (just lovely person) colleague who was a relatively recent migrant from Malaysia who had three kids, and her husband also worked and relatively long hours. They had no familial support network and I don't know how she / they managed. (everyone manages their own situation, it's just more gets sacrified, but you know what I mean).

Family roots make a huge difference in not just money, but time (and availability), and yes it's an immense privilege to have that support network available - but it feels like a different kind of privilege to that of pure monetary support or the kind of privilege that breeds arrogance, corruption, and superiority complexes.

It's also a privilege that I am actually looking forward to having the opportunity to provide to my children.
Now that others know there's a potential bounty there, I wonder what the value of Bitcoin will reach before someone makes a future action.
Yes, China's 1.4 billion citizens divided by their number 1 status as a carbon emitter, means that they produce less co2 than the USAs 345 million divided by it's (relatively) lower total emissions.

But as I pointed out, there is likely misleading: the US (and other nations) buy lots of goods from China effectively shifting coal emissions from the US to China by having them made there.

If the US were purchasing 100% US made goods, per capita co2 in the US might be much much higher
I parse it as implying that B39 had the highest percentage improvement.
>Language policing costs a lot, but its invisible since its the cost of everyone updating themselves and spending time rethinking what to say.

How often do you think the average person actually has to change their language? It seems like it would be a pretty tiny fraction for the vast majority of people in the vast majority of circumstances. On the other hand, if you're a professor of history or a public official, it probably does cost some of your time. But in those cases, doesn't it also provide value?
>Funny enough it's also the only place in Europe that takes floods seriously.

I'm guessing Belgium simply because they broke the dikes during WWI to flood the land with seawater to delay the German advance.
I think you're underselling the technical complexity of doing what Sonos did. It was a pretty impressive feat for them to do what they did over WiFi. The reason your Google Home can do it is because, while it's a pretty decent technical challenge, it's not insurmountable, and Google decided that the price tag Sonos put on themselves was more expensive then Google dedicating a reasonable quantity of their highly talented engineering staff to recreate the technology.

I think that's the kicker. It was revolutionary when it came out, and it's a solid technical solution, but Sonos was novel over a decade ago.
Come on, 'all hard drives' would be fine, that would be a trivial workload to sort through compared to 'I believe it is somewhere in this landfill site'.
You do know what's a mailing list right? You seem to be confusing it with GitHub.

A mailing list can go down and nothing would happen. The main point is to post patches to the maintainer. The mailing list is for a public record of things.

The only centralised thing is repo hosting on kernel.org. And that isn't the only official place, you can get the repo published on googlesource or GitHub, so it isn't exactly central enough.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42667766
> but I feel like people are generally addicted to keeping up with shit that affects their emotions and really doesn't need to.

Wow delving deep into people's psyche and calling them out on HN, why ?
It's an interesting example, because the fact that it is js makes it trivial for most developers to make modifications to it by opening the Chrome DevTools. Even if you're not a js dev, you probably occasionally write some js.

I'm arguing that it's successful because any of its users can trivially hack something on top of it and distribute it, including things the original devs never intended or think is a good idea. In that way, its success mirrors Excel.
How North Korean threat actors stole $300M+ from DMM Bitcoin
Ask hn: LLMs and prompt to make Git pull requests = profit?
It feels like maybe having a few different LLMS act as agents, you could get fairly far in writing some software... especially if guided by a human PM, right?
CGI is fine, but it’s a rather awkward API, and about the worst way to publish a Web site.

I mentioned writing CMSes, and one of them was in Perl (using CGI). I still wake screaming, sometimes, and that was probably 25 years ago.
"We made something more expensive to do and you'll never believe that fewer people did it!"
It sold 65 million copies? You've got to be kidding me. Someone made 9 figures off of Oregon trail? Bwahahaha.
Although under the law that created Amtrak, the track owners are supposed to give priority to passenger trains. I don't think that's been enforced for 30+ years (maybe ever) so freight is prioritized since it makes the owners more money.
Discussion (35 points, 21 days ago, 10 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42498852