skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From Mullenweg (https://wordpress.org/news/2025/01/jkpress/):

> To make this easy and hopefully give this project the push it needs to get off the ground, I’m deactivating the .org accounts of Joost, Karim, Se Reed, Heather Burns, and Morten Rand-Hendriksen. I strongly encourage anyone who wants to try different leadership models or align with WP Engine to join up with their new effort.

He seems to be justifying the deactivation by claiming it will 'help them', somehow?
WiFi is a shared medium, but shared medium and circuit-switched are not the same thing. WiFi uses packets and conforming devices do not block other devices for any longer than the time to send a packet.
Sure, here's my email: shashank(at)easequiz.com
It's kind of wild that he's escalated from stalking ex-Tumblr users a year ago to...this. I guess when people show you who you they are, believe them.
>BASIC was designed to be usable by anyone--not just experienced programmers. Python is the new BASIC

It does largely fulfill that but there's more! Python is used for a lot of serious stuff in a way that BASIC never really was. ChatGPT is written in Python, the most popular language used by scientists is Python, the CERN accelerator is controlled by Python and so on.

It often seems to function as a bit of a user interface to control more serious code written in C, C++, CUDA or whatever.
> I'm just identifying that I think your concept is "creep" that has occurred over time for some subset of people, spawned by a principle that never originally included what you now include in the concept.

Fair, but I think the creep is in the other direction. I think that this notion that only the government counts is extremely new (and somewhat limited to the cultural context of the USA) and the broader version is the traditional definition of what freedom of speech means.
I'm sure if you take an hour to recall you'll be able to come up with a process. Or ask a philosophy professor who specializes in reason.

But the easiest way I can think of ATM is to go through all the questions that AI currently fails on, and then have a human work through them and show the chain of thought a human would do, including the false starts, and describing the strategy pivots. Then generate your corpus based on that. However, that burns the problem-set so you'll have to constantly try to come up with new problems.
Maybe I'm confused then. So one would be permitted to post on Twitter:

"khazhoux said yesterday: 'Megalopolis is the greatest film of the 21st century'"?

I thought the point was you can't attribute -- no names. And without a name, it's not actually a public quoting...
Oh, ffs. I was replying the comment that the subways stays are "fine". They're not fine, they're more dangerous than they were 20 years ago; more dangerous than they should be. The subway system in NYC is of great benefit to the city and it's residents. But it could certainly stand a fair amount of improvement.

And banning cares from the city completely would be moronic, causing incredible harm to pretty much every aspect of it. I'm not "so worried about safety" that I would want to destroy the city, and your putting forth a strawman argument implying I am adds nothing to the discussion.
English is itself an extreme example of historical spelling. Tibetan, Mongolian and French are bad, but English is just as bad if not worse.

(Manx is terrible, but for different reasons: its orthography was designed by English-speakers!)
That assumes you have a source tree to build. Decompilation output generally is meant for human consumption and is not suitable for a compiler without significant rework and carrying out a full decompilation project (even a non-matching one) is a lot of work.

This is why traditional binary patching is the usual go-to option, because it doesn't require much upfront effort to perform. The downside is that you're constrained by the memory map of the original program and contorting your modifications to fit can be a huge pain.

There are alternative, less widely known techniques out there with different tradeoffs. For example, if you can make the original program bytes relocatable then you can run those through a linker and let it mend both original and new parts together. I've built tooling to help do that specifically (delinking programs back to object files [1]), it's faster than a decompilation project because you merely need to figure out and undo all the relocation spots, but you don't get source code at the end.

[1] https://github.com/boricj/ghidra-delinker-extension
Or irresponsibly, ignorantly, stupidly, recklessly ...
How so? It would seem to encourage people to say thoughtless, shallow things, among more open things.
Trying to get Eduroam working soured me on NixOS as a desktop/laptop OS. If conventional methods fail, you're left with a completely non-standard OS designed to prevent quick hacks.

But NixOS spoiled my entire mindset around Linux. Going back to anything else feels like a massive downgrade. We would be better off today if declarative operating systems became the standard back when they could.
That seems totally backwards.

In the event of power loss, the data and voice recorded have lower priority than cabin lighting?!

And the cherry on top is that this was the case on 737's until ~ 2010?!

Defusing my bullsh!t alarm with a second layer of bullsh.t?

I would swallow it all ad fundum if you can provide HN with reliable links to manuals, procedures, ... describing how electrical energy for the passenger cabin is prioritized over the data and voice flight recorders!
tl;dr I agree, cool project, and yes the Aaron Schwartz piece is powerful

It is good to have heroes, exemplars and role-models to offer inspiration.

Especially in difficult times it is good to be reminded of the huge differences individuals acting selflessly can make, both directly and to other individual lives and by inspiring others and even creating movements.

It is important we do not forget the past and those who have passed.

The future is not always so different from the past.
this. Wordpress was already in a precarious situaton with alternatives like squarespace and wix etc..

Wordpress was useful, because lots of people know it well enough. When your consultant can't be reached someone else can take it over and do ok. I even liked the Gutenberg page layout tool.

>It must be really tough being a “software celebrity” for your entire adult l
ife.

I imagine it is hard. He didn't make the fortunes of others, but he had a pretty loyal and really nice community. One of the best. Its what made wordpress grow and be so successful.

As a wordpress professional said at a recent meetup, its hard to recommend wordpress, when you know the client will Google it an all this nonsense comes up.
The link to “open press” was a bit confusing since the website no longer mentions that name, boasting an open source knowledge graph for LLM agents now, but with a little jumping around I found the empty git repo with the feature list quoted in the blog

https://github.com/OpenAgentsInc/openpress-orig
It feels like a backhanded compliment and encouragement.

If there wasn’t a threat perceived you could with them well and ask them to let you know them how they might need help.
> harbours at Novorossiysk and Sochi

I must admit harbour at Novorossiysk, but not Sochi, because it is where putin like to spent time on sea coast, so there economy activity is severe limited for safety.

Second, only far east harbours are opened near whole year, but north harbours and black sea, have significant time in ice, near every year.

BTW interest observation - from begin of war in 2022, we have not seen normal winters, all winters was anomaly warm, with very short frost periods.
“Control structure” normally refers to conditionals and loops. You can pipe in and out of a for loop in the shell, maybe that’s what they mean.
> Why is that shocking? It would be the case no matter how they do as a country

From the review that I cited and you didn't bother to read:

>A little over a decade later and that same South African Air Force was no longer able to fly. It wasn’t for lack of planes: new ones were procured from European arms manufacturers in an astonishingly expensive and legendarily corrupt deal. But once purchased the planes rotted from lack of maintenance and languished in hangers for lack of anybody able to fly them. Most of the qualified pilots and technicians had been purged, and most of the remainder had resigned. The air force did technically still have pilots, after all it would be a bit embarrassing not to, but those pilots were chosen for patronage reasons and didn’t technically have any idea how to fly a fighter jet.

There's more, if you care to actually read it.
Yup. D is the source for a number of recent features in other languages.

The reason I embarked on D is because C and C++ were too reluctant to move forward.
You can multiplex by frequency as well.

Also, modern wireless systems can even multiplex by location, using phased arrays, it will beam a spotlight of radio to your direction, and can noisy data from receiving phase information as well.
I know that the Internet Archive are mostly good people and they don’t deserve this, but I really get a vibe of “SF techbros re-invent statues”.
That’s assuming there’s something to do or people to talk to outside. For most people (in the US at least) everything outside needs to be accessed by car and then where do you go? Hard to talk to strangers at a coffee shop. Might have luck at a club or church.
From what I've read and heard, the 4090 was with single-frame generation.

Anyway, my point with those lines was to highlight just how defensive AMD was vs how offensive NVIDIA was.
My LG could be configured to behave like this (and believe me, I am thinking about going that way).

I have a cheap FireTV which cannot be made to behave this way. If you disconnect it from the internet, it will still require you to interact with the (slow-ass clunky) OS in order to select a different input.

Your best case scenario with some of these smart TV's is the ones which run Android to replace the launcher. Possibly, this gets reset periodically, meaning you have to keep doing it.

Apparently there's a few Fire devices which can be flashed with LineageOS - I might try researching that and see if it is doable. A FireTV stick with LineageOS would be the best case scenario.
Honestly, use a good IDE.

Jetbrains can annotate your source with what the actual type is.

and auto can help future maintainability if you need to change concrete types that have the same API surface.
In my view, one of the critical components of these sort of golden-age low cost sports/muscle cars is hackability/repairability.

Nobody makes cars like that anymore. Even the ICE Mustang is a computer on wheels that requires professional dealer-provided software tools to work on. The concept of muscle cars accessible to the everyman for tinkering/souping up is basically dead now.
Yeah, this kind of memo and process probably still exists at places like NASA as well
I knew this at the time of writing, should have worded myself better.
>I wouldn't want everyone tracking my airtags.

That’s kind of how the whole system works.
My situation: hardware company, over 100 years old. I’ve found useful usage examples of pieces of software I need to use, but only on an OS we no longer ship, from a supplier we no longer have a relationship with, that runs on hardware that we no longer have. The people that know how to get the dev environment up are retired.

In those cases, I’m grateful for mildly less concise languages that are more explicit at call and declaration sites.
Having kids is very beneficial. Money is not an end in itself. I think the fact that the child-free subreddit exists and that there so many “sinks and dinks” on social media highlight their “fantastic” lives with no kids says a lot more about them then they think it does.
In case anyone is looking for some background on this, I wrote this post before seeing the news today. Stuff's not been great in the WordPress community leading up to this point, and Mullenweg deciding to deactivate the accounts of folks who might start new forks certainly isn't helping matters.

https://anderegg.ca/2025/01/11/wordpress-is-in-trouble
If you really believe something, say it loudly and proudly and sign your name to it. If you're not willing to have it attributed to you because it will make you look bad, then maybe you should take a moment to think about where those beliefs come from.
> There is no "narrative control machinery".

You've worked at Microsoft and Google, and still say this? /smh

I've worked at a much smaller multi-national, and during their growth from ~6000 to ~23000, the internal spin-doctoring skyrocketed. Lying internally had become so important that they created new leadership positions for it.

> I think it's very human to extrapolate individual malaise to society as a whole [...] most people don't perceive society the same way a deeply depressed or burnt out person does

You're just confirming what the article says: "Those who haven't burned out / been broken have no way to understand the experience".

Meaninglessness at work is rampant. (Have you seen r/antiwork? or read David Graeber's Bullshit Jobs?) And society is wholly engineered to keep us busy, and to keep fleecing us, sheep.

The kind of job where you find enough meaning such that you deem society tolerable is the exception, not the norm.
> Free speech only means you are not prevented from expressing yourself. It does not mean freedom from consequences.

People say this a lot but i doubt anyone actually literally believes this.

If the state executes you as a consequence of your speech, it is an unambigious free speech violation no matter how you interpret that term.

What people really mean is its not a blanket protection against every consequence, but they hide that part because then you have to explain which consequences are reasonable and which are not which is complicated and requires nuance.
Oh fuck off, I am not Matt and it should be obvious.

> so why is it so unlikely that he could have potentially hired people to write code that he claimed under his moniker?

Sure and he could have bought loads and loads of monkeys and given them typewriters.

Why are you fantasising?

It's a pretty straightforward story here.
Given that there doesn’t appear to be any harms from this treatment, why is it moral (or legal) to prevent humans from experimentally seeking it, standard “in mice” argument notwithstanding?
If you can start a movement about it being a “spectrum” then you will probably get a lot of success out of that.
It's still fun to push it (a little) on back roads, where the primary danger is to yourself. Just don't cross the double yellows and don't overtake your braking zone, e.g. speeding around blind corners.

And I highly suggest a day of performance driving lessons from your local HPDE club. It will help you understand what is going on with the car that makes it lose traction, and to unlearn some bad habits when that happens.
> Persecuting people for their beliefs by exploiting loopholes (e.g. blast on social media, bully their employer, etc) is also pretty dystopian, don't you think?

Sometimes it can be. More than one thing can be dystopian.
> Perl to Bash conversion

That sounds like the wrong direction. ;)
How are those different than the multiple radios and beam forming (oops, I see I wrote something else) that I mentioned? I'm not being snarky; I'm trying to learn what I'm missing. Thanks.
The Shape of Things Unseen by Adam Zeman Review – The Science of Imagination
Exactly. "I really want to say conservative or racist things but don't want to be considered conservative or racist by the public!"
'So immoral': gig economy workers forced to pay fee to receive their wages
Screwing people :p

But that being said, just think like their boss, when doing remote work you have to record every interaction like email and chats of employees.
But when they are in the offi e, you can conspire your fraud in an office room without any record. So remote work easily impact their revenue by limiting their capacity of unethical business practices...

https://www.reuters.com/business/france-fines-us-bank-jp-mor...
It was hostile because: (1) it was made under false pretences; Matt blocked the plugin authors from updating their code, and then used that fact to claim he needed to take it over because of a lack of security updates.

Reason (2) is that he didn’t “fork” the code to create a new plugin as is customary. He took over the existing listing (and its install base of several million), renamed it, and then forced his version into everyone’s sites.

So despite having installed “Advanced Custom Fields” by WPEngine people woke up to their sites running “Secure Custom Fields” by Automattic.

If that happened via NPM or any other package manager there would be outrage. It’s a supply chain attack, plain and simple.

Reason (3) is that he then took the paid version of that same plugin and released it for free, despite having official documented rules that he himself wrote against such a practice. Nulled plugins (as the community calls them) are explicitly not allowed in the repository.

In summary, this wasn’t a fork as we all understand it. This was a hostile take over of an existing install base without consent and contrary to the rules he, himself created for the plugin repository.

Oh, and one more thing. Automattic is currently suing someone for doing exactly what he did (redistributing paid plugins). In that case, his lawyers flat out lied to the Dutch court and claimed that the GPL doesn’t allow others to re-sell GPL code. He got caught and the judge was NOT impressed.

Imagine calling “open source” your religion but then lying to a judge about what that actually means.

The man is a greedy, egotistical, tyrant.
Have you heard of https://github.com/crowdsecurity/crowdsec? It seems like a good fit.
Try asking questions to engage responses. Let's say someone brings up Thailand in a conversation..

You might say: "Oh, I went to Chang Mai 2 years ago. I went with my buddy and we found this small waterfall while bike riding. It was pretty cool". Something like this is hard to respond to.

Or you might say: "Has anyone been to Chang Mai?" and then engage the conversation from there. You steered the conversation to your interest and now you can see who bites.
Someone else did this, then built 20 more next to it. Now it's a business where they sell telescope time to researchers and hobbyists. I imagine it's profitable for them.
Formerly known as Coq prover.
People only believe the particular misinformation that they already wanted to hear, and none of them have heard, however indirectly, of any philosophers, postmodern or premodern.
Given the chatham house rules specificly allow that, its kind of a moot point.
Wow. The complexity of the task these researchers are undertaking is mind boggling.
"Things that haven't been approved for general use yet" is not meaningfully different from alternative medicine. You've adopted the aesthetic of cyberpunk instead of crystals or tarot or whatever, but let's be clear: you're not approaching this any more scientifically.

Do you know how many kinds of brain cancer there are? Are you aware that different kinds of brain cancers work differently and require different treatments? The fact that you're asking for "bio hacks" for brain cancer without even mentioning what kind of brain cancer it is, shows you don't know enough of the background information to even ask the right question, let alone assess the answers. This is like, asking "How do I fix a car problem?" without specifying what the problem is.

Specialization exists in our society for a reason. Let the oncologists do their job.

I get it, you're smart and you want to help. I'm smart too, and as smart people we can muddle our way through a lot of lower-complexity specializations without actually being a specialist. But I'm telling you medicine, especially oncology, is not one of those things. People a lot smarter and a lot more knowledgeable than us have been trying to cure brain cancer for a very long time and the fact that it isn't cured shows it's not something you and I can muddle our way through with a conversation on Hacker News. It's far more likely that whatever harebrained idea you come up with will hasten your friend's death or increase their suffering before they die, than that it will improve anything.

I mean, among the things you're considering is infecting your friend with Zika virus. For fucks sake.
Is he reinventing USENET netnews?
I find the semantics (e.g. the order in which elements are replaced/parsed/processed) more of a problem than the syntax.
I had the same/similar take as this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42669861
All of this I agree with.
Skill issue. Time spent learning make will help you understand bazel etc.
In this case, does socialist mean "high amounts of government intervention" and capitalist mean "low amounts of government intervention"? I think it's important to be clear about such muddy terms.
You have two challenges

One is change of address.

The other is forwarding.

If you are in the US, a change of address is straight forward with USPS and you can sign up for Informed Delivery for a bit of insight.

If you are in the US, talk to a local Mailbox Service about scanning and forwarding. Someone probably offers it if you are in a significant metro. Expect to pay a business rate because they need to stay in business.

It is in your interest that they make money.
I can't agree with that take. Criticism is a part of progress. You can be a critic but still be respectful.

Disrespect is simply to belittle and look down upon. I don't see many situations where such an attitude leads to progress.
> maybe I’m just connected to the wrong news feeds

I don't think so. It's just like said in another comment:

For everything, there's a trade-off. Some just accept those trade-offs, build their vision, and launch it into the world; Some waste time, lamenting that reality doesn't align with their ideals.

Static typing works - just like formal methods, just like dependent types, just like unit testing, just like generative testing, just like many other different ideas and techniques. They each have their own place and use cases, strengths and weaknesses, pros and cons. Picking one single paradigm, technique, design pattern, or methodology - no matter how amazingly powerful they are - and just dogmatizing and fetishizing it is simply immature. Reaching the point where you clearly understand that there are truly no silver bullets and everything is about making compromises is a sign of professional growth and true, genuine experience.
Exploring ways to optimize compute shaders
How do you make progress on beliefs if you have to be 100% on board with every view you express?
…and if so, do they mitigate against hash collision attacks?
There’s better ways than happening to be coincidentally acquainted.
Ultrasound selfies at home, clinical trial reports self administered ultrasound scans on par with professional ones.

https://www.nibib.nih.gov/news-events/newsroom/ultrasound-se...
I've never, in trying to figure out whether something is factually correct or not, worried much about what Facebook/Meta thinks. Facts will go on. Also Facebook is bringing in a community notes type system instead.
I’ve been deactivated on Slack since very early in this dispute, and later banned from the issue tracker: https://journal.rmccue.io/468/on-contribution/

The only potential cause of this were some posts discussing the arguments behind the original lawsuit - they’re written in my personal capacity, and I’m not a partner of WP Engine. Matt is simply banning anyone who speaks out at all, even when they agree with points he’s made - it’s nothing to do with their partnership status.

(I’m not a WP Engine partner, and my day job is running a competitor to them. Aside from that, I’ve been contributing for 20 years to the project, am a committer, and built several large parts of WordPress including the REST API.)