skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is beautiful. Thank you for sharing. Especially the border artwork–the level of detail in some of the sketches, the choice to use plants to tie in the advertisements together. Definitely from a different era.
Nah, it's too long. You can do it but it's going to be a pain trying to extend and add different lyrics. Would probably be a full evening of work, multiple tries per section.
That’s why I usually write them from scratch and don’t let them get over 100 lines long at most. Usually they are around 30 with white space.

make clean makes lots of sense but is not even strictly necessary. In the world where all it does is find all the *.o files and deletes them it’s not a bad thing at all.
Did you try setting the BIOS...err UEFI to something like 'Win7 mode' for booting and update the BIOS ...err firmware/UEFI from USB?
But even economists are aware of the difference between wealth and value : you are describing inflation.

Why were you allowed to / it was a good idea to remortgage under ~20% inflation ?
I didn't mean to do that. I wanted to cite my source for saying the U.S would block access to Tik Toks website.

I'm going to remove the URL and put url source as comment.
Note that the FSF has no problem giving an RYF certification to hardware with unupdatable binary blobs, as long as those blobs reside in a separate chip like an SPI flash. It's not a measure of security or maintainability. Of course whether the FCC label will be one either remains to be seen.
Surely this is a question where no answer can be simultaneously true and well-considered? (EDIT: and specific).

If they think bees are secretly plotting to overthrow the Welsh government, but are afraid to say so, they're not going to willingly reveal that they have anti-apiary tendencies in response to a direct question.
https://hpc-wiki.info/hpc/SLURM
I find that most of those reset to some nonsense occasionally or whenever the power goes out. I make sure they have no internet connectuon, but I usually have to dig up the remote to get back to hdmi1 so my device interface will come back up. I accept the annoyance because I accepted the discount that they give to have all of the spyware crap on there that I am blocking. I wish they could sell something cheaper that is just a display, buy product managers will be product managers.
I'm american. That's U.K. We don't have a history of the US federal gov blocking websites. As far as I know.
It's the same today, only it's webapps instead of unix utilities. Simplest bugs in the world, still devs don't pay attention to them. Simple like not sanitizing inputs, injecting stuff straight into sql queries or exec commands, dumping customer data / passwords / all environment variables into logs and error messages, etc.
Is there anybody on here with the military chops to tell me why these wouldn't just be sitting ducks? You could bomb them with plains, you could torpedo them with submarines, you could mine the area where they land....
Should be more than security. Also privacy, for exposing companies sharing everyone’s data
An aphorism has been in my memory for a long time, that goes like this:

It's better to be a warrior in a garden than a gardener in a war.
That’s not “even” wrong!
I wonder how this page might look if people could only comment in support of policies that wouldn't lead to a direct personal financial benefit.

(Disclosure: In such a situation I would be unable to post this comment--as, in our just world, this comment's insightfulness would undoubtedly lead to me being the beneficiary of significant financial remuneration.)
The idea that git offers a 'clean' command was revelatory to me. Your build system probably shouldn't need to know how to restore your environment to a clean state because your source control should already know what a clean state is.

That's sort essential to serving its purpose, after all.

I haven't yet run into a scenario where there was a clean task that couldn't be accomplished by using flags to git clean, usually -dfx[0]. If someone has an example of something complex enough to require a separate target in the build system, I'm all ears.

[0] git is my Makefile effect program. I do not know it well, and have not invested the time to learn it. This says something about me, got, or both.
Respectfully, as someone who manages Microsoft/Office 365, it’s absolutely not the same as the consumer editions. Those services run on different infrastructure and for the most part are different products/services. That isn’t just obvious from APIs and UXs; Microsoft also points it out all over documentation and processes.

Microsoft’s assumption is that businesses are using 365, and so both the number of features and the various paths to trouble tend reflect that.

To the random business owner, dropping them into anything other than Microsoft Admin Center is akin to dropping a tier one helpdesk agent into the AWS Management Console with no guidance. The trick is once you’re beyond a handful of employees you typically need to work beyond the MS Admin Center. If you want to do anything remotely sophisticated with identities, deploy SSO, etc, you need to be working from the Azure or (duplicative) Entra portals. If you want to do something like route helpdesk email, you need to be in the Exchange Admin Center. Tweaking spam filters is in yet another portal (currently Security Center, although that has changed a few times). And so on. Not to mention the more esoteric features that are only available behind Graph API calls.

I used to administer Google Workspace environments too, and while that control panel is MUCH more friendly, it’s still exceedingly easy for a non-technical person following a random walkthrough online to foul up their environment. I’ve watched that happened first hand many times.
True. I stand corrected.

This is a footgun, regardless of if it's a block from file systems or remote requests or whatever.

My claim that it's a configuration problem is just a 'fix' and there are ultimately an unlimited list of ways this same thing can come up to bite you. Well, outside of aggressive timeouts - and even then, with enough volume of requests that's even not going to save you :D
Sure. But how the firmware process functions matters.

There's a world of difference between remotely initated OTA over the interent vs flashing it locally via a USB drive or microSD card. You know like PC motherboards keep working for decades now. They are effectively read-only under normal use and need to have a certain reboot sequence (BIOS/UEFI fw admin) to unlock flashing. Or maybe even load firmware from a preinstalled SD card which makes swapping easy.

Or if you really need to be fancy wity remote updates: at least require the push of a physical button to allow flashing remotely.
> Ackman only puts out stuff like this public if he needs retail to give him leverage on some angle he has.

Replace "Ackman" with "Any major investor" except for maybe Warren Buffett.
You’re pointing out their wealth in a snarky way without admitting the obvious, which is that they would be further ahead without discrimination.
I'm waiting for schizoid personality label to become en vogue so I can claim I was ahead of the curve.
Okay. I stand corrected. So no US company can host tik Tok. I wonder what happens if a foreign country hosts tik tok
Again you make unsubstantiated assumption about someone else’s intentions/feelings.

I am not angry at all. I was just wondering why you reacted like that. Nevermind
Arnold's Cat (2018)
This seems like a good idea that isn't likely to catch on widely, but could maybe be deployed in places like the Simple English Wikipedia and other contexts where non-native English speakers are a major part of the target audience.
That take is so comically nonsensical I question why you’d even contribute it.

I have no doubt you read and write code without any tools.
Per-device wifi passwords can be used on networks that don't have 802.11x.
I don’t trust his commits, given how he’s acted recently.

He’s funded the development via his own private company which profits from wordpress - and Automattic (also funded by profits from Wordpress - plus VC and private equity money derived from his relationship with Wordpress), which honestly seems to be a fairly autocratic vanity fiefdom primarily concerned with promoting Mullenweg’s interests.

So yeah, he’s got lots of GitHub commits, but given his recent dealing with staff, I would not really be surprised if those were just proxy commits with the code written by others but cuckoo’d by him. That’s just speculation - but given how nosebleed-crazy he seems to be, I’d not be at all surprised.

To clarify: I didn’t say WP Engine was making more money, just that they were better at extracting profit.

“Better” in this context (from the Mullenweg view) likely means “a threat to Mullenweg’s vanity empire because they might pull customers to their business at the expense of his”.

> He’s basically trying to force them to either contribute to Wordpress to to pay Automattic

Even though (a) they don’t have to and (b) “contribution” can mean many things including driving awareness and adoption or “marketing contribution” or providing a visible and simple entry point that sustains usage and development or “ecosystem viability”contribution if you will.

Mullenweg is pissed because they threatened his fiefdom. Plain and simple.

His nonsense regarding the trademarks says it all.

Edit: I say this as someone who has used Wordpress for two decades, and spent a significant amount of money on products and services related to Wordpress. I moved my Wordpress-based business off Wordpress a couple of years ago (because it was too messy), and I’ve never been so glad as I was when this nonsense started.
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Prasek’s man, myself.
It's nice to know that when I was born, there was a guy just like me, writing snarky annoyed memos about the stupid security holes in our systems.
Stem cell–based conduits restore facial nerve function in animal study
Because China is a nuclear power. Nuclear powers get to do what they want, as per the precedent set by the US.
Related, California Cycleway

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Cycleway#:~:text=Th....
> Which writings by DEI professionals and experts have you read ...

None. I'm a third party HN commentator that dropped in to address the incorrect assertion that the sentence in question contained a "they" with no referent.

I have six decades of reading, writing, and speaking Commonwealth English and four or so with American English and felt the user who asked could use the grammar assist.
> You want to introduce data validation and type-checking in your config? Fine, you can just ask users to provide type annotations in the format you want...

No - the users cannot choose type - they cannot suddenly decide that they want to provide a date where your parser expects an URL, or you are suddenly just making users repeat the schema

> Every software MUST WORK WITHOUT A CONFIG!!
> So, empty config or no config file at all must be a valid configuration

Loads of scenarios where I want fail-fast over a running but broken system:
"WARN AlertSystem URL not configured: alerting disabled"
"WARN No credentials store configured, adding admin/111111"
....
We're in a thread about how it's outselling the original. Regardless of the silliness of the branding, it clearly didn't flop.
Is it?

https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/blob/master/docs/index....

> Even though we do not pass the telemetry build flags (and go out of our way to cripple the baked-in telemetry), Microsoft will still track usage by default.
It just feels like I'm going to harm something if I leave them crossed more than a split second and I stop.
> This post was updated to clarify that de Valk and Marucchi haven’t specifically said they have planned a fork, and that they were hoping to create mirrors for the plugins and themes repositories, while also offering to lead on the next release of WordPress.

The plan was to scrape the site and set up an alternative, not to fork Wordpress. The headline was deliberately written to deceive.

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edit: that being said, a distributed model would be best for all situations like this. I still can't get over the fact that Rust has a github dependency. And I'm sure they're not the only one.

https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io/issues/326
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If they weren't planning a fork like one of the other comments suggests they totally should now because the have the media initiative, people will be looking for it. Strike while the iron is hot basically.
> South Africa not doing so well currently?

Unless it is group of South African expats why should we brainstorming?

Is South Africa asking for help ? Either for ideas or for money? Or is there genocide or other basic human rights abuses that we cannot but intervene.

The presumption that we can solve or think about their problems better than them is where it is offensive not what is being said, people are more than capable of finding their own solutions to their own problems.
You could have just written that you hate Jews. Could have been shorter. If we inherited the Rome, we also inherited its moral debts. The uniqueness of the situation of Jews doesn't invalidate our moral obligations. Brits could have claimed the Palestine for themselves - it was a Roman Christian territory after all, they chose to do the only moral thing imaginable - restoration of Jewish homeland in Palestine.
> Finding people is very hard in these languages.

Small correction: finding experienced people is difficult. There's no shortage of engineers who only briefly tried Clojure and would love to use it at their full-time gig.
There's no a priori reason you would expect student expenditures to become less effective per dollar in richer countries, except the fraction spent on labor.
The only thing I can think of (and this is purely speculative, though I’ve interviewed at one and enjoyed the experience; didn’t move forward due to relocation concerns) is a quant trading firm.
No Mexicans died for anyone's freedom, including their own or other Mexicans. They were serving under a dictator and didn't have a choice. (And, yes, there were some slaves in Texas, but comparatively few compared to the rest of the South.)

The small force there knew they would eventually be massacred by the thousands of troops surrounding them. The defenders held them off for 13 days. When they requested parley, Santa Anna signaled no quarter. Legend has it that Davy Crockett was on the roof, fighting to keep the horde from coming up the ladder, but he died with the rest of them.

Santa Anna ordered the execution of the six surviving prisoners of war. The Alamo defenders fought bravely and died in support of an idea: that men can govern themselves and live in freedom. It would take another 30 years before the first Republican President, Abraham Lincoln, would sign the Emancipation Proclamation and free the slaves.
Right. My question is more whether if it weren't the aurora, would it have been something else?
Way more than 2% of software engineers in the us are earning at least two or three times the local median income and, barring lifestyle choices that prevent it, that's enough for very early retirement.
No. The Chatham House Rule only bars the attribution of the statements, not the sharing of the statements or the things they contain.

It’s not simply for privacy or nondisclosure. You are free to disclose, the discussions are not private.
>it gets into ambiguous state resolution
I didn’t know that about neuromorphic computing. Do you have a link that says more?
I did drop the lines you're thinking of. The last line is to specify which .o files go into the executable.
You are an absolute moron for believing in the hype of "AI Agents"
You made an assumption of intent.

You could have just pointed out the Samsung product.
And even before, but cities used to be much more deadly.
> Moreover, saying that zoning in locales like this should be changed to accommodate low-income high-density housing is just stupid.

It's a good thing I am not talking about locales like yours, then; unless your small town has a demographically-improbable homelessness problem, akin to the ones you see in big cities whose history of inadequate development due to strict zoning regulation has created a persistent housing crunch, nothing I said pertains to you.

> It is overwhelmingly exactly what people say it is — maintaining the character of a neighborhood that everyone there has paid higher cost of entry, cost of taxes, and cost and time of maintenance and upgrades to maintain.

You're not making this point of view sound any more appealing by defining "the character of a neighborhood" entirely in terms of money.
I don’t think it is just about government restriction. Free speech and censorship are general principles that apply to everything. But personally, I don’t think asking for confidentiality at a private event is a violation of free speech principles. On the other hand, large privately owned tech platforms that practice censorship disguised as moderation, should be criticized because they are effectively the new public square.
I would highly endorse the Practical Engineering YouTube channel, it’s quite nice!
It's difficult to engage in a civil way on such a controversial issue. I appreciate your collaboration on that matter as well.

There's clearly a pipeline problem. As Ibrahim Diallo's experience shows, it's not just a pipeline problem; it's also an SV problem: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53180073
There's a legend in the upper right of the map. good/fair/poor/very-poor level/rolling/hilly/mountainous
How would you say it compares to something like Dokploy or Coolify?
> Because IoT devices have historically been known as secure? Definitely not.

SSH: Secure Shell

HTTPS: HyperText Transport Protocol, Secure

Now you know what the S in IoT stands for.
Starbase, too and the hill country towns. And also way out west, Marfa.
This was a fascinating read. I imagine Ben Cook feels pretty validated at the moment. What's most interesting to me is the thin-skinned response of Mullenweg even back then. Having read the blog post in question, the idea that Cook's "writing borders on hate speech" as Mullenweg claimed, is histrionic nonsense, and Cook goes out of his way to give praise where it's due, starting his blog with this line: "Neither WordPress nor Automattic would be where they are today without the tireless efforts of Matt Mullenweg. I have personally benefited from his work and for that I’m truly thankful."

I run a WordPress agency and although I think the current childish spat will take a very long time to cut through with our clients, if it ever does, I feel huge vicarious embarassment that it's come to this. The fact that Mullenweg doesn't see the conflict of interest, or does see it but is too comfy being in complete control, is a great shame.

To be clear, I think Mullenweg may have a point about WP Engine - I'm not close enough to it to know one way or the other - it's the way that he's chosen to handle it that's embarassing and concerning. As I've said before, adding the pineapple checkbox - in response to a court order - just makes WordPress look fucking ridiculous.

Edit: the other amusing thing was the fanboys commenting under the blog post about how there's no conflict of interest and how Matt would never do anything like this.
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Wild that 2010 Matt considered that reasonable blog post akin to hate speech.
Hewing to this conversation specifically, I’m not so sure that the interests of preventing fascism is a goal reserved to previous generations.

The top comment’s “the H in STEM is for history” is apt here.

Speaking generally though, just because someone vacating a seat means someone else can sit in it, doesn’t mean that next person has to be any worse.

At the end of the day, many of the CEOs in Silicon Valley are showing that they’re happy to service fascism (or worse) if it serves their own goals, and history won’t be fooled about that. Let us not pretend it’s all about shareholder returns. The likes of Zuckerberg and Musk thrive on this without too much worry about what shareholders will think.
Disrespect is part of progress, respectful humans are liable to blindness of flaws. Just as part of youthful creativity is disregard for what has come before.
> What do you think is required to be "partners"?

We're not working on vernacular definition here, we're working on legal definition. And while I'm not sure of the particular definition that's going to be in play, I strongly suspect that the actual definition is going to require some sort of "meeting of the minds" and (not necessarily written) partnership agreement to qualify as a "partner" for the purpose of the injunction.

"We are committed to working with [...] We stand ready" isn't strong enough to actually constitute a partnership, I'm pretty sure--it is at best an expression of intent to make one.
https://developer.android.com/develop/connectivity/uwb#uwb-e...
I don't disagree that there is never a need for 'new data' to make progress. But there is plenty of novel engineering that can be done with 'new data'. Just needing insights and connections.

But realizing that you can use certain commodity devices or known processing techniques in different problem spaces does not require new data, just 'insight'.
If you come to my house and express a view I disagree with, and I ask you to stop talking, I'm abridging your freedom of speech. (I'm not violating your First Amendment rights.)

> 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

You've got it backwards. The Athenians believed in both "isēgoriā, or equality of public speech, which was associated with formal political institutions and democratic deliberation; and parrhēsiā, the license to say anything, even (or especially) if it went against the current" [1].

The First Amendment is based on the freedom of speech in the English Parliament [2]. Millenia older. It isn't until the Warren Court, after WWII, that the modern interpretation that the First Amendment prohibits the government from censoring speech comes into focus [3].

[1] https://antigonejournal.com/2021/04/two-concepts-of-free-spe...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_Right,_1689#The...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech_in_the_Unite...