That ACF security update was not made available on WordPress.org due to ACF maintainers being blocked from accessing WordPress.org, according to WordPress.org's blog https://wordpress.org/news/2024/09/wp-engine-banned/
The edge of the Mandelbrot set expands out to infinity and yet the area within the edge is finite. Who is to say that the universe isn't a hologram on a higher-dimensional Mandelbrot set-like object?
> 10 pounds of fentanyl is enough to lethally overdose about 2 million people.
I'm not sure what the point of this comment is. Fentanyl is only dangerous if ingested; incidental contact is harmless.
That shipment was, in all likelihood, intended for eventual distribution to opiate users, who have a higher tolerance than the general population. Making a comparison of how that would affect a person who has no tolerance is misleading fearmongering, when there was no indication that any person in this story was going to accidentally ingest the substance.
> Fentanyl is only dangerous if ingested; incidental contact is harmless.
Bullshit. Your hand touches something that had fentanyl powder on it, your finger goes up your nose or in your mouth (most people in the world do this), then what?? Oh, nothing?
>Making a comparison of how that would affect a person who has no tolerance is misleading fearmongering, when there was no indication that any person in this story was going to accidentally ingest the substance.
I guess let's just ignore the problem, OP was being silly, there's nothing wrong here?? Is that really your line of thinking? What if the elderly person decided to open up one of the powder packages to see what kind of powder was in it, like if it had a smell or something, maybe it's chalk, maybe it's salt - they don't know. In that case they very likely would be dead. Inhaling it if grandpa did cut open one of the packages would likely kill anyone that entered the room.
I've never seen anyone be so cavalier about 10 pounds of fentanyl before.
> I've never seen anyone be so cavalier about 10 pounds of fentanyl before.
Fentanyl is deadly in microgram doses, for it makes people stop breezing. Russians weaponized fentanyl into a gas and used it to disable Chechen terrorists in the Moscow theater hostage crisis in 2002 [0]. It was so effective that besides the terrorists some hostages died before an antidote could be administered.
> Russians weaponized fentanyl into a gas and used it to disable Chechen terrorists in the Moscow theater hostage crisis in 2002 [0]. It was so effective that besides the terrorists some hostages died before an antidote could be administered.
This is somewhere between myth and outright fiction.
There is zero evidence that fentanyl or its derivatives were responsible for any deaths. The claim that fentanyl was responsible is based on a single study which claimed to find fentanyl on one sample of clothing and in the urine of two survivors ten years after the incident happened, something which has & far more plausible explanations.
I don't think they're saying that receiving and touching the box was a danger to the recipient. I think they're just expressing that 10 pounds is a lot and this is not a single casual user just buying enough for themselves and their friends.
Yeah, there are lots of bullshit stories avout fentanyl that are completely implausible given the actual effects of fentanyl, and the vast majority of them are direct deliberate police political propaganda, and most of the rest are paranoid misinterpretations of events from people (mostly themselves street cops) whose understanding of the universe is shaped by being immersed in deliberate police propaganda.
Yeah they’re talking about cops that got some fentanyl on their hand and thought they were having an overdose when really it was just a panic attack. I’ve read a couple of news articles where something along those lines happened.
> There are plenty of stories of the wind accidentally blowing illegal substances into people’s faces…
Yes, there are lots of urban legends! That doesn't make them true, especially when they fly in the face of basic science and can be disproven with even a back of the envelope calculation.
What are the effects? What’s the science? What are the calculations you’re speaking of lol? If they’re so basic and can be done on the back of an envelope, can you provide them right now?
Are you saying that fetanyl is no more deadly than heroin?
Or are you just saying that the “wind blows substance in face” is only a thing seen in movies?
Instead of trying to fact-check the commenters replying to you, maybe instead you can provide any sources/documentation to these stories of "wind blows substance in face" ?
Hacker News is the last place I would expect people to blindly accept police press releases at face value, particularly when they fly in the face of basic science.
Your first link shows a guy administering Narcan to a man who's standing up, fully conscious, with his eyes open. Even if you've never seen an overdose in your life, that should set off some alarm bells.
These stories are evergreen and predictable. They make for good viral clickbait content, despite the fact that they never hold up. Every time, the story is the same: they run a test afterwards, and 90% of the time it turns out that there's no fentanyl in their system. The other 10% of the time, it turns out that the cop saw an opportunity to take a hit off the drugs they just seized (oftentimes non-opiate), and that resulted in an overdose.
For future reference, a good hint that these stories aren't portraying what they claim to be is that they almost never show people with symptoms consistent with fentanyl overdose (and typically with symptoms consistent of a panic attack).
We're all prone to missing the obvious when it agrees with our ideological predispositions.
The image of the police has become rather ideological of late, e.g. the "defund the police" movement and a counter pro-police movement. Both movements are tied in to other ideological positions, and I've seen quite a lot of HN posts on positions that are associated with pro-police stances (e.g. on climate change, COVID vaccines, etc).
So it doesn't surprise me to see HN readers accepting police press releases at face value. HN may have a reputation for a libertarian ethos, but libertarianism often supports law enforcement. It would be nice if that would get more skepticism when the press releases are such transparent propaganda, but as I said, we're all prone to swallowing propaganda that feels right.
This often-repeated statement doesn't really communicate how the editor works. While it does use many of the same APIs, you couldn't build the editor from within the editor (bootstrapping). The editor itself is largely written in C++ and not Godot's integrated language GDScript, you can see for yourself https://github.com/godotengine/godot/tree/master/editor
It's interesting how this site gets around the ``rel="noreferrer"`` added to the link from HN. The banner uses a :visited CSS attribute to selectively show/hide the banner client side if your browser has been to the URL https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36971867. With how many other browser history privacy leaks have been released lately using :visited hacks, I wonder how long it will be until browser vendors disable :visited support across domains entirely.
Interesting that it only checks for the comments page. If you (like me) read the article before coming to the comments, then you'll not see the banner.
That feels like a typical user flow, which should make the banner fairly ineffective.
I feel for the developer, even if I am annoyed by the banner. It sucks to know that folks on HN have been so mean, when on a technical level, Asahi is a great project.
Also on Firefox on Android but not getting the banner.
edit: Enabling JavaScript makes it show up. What a fucking ridiculous banner that is too, thankfully I don't have a macbook so I don't need to use this.
I'm confused, does the banner block the page normally? Firefox on Mac here with default settings aside from uBO extension, opened in separate (non-private) tab with cmd-click. Banner was at the bottom and didn't block anything. I didn't even notice it until I read the comments here.
I find it creepy that websites have a way to access my browser history. Luckily it seems like iOS Safari isn’t vulnerable, as is Tor (which I guess solves it by being in permanent private browsing mode?)
"Nay, good sir, do not dismiss the AI's composition as mere puffery. 'Tis true, the machine doth not possess the soul of the Bard, yet it doth strive to emulate his style and grace. And who are we, mere mortals, to deem what does or does not sound like Shakespeare? Let us not forget, he too was but a man, with faults and flaws. Let us instead embrace the evolution of language and the advancements of technology, for they may lead us to new heights of literary splendor."
I think it's kind of like how FaceID or TouchID work regardless of orientation of face/fingerprint. Or how locating a radio source from data across multiple detectors would utilize math and any damage would drop out as slightly more noise. Modern cameras often have dead pixels in their detectors but they're just skipped in the output photos.
