skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Back around the most recent election I dug up Digg’s front page and some of the comments from it’s earliest appearance in the Internet Archive and jumped around reading the comments sections on news items related to the 2004 and 2008 elections.

I walked away feeling much like I did after reading some Ancient Roman Graffiti left in Pompeii: people are just people. What’s different now isn’t the web, it’s just there’s more people, we’re more connected across State and International borders, you can actually find people you know online and the people that were kids back then are in their 30s while a lot of people you once knew online are dead. But there’s still kids, there’s still people who remember the world before the ARPAnet and UNIX and CP/M and Apple and DOS.

Hacker News will be 18 this year. All the kids born in 2007 are turning 18 this year. Twitter passed that milestone a year ago and Facebook a couple of years before that.
The issue for Qubes is security. GPUs can be used to subvert basically all the otherwise hardware-enforced security protections.
History has shown that friendliness is a terrible goal to aim for in of itself - the modern approach to achieving 'friendliness' on Reddit for example, is to brutally crush any dissent by downvoting, removing content and banning users who go against the grain in any given subreddit.

The resulting discussions look like to outsiders like a happy community of friendly people who generally agree on most stuff, yet when you try to actualy participate in these discussions you'll find out just how crappily they are run.

Most people leave at this point and the only ones who stay are those whose desire for validation is greater than the desire to express their own opinions.
> farther right than I’ve seen it in recent memory —- outside of very rural areas.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/985183/size-urban-rural-...

>>In 2023, there were approximately 55.94 million people living in rural areas in the United States, while about 278.98 million people were living in urban areas

If Trump won, it couldn't have been solely because of people in the boonies, who represent a much smaller proportion of total demographics. The same goes for Brexit, and all the happenings that have been shifting Western societies as a whole towards the far right.

This sort of obliviousness is not helpful in fixing the situation. Same energy as the media acting like Trump could never possibly become POTUS. These incompetents are getting in positions of power because the left and moderate right are, it seems, still not perceiving what is going on outside of their very specific bubbles.
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Do you realize that the only one offended here is you and are using that to gaslight people into feeling bad for something they haven't done and it's mostly not even wrong?

for example: you should learn that main and master mean absolutely nothing to 95% of the people of the World. In my language "master" translates to maestro, which predates US slavery and symbolizes something completely positive: a master of some - usually artistically relevant - craft with followers that branched from the original (like the master branch in git). they are just labels to us,, if you are offended by that, there are a lot of other ways to cope than attack people who don't care about them and rightfully so.
I've done this with Twinkly lights, but the lights sadly don't have enough memory to run more than a few seconds.
https://archive.is/KXoBn
Sure, but the intended point of the article is the attitude, not the mere historical information. It's even in it's title.

So, it makes sense that the thing the author prioritizes and focuses on will be criticized. Would many be criticizing a historical article on the origins of the term, or the plights of the people it covers?
I've looked into purchasing products made in the United States, and the price for a pair of pants can run into over a hundred dollars when I last checked. The price of other items - backpacks, shirts, etc are equally easily double or triple the price of other goods.

I would expect they would be similarly high even today

USA
https://madeintheusamatters.com/american-made-products/made-...

UK
https://www.madeinbritain.org/members/sector/clothing-appare...

And the product quality isn't even necessarily better, and possibly worse.

I guess I can feel better about myself knowing I didn't support inhumane factory conditions, but spending ~$1000 for several wardrobe items is a lot to pay for that feeling.
"There was a problem with this document". Is the problem me, or the document?
In rare cases, programs might also care about the VIRTUAL_ENV environment variable set by the activate script, and activation may also temporarily clear out any existing PYTHONHOME (a rarely used override for the location of the standard library). But yes, in general you can just run the executable directly.
Oops, this is not valid.
If your voting is gamed, then there is no trust in your system. Good luck.
Yes, which is why it's silly to do it. Developers (not "users"!) need to learn how to install Python on their system. I honestly don't know how someone can call themselves a Python developer if they can't even install the interpreter!
Hell even discapacitado (disabled) is incorrenow. Now correct is “person with different capabilities”
The alternative is simply to adjust the clock and say why.
Three points:

(1) Qubes is open-source.

(2) Qubes is written and maintained by security professionals.

(3) Most (all?) security audits are worse than useless.
#MeToo happened during the president’s first administration, cultural backlash manifests in all sorts of ways. Swing sharply, sweet pendulum.
The word "local" is strange. There are almost no real "local" people as to local to that region. As to the other Chilean people, they can go to any other major Chilean city and build whatever they want there instead of building it right at Atacama. Nobody is stopping that.
Thanks for sharing. I had no idea about them. Taking a look
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Is it scrapped? I'm watching with no sound, and the T- timer disappeared.
Tell HN: Bye
I was in the comment section of https://www.righto.com/2025/01/its-time-to-abandon-cargo-cult-metaphor.html and I've never seen it so bad. Am I just noticing it now or the negativity just surged with the arrival of the new American administration?

Anyway. The journey was fun. I'm off, goodbye.
The timer is gone from the video, the launch seems to be scrubbed?
Eric Berger is reporting a scrub.

https://bsky.app/profile/sciguyspace.bsky.social/post/3lfmbm...

https://x.com/sciguyspace/status/1878713938109776032?s=46&t=...
I've been social media free going on almost 10 years ... would never go back. I haven't missed anything important, but skipped all the time waste and bullshit / misinformation / disinformation.
I argue it is pretty much implied in the title, isn’t?
> Maybe that’s an ok tradeoff to make, but it’s worth knowing that before getting into it.

I think that's the key point. I realized that ultimately I didn't actually care about those huge life updates if they concerned people who I'm not in somewhat-regular contact with. Like, if my Facebook friend John Smith (let's say he's an old high-school friend I haven't seen since high school) posts about his marriage, or new job, or new child, and I don't actually chat with John anymore and don't know anything about his life outside of what I read on Facebook, why do I even care to know this stuff at all? And it turns out the answer is that... I don't! And there's nothing wrong with that. It's not rude or mean; some people are the closest of friends, and some people barely even warrant the "acquaintance" tag -- and everything in between -- and there's nothing wrong with any of that.

And yes, I've missed social media posts about big-life stuff from closer friends who I do care about, but that's fine! I chat with those people via some avenue (email, text, messaging group, real-life, whatever) often enough that I still get those big-life updates, and usually it's in a more personalized manner, that gets me details that are tailored to the level of closeness of our friendship.

For people who I'm not super close with, but still maintain a relationship with, maybe I get that update about their life 6 months later, when we are next in contact. That's also fine! If we were closer friends, we'd chat more often, and I'd hear about it earlier. But we're not, and I don't, and there's nothing wrong with that.

> a lack of social media meant that I have lost touch with old acquaintances completely. I have a few close friends and that’s it.

That's more your choice than anything else. You always have the option to text or email someone directly to say hello and see how they're doing, or to set up a time to meet in person to catch up. Even if they're perhaps not the one-on-one type of friends, you can start a group chat with that person and other mutual friends who might enjoy keeping in touch that way. There are so so so many options for communication these days that it's almost overwhelming! But it certainly need not be a binary between "social media firehose of every person I've ever met" and "I only hear about the lives of few people".

Is it important to you to be in touch with those old acquaintances? If so, reach out to them! If not, then it sounds like quitting social media was fine for you.
I'd worry less about the urinary tract, and more about the massive object that devastated Uranus

https://bgr.com/science/uranus-collision-early-solar-system/
How to do cold emailing when I want to grow a Substack newsletter?
God damn vegans and their non-TVs, what assholes!

Edit: Jokes aside, I'm vegan and I don't own a TV. Coincidence? Haha
The commentators stopped speaking a while ago - the sound is just ambient.
> The alternative is to not adjust the clock and let it run out and not launch at all then?

holy false dichotomy, Batman
Scrubbed, as per Eric Berger: https://bsky.app/profile/sciguyspace.bsky.social/post/3lfmbm...
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Nah I think not considering this idea at all is the extremely dumb and brain dead opinion. LLMs can tell stories. Realistic causes and effects aren’t even consistent in human stories. A good story isn’t 100 percent dependent on this.

The LLM walks the line between hallucinating too much and sometimes not. Either way you can pretty much guarantee that almost all stories made in games now are already mostly written by an LLM. It’s just the writing is edited and curated by a human.
Can't speak for Blue but SpaceX felt like an aerospace company, and Musk had next to nothing to do with my day-to-day there.
Nah, it’ll just add another log to the coming trade war dumpster fire.

I’m sure Russia, China, etc will be delighted.
Certainly helped!
I also quit social media . I did not have this experience. I had no problem following what went on with friends and acquaintances?! I don't know why you had this experience. I'm sorry you felt like that. but for me the info that is important always gets to me. And I enjoy emailing and using the phone and meeting people for social events in stead. And when I miss some post on face I always hear it from someone else....
https://xcancel.com/sciguyspace/status/1878713938109776032?t...

The stream has now confirmed it.
I'm sure a few more software updates will take care of this little problem...
Now I feel old, lol
> algorithm to show you less toxicity- at least on Instagram

In the case of IG what worked for me, without me even trying to be explicit about it, was to like and watch lots of photos/reels involving dogs and dog-ownership and right now my IG feed is 90% full with dog-related posts, and that’s the way I like it. Maybe it works the same way if one were to adopt similar strategies for other subjects of interest, such as cats, owning cars etc., the thing is that there’s almost no political/societal info on my feed anymore.
You've got to love building things to do this.

Hopefully a lucky musician makes a demo track and some themes for the public domain which can be included with distros.
It's scrubbed for today: Blue Origin on Twitter: https://x.com/blueorigin/status/1878715911563313651
It’s not a crime to do your own electrical work in Australia, it just invalidates your insurance unless you get the work signed off. The websites saying it “could be illegal” strangely never reference the actual law you’d breach.
According to AP News the launch was scrubbed.
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Video of some of his better stunts: https://youtu.be/yOo_ZUVU_O8?si=1OEwZTk-d88ma2Zs

And a great Every Frame a Painting film essay on his work: https://youtu.be/UWEjxkkB8Xs?si=n-4ZNr_cMnYVKijs

He was truly an innovator that makes today’s “films of people talking to each other” look amateurish.

A few months ago the local theatre was playing Sherlock Jr. with a live band, and it was awesome. Try to see it in similar circumstances if possible.
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Do we need AI to spot potholes? Give people a way to report those with their gov account and see how many of them are more than happy to do the work for you, if it means a chance to have a better road.
Musk doesn't care and unfortunately Blue Origin failed to launch today.

It's over.
>4k

To be pedantic, OP specified "HD" which is 720p. I gave him benefit of the doubt by saying "high resolution" in my reply, but I think 4K is unreasonable given the provided context. I'd wager 1080p ("Full HD") at most. There's also the question of frame rate, though we can probably safely assume either 29.976 or 59.952 fps since it's Youtube.

As an aside, software decoding performance can vary pretty significantly depending on the codec used for both encoding and decoding. Bit of a history lesson, CoreAVC was infamous for being very easy on the CPU compared to other h.264 decoders like ffmpeg.
For one, templates can be stepped through on the debugger without additional effort, offer type checking, don't execute parameters multiple times, and don't require additional parenthesis and curly braces to protect their misuse.
It’s bullshit, there are no laws banning you from replacing a light switch in Australia. At worst you might invalidate your home insurance.
Even if you disagree with the thesis advanced, this is quite a well-researched and informative essay on a little-known social phenomenon. Virtue countersignalling is equally tedious and unsubstantial.
If that's the case, then all the other APs from US and European manufacturers would be affected as well.
> That's exactly what I get out of the IDEs I've used for decades. This whole argument is so weird, disingenuous, and full of vague strawmen. Just because I don't see the value in investing the time that you have doesn't mean that I'm for giving up control or whatever you were trying frame me as.

I used IDEs also all the time. Makes sense to me.

> Anyway, I'm done here. This site is full of toxic people who are offended that someone doesn't choose the same editor and habits that they do, and any dissent is to be punished.

Yeah, that's weird. You can use all kinds of editors you like. In the case of Lisp, there are arguments that good support for editing Lisp and for interaction with a Lisp runtime is useful (since Lisp is often used interactively). But several IDEs and editors can do that.

Just wanted to give you the impression that are others, who like IDEs and similar tools. ;-)
Interesting, I never had this problem with a Cristal. With cheap marketing pens, sure, after some use, they leak and smear, and some of them seem to have only small amounts of ink in them.
what are you talking about? Of course we do?

We totally forgotten about mandatory access control systems?

AppArmor, SELinux? problem isn’t that they don’t exist; it’s that nobody knows how to use them properly.

You can even minimise the kernel attack surface these days with utilities like gVisor.

people just understand virtual machines easier. It’s easy to understand the isolation it gives and easier to reduce unnecessary potential attack vectors by having minimal images that don’t contain more than necessary.
I wonder if it might need some extra mass simulators (probably not depending on how heavy the payload is)
Of course this is not about someone having for sole purpose to sabotage the ELT. Someone at AES could have had a run-of-the-mill business plan. They go ahead with it despite scientific objections because their profits > science. Then the election happens, and it's a win-win for them from a business point of view. They get unexpected free leverage from a more transactional presidential administration to either drop the plan and get extra compensation.
I read the above replies as believing the linguistic use of "cargo culting" is fine, yet also appreciating knowing that the origin is nuanced and not completely correct (although building a radio mast from bamboo is close enough). "There's more than one way to skin a cat" has an unpleasant origin, yet I'm not going to stop saying it.

As someone who has recently been converting our branches to use main everywhere because they were previously a horrid mix, I don't care what American politics thinks is linguistically problematic today. In other dialects where the word master is more common, it's not a problem any more than the word "owner" is a problem. I feel roughly the same way about changing master to main as my Guatemalan friend feels about the word "Latinx": I don't want someone making $350k in San Francisco telling me how problematic it is to speak my own language.
Right but we are far from that world and statistics show that we are very far from such a post sexist post racist world and that despite nice words companies are still not hiring that many canidates who are women or members of some minority ethnic groups for high paying engineering jobs.
But talking about "cargo culting" is just a metaphor. I will happily talk about "boiling the frog", even though I know that it has no scientific basis. Plenty of metaphors are effective ways to communicate, even if their origins are historical curiosities or outright fiction.
Had a feeling that'd happen when the countdown jumped to T-00:00:00 then disappeared forever.

Oh well.
> For a start, any suite that takes >X hours on a single node, especially compounded if you have a large team of developers.

If your testing suite takes several hours to run on a 256 core server, and this is something you want to run on every commit by every dev, then you have a problem with your testing suite. Running it on k8s is just slapping a bandaid on it.

> Assuming you keep a consistent env/OS across all nodes you will want to run said code. Which can be difficult, even just between two users on a single node.

> Not to mention the fact that a lot of (most?) code needs to (A) interoperate with other people's code and (B) at least sometimes run on other hardware.

Yes, this is the problem that has been solved since the 90s by environment modules. This is how clusters and supercomputers work. There is no virtualization, just tcl and shell scripts.
In the world of commercial software, sadly yes, compare the idea of Dynabooks with the tablets that we actually got.
cancelled today: https://x.com/blueorigin/status/1878715911563313651

> We’re standing down on today’s launch attempt to troubleshoot a vehicle subsystem issue that will take us beyond our launch window. We’re reviewing opportunities for our next launch attempt.
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When something is used by billions of people its kinda futile to argue about its utility. But then billions are addicted to tobacco, alcohol, drugs, gambling etc. and those benefiting from providing these "services" will do everything they can to keep people addicted while arguing that they are solving a real problem.

The reality is always a mundane core that gets complicated by human tragicomedy. Of course its wholesome to be able to connect digitally with friends and family. Its also a great economic enabler to connect digitally with professionals. Or to be able to publish to a bulletin board about your brilliant accomplishments.

But to paraphrase Gates, we need these connections, we don't need the self-appointed universal connectors.

Its 2025, and this is HN. I put it to you that technically the only thing preventing us today from having good "connections infrastructure" is the corrupting influence of big adtech. One possible vision of how to organize the digital space in technical and economic terms has become the only vision.
I thought it was a drag having to schlep around town for a point and click game.
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Can also wholeheartedly endorse Alpha Protocol, also by Obsidian. A must play for anyone who feels RPGs are more than a few skill trees and binary choices, the way AP manages to interweave a massive complex conversations tree with the way players handle the action sequences is frankly second to none.

To quote Ben Yahtzee Croshaws review[0] from back then:

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[0] https://youtu.be/K9ZkY-6M5qw?si=IWrCsJqo35p25n23