skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've got an old Sony Magic Link; one of the devices running the Magic Cap software. Both suffered from similar problems.

For starters the spacial interface is so cumbersome it makes all interactions with the system tedious. The first time you walk through the system it's cute but when you need to painstaking navigate to a particular room to do something it's just frustrating.

The hardware could not keep up with the demands of the interface. The PCs that shipped with Bob (in my experience) could not run it without paging and thus slowed to a crawl running it. Launching a program from Bob just resulted in interminable waits while the disk thrashed. The Magic Link is painfully slow and does not demonstrate the OS well at all.

Magic Cap was really no less insulting to users than Bob. It wasn't as cartoony but its tediousness wasted your time. The sluggishness of the hardware did not help. Even the early Newton MessagePads were snappier devices and their UI didn't make you tediously navigate through a virtual space.
Climate change is a distracting question because it can't be answered with any accuracy. Are you expecting an answer like "52% of the blame can be assigned to climate change"... how does that help?

The super-dry brush needs controlled burning. California will need to put up with polluted air during the controlled burns. We have to in Australia at times. People complain and the authorities say "sorry but we need to do this, please stay indoors during the burnoff".

Strategic placement of water tanks in the hills and around properties. Building codes, roof-top sprinklers with backup power so people can leave their house to fend for itself with better odds of survival. All of these measures matter. Bickering about climate change helps nobody.
I don't have evidence to back my claims, but it seems disingenuous to compare ebike and car miles. ebikes are predominantly used in busy areas with lots of other traffic, cars will rack up a ton of miles on highways with much reduced per-accident risk (albeit the accidents are probably more severe in that environment)

If we're going to talk anecdotally, I think we need to read between the lines. Many locations in the US don't have good support for bike riders beyond telling them to ride on the road. This is going to encourage/force many to ride (unsafely) on the footpath because they don't want to share space with cars, and thus into conflict with pedestrians.

I'd like to see a breakdown of ebike accidents between them and pedestrians vs them and cars. I would bet that the vast majority of accidents are into (or from) cars. Almost all of the fatal accidents are almost certainly from accidents with cars as well.

You could try regulating them, but that's not going to fix the core issue that in many places they are expected to share space with cars, and cars are just plain more dangerous than everything else.

Also, I will point out that even if bike riders are supposedly less law-abiding (maybe, I don't know), the consequences are almost entirely isolated to themselves for doing so. They are simply far less likely to hurt someone else. The same is not true for heavy motor vehicles.
i told myself if i'm buying high-end parts, i won't be needing to upgrade every few years.

and yet i'm still tempted to update every years :D
> I believe consumers, as a right, should be able to install software of their choosing to any computing device that is owned outright.

While I agree, I think even legislation will not fix this, because what is a computing device, and who decides what is and what is not ? I'm sure apple will argue that nothing they sell should be considered computing devices. While the hacker will consider anything they can trick into arbitrary code to be one (is your fridge a computing device?)

If we go the legal route, I think the only way is to give the right to flash firmware of _ANYTHING_ that has programmable bits, and that's probably not going to fly either because lots of legislation already dictates users should be prohibited and prevented.
The moment they had a usable API.
Their biggest issue is automated user registrations.
If they could lock that down then none of this would be an issue.
So this is something like Greenland Island, as long as Trump don’t pay, it’s not sold to Trump?
If someone wonder why conversation graphs look this way in Disco Elysium is because it's build using middleware called Articy:draft. Graphs is how Articy editor designed so it's only natural to visalize it this way.

Since my team also made a story driven game using Articy that far less complex than Disco Elysium, but still complex. After we done it I can say for sure that whoever written Disco Elysium is trully insane, in a good way. While Articy is a good tool it's have own set of problems specifically awful performance on huge projects and I can't even imagine how developers of Disco Elysium managed to accompish it.

So I pretty sure Disco Elysium isn't just masterpiece of storytelling and writing, but also insane technical achievement of whoever managed to get it all working together using tools they had. Even on a project of much smaller scale getting it all debugged, loop-free and free of tons of logical errors is very hard. Knowing how much variables Disco Elysium have I truly believe developers are all geniuses.

PS: It's just everyone always wonder at how cool and complex modern rendering is or performance in game with millions of objects, but very few people understand how hard is to create story-driven game if there is more than 10 variables and not just int skill checks.
What’s the function of the tower near the launch pad with a huge orange fire at its top?
It's open source — many developers would be willing to take on the work.

Start by asking those who have contributed before, and any that use the software (if there's a forum, mailing list, Reddit sub etc). If it's on GitHub look at any forks.
Wow, I love how doom has become the run it everywhere possible game!
He also wrote one often-quoted "explanation" of Infinite Jest: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/ijend
If you are reading this in the future, or just prefer YouTube,
Edit: Blue origin is streaming it here: https://www.youtube.com/live/OOEPTWQrN7A

Original: the AP is restreaming the launch here: https://www.youtube.com/live/Yb-27DvLcN8?si=W1Qt7DfaSz7yxuL9
I completely disagree. By writing the code, the author gains understanding of the hidden details of the problem. The reviewer gets to explore a full solution that accounts for those details, and provides tests. With the context still fresh, it's a great time for a new pair of eyes to explore, ask questions (which should lead to clarifications in the code), and think of ways to simplify and untangle the solution further while keeping the tests passing. In fact, it can take more time to keep assuming and discussing what the solution might be than to write the code and iterate on it. In an asynchronous/remote work environment, iterating on PRs is not only okay, but probably the most effective way to collaborate.
How did blogspam with zero screenshots get upvoted? Actually seeing the product helps understand why it flopped.
I'm staying up to see Blue Origin crash their rocket into the barge, but they keep pushing back the launch so idk if it's even going to take off :/
Why do they intend to leave the booster attached to the payload, at 19,300 x 2,400 km? Is there a specific reason they choose not to deorbit it?
wouldn't this get banned, if you send bulk messages, say 1000 at a time?
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> unhampered by OpenAI’s schedule

Sure, but if the advancements are to catch up to OpenAI, then major improvements by other vendors are nice and all, but I don't believe that was what the commenter was implying. Right now the leaders in my opinion are OpenAI and Anthropic and unless they are making major improvements every few months, the industry as a whole is not making major improvements.
I don't like anything about the game - writing, art style, characters, UX, voice acting, main storyline... so that opinion exists, too.
Same link without site tracking: https://www.youtube.com/live/Yb-27DvLcN8
Downloading the same file 102 times
> the article will definitely stop me from using the misunderstood version of events as the "true" origin of the term

That's absolutely fair and if that had been there point of the article, I'd be 100% behind it. I love learning new things about words and phrases. Etymology is my jam.

But no. That wasn't the point of the article. It's saying "you are wrong, you should feel bad, you're not allowed to use the thing you were wrong about anymore". I generally fall quite far on the left, politically. But when people talk about "woke nonsense", this is the kind of thing where I find myself agreeing with them, much as I did a couple of years ago when we were all socially pressured into renaming our "master" branches to "main" branches.
Falling for it? Can you help me see the scam underlying their comment?
> As I said, at what point or how much evidence is need to heed such advice.

This is like a Pascal's wager. There's a bazillion things we could be doing that there's a little evidence for or a plausible explanation. And we can't do them all, or believe in every God, or whatever.

And even things that we had a lot of evidence for (like dietary fat) turned out to be harmful when given as public health advice.

In the end, things are tricky. Best to do whatever seems like it's reasonably careful to you, and for science to try and figure more of this out and decide the best things to give advice on.
One of the reasons I played using the "Psychological" voiceovers (where the characters are voiced, but not the inner monologue). The skills were to me the purplest element, and the voice acting differed too much from my imagination.
Neither of those ideas are absurd.
How do you propose we limit access to general-purpose computing without doing so across the board for everyone? How would you block bad actors from general-purpose computing? Require licensing to use development tools, and track what they're used for so you can react when someone crosses that "line"? Congratulations, you've just destroyed computing.
This one looks fine to me from the outside:

https://x.com/camoPirate_xXx/status/1877749643465134141
When was the last time you saw a NodeJS package that expects to be able to compile Fortran code at installation time?

If you want Numpy (one of the most popular Python packages) on a system that doesn't have a pre-built wheel, you'll need to do that. Which is why there are, by my count, 54 different pre-built wheels for Numpy 2.2.1.

And that's just the actual installation process. Package management isn't solved because people don't even agree on what that entails.

The only way you avoid "worry about modifying the global environment" is to have non-global environments. But the Python world is full of people who refuse to understand that concept. People would rather type `pip install suspicious-package --break-system-packages` than learn what a venv is. (And they'll sometimes do it with `sudo`, too, because of a cargo-cult belief that this somehow magically fixes things - spoilers: it's typically because the root user has different environment variables.)

Which is why this thread happened on the Python forums https://discuss.python.org/t/the-most-popular-advice-on-the-... , and part of why the corresponding Stack Overflow question https://stackoverflow.com/questions/75608323 has 1.4 million views. Even though it's about an error message that was carefully crafted by the Debian team to tell you what to do instead.
Competition is needed in this space. Hope this launch goes well.

EDIT: Launch never happened.
I think dang should add this specific example of AI to guidelines, in point "Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, AI content or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting."
Engineering and the Meta "Hateful Conduct" Changes
I helped build Hate Speech detectors at Meta when I was there. Here are my thoughts on the roll-out of last week's changes, and where they might be difficult.
For me it is if in a cosy position and doing something cognitively demanding. Fell asleep very often during my university studies reading literature. It can happen also if trying to learn something new technical at work, but only if I don't sit at a desk.

If normal or not I can't say...
Wow, you’re mangling thr word nostalgia’s history.

Great example of where someone isn’t technically lying, but the essence of the word is definitely not how you’ve portrayed it here.
Methane flare. Liquid methane will turn to gas as it warms up, so they need to get rid of it somehow. Nitrogen and oxygen they can just vent. Generally methane is flared to prevent explosive gas buildup and (the worst of) greenhouse gas effects. Sometimes it's cooled back into a liquid, but that is apparently more effort than it's worth because flaring seems common practice.

Edit: just remembered the second stage is hydrogen. So it might be flaring that, or maybe the smaller flare off to the side is hydrogen.
Being popular is not the only goal of a programming language. Scheme is very successful language, not because it's much used but because it's small and elegant it's often used as a teaching tool and hence it has come to influence many of the designers of more popular languages.
This is going to get scrubbed I think. So many pushbacks. They should make scrubbed missions retain the flight designation and the new flight should get a new number.

“Anomalies” “workarounds” “off-nominal situations” “whatever they’re finding that may be a little bit off” are all words you don’t wanna hear at launch I guess.

Okay that’s probably one too many delays now. I’ll have to see if it launches in the morn
Riona: Open-source AI agent for social media automation (TypeScript)
It didn't make me feel worse but it did bring out the worst in me. It's too easy to slip into bragging about your life and how well it's going.
We curate this ourselves.
with every other rocket launch livestream I've watched (SpaceX, NASA, Rocket Lab, etc) when there's a delay they would announce it explicitly.

instead, it was at T-18min, they spent a few minutes talking about how fancy the engines were, and then finish with "alright, with 35 minutes left on the countdown..."

edit: they did it again. 11 minutes, they've pretty clearly told the talking heads to vamp, so they're rambling about how cool the "rocket park" is (and how they had to relocate a bunch of turtles while building it) and meanwhile the countdown disappears for a few seconds then resets to 38 minutes.
“edge of the universe”? What?
Thanks for your reply.

> But perhaps it was the wrong decision in hindsight

Well, it's hard to say. Babylon.js is funded by Microsoft and there's some good things that come from that. Better docs, more of a batteries included approach. I'd say it's far from a totally wrong choice anyway.
Something can still be mainstream in the particle physics community
How to end-to-end test microservices across bounded contexts?
I think you do have GPU acceleration in the Dom0 but I do not remember if you can use/install programs on it, it was the "coordinator" dom.
I guess preprocessor macros are much better alternative. /s
An insightful share. You might be interested to know that startup current is called 'inrush current'. For a Direct On Line (DOL) start, (no soft starters or variable speed drives) electrical engineers usually model it as 6x normal full load current.

Other electrical devices such as transformers and long overhead power lines also exhibit inrush when they are energised.
Sure. Writing and a good command of the language is important. There are multiple ways to showcase that. Writing a blog post for their blog is not one of them.
I immediately assumed this article was about the French movie Le Corniaud (1965) in which a 2CV falls apart in 250 pieces in an accident—this scene specifically: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnLj5Xo4zBc&t=19s It became one of the most iconic scene of French comedy movies. To prepare the scene, the special effects engineer sawed off the car in 250 pieces, reattached every piece with hooks, and secured the hooks with "explosive bolts". At the right moment, the actor driving the car pushed a button to trigger the (tiny) explosives which made the car fall apart. Here is a French article about it: https://2cv-legende.com/expo-de-la-2cv-du-film-le-corniaud-a...

PS: the French wikipedia article on the movie has a picture of the explosive bolts they used: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Corniaud#L'accident_de_la_2...
I'd wager a guess that the friendliness, or at least the perception of such, came from not very many people using it, people being segregated into niche enthusiast groups, and people still intelligent and non-addicted enough to not merge it with their identity. However, the Internet was always destined to connect us in the worst ways.
In 1999 we had obits and mail, just like in 1899. Of course now all of the newspapers are gone (what’s black and white and dead all over?), so notifying the local community is much harder than 25 years ago.

Also some people back then would brag about not having a TV, the same way vegans still do today.
How would it be profitable for the government to provide insurance if it’s not profitable for a private insurer? My impression is that private insurance premiums are a lot higher than the portion of local taxes that could be allocated to insuring homes.

It seems like sunk cost fallacy is at play here. When is it time to stop throwing good money after bad, and start thinking about a managed retreat?
For those unfamiliar with the game I would highly recommend it if you are interested in CRPG games with excellent writing. There is a lot of text in this game, but with the most recent version of the game most of it is voice acted. Many lines will stick with you later. It's rare to not be taken by something in the game, as expansive as it is.

For a more general description of the game: you are a detective, you must solve the case, and your fractured psyche will not let you do it alone.
Another AI social media bot. For every one we see on GitHub, ten more lurk in the shadows, cheerfully automating away what little authentic human interaction remains online.

Soon we'll have AI agents optimizing engagement with other AI agents, while real humans wander off to have actual conversations somewhere else - probably in a cave, using sticks to draw memes in the dirt.
Author here. It’s not a totalizing immobilization, it’s not the same as straight paralysis. It’s more like you’ve forgotten how to move your body than that you physically cannot, it is very difficult to express with just words. Discomfort and pain can help break the spell, as well as an impending sense of danger. That’s not to say it can’t be dangerous, but unless you’re falling into traffic or lava or something, I’ve never felt all that unsafe. Asphyxiation has never been a worry.
I understand GPUs are a security nightmare. If you want to have some understanding of your security, don't use a GPU.
We should thank all the major copyright holders for that. They are the reason many devices have been crippled. Because for them, the real enemy is the user, - that is you, my dear friend. They assume you to be a criminal by default, you know, like some crazy feminists assume all men are rapists just because they have a penis. Chop your penis off to prove you are not a rapist! Use your device without root access to prove you are not a filthy pirate who is "stealing" money from poor copyright holders who can barely afford women, yaughts and coke they are used to.
>It's worth noting that Node allows two packages to have the same dependency at different versions

Yes. It does this because JavaScript enables it - the default import syntax uses a file path.

Python's default import syntax uses symbolic names. That allows you to do fun things like split a package across the filesystem, import from a zip file, and write custom importers, but doesn't offer a clean way to specify the version you want to import. So Pip doesn't try to install multiple versions either (which saves it the hassle of trying to namespace them). You could set up a system to make it work, but it'd be difficult and incredibly ugly.

Some other language ecosystems don't have this problem because the import is resolved at compile time instead.
Organized my cybersecurity bookmarks into a GitHub repo (300 sources)
I use social media in a write-only manner. I keep it around for two reasons:

- I write blogs and share them there. On multiple occasions, I’ve received job offers in my inbox. Job opportunities from acquaintances on Twitter are far better than LinkedIn DM spam.

- Staying up to date with the latest fads also teaches me what not to chase. Sometimes, the firehose is the only way to get that information.

I never had problems dropping the mic and not arguing with strangers.
Well, however presumably unfriendly that world was, it definitely didn't have nagware content walls that wanted me to log in and subscribe to god knows what website.
This sounds made up.

I’m not saying it is, just that it’s so bizarre, it’s literally unbelievable.

Like something The Onion would write.
The last LinkedIn recruiter saved me from very bad job. Now I have a reasonable boss, private office, no commute time and same salary. Of course, the 20 recruiters before were bad joke.
What is CSR?
Hey everyone,

I’m working on a project called OceanLabs for X (Twitter)—an extension designed to make Twitter more customizable and user-friendly. It’s got features like custom themes, video downloads, sidebar cleanup, and text-to-speech for tweets, but I want to make it even better.

I’d love to hear your thoughts:

Are there things you don’t like about Twitter?
Any features or tweaks you wish existed?
Suggestions for improving the UI/UX?
Your feedback would mean a lot and will help shape how this project evolves. Thanks in advance for your ideas!
Features at a Glance:
Custom Themes: Revamp Twitter's look with personalized color schemes.
Video Downloader: Save media from tweets effortlessly.
Sidebar Cleanup: Remove clutter for a streamlined experience.
Text-to-Speech: Turn tweets into audio for on-the-go listening.
I recently discovered this resource repository that's been incredibly helpful for staying updated with cybersecurity news and learning materials. It's particularly valuable because it:

Organizes cybersecurity resources into well-structured categories (news, research, training, and community events)
Includes both technical resources and learning materials suitable for different skill levels

Maintains active curation with recent updates focused on emerging technologies
Provides detailed metadata for each resource (update frequency, access type, content format)

The repository goes beyond just listing links - it includes guidance on how to use each resource effectively and maintains quality through community contributions. I found the sections on threat intelligence resources and professional development particularly well-organized.

What I appreciate most is how it bridges the gap between technical documentation and practical learning materials, making it useful for both security professionals and those learning about cybersecurity.

Repository structure is clean, with automated link checking to ensure resources stay current.
What safeguards? Obfuscating your IDs by... replacing them with one-to-one mapped other IDs?
Anyone feel like the article is thinly disguised moral policing and rather than a post about social media it is more of a broadcast announcement of acceptable thought?

Very little discussion of the actual problems with regulating speech the way the EU or Fact Checkers does. Just an implicit statement it was correct.
Some of the most goofiest scenes reminded me about my self growing up, recording dumb re-creations of movies/tv-shows with friends.

I had a blast watching that! thank you for sharing.
I believe they are from the same author, Charlie Marsh / Astral