skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you point out an example of a constructive use of such extension? Or are we fully into "We built the torment nexus from the classic novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus" territory?
I was at jetty park. I am now frozen. Going back to the hotel. Hopefully they can try again tomorrow.
Why doesn't California get rid of those dangerous highly flammable eucalyptus trees? It's well known that this non native invasive species from Australia is highly fire prone.

I'm from Australia and I've lived through bushfires and witnessed them first-hand. During a bushfire when eucalypts reaches a certain temperature they just explode into an enormous fireball in a split second; it's truly frightening to see every leaf on a tree disappear up in flames in a couple of seconds.

When I first visited California quite a few decades ago almost the first two things I noticed was the hugh numbers of eucalyptus trees there were—they seemed to be everywhere—AND how well they grew there.

I was struck by both the size of the trees and the thickness of their canopies compared to what I was used to seeing in their native land.

Hopefully, this tragedy will make Californians rethink the policy of continuing to grow this invasive species and that they replace/replant with homegrown species that are much less fire prone.
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Unspoken libc dependencies are my favorite. Granted, you need to wait a few years after launching the project to feel that pain, but once you’re there, the experience is… unforgettable.

Second best are OpenSSL dependencies. I sincerely hope I won’t have to deal with that again.
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It's free speech, but only if Uncle Zuck agrees with it.
Looking at the statistics I can't help but notice how small IRC is these days. Specifically when you compare it to how many people use the internet. The biggest channels have a few thousand people in them, but those seem to be rare.

One of the biggest channels ironically is one for an IRC client called "the lounge". Which is a very nice web based client with bouncer build in. Though I might be biased as I did contribute to the project years ago.

I was a dedicated IRC user for a long time, even going as far as developing this monstrosity: https://github.com/creesch/discordIRCd

At some point I didn't see the point anymore, as it clearly was just old guard sticking around with no one new joining.

It is a shame that discord as a closed platform is the de facto standard though. I am not sure things could have gone differently. Considering how glacial IRC development was at the time and the convenience and features Discord offers over alternatives like Matrix. I know that Matrix these days has a lot of the same features but certainly is not there as far as convenience goes.
Not true, right-handed neutrinos are a dark matter candidate. They don't experience the weak force, so would only interact through gravity.

See recent work by Neil Turok. This podcast is one of the best popular accounts of his work:

The (Simple) Theory That Explains Everything

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUp9x44N3uE
While not wrong, your advice of simply not doing it is as usefull as telling a smoker "simple don't put another cigarette in your mouth" or telling the overweight person "just diet and excercise". Been in both camps, and I know that neither is that easy. Giving up addictions are simple, but they are not easy.
Why would I want to factor out some syntactic functionality of one specific (and not very well thought out) shell to reuse, again?

But if you really insist, you can write your own glob(1) that would invoke glob(3) for you, sure. There is also wordexp(3) although I believe its implementations had security problems for quite some time?
Nah, pip is still brittle here because it uses one package resolution context to install all your global tools. So if there is a dependency clash you are out of luck.

So that's why pipx was required, or now, UV.
>you need a virtual environment for some reason

You have always needed on, practically speaking. Python isn't designed to have multiple versions of the same library in the same runtime environment. A virtual environment is just a separate place to put the packages you need for the current project, so that they're isolated from other packages, and thus you don't get version conflicts. This includes the system packages. If you want to play with, say, the latest version of Requests, and you try sudo installing that in a system environment, and it happens that the latest version of Requests breaks Apt (which is written in Python), you're in for a bad time.

The new warning is because even user-level installations can mess with system scripts, when those scripts are run without sudo. Also, Apt has no real way to know about or understand anything you do with Pip, so that interferes with Apt's actual package management.

>installing packages [with] sudo doesn't make them available to other users

If you use sudo to install packages for the system Python, then yes they absolutely are available to all users. But you don't see them in virtual environments by default (you can change this) because the default is to ignore the system installation's `site-packages` completely (including user-level installations).

> on ubuntu it seems pip has been replaced with 'python-*' debian packages

None of this is new, and it doesn't even remotely "replace" Pip. You're just facing a little more pressure to actually use the system package manager when installing packages for your system, since that can actually manage packages, and integrate them with the rest of your system (the non-Python parts). The Debian packages are specifically vetted and tested for this purpose and may include Canonical's own patches that you won't get from PyPI. On the other hand, PyPI provides vastly more different packages.

When you install in a virtual environment, you'll generally use Pip to do it (unless you use uv etc.). Because the environment is specifically created to be isolated from your system, so that Apt doesn't have to care.

Please see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/75608323 for details. It wasn't a snap decision; see https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-668-marking-python-base-env... for context. Arch implements analogous protections, too, for the same reasons (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35PQrzG0rG4). I recall Fedora having similar plans but I didn't hear about it being implemented yet.
Obv.
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They really need to establish communications to let the viewers know why they are adding time to the clock.
20+ years ago you would have put it in the local news paper.
I significant amount of the homes destroyed were "uninsurable" which they called an "insurance crisis" and they created an insurer-of-last-resort called the California FAIR Plan, which was socialized fire insurance:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_FAIR_Plan

However if you look at the "Key Statistics" fact sheet, you'll see that, guess what:

>The FAIR Plan’s Highest Wildfire Exposures

>This map shows the five areas with the highest wildfire exposure concentrations each in Northern and Southern California. Each quarter circle represents a 7-mile radius where risk is concentrated.

https://www.cfpnet.com/key-statistics-data/

Pacific Palisades is one of many cities where a wildfire would bankrupt the entire system, because the plan didn't actually charge people what the actual cost of replacement value of the homes is. The system apparently has about $700M in assets, and it is predicted to have over $7B in exposure right now.

I think it's pretty clear that they're going to have California tax payers bailout the system so that people living in the best real estate all of CA rebuild their homes in a place where people probably shouldn't be building in the first place, and continue to have their insurance subsidized by normal folks who could never afford to live in places that valuable.
Not that I would agree with such a policy (I currently do online bank using Linux), but why is it not within the bank’s rights to make that restriction? If they determine (with whatever degree of accuracy) that online banking from Linux/rooted androids/jailbroken iphones is too risky, why should they be required to allow it?
Yeah I love Alpha Protocol, did you see the remaster they put out (DRM free!) on GoG last year, for me it was honestly one of the most exciting things that happened in gaming last year.

https://youtu.be/UBXbrofwKwM
This article must be pretty great to make it to the front page while messing about with how scrolling works

:-)
I stay in touch with ppl that are important to me by writing or calling them once every 2 months.

I do not care if they do the same. I am old now (almost 30) and came to the realization that all of our lifes are packet and busy and ppl are very bad at keeping up with other ppl that are not continuously presented to them.

This is the price I have to pay to not be on instagram: writing my friends and ask them how they doing.

And it is a very nice price to pay.
> Blacklist is a word that stands out, an interesting combination like other English words or phrases and I had no issues with learning it.

Sure, though I think that if there's a term that conveys more or less the same thing and is even more obvious, then there's probably some utility in using it! Though maybe that's from a programming perspective, where accidental complexity compounds somewhat.

> And also, the bigger problem with changing "master" to "main" is that "master" was a standard and the change was painful.

This is a good argument, especially if it was done in a top down fashion and a bunch of people suddenly found themselves needing to change things in addition to an already significant workload.

In the case of the teams that I worked on, the projects that already existed often saw no changes (because the impact of it being either way was non-existent on a day to day level), but for new projects the main repo branch often defaulted to "main" and there wasn't much past "Oh hey, that's neat" to consider.

I can't say that it actually caused me any difficulties, because both Git on the CLI and in my GUI tools helpfully shows the branch names and it's not like we copy the CI configuration without reviewing it on a case by case basis (then again, in some projects the branching strategy is such that master/main isn't even used since there is no canonical main branch).
I'm surprised there's no mention yet of the incredible scene from the 1980 film "The Blues Brothers".

https://youtu.be/QfN1GRqKXpM?si=-4Mwmipl5sCFtCWN

This practical effect took weeks to set up.

I can't find documentation specifying any special techniques used to create this version of the car. I recall reading an interview naming the builder who set it up, and how no one on set was allowed to touch it except the actors, John Belushi and Dan Ackroyd. Only one take. Can't find that interview now.
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Now that it's scrubbed, just how long was their launch window?
Scientists say fire-loving Tasmanian blue gums not to blame for LA fires

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-10/tas-bluegums-role-in-...

David Bowman, a professor of pyrogeography at the University of Tasmania, said while the trees were a contributing factor to Los Angeles current fires, the story was far more complex.

He said the city's naturally dry landscape, the high amounts of fuel that had accumulated, and strong wind conditions were major contributing factors.

The region's own fire-prone native flora also needed to be taken into account, he said.

..

Greg Moore, a tree ecologist at the University of Melbourne, also cautioned against concluding the ( various Australian ) native trees were to blame.

He said an investigation into the cause of the fire would need to be conducted to determine what started the fires, and what role the trees may have played.

California naturally has a lot of highly flammable trees and shrubbery (like Australia). It's not clear that the Australian imports are more flammable than that which they replace.
I wish I wasn't so stupid or unlucky. In another life I could be doing amazing shit like rachel by the bay instead of pushing code no one cares about and rushing deadlines only to get paid late.
I think 2025 will see companies start to take a serious look at profitability. I doubt there are many services working at a profit now and we know many are taking huge losses. The hope that something will emerge can only last so long.
Yeah so many people (clients, and I guess contractors) don't realise this. There's a lot of work to keep a site going.
Thanks. I'm considering getting into cyber-security. It's disappointing because I much prefer building stuff than trying to break stuff but the way the tech industry is going, I think there is a lot more money to be made in finding problems than coming up with solutions. Nobody seems to be interested in preventing problems but everyone will gladly pay up to compensate for their neglect.
That is essentially the hypothesis they want to test:

The increase in viscosity—which increases as water temperature falls—could yield an evolutionary advantage to those single-celled organisms that clumped together, using their combined propulsion efforts to their mutual advantage. In his laboratory, Simpson and colleagues have found that a type of green algae responds as he hypothesized it would.
> I am old now (almost 30)

I'm 45 and wondering if I should be offended by this....
Audience? You mean all the space clients like Nasa, DoD and zillions of new space satellite vendors like IceEye etc? The public stream is nice to have but not critical.

I personally felt it was obvious when the countdown was reset. IMHO the show before countdown from 10s to zero is just filler.
> You write like somehow there would be something to miss out on by not valuing keeping up with people who are far away...

Yes, absolutely. The paths our lives take can lead us to have more in common with someone we knew in the past then when we first knew them. And there's a lot of value in having a history with someone, compared to getting to know someone new from scratch. Maintaining loose contact takes virtually no effort but can lead to meaningful interactions down the road.
Isn't that dismissing 90% of games? The story can exist purely to give emotional context to the action of the game.
You don't need a simulation; you just need an understanding of Newtonian gravity, basic algebra and a bit of calculus, and some knowledge of stellar masses, velocities, and space densities. This is a standard part of the grad school curriculum (even the advanced undergrad level) in astronomy; here's an example with the math in some lecture notes from an undergrad course at Caltech (by George Djorgovski):
https://sites.astro.caltech.edu/~george/ay20/Ay20-Lec15x.pdf

The mean time for the orbit of a star to be significantly randomized by weak, intermediate-distance interactions (e.g., the kind the Sun is experiencing now from neighboring stars) is the relaxation time, and for a star like the Sun it's of order several trillion years.

The mean time between strong gravitational interactions, where the gravity of a single nearby star significantly changes the orbit of a star (perhaps more like what you were imagining), is of order one quadrillion (10^15) years.

(Note that the numbers are for the density of the stars at the Sun's orbit; further out, where you start to get to the point where dark-matter effects really show up, the density is lower, and so these times would be even longer.)

Those are examples of "extremely rare" even on timescales of the age of the universe.
Those barges can withstand a ridiculous amount of force - it'll be standing at the end of the day regardless of what happens. But I generally agree. I think the orbital test is likely to succeed, but landing on the first go - that would be simply epic. There's just too many unknown unknowns to go straight to success IMO, but I'd love to be proven wrong!
If they don't talk to you personally, you have overestimated your value in the relationship.
From human perception there will "always" be work on a "normal" system.

However for a CPU with multiple cores, each running at 2+ GHz, there is enough room for idling while seeming active.
Yes, I know engineering consultancies exist, and I've previously engaged with them.

My point is that engineering consultants, at least in the industries I've worked at, are not paid for the duration of the project, but for specific deliverables. Software is the exception in engineering, not the norm.
> You fix that by making root access inconvenient enough that companies can't rely on the average random user having it enabled.

AI TikTok voice “Hey guys, if you just bought a new iPhone, make sure you remove Apple’s restriction locks so they can’t control what you install. Just follow these easy steps, but make sure you do it as soon as possible, since you’ll have to set up your phone again!”

With the comments filled with people talking about how terrible Apple is for locking down their phones, everyone’s an idiot for buying such a locked down phone so they better at least unlock the bootloader, etc.

This is not a far-fetched scenario based on some videos I’ve seen sent to me by friends.
OMG! This is crazy. I literally drafted up a blog post with the same plan of action. I just didn't want to delete my social presence just yet and was trying to figure out how to do it. Reading through every sentence of your blog post, I could totally relate. Wow. This really is such a uncanny coincidence.
Corporate social media with a feed designed to maximize engagement monetized with targeted advertising is a very different thing from a blog out a forum.
Did their engineers spend time with you or did they get their blog post otherwise? I once made 1 minute videos for interview process of an AI training data company. I have a hunch they were just harvesting the data.
Either SpaceX isn't uncontested already (lots of people are developing rockets, so they aren't uncontested), or this wouldn't have changed that (lots of people developing rockets are absolutely nowhere near SpaceX, and they still wouldn't be whether or not this had worked).
I meant in the context of a story-focused game, which is indeed less than 10% of games in general.
Better in concept than execution, for sure. I feel bad for the people that actually drew their frames competently.
I'm not sure I agree, but I'm not disagreeing on principle.

You make it sound as if something was lost, maybe recently. In the grand scheme of things I'm not that old (41) but I don't even remember how that would have worked out, because I wasn't old enough to have people's parents die before social media, at least in my social circles. Yes, of course you'd hear about grandparents and such from your immediate friends but that's usually a handful and people would maybe not be shaken as much. I agree with you that social media doesn't have to mean "blasting it to hundreds or thousands of followers", but it's a thing where I actually liked Facebook. Not only techies, and getting enough updates from people who are not your closest friends that you have things to talk about (as in reference) when you met again (or talked synchronously, or privately).
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He said meet OR talk.

I think if you don't talk to someone in a few years it makes them less of a friend.
The California FAIR Plan will almost certainly be bankrupted by this event, and then will almost certainly be bailed out by the state... which will be a direct subsidy.
What materialised from the AI Safety Summit in nov 2023 under previous government?

https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/prime-ministers-speec...
Literally 0 games I own on steam have any startup items. Custom launchers yes, but not startup items. A few games have kernel anticheat, but they all start with the game.

The exception is FaceIt for counter strike, but that’s not distributed through steam and is entirely third-party.
> I might post it on social media and then the onus is on other people to reach out to me.

Nobody can expect that everyone is on social media, let alone a specific platform. You typically tell your family and some close friends and they will spread the word.
If you want to Reach 1000 people on Whatsapp for Whatsapp marketing,
It takes lots of time to Outreach by messaging one by one.

Here you can just Upload a CSV of Contact numbers, and put message and Hit Send.

It need not be just your contacts, it can be anyone.

It had a large demand, where people were not willing to use APIs be it Official Whatsapp APIs or UnOfficial ones like Maytapi

Here you can just paste CSV and Hit send

Mainly used in Cold Whatsapp Outreach
> Just 20+ years ago this sort of sympathy seeking broadcasting action was associated with mental health illness, like Munchausen Biproxy.

Do you have a reference for the claim that the diagnostic criteria for Munchausen By Proxy (or Factitious Disorder Imposed on Another) once included broadcast-type notices when a family member dies? The DSM-IV would have been in effect 20 years ago, and while version 5 doesn't have that in its warning signs, I guess it could have changed from the previous version?
I'm > 60 and if you can find me somewhere to sit and watch while I catch my breath you can beat the young whippersnapper about the upper body with my zimmer frame.

( TBH I still split wood by hand and walk long trails, etc. My father (born 1935) is showing signs of age now )
I liked those: "A bridge to Ireland" had me rolling on the floor ...
By ready your comment, I just realised that this is what I’m doing instinctively, instead of crossing my eyes :o
Agreed: Planescape's faction represents ideologies, philosophies and world (... multiverse?)view and societal view that's political by nature. Their label are just not a 1:1 match with our world.

And in Disco Elysium (in least in my playthrough and my impression) everyone gets criticized equally at some point, even though the writers are nostalgic communist. But it doesn't feel to me like blatant propaganda.
I've always wondered, why was IRC not developed further? Some of the features people take for granted in chat clients today never made it to IRC.
Honestly, I tried it, but I didn't understand the game.
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The thing is, most non-Americans dont connect master with slavery at all. In the same way we wouldnt connect cotton with slavery. It was a term used within the context of slavery, but wasnt created _for_ slavery. In fact, it long predates african-american slavery:

_late Old English mægester "a man having control or authority over a place; a teacher or tutor of children," from Latin magister (n.) "chief, head, director, teacher"_

So if we dislike the user of master, do we ban whip? Or any other term negatively associated with slavery that actually predates it? I think the actual answer is contextual, and in the context of git, there is no relation to slavery whatsoever for most of the worlds populace
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He must running version 10.17 or newer
I think you missed half the post: "I would not be surprised if it turns out these were, too."
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People arent dying of starvation due to overpopulation but due to messed up economic and political systems. He was wrong and remains wrong.
Get better screenshots on your slideshow, they are all blurry

Also very annoying that the "Enter your username to get started" is misleading"
if I enter my username, I cannot get started unless I create an account..
I would change it into "Create an account for free and get started" or something, idk
Elon Musk is a character that continues to leave the lasting impression of having payed people so he can pretend to be competent for years now, at least since the day he bought Tesla and pretended to be its founder. He's probably pumping millions in his reputation management, along with his gender affirming surgeries of hair, jaw, and wherever else I don't want to see.