skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Can we bring it back? Not to destroy the ad-driven aggregators (a lot of people seem to like them), but to build something for the rest of us.

I don't think that's really possible, if what you mean is an open web like it used to be. It's too far gone, too many people don't remember or never experienced what it was in its heyday, and I doubt that the attitude that everything must be monetized is going away anytime soon.

Now, a "good web" protected behind login walls may be possible, but that's no longer the open web.
When you don't use it all the time it's impossible to remember what all the flags are for. The names/scopes are also not helpful, I usually want universal, but think I want global because I don't remember there is a universal. And the thing I have to look up every time is how to set a variable for the current line.

I'm not saying these are hard things, to figure out. I just agree that they're hard to remember when you don't use them all the time.
CA Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzales turned Musk anti-CA:

https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/Tesla-move-Lorena-Gonzal...
Very informative, but painful to read. Hopefully neither of the children inherited their father's mental issues.
Lol it’s not pandering to anyone. It’s making a point that’s timely and the fact that you are finding way to attempt to disregard it or try and disqualify it as a valid point means that the ending does a great job. This is the era you live in whether you shrug everyone off as “culture warriors” or not.

Would you have wanted the ending to be the pope to be elected and everyone hugging and waving goodbye as the camera ascends to the heavens, where God then turns and winks at the audience? Or do you want something to talk about that has an effective tie to the theme of the film.

Watch a documentary if you want an accurate description of the papal voting process.
I listened his This American life episode on Monday morning and had to compose myself before my stand up.

It is heartbreaking what happened to a generation of men.
That was my first thought as well - something went wrong with their HVAC - it happens, especially to elderly people.
A future news story:

"Senators Murkowski and Collins, after a private meeting with President Trump, say their concerns have been addressed. Senator Murkowski said, 'He promised he wouldn't do it again so I don't really see much point in impeachment.'"
You don't need both hands free to set a watch's timer.

You can still hold something in the hand that the watch is strapped to.
Yes. I’ve used that in my software. App stores just require a policy.
Somewhat related there are other confusing things around how environment variables are set (especially on Linux). There are environment variables I set for QHD and UHD monitors e.g. QT_SCALE_FACTOR

* If you are using Xorg, you put environment variables in ~/.xprofile

* If you are using Xorg on Debian, you put the environment variables in ~/.xsessionrc

* If you are using Wayland, you make a file in ~/.config/environment.d/ and set you configuration variables there.
Can you clarify? I never think of my HVAC as a dangerous thing - compared to say internal fireplaces.
> We really have to shoehorn him into every discussion, huh.

As long as Elon Musk insists on "shoehorning" himself into every topic, we too have the right to shine a light on him.
"Hell of a damn grave. Wish it were mine."

-Gene Hackman in The Royal Tenenbaums
Don't feel bad: LLMs make it so much easier to learn thinks without getting stuck at frustrating nonsense, yet there remain enough hurdles so that you need to develop resilience.
It is. You go to Env vars, and modify the PATH setting. It just works.

I'm confused on the Linux point, because I thought I was the only one who had problems. Until I saw this article! Describes it well. I take responsibility; I am bad at setting env vars in Linux.
>From my understanding, every country in the world

> it always was the case and always will

>before 2000`s, it required effort

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_herring
You should. An RSS reader has become my primary window into the web these days. It really improves the experience.
I use librewolf with privacy badger on macos (best browser) except when I have to run on battery - then its Orion (also the best browser).
Well we're in different places so I guess it's different. I used to bike in France and I got about three or four bikes stolen there, one every other year or so. At around 30-50€ per bike it's not that expensive even though it's certainly inconvenient.

Now my bikes don't get stolen anymore in Flanders (even though I use a much cheaper and more convenient frame lock).

About the weather, I just wear warm clothes. I'm about ten minutes away from my children's school, not 2 hours. It rarely gets lower than -5°C though (23°F).

It also works because we have decent cycling infrastructure so cars don't kill too many cyclists.

I'm not an avid cyclist or an avid automobilist but I sometimes have to drive the same route by car and I have never wished I was in a car rather than in a bike including under rain, while the other way around is almost every time.
> But Firefox also needs to generate money somehow, right?

WHY? They get hundreds of millions a year to place Google as the default search engine. That’s a shit ton of money. At that level they could even put some away every year for an endowment. Why does a nonprofit need to generate even more money by violating its users?
Sorry, I seem to have made everyone upset judging by all the greyed out replies. I come off as flippant but I am serious when I say that north americans have a knowledge for western europe from post WW2 to present day. You will learn about the cold war and Russia in school but its very surface level. My teachers had more to say about the east german swim team using steroids and how the government was evil for forcing it upon them.
Natural gas furnaces can leak CO
https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/donate/
What does this have to do with my response? OP posted that the European welfare state started as a reaction to Hitler's reign.

I'm pointing out how this is patently wrong, as Welfarism in Europe was already mainstream well before Hitler became Chancellor.
Open Standards in a Trade War
FAA targeting Verizon contract in favor of Musk's Starlink
No it isn't. Please stop.
Yo. Ask any person what is the main newspaper of Nyc and I bet they don’t say “Ny Post” or “Wall Street Journal”. It is a true observation. Now go to Ricketsville, Nebraska and ask if their newspaper aligns with their political views. I bet it does.

By your own admission of the LA Times this was a recent shift, so it was true before.
I don't think it has anything to do with what we know "now". It's just paying attention to the fact that the signal photon hitting the screen causes a collapse that affects the state of the idler photon. Which then explains the data via the collapsed state depending on the position of the hit, and one of the possible idler measurements being in a basis perpendicular to those variations. All quantum interpretations give the right answer for this experiment, and very few of them invoke retrocausation, therefore the experiment clearly doesn't require retrocausation.

I don't even think the delayed choice eraser is a "quantum" paradox. It involves quantum particles, but they're really just there for flair. They're not crucial. You can apply the same confusion to a classical experiment. Set up some basic correlation between A and B, with A revealed first and then a choice to reveal B or an unrelated C. Then describe the situation so badly that it sounds like choosing to measure B vs C is changing the probability distribution of A backwards in time (since if you condition on B you'll see the correlation vs A, but conditioning on C shows no correlation).
Your repeated use of the word 'dishonest' seems odd to me. I infer you think I'm making arguments disingenuously and without believing in them and/or manipulating the truth. I can reassure you this is not the case. I sincerely believe you are making your own arguments honestly also, and am engaging with them in that spirit.

as long as it's clear that it's illegal and morally on the level of theft.

It's not clear. I do not consider training an LLM on publicly disseminated text to be "morally on the level of theft." Stealing my car, or even a pen off my desk, is a much more reprehensible action than slurping everything I've shared in public into an LLM training process, purely IMHO.

It's also extremely dishonest to compare AI to humans like this. AI are not people - morally, socially, biologically, or legally. What a human does with a piece of content is utterly irrelevant to the process of training an AI.

People or corporations (which are usually treated as person-like) operate training processes and are morally and legally responsible for them. I believe training an LLM is "a human/corporation doing something" with a piece of content.

Again - very dishonest to conflate a pre-trained AI agent (such as OpenAI's Operator) with the training process.

Again, I am being honest. Whether I let an AI agent read your blog post or whether I write a program to read it into an LLM fine tuning process seems immaterial to me. I am open to being convinced otherwise, of course.

It is a violation of copyright law to make copies of copyrighted content, with very limited and case-by-case fair use exceptions

One of those exceptions (in many jurisdictions) is making temporary copies of data to use in a computational process. For example, browser caching, buffering, or transient storage during compression/decompression.

While many of the "pile" style of permanently stored and redistributed datasets are more than likely engaging in copyright violation, that's not inherent to the process of training an LLM, the topic of this thread. I believe that if copyright holders want to go after anyone and have success in doing so, they should go after those redistributing their content in such datasets, not those merely training LLMs which is not, in and of itself, violating any laws I can establish.
The Windows has a system-wide variables (incl. PATH) applicable everywhere. In contrast, the Linux situation is touched in the submitted article.

>All of these directions only work if you’re running the program from your shell. If you’re running the program from an IDE, from a GUI, in a cron job, or some other way, you’ll need to add the directory to your PATH in a different way, and the exact details might depend on the situation.

>I’m honestly not sure how to handle it in an IDE/GUI because I haven’t run into that in a long time, will add directions here if someone points me in the right direction.

The ~/.pam_environment was the equivalent to Windows' environment variables but has been deprecated and supposedly systemd's environment.d took over its functionality.
This is a really sad story.

Frankly I’m shocked the conspiracy theorist paid up. Him then immediately doubling down and finally killing his marriage isn’t a shock.

I both admire and detest the son for sticking with his Dad, the other family members being done is probably a more healthy approach.
They’re heading to the extraction point. Having done their work to undermine human civilization via social media manipulation, the away force prepares to reenter cryosleep in the deep ocean. The clairvoyants have reported that the earth will be safe and relatively human free within 130 years, ready for recolonization.

Dolphins. It’s been dolphins all along.
Gorbachev said that one of the things that shocked and demoralized him was when he visited Houston and took a trip to one of the typical supermarkets, a locally owned one not part of any nationwide chain or anything.

When he saw that average Americans were enjoying consumer choices well beyond anything the highest echelons in the USSR could attain, he was never quite the same after that.
There’s a small Marina there where you can hire boats to go whale watching in Monterey Bay. Highly recommend doing that if you live in the area.
Shame on the author for writing a nationally syndicated article belittling his own father, regardless of how much they disagree.
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So my bank password is now licensed to mozilla? This is not great...
There should certainly be a GUI to do it.
Firefox's own about:license page (reachable through the about firefox dialog) says the sources are available under a wide variety of open source licenses. Does that mean only Mozilla distributed binaries are governed by the "Firefox Terms of Use"? If I download Firefox through my distro package manager, and the distro infrastructure compiled and distributed it undet the terms of the open source licenses, presumably I may use the software solely under the terms of those open source licenses.

Does Mozilla take this into account, or do they act as if they have the rights they assert in the ToU, regardless of what license a Firefox user is using the software under?
At what point do you consider it an "environment variable" vs "application setting" (even when called an env var by the app)? Windows has it's explicit env vars and GUI or CLI methods to set them, but if I was changing something about Explorer or some other graphical portion of the OS, I'd be going to the registry, for example. Setting the display resolution or scaling factor would be another registry entry, though I'd be using a purpose-built GUI for that.
For dual channel 256-bit wide LPDDR5X, you would definitely need 4 CAMM modules

It’s also not that absurd pricing of the modules themselves but of the R&D effort to cram 4 CAMMs onto a board with sufficient signal integrity
Rest in peace. Three deaths (counting the dog) and no foul play. Carbon monoxide?
There's a nice way to halfway-fix that issue. It makes use of the fact that most bash commands that we copy are prefixed with a $ and a space. It also requires your terminal emulator to have a way to hook into the paste mechanism and edit the to-be-pasted text. To my knowledge, Kitty and iTerm both have this feature.

Basically, the terminal will replace each line of the pasted text that match (start with)

$ rest

with

pbash 'rest_escaped'

or more elegantly

\$ 'rest_escaped'

We will then define a function with either of these names in fish.

This function will start (if not exists) a persistent background bash instance connected on both ends to FIFOs, with the same lifetime as your fish session. We then pass the `rest_escaped` to one FIFO, capture the output from the other FIFO, and echo it.

Because its a persistent session, stuff you copy that makes use of variables or bash aliases all Just Work. Being able to blindly copy-paste the entire bash codefence from a github readme.md is especially nice.

It all happens automatically after a one-time setup, and overall works pretty well for me. Here is a demo: https://i.imgur.com/HdqGkRk.png

This is the fish function

function \$
if not test -f /tmp/bash_daemon.pid; or not kill -0 (cat /tmp/bash_daemon.pid) 2>/dev/null
echo "Starting bash daemon..."
bash ~/scripts/bash_daemon.sh &
sleep 0.5
end

echo "$argv" > /tmp/bash_daemon_pipe &

while read -l line
if test "$line" = "###DONE###"
break
end

echo $line
end < /tmp/bash_daemon_out
end

And this is the bash script `~/scripts/bash_daemon.sh`

#! /usr/bin/env bash

rm -f /tmp/bash_daemon_pipe /tmp/bash_daemon_out
mkfifo /tmp/bash_daemon_pipe
mkfifo /tmp/bash_daemon_out

echo $$ > /tmp/bash_daemon.pid

while true; do
read cmd < /tmp/bash_daemon_pipe
{ eval "$cmd"; echo "###DONE###"; } > /tmp/bash_daemon_out
done
So, what are the forks?
> there would be plenty who hadn't had to stand

They'll still be afraid of physical risks, like death threats or a Jan 6 incident again.
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You are welcome sir, I quite enjoyed digging into your implementation a bit. I have been absorbing as much as I can to better understand sqlite and its general ecosystem.

Yup you are absolutely right. My thought was that my next post would dive into exploring whether or not this actually solved any of the issues listed about CGO. I updated the post to be a little more clear.
I found Rapid Environment Editor for that stuff year ago, never looked back.
Exactly, I agree. In fact they declare : "You give Mozilla all rights necessary to operate Firefox, including processing data as we describe in the Firefox Privacy Notice, as well as acting on your behalf to help you navigate the internet.

When you upload or input information through Firefox, you hereby grant us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use that information to help you navigate, experience, and interact with online content as you indicate with your use of Firefox."

They reserve the right to use every bit of information we type into the browser, which is pretty scary.
It means they read and collect every bit of information we input in the browser ... think for example the text we input in a webmail app or in a home banking app ...

Time to switch to LibreWolf and Mullvad Browser.
Chatwoot has a lot more features with its MIT license.
Your home page consumes 35% of my GPU, that's crazy. Maybe tone down the background animation a bit?
Drop your favourite Hackman movies!

Heres mine:

--= The Conversation (1979) =--

"Schizo surveillance guy gets a contract that starts to derail things" is the basic premise, but there is more going on - "it has layers".

Francis Ford Coppola filmed this in between Godfather I & II.
I believe it is less famous only because the target audience is smaller, not due to its quality.

The editing is perfect, the pacing just right and the acting mostly top notch. Gene Hackman absolutely nails it.

I found the whole thing to be mesmerising and gripping until the very end. Underrated masterpiece.

May he rest in peace.
Suno could do this, even with a reference melody :)
Amazon has been a scam site for years.

Counterfeit products sold by Amazon.

Most reviews are purchased.

Stolen product pages.

Product pages where the reviews are for totally different products

If you report any of these things to Amazon, they do nothing about it.
So you expect the number of buses in the metropolises of the world to stagnate?
Yes. Let's hope we get another 15-20 years. But then we might see some big changes in just 2 years.

And yes, programmers are going to be hit hardest. Other white collar jobs more or less have some barriers or are already too cheap to be replaced.

I predict frontends and data people are the first to be impacted. Reasons: 1) too close to business, 2) in general not really very technical.
> I think that current timelines, while not particularly awe-inspiring, are quite realistic (Germany: no more coal for electricity within 2038).

I am not an expert on this, at all... but I'm not sure that's the case. c.f. Wikipedia:

> In March 2024, Federal Audit Office published a report in which it assessed the policy as not meeting goals on a number of points: the planned 80% share of renewable energy requires dispatchable sources but the assumed 10 GW in fossil gas generation is neither sufficient nor on schedule; extension of electric grid is behind the schedule by 6,000 km (3,700 mi) and 7 years; security of the supply chain is not sufficiently assessed; system costs to ensure 24/7 generation are underestimated and based on "best-case" scenarios; capacity installed in renewables is behind the schedule by 30%, whereas demand is expected to grow by 30% as result of electrification of heating and transport

As for

> ROI for those plants is completely abysmal already and continuously getting worse, because they are completely unable to compete with solar/wind energy prices whenever those are available.

That's because the pricing model is arbitrary. If we need nuclear, we can make it economically viable through reforming the way we purchase electricity. But,

> construction alone currently easily takes a decade

is the real problem. Unless SMRs actually materialise _and_ have fast build times, it's just not happening (and realistically, I think _that_ ship has already sailed).

I'm not really making a point here much beyond "it's one thing to say nuclear is no longer viable given our lack of investment" and another to say "it was a good thing to drop nuclear N years ago". You're not saying that for the record. By dropping nuclear, we have to deal with a bigger shortfall and that means gas peakers, etc.
I've still received counterfeits that were sold and shipped by amazon.
You're vastly overestimating how the norms of GitHub are able to account for how things have to be. Recognizing that GitHub's userbase has a certain type of problem is no different than realizing that HN, Reddit, Tumblr, etc. all have their own respective userbases and each tends to behave in certain ways (desirable or not) that are characteristic to that group.
Disclaiming ownership is not enough. Making the supposed license that users supposedly grant more limited would be a step. Yes I saw it has some qualifiers but they are not protective enough of the user.
That's really tragic. Mental health.

Emotional intelligence is not something we're born with. Sounds to be like the guy, the father, knows he feels things but then quickly equates them to the intellectual IRL truth. That's where emotional intelligence can come in and say well no these are just feelings.

Super tragic that the whole family had to push him away from themselves, because of the guys intolerable behaviors.

Counseling can be pretty helpful, though the people going to it need to want to go, otherwise counseling is a no-go.
Here's a post linking to a BBC article about same that was flagged and censored here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43191562 ;

> the newspaper's opinion section will focus on supporting “personal liberties and free markets",

Free trade! Fair trade!

> and pieces opposing those views will not be published.

Boo, fascist corporate oligarchical censorship!
Him, his wife and his dog found dead in the house ?

Carbon Monoxide, possibly?

Shame. I had no idea the guy was that old.
Best of luck mate. We're all rooting for you.
This is playing out in a whole lot of families, and has been for some years. Collective recognition of this illness, an understanding that we’re not alone in struggling with it, reflections on how to cope with or reverse it or at least eke out a few decent moments with these once-normal people (even if it’s just things that didn’t work) are very much needed.
I'm not really convinced its gone. Its small. It was small 20+ years ago too though. I think the problem now is its hard to find the web where before that was all that was.
Most Americans don't have enough savings to cover an unexpected $1000 bill [0], and poverty is increasingly becoming criminalized, as evidenced by the recent SCOTUS rulings outlawing sleeping outside. If you aren't already financially stable, the system is already actively working against you.

Having to compare America, one of the richest nations in the world, to a generic developing nation is proof enough that something is very imbalanced. Compare the USA to Switzerland or New Zealand?

0 - https://www.cbsnews.com/news/saving-money-emergency-expenses...