skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What nobody talks about is that much of the lithium electrolyte in lithium ion batteries is in the chemical form of lithium hexafluorophosphate (LiPF6).

Burning produces nontrivial amounts of hydrogen fluoride and clouds of hydrofluoric acid. In the short term, these are horrifically toxic (reactive). They'll bond with just about anything, including etching glass. The impact on living tissue is nightmarish and unlike some other strong acids, protracted because it absorbs rapidly through skin and starts substituting things in your biochemistry.

There are also a variety of other excitingly unstable fluorinated compounds floating around.

I have a suspicion that at some point we're going to stop talking about "Hey it's a fire that won't go out, we have to use too much water, our tanker trucks aren't equipped for this" and start talking about "Hey it's a fire that boils off what is very nearly a chemical weapon. Evacuate a mile downwind and let it burn". And then we're going to ban the more fire-prone chemistries in stationary and vehicular applications. What event is going to trigger that? I think the most likely thing is a mass casualty event in a deep tunnel traffic jam where the pileup ends up igniting.

Obligatory reading: https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-tou...

And on this specific threat: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-09784-z
This is so cool. Makes me want to do it. The working Mac plus is giving me more motivation to fix the Lisa I have dormant.
> issues

So GitHub created a mess, and the whole of open source is considered to be GitHub now.

The solution is the same as being able to avoid tons of Windows-related headaches when you don't use Windows. Just don't use GitHub.

A tar or zip file with source code posted online (or bundled with the program, even) under an open source license is still open source.
The official name was the O2.
It's not the profit, it's the force. Many agree that women should have the right to do sex work, and even for others to profit from that, but not that it should be possible to compel or defraud them into it.
The type of product/service matters here. We're talking about a browser here, with the name "User Agent" being popularized by Mozilla,for fuck's sake.

I don't use Google or meta services. I do use apple's and Microsoft's OS, but last time I checked, neither of those required me to give a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to Microsoft or Apple for all the data that I input into their OS - even when it goes through the TCP stack. Yet this is what Mozilla has in their own license. (and yes, before you ask, I did review the macOS TOS. You can find them here if you're interested: https://www.apple.com/legal/sla/docs/macOSSequoia.pdf)

For all their problems, MS/Apple TOS are usually for things that interact with their services. Here, firefox's new TOS is ridiculously wide and touches things that do not interact with Mozilla's services, for no reason.

So, no, I do not see the hypocrisy.
government agencies sometimes operate at a loss. that's fine - as citizens of a functioning society, we pay taxes to maintain services which improve shared, public life.
Yes, your correct.
Also the areas where the OSM coverage is on par with Google is very less. In fact the coverage depends on how strong the OSM community is in that particular area.
There’s a difference, though. Alexa’s recordings are made inside your house. Ring videos are taken outside your house. This distinction matters both as a fact and in the law.
>Mozilla doesn’t sell data about you, and we don’t buy data about you.

Is still present on https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/faq/
Pay What the Temperature Is
I appreciate this article, as I agree with the author that the delayed-choice quantum eraser is a misnomer due to ignoring what we now know of quantum states. It's really frustrating learning modern quantum mechanics but then reading about the delayed-choice quantum eraser making conclusions from an older understanding.

However, I still haven't seen anyone do the math about it. It shouldn't be too hard to keep track of a photon's state through Kim et al.'s experiment, and I think it would be clearer than relying on words alone (as done by the author here). I have attempted this myself, but I am particularly terrible at quantum optics. If anyone has seen such a derivation before please let me know.
Codebullet on YouTube remakes games and then makes the computer beat the game.

Because pixels are hard.
It's not any easier on windows tho
It is not a mark of quality, quite the opposite.
Thanks, hadn't even considered CO poisoning. For some reason it registered in my head as a mass suicide sort of thing. This makes more sense, hopefully that's all it is.
He mentioned the publisher got him the artist, which is a very big component in the games success.
Try opening X with new account and tell me there is no more bias now. In my completely non politician X I keep getting cringe Elon takes and some other far right content. One might argue there is less moderation (which is also not true btw), but there is definitely much more bias than it used to be.
A hard line between labour and capital seems a bit reductive. My pension is capital. I have some shares, which are capital. I also have the security of a permanent job, paid by someone else to take risks.

E.g.

> These thresholds come from asking the question "does a conservative estimation of the passive income from these assets replace a wage?"

Net worth doesn't necessarily generate any passive income. You could own a lot of shares in your business that are temporarily spiking, but you can't sell them for some reason. Net worth is a bad way to think about this, because it makes people think billionaires have billions of dollars in cash ready to be taxed away. When in fact if you want people to pay tax on their stock pile, you're talking about taking their property away from them because of how much the market happens to value it right now. Unlike property tax, which is to pay for the services weight of your property on the local area.
Great, we are looking into microVM/firecracker-like solutions for both code execution and hosting of our students very low traffic sites, so adding this to the list of things to check out.
The rhetoric around "personal liberty" was not used in the cake case, and was not used to justify discrimination. If the commission had been more neutral then the case, using the same arguments, could had gone the exact opposite. The cake case was ruled based on the performance of the commission in their work as a government entity. The outcome was that Masterpiece won, but the victory was not based on the merit of Masterpiece.

It is similar to when a criminal case get thrown out because investigators messed up and mishandled evidence. It says nothing about the merit of the case.
> What you forget is that is exactly these inefficiencies that inflate US salaries. You need to make more money just to survive in most US cities, which forces companies to increase salaries.

I think you are reversing cause and effect here. Wages are not rising because things are expensive-- things instead become expensive because people are "rich" and can afford them.

I suspect (not an accusation!) that you would intrinsically like to see the US run healthcare and education in a government controlled way, at-cost, instead of allowing excessive private profits there (which I think is a good idea!).

But advocating for such changes in the name of making US manufacturing competitive is dishonest in my opinion, because I absolutely do not see those shrinking the wage-gulf sufficiently for US factories to compete head-on with China.

Furthermore, I don't even think you want to be competitive with China in this regard. Having a significant percentage of Americans working in/for factories to produce simple goods for 10$/hour strikes me as a step back, even if you would bundle this with a bunch of positive progressive improvements.
Hopefully saner minds prevail before that happens.

I mean I'm not confident they will, but it'd be nice.
There’s something meta about your comment and my reaction. Metaphor. The pachinko metaphor seems so apt it made me pause and probably internalize it in some way. It’s now added to my brains dataset specifically about LLMs. It’s an interesting moment to be hyper aware of in the context that you’re also describing (definition of intelligence). Far out.
1v1.lol is fun! The mouse movement gets janky at times but I had a blast
Today, I somehow ended up with 96 keystrokes vs. the ideal of 95. Not sure when that happened, but I assume it was a mistake that I deleted? Does backspace not count as a stroke maybe? Otherwise, how is it possible to be one keystroke off?
Chatwoot’s free hosted tier has limited data retention and only offers US-based data centers. However, its core functionality can be self-hosted anywhere under its MIT license.

For the OP: nh2’s advice above is worth considering. Additionally, I’m not sure Libredesk is mature enough to be a strong open-source alternative to Chatwoot yet—unless the user only needs email support. Chatwoot’s base installation, licensed under MIT, includes most of the features non-corporate users would want, such as multi-channel support, and generally offers more functionality than Libredesk under its AGPL license.
Had something similar but not as bad, someone recommended I take wormwood and I’ve been totally regular since. Might not fix it for you but can’t hurt. The one I bought is from Go Nutrients on amazon for 25 bucks
CMake + Ninja?
I don't know any of the devs on HN (that I'm aware of anyway), so I have no data to base such an assessment on.
A project in Massachusetts tests a future for gas utilities without fossil fuels
I am I crazy or do Feynman diagrams not explicitly show interactions of particles moving back in time?
You haven't edited env vars in the path since win 8 then. At some point they made a GUI for env vars and the path variable.
While I think the anger surrounding this is slightly overstated, is there any Desktop fork of Firefox that can essentially just act as a "we prevent Mozilla from doing anything harmful to it's users", while compromising on as little functionality as possible? There's only so many stories of Mozilla deliberately trying to reduce it's browser market share to zero you can put up with before you start looking elsewhere.

I'm thinking something in the same vein as Iceraven, which is a fork of the Android version of Firefox that aims to make the browser more usable for humans instead of servicing the overly restrictive mobile environment/tracking that's bog-standard in most mobile platforms.

I considered Librewolf, but it's willingness to break pages in the name of excessive anti-fingerprinting (the RFP mode breaks a lot of interactables) and ideology (blocking DRM) makes it kind of unacceptable for this purpose. I guess I'm not looking for a privacy fork, just a fork that protects me as a user from anti-features (with widevine in specific not being an anti-feature; I don't like widevine either, but it's kind of necessary for using a browser these days.)
Those companies are known to be privacy hostile companies. Mozilla/Firefox, not. In fact, Mozilla claims the reverse!

For them to abandon privacy, is a betrayal, it's backstabbing behaviour. Feeling betrayed and wanting nothing to do with said software, as a result, seems normal to me.
People do get what they like and they should. We are discussing Architecture with a capital A. It has always, since day 1, been an elite concern. No one took polls of e.g. Greeks to see if they approve of the Parthenon. The English common man was not consulted by Christopher Wren. The list goes on and on. What is ironic is that this "traditional architecture" that reactionary ones like you keep raving about is nothing about recyclying "high art" of their ancestors.

Materials change. Scale requirements have changed. Techniques have evolved. The forms are reflecting that. It is entirely correct to note that many of such efforts (mostly copycat rehashing of masterpieces of modernist architects by lesser talent) have proven ineffective, but that it is just the nature of the field. Architecture is not software. It takes generations to iterate through the possible solutions.

> Your "high art" is too desperately trying to make a name by standing out through being weird instead of better.

You have zero idea of what I consider high art in architecture. You are tilting at your own windmills buddy.

+There is nothing pretensious about distinguishing high and low cultural efforts. Let's consider our own field: should we all be forced to code in JavaScript and disavow more powerful constructs such as e.g. Haskell since the "common man" is incapable of groking it??
The photons would be so spread out that you'd need a telescope with a primary optic bigger than anything else in the universe. And even then, you'd struggle to capture enough to have any meaningful information.
I don't see local backend in documentation. Is it possible?
>It's very hard to compare like for like with taxation. For example health care costs in the US are effectively privatised taxation. So are the wildly inflated utility prices that the UK has developed.

I'll quibble with you here. I think you're correctly identifying a problem, but I would argue inflated utility or healthcare costs are the effect of bloated monopolies. In the USA in the early 20th century certain monopolies were successfully combatted with federal legal power. The time may come again that abusive or inefficient industries in Western countries are significantly restructured. Unfortunately (fortunately?) the wheels of government turn slowly.
How do you find new RSS feeds today? RSS readers is something I've never really loved. But I also haven't tried them in a while. I should probs go look at some RSS feed readers to try
No, it depends how long you stay in the house.

If you stay long enough, buying is cheaper. But if you move after just a few years, you'll have mostly paid interests on your mortgage, you had closing tax, your house may even have lost value... So there are many cases it would have been cheaper to rent.

How long you need to stay to make your purchase worthwhile depends where you live.
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That's still the case. I've seen a few newsletters I follow move off the platform, one of them just a couple weeks ago. I don't like to see them go though because I think Substack is great overall, much better than competing services.
If I'm using a worse product (arguable, I know--depends on use-case) for their virtue signaling, and they quit even pretending...

I might just choose the best browser, then.
It's just syntax until you decide to support both.
Looks like MGL c. 266, § 120 is the source here. It does say that as long as the land is "improved or enclosed" and has signs posted, you still can't trespass. It's unclear to me if "improved or enclosed" is meant to be exhaustive or is illustrative -- I think that in effect, this would come down to the court's interpretation.

https://malegislature.gov/laws/generallaws/partiv/titlei/cha...
"you'll need a minimum of 96 hours for retrieval time"

We can't even get people back from the ISS in 96 days.
> This is a very big change at the Post. For decades they have dutifully aired competing perspectives from the political left and right as well as major international players of different stripes

We must've read two different WaPos.
Why do you feel it is harder in Windows? In Windows 11, go into the Settings app, search for 'Path', then choose "Edit environment variables <in system/in account>". You then get a graphical method to add/edit/delete entries, and the paths apply to any application you run. No need to find a dotfile to edit. No need to know how to format a particular entry, or chain it with the existing $PATH.

On macOS it is arguably harder as you need to use Cmd-Shift-. to reveal dotfiles should you be uncomfortable editing them with vim/nano/etc. When using Omz with Terminal, a path entry could be in any number of files supporting Omz along with my zshrc. Windows doesn't have this issue.

Windows has it's issues, but env vars are significantly easier to manipulate without much knowledge.
Probably non-existent: 'a contract gig with Silicon Graphics to port Doom and Doom II to a "set-top box device" that "never really went anywhere."'

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/09/the-man-and-the-islan...
That's fair, and that's why I'm happy to keep using Fish. I suppose that I'd just prefer a leaner package and more focus on core features, but it's still my preferred option.

It's just that I never find myself needing to do anything fancy in the command line. I just want it to be fast, ergonomic, beautiful and unobtrusive.

And I wouldn't say it's because my workload is any simpler, I'm a relatively senior computer engineer working on large-scale data engineering, LLMs, non-trivial webdev and some systems programming in Rust. And it's not because I use UIs more often either, I use the command-line as much as anyone.

I guess that I have more of a "RISC" approach to the command-line.
Have you considered porting to mobile? Looks like it could do well, either independent or part of something like Apple Arcade or Netflix Games.
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I also believe that certain aspects of the Roman Republic were superior to those of any of the so-called Republics that exist today, all of which do not observe the fundamental rule of the Roman Republic, which was that, there must exist no major management function occupied by a single human, like a president or a prime minister, but in all such roles there must be at least 2 humans, equal in the granted authorities, so that they will control each other, and this rule could have exceptions only in truly exceptional situations, i.e. wars or calamities, when dictators could be appointed.

Despite the fact that the modern republics are supposed to have some "checks and balances" to limit the power of the leaders, I have seen too many cases of presidents or prime ministers who, after being elected using various lies, begin to act like absolutist kings and nobody seems able to stop them, because they claim that they "represent the majority of the people who have elected them" and nobody may limit their power, because nobody is equal to them.
It doesn't. The above proposition is demonstrably untrue. Journalists in general are left-leaning.
Pokemon is extremely hard to completely brick a run short of actively releasing your entire box which is very appealing for an MVP run, and is also literally the biggest media franchise in the world, which is a very appealing for people seeking hype.
Mozilla needs to learn that when you're an operation running honestly as a non-profit and no one's getting rich (comfortable != rich, btw), there's nothing wrong with the donate nag in a blank new tab.

Wikipedia figured that out long ago. They probably wouldn't be around without that nag box asking for donations.
Yes they do and that is the secret to the wave-particle duality manifested in the double-slit experiment. Information from future completely illuminates (pi) the paradox.
I have struggled to find methods as an individual to donate to Firefox.
This is what codebullet does, YouTube channel. Recreate games so that an agent can play them and try to win, high score, whatever.
Movies do have a point. Sure art has a “eye of the beholder” view-point but most art has intention the artist is trying to covey. People don’t just make a movie and say “hey what if we tack this wild ending on to it, that would really confuse people”.
Just imagine of all the plants that have absorbed photons…the memories would be corrupted…though photons do dispersed isotropically…
Fair enough - I didn't know that.

But I don't see how the logic is wrong in my equivalent example. You can't ban people from your shop based on protected characteristics - everyone should be able to buy the same things from you, but that doesn't mean you can enforce that people do custom work for you. Maybe that statement works really well here, but breaks down in other examples, but that was my interpretation of the validity of the case.
I'm curious about aphantasia - if I asked you to draw a floorplan of your home/office etc. would you not be able to do it?

If you could wouldn't that involve you imagining what the building looks like from the inside and how the rooms are connected together?

Or would do it some other way?

(I'm assuming you could do it, since if you couldn't I think that would be a majorly debiliating condition rather than just some amusing fact)
But not if the shell is running as an inferior process in an emacs buffer, in which case you have to do yet another thing.
Whether he's doing it deliberately or not is speculation. I'm not sure what's worse -- whether he's too stupid to realize he's setting up the US for future wars or whether he's doing it deliberately.
So, is firefox no longer open source?

If it is open source, how do I compile and use it without agreeing to the terms of use?

(I have no interest in using their “services”.)
A 10% reduction in GDP is different to a 99% reduction, which is how most people interpret "decimated".
> I don't think their AUP considers the browser software a service.

It is not just about their services! They clarify it by writing: "Your use of Firefox must follow Mozilla’s Acceptable Use Policy, and you agree that you will not use Firefox to infringe anyone’s rights or violate any applicable laws or regulations." Src.: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/legal/terms/firefox/
Sounds like a license to train on your data.
There's a world between "big tech" and "startup", and between "startup" and "solo project that won't bring any money for a year (if ever)". What the OP did is much more less usual than working at big tech.
> At this point if you have any commitment to the truth, you will have a "leftist" bias.

This is some grandiose appeal that's shared by both sides of the political coin. People generally assume that reality matches their experience and opinions.
You seem to be in the ballpark : "260 million for 'software development expenses'" : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation#Finances

Still that leaves ~ 400 million dollars for a privacy policy that doesn't read like it came from a sleazy big-tech company.
Yeah as a reader and occasional commenter I find Substack to be a great source for interesting and informative writing on a number of topics. I spend a decent chunk of my internet reading time on there and hope the platform thrives.
1 Gene Variant Is Poised to Cure a Devastating Inherited Disease
is "misremembering something that's very nearly what happened" really a false memory though?

One of the fabricated events they used is "George W. Bush vacationing with a baseball celebrity during the Hurricane Katrina disaster."

A real and very similar event is "Bush was criticized for not returning to Washington, D.C. from his vacation in Texas until after Wednesday afternoon, more than a day after the hurricane hit on Monday."[0]

I mean clearly these are different things, but you can see how people get them confused without having a "false memory" if their memory is simply "I recall there being some hubbub around Bush being on vacation during that time."
I think one of the coolest examples is probably classical mechanics. See the SIBGRAPI 2021 videos on https://bivector.net/doc.html
Weird. This is the correct link:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62e36jm4jro
According to the article the folks at the bottom have no room for discretionary spending. So that increase they're getting, where is it going?
That is Arthur C Clark's last novel "The Light of Other Days", and it even has an Elon Musk like no ethics billionaire as one of the plot driving main characters.
Remember the time, when browsers were competing who will load website fastest or who will render Acid2 test correctly? Those were the days.
The part that provides most value to users is not shipping data to third parties needlessly. I can write the GUI for this app in a week.
Practical in the same sense as André Weil's book on number theory is basic :)