skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know why you're being downvoted, it's a reasonable question. The lithium cation is the bioactive part and the smoke will produce it when the particles are dissolved in water.

But the basic answer is that lithium is fairly ubiquitous in the environment and it has biological effects only at fairly substantial doses. I think the usual therapeutic dose is above one gram of lithium carbonate per day.

The most likely product here is lithium hydroxide, which is caustic. The smoke also contains more dangerous substances such as carbon monoxide and hydrogen cyanide from burning plastic. So, I'd wager you'd be dead or seriously injured long before you feel any cognitive effects.

Lithium also doesn't bioaccumulate, so any small amount that gets in your body will be cleared fairly quickly - probably within a day or two.

In essence, I'd stay clear of the smoke, but not because of the mood-related effects.
The author's last post was about terminal frustrations[0]

This is easily one of the most annoying ones, especially when shells will have several different locations to read config from depending on how you start the shell, or what a desktop app will do to try and pull the config in (`exec-path-from-shell` in emacs, for example).

And you can't really, say, put it in both your `.zprofile` and `.zshrc` or `.bash_profile`, `.profile`, and `.bashrc`, because then it'll get executed more than once and you'd need to maintain some kind of state to prevent that.

[0]https://jvns.ca/blog/2025/02/05/some-terminal-frustrations/
If people are misinterpreting mozilla's legalese, that is mozilla's fault for making these terms vague, broad and easy to misinterpret. Also i am not convinced your interpretation is correct.

Mozilla Firefox didn't have a 'Terms of Use' for 20 years. Why now?

Its quite clear they're seeking to expand their rights over their users data with their new privacy policy while simultaneously reducing user rights with this new 'Terms of Use'. i.e. Enshitification
As someone with an American education, I can attest that European social safety net is not attributed as a reaction to Hitler. I can understand how that line gets drawn, but that's not what is taught to our young people.
I really have liked the current Optimizer series. So much amazing info.

I hope some company that heavily relies on Postgres sponsors a project to replace the optimizer with a more modern implementation. I feel like for any large applications with olap style queries (even if on the OLTP database) will benefit incredibly from that work. SQL Servers optimizer was light-years ahead of Postgres when I worked with it last over a decade ago.
The phrase "we don’t sell access to your data" has been removed, gated behind a feature flag connected to this TOS change. Their FAQ was updated to remove the "Does Firefox sell your personal data? Nope. Never have, never will. And we protect you from many of the advertisers who do. Firefox products are designed to protect your privacy. That’s a promise" as well. [0]

Combined with their blog posts from the CEO saying "we also need to take steps to diversify: investing in privacy-respecting advertising to grow new revenue in the near term." [1]

[0] https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/d459addab846d8144b...

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-leadership-growt...
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Yet, modern mobile app stores insist on a privacy policy even if you don't send data to a server owned by the app vendor.
Isn't the internet for pr0n?
Yes! The founders of PlanetScale were the co-creators of Vitess at YouTube, where it was built to handle MySQL scalability. PlanetScale builds on Vitess but offers a managed, developer-friendly experience.
bryanlarsen: that's speculation. Hard to agree or disagree without any basis in fact.
https://www.onlyamazingseller.com/us.html
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> They did not evaluate if the ""personal liberty" of the cake shop was more important than the civil rights of the customer".

But we're here to discuss the rhetoric in the right around "personal liberty." The cake case is an example of using that rhetoric to justify discrimination, which is exactly what happened. That is the effect of the SCOTUS decision, regardless of whether they used those words verbatim.
Simulations show nightmare Atlantic current shutdown less likely this century
Obligatory: https://sso.tax/
Sounds like a few hundred thousand children of undocumented immigrants becoming US Citizens every year is perfectly okay with you. Reality would say though that it has become an extreme loophole that current non-citizens are using to get their children into America as US Citizens. Times have changed!
The only thing that makes sense is carbon monoxide poisoning. Would take out all 3 with no foul play suspected.
People can be persuaded to silly things on silly logic.

There was a time after prohibition when the prevailing theory was that vodka was healthier than whiskey because it was clear and whiskey wasn't.

Our educational institutions marched an entire populace right into obesity because the government insisted the food pyramid was scientific, and not the result of lobbying.

Honestly it's a bit wild to me that we ever think we know anything for certain.
50 million light years would not get you light from 65+ million years ago.
I find it fascinating that he has such a strong desire to have people have a certain perception of him. I'm not sure what that perception is supposed to be,if it's admiration or respect or whatever.

But it does seem to drive him to do odd things. Sleeping on an office floor. There's no reason for him to do that. Pay somebody to follow him around and make a bed for him to sleep in if he doesn't want to go home. Taking photos of himself and then using alt accounts to post wonderful things about himself. It's weird.
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No, good language designers take care that their type system is not Turing complete.
Anything public you can share yet? I’ve been interested in how much LLMs “understand” symbolism.
I highly recommend actually knowing what a conversation is about. Read the charges, you're defending an actual rapist and human trafficker...
No, not at all.

I'm saying you can't judge some learning process that you're not even witnessing.

Maybe you haven't used an LLM to learn something; maybe you just let it write your code. Not everyone does that.

When folks like you narrow arguments "everyone can only use the LLM exactly like I have, and if you do that, it really hinders your learning"---who sounds irrational?
People want robots do (low-value && computationally intensive) tasks - I think it's fair and okay by now to say unfolding wet clumps came out of a washing machine belongs to a class of tasks that are computationally intensive for human brains.
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> Born in 1930, he joined the marines in the late 1940s, and decided to study acting in the late 1950s. Hackman befriended Dustin Hoffman at the Pasadena Playhouse and the two were voted “the least likely to succeed”. With various bit parts on TV and stage under his belt, Hackman made his big screen debut opposite Warren Beatty in melodrama Lilith in 1964.

RIP for them all. A hell of a career.
Thanks for the question! You’re spot on. Fisher-Yates is a key part of Quintrophy1x’s design, used twice per instance: once to generate a dynamic 256-element S-box and once for a 128-byte block permutation.
For both shuffles, we seed Fisher-Yates with a SHA-512 hash of the key and nonce.

For the S-box, we generate a 256-element lookup table. We feed the Fisher-Yates shuffle a robust stream of pseudo-random numbers derived from the 512-bit key and a 16-byte nonce, processed through a SHA-512 hash function. We tweak this input slightly for the S-box so it’s distinct from other uses, ensuring every encryption gets a unique table. The shuffle then scrambles the 0-255 values based on this randomness, giving us a key-dependent substitution layer. For the permutation, we take each 128-byte block of data and reorder its bytes. We feed Fisher-Yates the same key and nonce combo, hashed again, to produce another pseudo-random sequence. This drives the shuffle, rearranging the block’s byte positions in a way that’s consistent for a given key-nonce pair.

This approach ensures each shuffle is deterministic for a given key-nonce pair (crucial for reversibility) but appears random to an attacker without the key. SHA-512’s 512-bit output provides ample entropy, and the nonce adds uniqueness per encryption.
You are correct about ingesting the osm data directly to something like Valhalla. What had in my mind when I mentioned "usable" is the data after that will be the output of some sort of quality control process. As you said, osm data will have quality control issues (being a crowd sourced) and organisations will want quality checked before the data is fed to their internal systems including inserting to database or to a routing engine.
I'm helping an enthusiastic young adult family member write an indie game in a similar space. I'm a professional software engineer in the full stack/security space but I don't have much experience in graphics or games. We would be thrilled just to get it implemented, and we're close, on steam, and get a couple real players. Currently it's running in the browser and on android.

I think he has very good taste in games, and is learning to code very quickly, so I'm acting in a supporting technical role.

-- What are the crucial skills, technical or otherwise, that I should learn to be effective in this space?

-- We're currently using the Godot environment, which feels a bit limiting to me (easy to start but: IDE is just ok, config feels GUI dependent/doesn't facilitate committing atomic deployment or other project changes...) Is there a different stack, or other complimentary tools I could learn that might be a better fit for a more professional dev workflow?

Thank you for the inspiration. :)
Great to see a push towards standardisation in this space.
If this tool looks like it would improve your life I think you should consider using Bazel instead of whatever build system you are using. I don’t see much value add here for a project using Bazel.
At the same time, there is also a faction that appears to argue against overly studying or obsessing about nutrition science, saying that if you really just prioritize variety, moderation, and made-at-home, then you're already 90% of the way there.
"Ostensibly" is doing a lot of work there. What the guy says and does are often very different, his claims about being a peaceful dove compared to his war hawk actions are no different: https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2021/01/20/trump-the-anti-...
Look, I hate ads as much as the next person.

But Firefox also needs to generate money somehow, right? A small advert to amazon/hotels/whatever that can be removed basically permanently with a small change in the settings is about the best balance I can think of.

If you donate to Mozilla, I have more sympathy for you. Perhaps they could make it so that if you have a Firefox account linked to a donation that they remove this, or something.
In your case, what do you think your glowing hook was?
thanks for sharing, there is always something to learn
When you are being attacked by a government prosecutor these "up to"s matter very, very much. It allows them to force the acceptance of inappropriate settlements by waving the (very real) possibility of these "up to"s in your face if you try to actually have your case heard in a court.
AI will not "replace" white collar jobs, but will replace how those jobs are done. If you're concerned, it's less depressive to think of these times as a fast transition and adaptation phase.

If I make an analogy to nature & evolution, there's been a rapid change in the "environment" we need to survive in. There will be many causalities, but it's not your fault, so just focus on surviving for now, and you will eventually thrive.

It comes with a huge cognitive dissonance to force ourselves to change, and it's going to be a battle with ourselves during this quick adaptation and reprogramming phase as we learn new ways to solve old problems more efficiently.
Hm I wonder if instead of the displacement, it’s using the difference in the standard and ultrawide field of view and doing some sort of interpolation of them? Maybe even pulling data from the lidar? The fake depth of field blur/bokeh uses some of this I guess.
If conciseness improves readability then doesn't readability still win?
"cardboard" houses have insulation in the walls. Meanwhile I can't imagine how solid (?) concrete would have better insulating properties than fiberglass insulation sandwiched between two "cardboard" walls.
Good trick is also sell steam keys in bulk. But you need a reason for steam support :)
Nothing is more hacker news than somebody downplaying how physically demanding a trade is.
The idea of a trailing whitespace sensitive language is... amazing.

Get real torturous with it and make the amount of whitespace the line number, ala BASIC. 3 trailing spaces is line 3 for instance. Tab character counts as powers of ten separator? Space space space tab space space is line 32?
As well as sending big bombs to Israel instead of Ukraine.

His politics looks like done by mafia boss. Russia invaded Ukraine so Ukraine should pay reparations to USA. And forget about international documents like Budapest memorandum
Couldn't you add a privacy policy that states just that? "This application doesn't send/save/process/use any user data" for example, should be a valid privacy policy if that's true.
If you're implying that generalization isn't at play because game knowledge shows up in its training data, you can disabuse yourself of that by watching the stream and how it reasons itself out of situations. You can see its chain of thought.

It spends most of its time stuck and reasoning about what it can do. It might throw back to knowledge like "I know Pokemon games can have a ledge system that you can walk off, so I will try to see if this is a ledge" (and it fails and has to think of something else), but it's not like it knows the moment to moment intricacies of the game. It's clearly generalized problem solving.
Mandatory Affero GPL warning.

Ensure you understand the license before deploying.
Really cool experiment! The idea of AI 'playing' games as a form of entertainment is fascinating—kind of like Twitch streams but fully autonomous. Curious, what were the biggest hurdles with input control? Lag, accuracy, or something else?
There is this sci-fi book about this, but I forgot name/author. In the book a wormhole end can be positioned anywhere in space and time history. The tech starts as an ITER-like project and then becomes available in mainstream products, and all the dirty secrets of mankind come to light.
> and he also says "It was a brutal year long journey of 18 hour days"

Which is likely an hyperbole.
Your comment reminded me of a scene from the movie "El Mariachi". In it, the title character walks into a bar looking for a job as a Mariachi, and is faced with the bar owner telling him something like "Why do I need a Mariachi when I can have a full band?", then pointing to a guy resting in the corner next to an organ (an "electronic organ", of the family type, as opposed to, you know, a hammond or something like that). The resting guy presses the "demo" button and the organ plays Mariachi music on its own ...

I share your pessimism partially, but I also wonder: if the system keeps optimizing for profit, at some point there just won't be enough people in the world to sell products and services to. I don't know what the answer is.

Edit: typo
Let's tale it at face value that a hard drive on the moon does not entropy. Let's also take it as given that the data is so important that you would pay millions of dollars to place it on the moon and millions more to get it back when needed in the event that all your other forms of backup failed due to some global catastrophe.

1) At the moment, we can't even get living people off the international space station let alone land on the moon and take off from the same spot twice.

2) If a space based proof of concept was practical, why would we not store our hard drive on the ISS. It is looking for some excuse to remain in operation and we can already come and go from it on a semi-regular basis?

3) If there was a global catastrophe to the extent that only moon based archives remained, then how are we going to go get them? This crisis destroys all data archives but preserves our space program?

4) Once we did get the drive back, what exactly might we do with it considering all other forms of data storage were destroyed?

5) If the data on the drive was so valuable that we were willing to pay millions of dollars for the chance that after Armageddon we could still get it back... Then why would the Chinese not just wait for us to place the drive then go get it themselves? Surely you would never encrypt it as the key would be just as vulnerable to loss as the data.
It "can" be done. Some photons leaving the earth a thousand years ago. Bouncing off a mirror in some distant planet and allowing us to see two thousand years into the past
Different interpretations of facts are reasonable. Different facts are not.

It's a lot like "you're entitled to your own opinions but not your own facts", but with a somewhat different spin. An opinion is a preference, a feeling. An interpretation is a story that puts the facts together in a coherent through-line.

Quantum mechanics is a famous example. The facts are not only the data points of experiments, but the equations. They are sufficiently well-tested to be treated as simple matters of fact, and no physicist disagrees.

But there are various interpretations: many-worlds, Copenhagen, consistent histories, "shut up and calculate". They all agree on the outcomes of experiments. They differ in how we think about those outcomes. They all take the equations and say, "This is the part that is important and real, and here is how we understand the rest of it."

Unfortunately, we are now accusing each other of ignoring basic facts. At least one side must be right about that; it's conceivable that both sides are. Usually, we resolve such a dispute via democracy, but that breaks down when the disagreement becomes existential.
> I don't think their AUP considers the browser software a service.

One would think so, right? But why does Mozilla want me to "license" to them everything I "upload or input [...] through Firefox"[1]. Where do the "facilitated services" start and where do they end? It sure would be nice if they could draw that distinction, without it, the cautious interpretation would be that that everything is a facilitated service.

[1] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/legal/terms/firefox/
It's a private repo for now because of some proprietary third-party stuff in there. I think we will be able to make it public but we have to clean things up.
I figured this can be used to cheat a bit. The paddle warps to the finger instantly on touch. You can use the pause to catch all coins
VF2 is the first mass-produced RISC-V SBC.

There's been a lot of enablement by now, but the whole point was to get boards to devs so that they could do said enablement.
Junior developers may be able to crank out more code. But so can senior developers! Which is more valuable? AI is a force multiplier and senior devs are now WAY more effective. If a 10x developer was a thing in the past, they're now 100x developers with absolutely no need to hire or train juniors at all.
Yes, that's the bullshit I was talking about.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/upshot/doge-contracts-mus...

> The Department of Government Efficiency, the federal cost-cutting initiative championed by Elon Musk, published on Monday a list of government contracts it has canceled, together amounting to about $16 billion in savings itemized on a new “wall of receipts” on its website.

> Almost half of those line-item savings could be attributed to a single $8 billion contract for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. But the DOGE list vastly overstated the actual value of that contract. A closer scrutiny of a federal database shows that a recent version of the contract was for $8 million, not $8 billion. A larger total savings number published on the site, $55 billion, lacked specific documentation.

or from https://abcnews.go.com/US/doge-now-saved-65b-federal-funds-i...

> DOGE says it's now saved $65B in federal funds, but that's still impossible to verify

> It only provides records for $9.6 billion in savings from contract terminations

as well as:

> The official also said they're using a conservative methodology of calculating savings because they're subtracting the contracts' obligated dollars from the ceiling amounts. However, for many contracts the ceiling dollars are much higher than what is actually expected to be spent.

You'll note that there's no information about how much was specifically DEI, while saying the total amount was due to a "combination of fraud detection/deletion, contract/lease cancellations, contract/lease renegotiations, asset sales, grant cancellations, workforce reductions, programmatic changes, and regulatory savings."
> Can you formulate a lot of stuff much more efficiently and concisely, and does it help gain new perspective on some things? yes, absolutely. It provides a wonderful framework for expressing geometric ideas.

Can you elaborate on what stuff does it help to formulate much more efficiently and concisely?
Have you seen doge.gov? It is not just about firing the do-nothing remote federal workers.
Your link does not support your claim or in fact mention living standards at all. The fact, widely evident to every American not in the upper 20%, is that your paycheck is bigger, your house is worse, your food is worse, your healthcare is worse, your life expectancy is worse, your children’s education is worse, you have less free time, you can take fewer vacations, and you can buy less of what you want.

The US was #1 on the Human Development Index in 1995, and is now #20, sandwiched between Slovenia and the UAE.

What your link does show is widening income inequality.
Imagine seeing the exact point in time the asteroid hit!
Sounds better than spending whole life in an office.
The real fear should be that certain crafts will disappear: the craft of programming, the craft of technical writing, the craft of formulating and maintaining a budget for a large organization. Instead of being a programmer, you'll be someone that runs sanity checks on AI-generated code and occasionally pokes around strange-looking code when things seem not quite right.

Imagine you were a clockmaker at the time the first electric clocks (e.g., General Electric's Telechron) were introduced. Suddenly the skills you worked so hard to acquire and which gave you such satisfaction were obsolete.

White color jobs won't go away, but they will become progressively less satisfying and less lucrative.
Please remember, when your limbic system is activated, you're probably being manipulated.
Reads nicely from right to left.