skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here lies the promised land: the possibility of a precise and concise nomenklatura that assigns each thing a unique name, perfectly matching its unique position in the world, derived from the complete determination of the laws governing what it is and how it interacts with others. The laws of what is shall dictate how things ought to be named. What a motivating carrot—let’s keep following these prescriptions, for surely, in the end, the harmony of their totality will prove they were objective descriptions all along. Above all, let’s not trust our own linguistic ability to distinguish between the subtle nuances hidden within the same word, or at least, let’s distrust the presence of this ability in our fellow speakers. That should be enough to justify our intervention in the name of universality itself.

Imagine this: language is an innate ability that all speakers have mastered, yet none are experts in—unless they are also linguists. And what, according to experts, is the source of such mastery? A rigid set of rules capturing the state of a language (langue) at a given time, in a specific geographical area, social class, etc., from which all valid sentences (syntactically and beyond) can supposedly be derived. Yet this framework never truly explains—or at best relegates to the background—our ability to understand (or recognize that we have not understood) and to correct (or request clarification) when ill-formed sentences are thrown at us like wrenches into a machine. Parsers work this way: they reject errors, bringing communication to an end. They do not ask for clarification, they do not correct their interlocutors, let alone engage in arguments about usage, which, under the effect of rational justification, hardens into "rules."

Giving in to the temptation of an objective description of language as an external reality—especially when aided by formal languages—makes us lose sight of this fundamental origin. In the end, we construct yet another norm, one that obscures our ability to account for normativity itself, starting with out own.

Perhaps this initial concealment is its very origin.
I don't read it the way you say. The more restrictive terms are for use of services. If you use firefox, you have to agree not to use the Mozilla services for the prohibited categories, but there are many uses of the browser that are not using Mozilla services.

If you accessed graphic content using the browser, you are not violating the terms unless you put that content up on a mozilla service somewhere. The obvious issue would be some type of bookmark sync. If you bookmarked a graphic url you might violate the terms when it syncs to mozilla, but even then it would be hard to argue that you are granting access to your future self, so unless you used a bookmark sharing service provided by mozilla, I would say its a gray area. So disable bookmark sync. I typically disable all external services in my browser so this would not be relevant.

But my point is that even though you have to agree to the use policy when downloading the browser, it doesn't mean it governs all use of the browser.

IANAL
The difference on Linux/BSD/macOS is that the Window Server is a userland application -- you can't depend on it existing (except macOS), nor can you depend on the underlying shell being consistent on a given OS/distribution (macOS ships with a deprecated bash shell and current zsh shell).

On Windows, Microsoft has it easy. The window server is part of the executive; Win32/conhost always exist, even if you choose to run another personality (OS/2, POSIX, et. al.).

I would bet that there is a form of graphical editor somewhere out there on the Internet that someone developed for fun for a given shell.
StackOverflow's next phase: Q&A was just the beginning
Insurrection – a physical photo journal of January 6th
I met Nate at the Principles First Summit over this last weekend.

Imo this should be bought, shared, and placed in the National Archives so it is not erased from history.

If they want to delete these, then they will need to physically burn them.
My parents (in their 60s) still think this way - they mostly use that ‘egg substitute’ that comes in a carton (I think it’s some sort of processed egg white) as the bulk of their eggs, e.g. scrambled eggs using a 4:1 ratio of substitute to real eggs. They used to almost exclusively use margarine instead of butter too.

I like eggs a lot better now that I’ve learned to make them myself.
Yes, in fact my ability to draw from memory places I've seen is, if anything, from experience, substantially above average. However, when I draw from memory, my drawings do tend to be more stylized.

I can "imagine" what a building looks like, but I can't see it. Even our language makes this hard to describe, and the reason why I didn't realise that this isn't how other people do it, because most of our language for remember how something looks uses terms that implies we see them, so I just assumed until a few years ago (and I turn 50 this year) that that was just a metaphor to everyone else too.

How do you imagine (there's that word again...) blind people remember places they can't see?

To me, the notion that I'd need to "see" what the building looks like to draw it is bizarre because I know where everything is in relation to each other, and their shapes, so why would I need to see it?

EDIT: increasingly, and in part drive by split-brain experiments, I tend to think that a whole lot of what we see as our conscious decision-making, are instead shallow retroactive attempts by parts of the brain at rationalising decisions largely already taken autonomously into a cohesive self/ego.
With most Machine Learning algorithms I used to get shapley values or other 'explainable AI' metrics (for a large cost compared to simple inference, yes), it's very unsettling and frustrating to work without them now on LLMs.
Well with QT_SCALE_FACTOR is goes and tells all the QT to behave in a particular way. It isn't a per application setting.

There is a similar environment variable for Steam on Linux and I would argue that it should be an application setting but for whatever reason it isn't.

Both of these are hacks around how Xorg (doesn't) handle fractional scaling.
Of course it turns right. It's a swasticar.
I'm not sure what the point of all this is. Linear scanning arrays does not scale, this is basic computer science. Javascript is going to run at 1/10th the speed of a native language at best. You don't have any benchmarks and are bragging about stuff that was typical 30 years ago. You realize that people have done shared document editing for decades and that every video game keeps a synced state right?

The most important thing here is benchmarks. If you want to claim you have "unmatched" speed, you need benchmarks.
I was going to recommend the Whole Enchilada (same owners, down the street), but it closed recently. It was always packed. I wonder what happened.

Hopefully the business makes it through this crisis.
- "EPA onsite coordinator Eric Sandusky said officials have been conducting real-time air monitoring, tracking air quality and hydrogen fluoride levels."

Hydrogen fluoride? That's incredibly toxic stuff. Surprised it's allowed to build something this hazardous, in California of all places.

Why would they choose a fluorine battery chemistry for a power plant when there are many alternatives?
Agent Experience – Weaviate Podcast #116
You have probably heard about how you can connect LLMs to external software tools, in systems mostly referred to as “Agents”. As software developers, we now not only have to think about the Human Experience of interacting and learning to use our tools, but also Agent Experience!

I am SUPER EXCITED to publish the 116th episode of the Weaviate Podcast featuring Matt Biilmann from Netlfiy and Sebastian Witalec and Charles Pierse from Weaviate!

This podcast explores Agent Experience -- how do we design software not only for human users, but AI systems as well? How do we write documentation for Agents differently than Humans? How do we design REST or gRPC APIs, or programming languages clients, for Agents differently than Humans? llms.txt, JSON tool definitions, agents to agent, breaking changes, … there were so many interesting topics explored in this podcast!

I really hope you find it useful! As always more than happy to discuss these ideas further with you!

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAE3I8O_w84

Spotify: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/weaviate/episodes/Agent-Experience-with-Matt-Biilmann--Sebastian-Witalec--and-Charles-Pierse---Weaviate-Podcast-116-e2vfbqq
new main features:

0 external and harmful dependencies

closed source = no more toxic community and youtubers talking shit about things they don't know.

Looks like we're good now.
This isn't a quantum computing article, it's quantum sensing.

Very different promise, level of investment, and current evidence.

For example, LIGO has been using squeezed light for increased sensitivity. Avalanche photodiodes are used in optical transceivers. I believe SQUIDs have been used in a number of medical applications.

In every case here, the quantum sensors have been used to improve science experiments before eventually making it to market. I would be surprised if this doesn't also hold true for these diamond vacancy centres.

Edit: To clarify, the article does mention quantum computers in it's introduction. But quantum sensors are then presented as almost an "opposite" to quantum computers.
Kudos! We've encountered several customers that hated their help desk but couldn't move away. We've even considered building our own since we were in the business. But here comes the hard and most important part that Zendesk and the like do that makes all the difference: Integration.

You need support integration with all the popular tools people use their help desk with. Shopify, ebay, whatsapp, woocommerce and all the seemingly unrelated software people use to support their e-commerce business. That's where we gave up, but I hope you find a solution for it.
Tbh the moment you need to use a terminal is the moment you're googling the magic spell unless you've previously googled the magic spell.

On Windows you just go Win->start typing "environment variable" and you get "Edit the system environment variables - Control Panel". Kinda stupid that you then need to press "Environment Variables..." but I probably wouldn't have to google it.
That was a well-written piece, very moving.
That cursive is perfectly legible. One bit of particular note is the father bet $1000 in cash for each prediction, while the son would owe him $1000 in "podcast services."

I wonder if that part is covered in the podcast, it could be a father unwilling to take money from his son or a man trying to gain a platform to further spread his views.
You shouldn't jump to judgement without knowing any of the details.
> If you are using Wayland, you make a file in ~/.config/environment.d/ and set you configuration variables there.

This is not in any way Wayland specific, and arguably should be the default choice for setting env vars, as it should apply to all user sessions regardless of what type they are or what shell is used.
Kind of. Tesseract's confidence is just a raw model probability output. You could easily use the entropy associated with each token coming out of an LLM to do the same thing.
You don't even need a wormhole. Light can "reflect" (ok more like slingshot) around a blackhole 25 million light years away, giving us a direct visual path to our own planet 50 millions years ago.

Of course our telescopes don't have anywhere near the resolution for this right now.
FFmpeg Lands AV1 RTP Packetizer/Depacketizer
Mozilla has been mindlessly operating for like 15 years. This is just the icing on top. I'm just waiting for something non-chrome, non-firefox at this point...
It's time for total control…

You want one person to have total control? Did you applaud his $30 billion crypto bribe?
Very sad, have some of these types in my own family. I agree with the assessment that this is a form of emotional coping. All of these conspiracy theories are strangely comforting, despite how apocalyptic they might seem. Not only can you externalize all blame, they are fun to think about, they have a very sticky epistemology, and a high degree of consistency that lets you feel superior to the non-believers. It's actually very hard to debate someone that's really into flat earth, since there is always some esoteric argument about physics, and the conspiracy always goes deeper. You find this type of thinking everywhere, but somehow we've gotten the most comically extreme versions as mainstream beliefs now.
Next.js Middleware now supports Node.js
Are you prepared for people you don't agree with to also weild total control when they gain power next?
The actual algorithm is simple:

- have they been praised by Forbes
- received money from an investor who hasn’t publicly denounced Peter Thiel
A major reason why American social media companies flipped support from the Dems to GOP this cycle was because the EU is rolling out the DSA, and felt the Biden admin didn't do enough to push back on this.

Social Media organizations like FB/Meta and Google have historically been some of the largest donors to the Dems, and their flip was a massive reason why 2024 went the way it did.

Vance has been consistently lobbying against the DSA over the past few weeks, and that's where his "free speech" argument is coming from.

I don't really care one way or the other, but I care about ensuring that large donors who flipped from D to R return to the D fold.
I'm fairly sure that's for donating to Mozilla, where the funds go who knows where (kidding, it goes to the executives and marketing).

Is there anywhere I can donate to Firefox, specifically the development and the maintenance of the browser itself, and only the browser? Maybe donating directly to developers working on Firefox would be the best approach here.
Don't even have to use GUI. Can do:

setx path "%path%;C:\own\path\"

Sadly this has no error checking so it may mess things up. But it's an option.
Heist (2001) - Directed by David Mamet

It's not very well known or particularly well reviewed. It just clicked with me, I've watched it probably a dozen times. It's about a jewel heist and the drama surrounding it
I won't say favorite, but who can forget his Lex Luthor in the original Superman!

Won't a favorite, but I recently watched Enemy of the State again, and was surprised by how much it held up over time, 27 or 28 years laster.
Here you go!

Wilderness First Responder:
https://chatgpt.com/g/g-oSbReErue-wilderness-first-responder

Psychedelic Guide GPT:
https://chatgpt.com/g/g-YvXTPBpud-psychedelic-guide
Floorp may be what you're looking for. Pretty similar to native Firefox.

https://floorp.app/
There's also a matter of trust; Google, Apple, Microsoft and Meta are trustworthy in the sense that I have an expectation of them that's already fairly negative insofar as user privacy is concerned. The correct response to "Google tracks you" isn't one of shock, it's one of acknowledgement because it's to be expected at this point. Google hasn't ever pretended that they aren't selling your profile to the highest bidder, so while I have issues with that, they're more in the sense of "it should be illegal to do this in general" rather than "I could never have foreseen this outcome". Same with Microsoft, Meta and especially Apple.

Mozilla was operating under a different set of expectations up to this point - they always made a big deal of protecting the user from bad actors, put privacy pretty front and center (in the sense of not selling your shit to data brokers/using it for advertising) and in general were fairly reliable on that. This dynamic seems to be shifting in a new direction that's closer to the other four mentioned companies and that's violating the trust they've build up over the years. It makes you wonder what Mozillas word is now worth and what it'll be worth in the future.

Hence why people are considering leaving; trust is a pretty major factor in that sort of decision. It arrives by foot (is hard to gain) but leaves by horse (is easy to lose).
Wait. If words fail to capture the truth, why do we keep making more words about it?
Maybe it's in the training data that insecure code is used for nefarious activities.
How is he belittling his father? The piece is incredibly emphatic to his father.

If anything, the author’s fault is agreeing with his father too much, to the possible exclusion of the rest of his family. I doubt his sister and mother will let him hang out in the middle ground forever.
"It did not disclose the reason behind the error."
however are the cost of developing a web browser and hosting an internet encyclopedia ran by volunteer comparable ?

mozilla use paid labor, engineer who are very expensive.
wikipedia it's mostly hosting a html page and a few media.

Yet wikipedia has much more user to whom it can show the donation nag when mozilla has a much more limited userbase.

i think that mozilla taking google money to put them as default search engine is fine, people who care about privacy are allowed to change it whenever they want.
You might say, "actually that's not fascism, Bob" because fascism is when the government exercises control over the non-government-held corporations.

Fascism is like domming Apple's DEI policies when without Congress you can't make law, or telling people they should buy TikTok for you, with your name on all the checks.

Fascism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism
> Well with QT_SCALE_FACTOR is goes and tells all the QT to behave in a particular way. It isn't a per application setting.

I understand that, but your window server is just another application. On Windows I wouldn't consider scale factor being an env var, and indeed it isn't set as such -- rather that value is set in the registry.

Maybe that's the answer -- Windows has a defacto method of setting system-wide env vars that every application inherits within a given personality but Linux/BSD does not.

I can live with that answer :-)
I like the colors of the balls and kind of appreciate they don't look like coins. May be try showing a number going up over the paddle when a coin is absorbed
I literally started a company on that thesis. It failed, but I still believe in that mission.
What I mean is that in open source, things only get done by people motivated to do them. Nobody has ever even asked for darcs support: https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20sta...

So the lack of darcs isn’t because the Cargo folks think it’s bad or something. Just that things don’t get added just because.

Re quirks, sure, that’s why rustc and cargo are different. You don’t have to use Cargo. Meta does not, the Linux kernel does not.
Notice I put leftist in quotes, at this point it's more about how the right is fully divorced from reality than anything related to the left.

Reread the examples I gave and defend them, or show me some as egregious as these ones coming from Biden or Harris.
It's definitely under consideration. Yaak has Request Chaining [1] to solve some of the use-cases that scripting is typically for, though, so there isn't a ton of demand for it.

[1] https://feedback.yaak.app/help/articles/7017237-request-chai...
Its consistent on windows across shells but its also a hard to find feature if you haven't been using Windows for decades and its not easily scripted. Its still kind of hard, could be a lot easier than it is.
likely based out of there, or his unit's HQ is, even if based elsewhere. joint base lewis mcchord is just south of tacoma.
> your program is discontinuous

Not sure I follow your usage of discontinuous: clearly the load inputs are continuous variables (albeit discretely sampled in time and magnitude, but I don’t see the significance of either of those sampling frequencies, each of which can be chosen to be effectively arbitrarily small). Also don’t understand the relevance of continuity at all since you didn’t reference it in the post I replied to.

> A few null or unknown inputs that you didn’t even consider will break it.

Null handling should be assumed to be a trivial problem here (ie just use the last 7 valid values for the time step of interest), and I’m not sure what “unknown” values would be here, can you give an example? I think it’s safe to assume that the inputs have already been normalized to some meaningful scale as an implementation detail of the load sensors. Even if the telemetry scheme changes because the instrumentation changes or the infrastructure changes, so long as the instrumentation produces values at the same scale and the actuators can still respond to the outputs, the core kernel of sense/compute/actuate can still be left unchanged.

I’m assuming that you are citing the failure to respond to null or unknown conditions as a lack of adaptation capabilities, especially as you are referencing its inability to last 100 years - though good luck finding any piece of software that can last 100 years, especially more robust machine learning algorithms that have to deal with problems like data distribution drift, hardware changes, etc etc - same goes with wetware (besides turtles?). I’m strawmanning you a little bit on the appeal to time though, since I assume your main point was to just emphasize that “it won’t deal with changing conditions/new scenarios well” which I think is somewhat fair. On the other hand, I think it is safe to say that what I described does at least respond to the world and in turn affect it in a kind of cybernetic feedback loop, which includes adapting to the shifting conditions to meet some desired state. So maybe it would be helpful if you could define more precisely what you mean by adaptation? Not trying to be snarky, just trying to genuinely push you to try to make a clear definition of what you mean by adaptation.
Fluorine is in every lithium ion battery.
All this path stuff would go away if you have a proper vfs where you bind you other bins over /bin allowing $path to simply read "/bin ." and be done with it.
Yes! Heist is my favorite as well.
.bashrc gets run every time a shell starts

I'm not sure I'd stick a path setting in .bashrc - just because it would make it very difficult to ever override that PATH setting elsewhere.

You might want that but it might also mess up some other program's attempt to set the PATH and then e.g. run a shell command.

I usually use .bash_profile or .profile more for this sort of thing and then I have to tell my terminal program to run bash as a login shell and that gives me what I mostly expect.
Surprised no one has mentioned FreeScout. It's a solid open-source helpdesk: https://freescout.net/.

They have cheap, one-time purchase plugins. Happy to pay a bit to keep the project sustainable.

I'd love to see an open-source Trello alternative that as well. There are a few out there, but nothing that seems actively maintained.
Your intuition is right. ChatGPT can suggest you a book that is not worth reading in its opinion (The Secret by Rhonda Byrne) but then its summary is basically positive.