skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like what you are describing is like letting go of the wheel while driving. Then the car does its own thing but that doesn't mean you don't have control. It's just that you decided (or sometimes were forced) to let go.
I agree that we're never fully in control but I don't think we're simple observers either.
Sure, they're human beings with all that implies.

They also live in a world that is almost completely alien and disconnected from the one the rest of us live in. That's why they're not like the rest of us. They're socially aliens who have zero understanding of what life is like outside of their social fortresses.
The HEAD value is not propagated by git operations (except for a fresh git clone). It is per-instance of a repository. If upstream changes, all other instances have to get fixed up manually.

You can't propagate (push/fetch will FAIL) a branch deletion to a repository if that branch is still referenced in the HEAD, and attempting to clone a repository where this has been forced will leave you in an empty directory with no checkout. This is the expected failure mode for all clones when a project changes to main and deletes master.

This is not specific to the main/master thing, it has always been a big pain, but with the main/master thing people started en masse to do it without technical necessity.
P.S. DEK himself would disagree with you!
Just came across this, which I enjoyed: https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/wes-anderson-difficulty-working...
the joke's on you then as I've never used an LLM. i see the results of other people using them, and i'm not impressed.

so who's irrational now by assuming something completely off base?
Succession-like feud engulfs one of Singapore's richest families
They're all inspired by TwitchPlaysPokemon, who chose Pokémon cuz he personally liked it and because "Even when played very poorly it is difficult not to make progress in Pokémon". It doesn't have game overs or permadeath. Even when you lose battles, you typically get stronger.
https://archive.ph/EszIB
Ye that feels like trying to unmess a Windows install.

I have like 6 Firefox installs I need to do this on. And then they add the next thing to block in 2 years.

I think the old premade bookmarks are as far as you can go with these kind of things. Takes like 2s to remove and you know how instinctivly.
I don't know what she means about setting the PATH for a GUI. If you want to run a program from the GUI you add a .desktop file to ~/.local/share/applications and provide the full path to the binary as part of the Exec key[0]

You can also override the actual PATH variable for an application in the .desktop file as well, or any environment variable, with the Environment key, if that's what she means.

0 https://specifications.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/la...
firefox is an open source software, i know it's great to bash it with the many questionable decisions they take but at the end it's still the least worst web browser and no one is entitled to having a free, ads free and privacy respecting web browser.

the author shows that mozilla royalty-free, worldwide license TOS change is now similar to what google always had with chrome.

To me as long as i understand the business model of mozilla, which is quite precarious but still, and it doesn't have some funny connections going in and out, i'm fine with their TOS change.

It's not the best but what you gonna do anyway ? chrome is chrome, 99% of the alternative are still running google chrome under the hood which give google insane leverage. Safari is at the mercy of apple dictatorship on the extension support. and that's all.

maybe once google is forbidden to give money to mozilla to choose the default search engine we will see real change in web browser choice, for instance it could fasten the agonizing mozilla death and prompt privacy or even just power user (as people who want to be able to block ads everywhere, not only where google mv3 allows it) to pay to develop, maintain and ultimately use a web browser.
Oh interesting, I'll check it out.

Searching around a bit, this fork does seem to meet the criteria I was looking for (plus a few hidden ones like project age; it's a couple years old and still being updated, which means the dev is willing to put the work in as opposed to abandoning it when they get bored). The blocker on widevine being Googles fault (while still supporting L3 out of the box) rather than deliberate "we're not even going to try" is much more acceptable than the Librewolf one.
I know it isn't worth replying but I never heard of 99% as the definition of decimated.
Instagram may launch separate Reels app to take on TikTok – report
I am both skeptical and interested:

- Looks like you turn the knob to set your page

- This, and your book title, appear to be the only input data to the system (no other sensors)

- Does this mean they aim to have a database of the text of every edition of every book, indexed by page?

If they can pull it off I think it could be useful, but I think they will need to compromise on quality if they hit copyright issues.
That's fairly reductive. CA and Musk had a long falling out throughout COVID cemented by the acquisition of Twitter, firing of the staff, and advertising boycott
> what level of income and/or wealth constitutes rich and how much should they be taxed?

There doesn't need to be a crisp threshold. Progressive taxation without treating labor income as more heavily taxed than generic income which in turn is more heavily taxed than capital gains would be a good start.
The contrast between the police eating hotdogs out in the cold while the gangsters wine and dine in the most expensive restaurant is the most memorable scene to me. I still need to watch the sequel.
To avoid a litigation? Genuine curious what could happen.
This is my favorite of the films I've seen him in also. It is surprising how rarely the film gets brought up, considering its quality and it having been written and directed by Coppola.
Hoosiers, for sure. "My team is on the floor" was such a flex as a coach, it is still difficult for me to separate the man he played in that movie and the actor, to me they're one and the same.
Of course their interpretation matters. That's why such salutes are banned in Germany whatever the excuse about them might be.
HN is officially a dad site now.
Theoretically you'd just need an enormous telescope to collect enough light to resolve an image. Though based on the features that modern telescopes can resolve on the moon ~1 light second away, it'd probably need a telescope on the scale of a galaxy
If you can't get photons from the future, just get a hold of some thiotimoline, a compound invented by SF master Isaac Asimov that dissolves slightly before it is added to water. After first describing it in a spoof chemistry paper, he returned to it several times, exploring its different applications and the new scientific field it created, "chronochemistry".

The best IMHO is "Thiotimoline and the Space Age" from 1960. You can read it on archive.org: https://archive.org/details/MerrilEdTheYearsBestSF05/Merril_...
It's in the registry, iirc. All Linux needs is a standard persistent key/value store(*) that by convention shells check for environment variables before running their rc scripts.

So it will never happen.

* the file system doesn't count
Same way they launched Threads that failed?
Indeed. Fire bad. In this specific case we're going to combust Methane ("Natural Gas") and when we do that we'll make either Carbon Dioxide, or, if there's not enough Oxygen for that reaction, Carbon Monoxide (in practice usually a mixture of both depending on how much Oxygen is available) and produce heat. Both gases are poisonous to humans, but Carbon Monoxide is more dangerous because humans have a built-in Carbon Dioxide level sensor as it is normal for some CO2 to be present - you breathe it out, if you are in a room with too much CO2 (so long as it's not far too much†) you will feel it's "stuffy" and try to open windows or go outside where you are no longer being poisoned. In the same level of Carbon Monoxide you just lose consciousness and likely never wake up.

Anyway, for a long time now we've known that we shouldn't poison ourselves and so we deliberately exhaust gases from burning methane to the outside environment where they'll mix with the air and - other than eventually destroying our climate - they're not a huge problem. But while the burner won't work if there's literally no air flow, it absolutely will continue to work if the air flow is partly blocked or the gases escape into the home rather than the outside air, and if you don't have alarms or don't notice the alarm you may die from the poisonous gases. It's not a terrible way to go, you get sleepy and then never wake up.

† If humans enter a room literally flooded with CO2 they are breathing toxic gas for too long before they sense the problem and will likely just lose consciousness, since they're in a room filled with toxic gas they then die. This happens if you use CO2 fire extinguishers indoors without proper breathing apparatus and training, or if a mistake leads to CO2 build-up in a closed space which is then entered by an unsuspecting human.
Doubt this will hold if you adjust by number of years in power/population under control.
Actually, water is scarce in some parts of Germany [1], it might not look like it, but there are still drought conditions in the soil of some parts of Germany [2].

[1] https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/themen/wasser/extremereigniss...
[2] https://www.ufz.de/index.php?de=37937
Not in the science-fiction sense. It's just a convenient way to express anti particles in the diagrams but the travelling back in time should not be taken literally.
you can just stick it in /etc/environment and reboot if you want
This is why the classical notion of competence and performance in linguistics is important. We describe programming languages as being Turing-complete even if every computer is always in practice finite because, in principle, it could be run on a computer with more memory or whatever. Likwise, it seems that language is bounded by language external facts about memory not intrinsic facts about how language is processed.
Per-process namespaces which gives each process its own table of mounts and binds. This is how Plan 9 works where you setup the environment with a script or via calls to mount(2) and bind(2). When you log in your profile sets up all your mounts/binds in your root namespace and every process you create thereafter inherits them. Then you change these mounts/binds as needed.
> once you can get a startup off its feet, the VC money from seeds easily makes up for that downtime

The depends a lot on the startup. Many startups don't take VC money.

Of those that do, in my experience as first non-founder employee, the founders were paid very little compared with employees, on the hope of future success with their equity instead, even after the startup got decent pre-seed and seed investment. Both rounds of investment were enough to pay some key employees well, but not to pay everyone well for long enough. So the founders felt they has to continue with low pay for themselves.
I cribbed these from someplace - slightly different approach:

###################################################################
# Add directory to path
pathadd() {
newelement=${1%/}
if [ -d "$1" ] && ! echo $PATH | grep -E -q "(^|:)$newelement($|:)" ; then
if [ "$2" = "after" ] ; then
PATH="$PATH:$newelement"
else
PATH="$newelement:$PATH"
fi
fi
}

###################################################################
# Remove directory from path
pathrm() {
PATH="$(echo $PATH | sed -e "s;\(^\|:\)${1%/}\(:\|\$\);\1\2;g" -e \
's;^:\|:$;;g' -e 's;::;:;g')"
}
A Plan for Reparations Became a Debt Trap for Marijuana Retailers
SourceTrail did something a bit similar, though it didn't focus just on the modules, but also what methods are called where. I really liked the tool, but it didn't really work out for them and they discontinued it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sourcetrail
Amazon joins quantum race with 'cat-qubit' powered chip
1871 moving out of Merchandise Mart after 13 years
Assuming female, 5'5", age 35, somewhat active because it's more conservative; daily caloric intake is like 1700. Your egg macros are about 5.5g of protein and fat per egg for about 72 calories per egg. A large egg is 7g protein, 7 fat. 91 calories. My math is based on large eggs, 9 cal/g fat, 4cal/g carbs and protein. To get all of of their caloric intake from eggs would be around 18 eggs.

Vitamin A in eggs is 75iu, 23ug RAE. RDA is 700ug for this person. 30 eggs. The tolerable upper limit is 3000ug. 130 eggs.

Macros:
126g of both fat and protein. Carbs in eggs are negligible at maybe .5g each, totaling 9g or 36 cal. Harvard recommends .36g/lb for protein, which is about 40g. They also set the theoretical upper limit at 2g/kg ; .91g/lb, which is 102g. So this is 24g excessive (3.4 eggs). The quantity of too much protein is debatable, though in the absence of heavy weight lifting, this is at least excessive for most people. Harmful depends on context.

126g of fat is 1134cal. This is below what they need to maintain weight (calorie deficit) and the biggest problem with this diet so far. If this person are more than 150g of carbs per day, I would be concerned because with circulating glucose, body fat is not used readily to supply caloric need. The body may want to use protein as a calorie source, which is where the danger of eating too much protein comes from.

After being on this diet for several weeks, they will be in ketosis, which will actually make it much safer. Body fat is used more readily in ketosis to fill energy needs and could make up the 600 calorie per day deficit, totaling to a little over the safe 1lb per week recommendation for weight loss.

I would advise adding more fat and reducing protein a bit (80g should be plenty though potentially excessive still), not because this is dangerous but because it is excessive and the body will need to remove the excess protein as waste. This isn't really harmful in smaller quantities but does put more strain on the kidneys.

Maybe 12 eggs a day and another 50 of mostly fat to get 500 calories, 500 deficit. If trying to maintain weight, increase fat by another 50g. Mix carbs if you want under 300 calories (75g) with that amount removed from fat intake and preferably in one meal with protein.

Doesn't consider vitamins other than A.
The Royal Tenenbaums

"Asshole dad reconciles with his estranged children."

Probably my favourite Wes Anderson film with an extremely talented cast. Gene Hackman does a great job of playing a well-meaning buy very flawed father figure.
Grad School Is in Trouble
> The University of Washington is not alone in putting things on hold. The University of Pennsylvania, the University of Pittsburgh, and the University of Southern California have also paused or cut their graduate admissions, at least temporarily. Ilya Levental, a biophysicist at the University of Virginia, told me that his program in biomedical sciences reduced the size of its incoming class by 30 percent. In other words, grad school is in trouble. And because grad school trains the next generation of academics—those who will be teaching students, discovering knowledge, and translating science into practice—this means the future of the university itself is in trouble too.

I don't think people understand the damaging long-term effects of what's happening now (and for the next few years).
I'm not catholic but I don't think that's necessary in their framework, no. An action driving you further from god is a sin even if you can't articulate a material harm caused by it.

I suppose the logic is something like "creating and holding the kind of cynical distance from momentous world events that would allow you to gamble on them weakens your connection to god's creation and therefor god himself."
Not much is known about the Necrotyr who became Aleph-Null.. oh you didn't mean that Aleph-Null.

Random old mysteries like this are fun. Maybe this will spread far enough the original Aleph-Null could hear about it but there's increasing odds they're dead.
The quantum sensing (not computing!) they're referring to is more likely related to capabilities such as this:

Room-Temperature Solid-State Maser Amplifier

[...] Here, we report on a continuous-wave solid-state maser amplifier operating at room temperature. We achieve this feat using a practical setup that includes an ensemble of nitrogen-vacancy center spins in a diamond crystal, a strong permanent magnet, and a simple laser diode. We describe important amplifier characteristics including gain, bandwidth, compression power, and noise temperature and discuss the prospects of realizing a room-temperature near-quantum-noise-limited amplifier with this system. Finally, we show that in a different mode of operation the spins can be used to reduce the microwave noise in an external circuit to cryogenic levels, all without the requirement for physical cooling.

https://journals.aps.org/prx/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevX.14.04...

https://www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/news/2024/12/Boosting_weak_...

The "near-quantum-noise-limited" aspect means that these systems might eliminate thermal noise assosciated with traditional electronic amplifiers & drastically improve the performance of radio receivers & detectors (among other things).
This project is also completely open source, so do with it as you wish. I have not seen any other implementations of concurrent, persistent array mapped tries, this was meant to be an exploration into beautiful data structures.
Could you elaborate on the method ?
Only the Bondi Blue G3 towers, the previous beige G3 towers were much worse to work on.
You have probably heard this before but this is really bizarre and fascinating to someone like me who writes difficult words correctly because I see them (visualize the word) in my head and judge if they look right. It is like it all has to be visual for it to make any sense.

As a molecular biologist I often deal with minute quantities of substances in small containers, but I just picture them there, the molecules, what happens to them as I dilute a sample or add some enzyme. Reading a book is like watching it play out.

I have a colleague who is also much more text oriented. I really wondered how she can function without seeing all the departments in an overview and the connections between them, and how governance structures overlap with those departments, etc. For me it's a lot to hold in, overwhelming at times. But she's absolutely great in these types of things, just masterful, very structured as well. Her mind must be very alien to me, I always wonder what her experience of life looks like (or not "looks like", apparently... But how it is to her...)
I'm curious to understand the implications of the AGPL-3.0 license in the context of this project. It sounds like the author doesn't want big corps to offer a hosted version of this tool (because doing that would require them to release the source code of any modifications they make to the software, which many companies are reluctant to do) and it's also an OSI approved license (unlike the recently famous SSPL or BSL). What's so wrong about AGPL-3.0 then?

The intention is often to prevent companies from building proprietary services on top of open source software and I feel AGPL 3.0 is a sensible choice here.
its not just that. carbon monoxide will bind to your blood the same way oxygen does, but it takes magnitudes more energy to unbind that oxygen. co2 doesn't do that.

In a closed room co2 can build enough to make you feel tired headaches etc.

The same amount of carbon monoxide in the room would just kill you
>You mean, there should be a GUI

That must have been what Microsoft was figuring back in the 20th century.

Even in the latest W11, it's the same basic everyday GUI as in Windows XP :)

Just a little more intuitive now.

In XP from the Control Panel click System > Advanced > Environment Variables.

In Win11 from Settings click System > About > Advanced System Settings > Environment Variables.

Pay attention to your choice of User PATH, in addition to System PATH.

Make sure that things like %HOMEDRIVE% that you edit in, actually appear as "C:" once you are done editing, or you're not doing it ideally.
VLM's can't replace ocr one to one.. most hosted multimodal models seem to have a classical OCR (tesseract-based) step in their inference loop
'I paid for the whole GPU, I am going to use the whole GPU'
Gift link: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2025/02/grad-sch...
They do, but the interpretation is that those represent anti-particles moving forwards in time.

Either way, the article does just fine elucidating the delayed-choice quantum eraser without quantum field theory.
That argument only makes sense if you don't know how government spending works or what the top-down direction was.

Agencies generally aren't just given a big sack of money to do whatever with. It's allocated for specific types of things in specific amounts, and in particular, employee pay is separate from other things and governed mostly by a given number of employee slots rather than a specific dollar amount. The forest service couldn't save those jobs by just shifting funding from, say, vehicle purchases without much higher level approval.

It doesn't really matter though because the direction to the forest service and everyone else wasn't "reduce your budget by $Y". It was "fire all your new employees immediately". There was no opportunity for the forest service to "better manage its finances". I think giving the forest service and other agencies time and flexibility to figure out how to be more efficient based on specific domain knowledge is a fantastic idea. Even if that ultimately did lead to layoffs, at least it would be an informed decision. That's not at all what's happening, and whatever excuses proponents of this approach come up with, firing people like the woman in the article is exactly what was expected.
This is the type of intelligent rebuttal I come to HN for.
Pig organs in people: The future of cross-species transplants
Humanoid Robots Get Real Jobs
Show HN: I built a multilingual transcription bot with ElevenLabs new Scribe API
At ElevenLabs we just launched the world’s most accurate ASR (automatic speech recognition) model. To test it out, I've built this little Telegram bot with Supabase Edge Functions. Would love for y'all to test it out and let me know what you think! Thanks \o/
Child rearing requires parents to expend resources on their kids that the economy would rather have for itself. Capturing someone's undivided labor and their limited capacity to truly give a shit about anything in the world are great for productivity figures.

So steering people away from having children gets baked into the culture haphazardly by people who will later be scratching their head about why they can't find labor and start advocating for the next-easiest short term solution. The mechanisms don't quite matter. They do, but they're a distraction. Both because they're entirely replaceable with other things that would accomplish the same goals, and they're very tricky to discuss in polite company.
Link says the numbers are adjusted to 2023 dollars and a three person household.
They do. In fact i always thought this was the answer to the matter/antimatter imbalance.

Feynmann diagrams literally show anti matter as the same particle as a matter particle, just travelling back in time (see election/positron interactions).

So what happens when matter and antimatter are created in a big boom? Well the antimatter is in the past, we're here in the future.