skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The dep fans try to strike back again?? I hoped we are done with this...
Ah, okay, that's a different question.

Aside from common sense ("this being negative would be self-contradicting") for a given number and sets of inter-relations, that's out of my wheelhouse. I very dimly recollect some work on allowable sets of constants somewhere in the nineties, something to do with superstrings, but that was never a huge interest of mine. I will admit that such a generating theory may exist and I am just unaware of it.

In some sense, each constant represents a bit of embarrassment to physics. Having this rather large set of adjustable parameters calls to mind the von Neumann quote "With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk."

Why this seemingly arbitrary number? Can we take multiple constants and find some smaller set from which they are derived? Can I make a constant emerge from a physical law, devoid of measurement?
>Well, nor can Occam's Razor, but we don't seem to have a problem quoting that!

Well, Occam's Razor is just a heuristic, not a logical necessity.

Sometimes the more complex answer is actually the correct.
That's the version we have in the US. TFA I linked covers that in Europe they are permitted to do dynamic shaping of the light cones in order to reduce your exact complaint.
`OutOfMemoryError` is the root of unchecked exceptions, you can't put it everywhere because then it might as well be nowhere.

Rust improves on this by using a different syntax for unchecked exceptions (`panic!` vs `Result`) which provides the benefit of discouraging unchecked without preventing it.
I buy green tea from near there. So called "Ariake Sencha / Gyokuro", out of Shibushi maybe 15 to 20km away. Joked to the shop owner about how he could advertise this so much better with a volcano on the bag, instead of just plain white paper bag with black lettering.

It's very good.
A great subject is also the cosmological constant. Introduced by Einstein, who later claimed it was the biggest blunder of his life, that has returned to make the math work for cosmological observations made in the 90s. As explained by Susskind[1], a sort of negative force that by one measurement is 2.88 x 10^-122 [2] and if it were only slightly different, the universe as we know it would not exist.

Add in the "need" for observers in Wheeler's Participatory Anthropic Principle[3], I would say that some extraordinary minds have recognized and proposed some strong anthropic arguments.

In any case, the older I get, the more I realize I don't know a damn thing. As a poet once sang:

Now, I wish I could write you a melody so plain

That could hold you, dear lady, from going insane

That could ease you and cool you and cease the pain

Of your useless and pointless knowledge

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cT4zZIHR3s&fbclid

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmological_constant

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Archibald_Wheeler
Paradigm shift

6 Sigma

CASE (now called "no code")

Client-Server (now called "serverless!")

Interactive
There are a ton of great books out there! If you're looking for a bit of the whole shebang, check out Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools (aka, The Dragon Book). It's an older book, but a lot of what is described in there is still very relevant and good info. If you want a more high level overview at first, I'd recommend Crafting Interpreters [0] and Writing a Compiler/Interpreter in Go [1]. The latter two focus more on lexing, parsing, and intermediate code generation.

[0] https://craftinginterpreters.com/
[1] https://compilerbook.com/
The Socialist Origins of Big Data
How Often Does Google Ignore Our Meta Descriptions?
> Glass is made of sand, which we have plenty of.

On this point specifically, glass is made of a specific type of sand that is high in silica, which we are running out of: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20191108-why-the-world-is...
They are free of "third party DRM”, they are not free of first-party DRM, aka the DRM system integrated into Steam.

If you buy Horizon: Zero Dawn from Steam, you won’t be able to actually start the game unless Steam is installed. However, if you buy the game from EGS, it work fine even if EGS is not installed. The EGS version is a completely standalone copy of the game that does not require any clients in order to run.

This are a handful of Steam games like this as well. One example I purchased recently is Ori and the Will of the Wisps, which I downloaded in a VM before moving over to my main (Steamless) Windows install. It works fine. For whatever reason, however, this seems to work far more often with EGS games, and I really appreciate that!

Edit: Useful reference https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16BjnaBO40vkt6kFVl0QW...

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Edit2: By the way, I mentioned in my parent post that Journey was DRM Free on EGS. I have just learned that as of a recent update, saving is broken without EGS (although the game still launches, and you may not need saving given its two-hour runtime).

I'm willing to chalk this up to a bug rather than anything malicious—and of course, the good thing about DRM-Free software is that if you've backed up your old copy, it will keep working, and no one can take it away from you. But, this type of thing is definitely a reason to still prefer GoG and itch.io where possible.
>OK fair enough, to me the opposition to the weak AP just seems to be people "unhappy" that a physical constant should need to be that precise.

No, their opposition is to the fact that a physical constant is a mere accident, a mere facet coming with the universe as a set, and not explained by some more fundamental mechanism.
THE ONLYES POWER IS NO POWER ~ Riddley Walker
"cologne" may be referring to perfume)
When Journalism Becomes Corrupt Boosterism
Show HN: I made an animated video explaining space vector modulation
I think you miss me a little here. You can BE intentional with whatever approach you want. Most of my critical listening today is via Apple Music, my phone, an outboard DAC, and some fancy Sennheisers. But when I use that setup, I'm being just as intentional as I would be with vinyl.

However, a physical playback medium demands a certain degree of intentionality that isn't required if you're just Hey-Siri-ing some Tool (which I also do).
The Norsemen TV series puts a hilarious dark comedy twist on that reality. Basically a workplace comedy where their job is capturing slaves instead of selling paper.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norsemen_(TV_series)
What, in your opinion, is the biggest drawback of type erasure?
See reality as it is first, before you try to bend it – The Stockdale Paradox
There is definitely mental frustration in the brain when I can't skip shitty tracks that I don't resonate with and having to forcefully listen to it. That makes my brain way more agitated than relaxing with the ability to skip tracks.

When everything works, I am relaxed. When I am artificially constrained, I am not relaxed.
Show HN: A simple CLI app to organize photos by year/month locally
On a slight tangent, I'd rather have only checked exceptions, so I know exactly what might throw where. Instead, I have to rely on potentially outdated Javadoc and debugging runtime exceptions in production to find them.
> you'd expect there'd be no glass bottles of anything (beer, mustard, maple syrup) if that was the case

That's completely different - you're confusing recycling with reuse. The bottles you're referring to are made anew from glass that has been smashed into cullet and re-cast into new glass.

What the commenters above are advocating are thicker glass bottles that are washed and reused as-is, i.e. reuse.

Different QA concerns when you're manufacturing fresh glass versus collecting it from randos
This only works if you either have a guarantee that everyone else is also going to listen to your work on headphones, or total disregard for anyone who isn't.

If you expect people to listen to it on speakers, you need to listen to it on speakers.
I don't buy vinyl, because a) they are incredibly heavy and take up far more room in large quantities, b) they damage easily leading to more pops and scratches when playing (check out used vinyl in stores, see for yourself), c) they don't sound better (unless the mastering on a version of the disc has poor DR, but better versions are usually out there), d) they are more expensive. Discs are a more optimal way for me to collect, though I rarely do so and opt for digital purchases more often.
Harmony OS pour smartphone aux développeurs en décembre
Go Huawei, Android: le business des télécoms chinois affirme qu'il diffusera Harmony OS pour smartphone aux développeurs en décembre
URLs were invented by Tim Berners-Lee. They do not precede the web. There were separate namespaces before the web; there was Gopher and FTP, and various shorthands to indicate the combination of a site and a path, but no standard, universal resource locator (see what I did there?).
Looking at the pictures, the change in the pose could also be responsible for the change. Even looking at just the face they leave different impressions.

And what the hell is with the discussion suddenly suggesting that woman might subconsciously find the men holding cats gay? If holding a cat supposedly makes you look less masculine, surely all sorts of behavior besides being gay would have the same link.
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Yes! this was a great episode. An A.I. fiction that wasn't over the top and actually made sense both technically, morally and culturally!
Which, fortunately, counts for 95% of the cities in the United States! You don't have to be in SF, NYC, or LA to live near museums, good food, and the outdoors. And if you're retired, you don't even need to be near the high-paying fin/tech companies either!
How many McNuggets is it from Moscow to Minsk?
(Plug) If you're interested in adding syntax-highlighting to magit, see https://github.com/dandavison/magit-delta.
Hi everybody, this is a command-line app that I created while working with my wife on filling a family album, where we needed to choose pictures per month/year, unfortunately, I wasn't able to find any software doing this while holding my photos out of the cloud, and ended up writing it.

It's pretty simple right now, it takes a source directory, and processes the photos by taking the creation date from its metadata, producing an output directory where each photo is inside a specific directory for its year/month, like 2020/02-february/photo-1.img.

It was build to fulfill my needs, and hopefully, it can be useful for others.

At last, this is was my proof that creating cli apps in Scala is now feasible.

Thanks!

EDIT: Apparently, I'm a guy still in the caverns because most of my friends seem to prefer to use Google Photos/iCloud/etc, while I prefer to still keep some privacy, what a time to live it.
Let's replace your kidney with React [audio]
Are naked shorts still allowed? Maybe prevent those.
Same, though it seems hard to determine just how risky it is.

I have drank water from thin plastic bottles that had been sitting out in the sun and elements for a quite a while. I don't know exactly how long, probably a year or two. The water was gross! I attribute it to the plastic breaking down and contaminating the water, but that's just a guess.
Show HN: Intrusive peap (pointer heap) in Go
> Being uprooted every few years has led to an inability to form long-term relationships

I had a similar upbringing and can’t at all relate to this
Honestly, I think this article about anthropic arguments is weak. Expressing discomfort with an argument isn't an argument.
I highly recommend listening this this episode:
https://gimletmedia.com/shows/heavyweight/brholm
One thing I was hoping to see in the research that I didn’t was using photos of the same person with and without a cat and showing the “same person with cat” and “same person without cat” to different people as the “with cat” and “non with cat” person. I think that would have been more powerful.

Also, candid cat ownership photos versus the very uncomfortable and forced holding cat photos that we were shown here. Studio lighting and keeping a cat in place for posing unnaturally made the cat ownership photos ... awkward.
Ask HN: What is your workplace policy on divulging account passwords to IT?
This is an 'asking for a friend' situation, with the friend in question being pressured by their company's IT department to divulge their password (so as to facilitate updates more easily). This person is relatively high up in the company, and handles IP that is both valuable and sensitive.

My advice to them was that in the absence of a company-wide directive that absolved them of any and all repercussions from the sharing of their password they shouldn't give it up.

However, I wondered how other companies (big and small) handled this. What's your experience?
A man lives in an abandoned Japanese school
Uhhh... are you ignoring the normal state and federal income taxes?
The definition of DIAF is "Die In A Fire" btw
COVID19 reinfection by a phylogenetically distinct coronavirus strain confirmed
The biggest mistakes in Java are checked exceptions, NullPointerException, and primitive types. But which one of these is the worst mistake really depends on your perspective, and the mood of the day.
> "HN is a marketing machine for YCombinator, not a real community."

I disagree, a large percentage of people that are here for the interesting articles and curious discussion, but have no interest in YCombinator at all...
I'm aware of that, I was explaining why `some{T} | undefined` is problematic in Typescript. If you have a signature with both option type and undefined it's a signal of a code smell.
>Why should someone get to increase their voting power simply by producing more children to indoctrinate?

Are you serious with that one? There are much quicker, cheaper, and more effective ways to enact political change than spending 18 years and the literally hundreds of thousands of dollars it costs to raise a child in order to get one more vote.

>In Europe it's illegal to criticize the crimes of religious figures. That's horrific.

I agree. I didn't say other countries were perfect. However many countries do recognize that blasphemy laws are unjust are have repealed or have started debated repealing them. Ireland is one notable example of a country that amended their constitution recently to remove them. And even in the countries who still have those laws on the books, it is extremely rare for them to be prosecuted.
Would be interesting to track success of two groups of real guys: A group with both cat and non-cat profiles and B group with only catless profile.
Silocone is used for food packaging but, as far as I know, I do not know any company shipping food in silicone bottles. However, silicone food packaging bags exist:

https://www.stasherbag.com/blogs/stasher-life/food-grade-sil...
Thanks! This just made me realize the other requirement is that they can play Minecraft and that it does indeed run on Linux.
It appears your comment about sand is somewhat misguided. Sand is consumed a lot nowadays. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20191108-why-the-world-is...
It needs more swift for Linux programmers.
I haven't been in the contract-bridge scene in a long time, but had a friend who was competitive at the regional-level, and the impression I got was that partner-signalling was hard to get away with just because opponents would recognize abnormal results so quickly; at that level you would regularly face opponents who could tell you every contract you had bid against them and what the result was from memory.

On the other hand, I worked at a US Team Trials championship game, and the two tables were in separate rooms, with a diagonal partition across the table and completely silent bidding. Presumably they wouldn't go through such gymnastics if cheating weren't a concern. Perhaps the stakes are too low at the regional level (or those who are good enough to get away with it quickly progress to a higher level?).
Elixir Tip: Case vs. With
Really? If you asked the average Joe off the street to list off the features of an iPhone compared to android, how far down the list do you think "app store review" would show up, if at all? I think most people would say stuff like "speed, camera, display, apps, privacy" then stop.
Being a senior at FB/Google/Apple is more equivalent to staff at Amazon and principal almost everywhere else to my understanding.

FWIW, before I joined my company (a FAANG), I was an engineering manager/tech lead hybrid. I ended up as a high mid-level in pay band, but being paid at just below the average of the next band up from numbers I've seen around, and currently grew it to more than most at the senior level. I may have taken two steps back on the career ladder, but I've almost tripled my compensation (in large part due to stock performance) from my startup job 3 years ago (which was already pretty high for the market for my background), and I have even more freedom in most aspects with what I get to work on & a very strong management team that supports me.
Six Practical Tips to Master Online Learning
It isn't though :) -- just try https://www.city.cologne

The company behind .cologne and .koeln is from Vienna BTW: https://nic.koeln/en How could they let .vienna slip through the cracks?
I think there's also a very important step which is that often these successful communities have value even if others don't join -- what I've heard previously described as "Single Player Mode".

Instagram had filters and photo editing -- and could then also post to Facebook. Even if you knew no one else on Instagram, there was a reason to use it.

Github is still a great UX for Git. You can host your own repos and work with your own team, even if you never look at others.

Why do people want to join first?
Easy is boring.
Sapolsky himself struggles with depression, which he claims is genetic, IIRC. Not that I know anything, but I was struck that someone with his knowledge and intellect seemed to have given up attempting to treat it. He maintained psychological defenses that made me wonder whether he'd received adequate care.

I'm not sure where I heard this, but likely it's one of the following podcasts, which are worthwhile.

Sam Harris #91 - The Biology of Good and Evil
https://samharris.org/podcasts/91-biology-good-evil/
YT version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLWzMH8psFU

Peter Attia #51 – Robert Sapolsky, Ph.D.: The pervasive effect of stress – is it killing you?
https://peterattiamd.com/robertsapolsky/
Recycling is unfortunately not a guarantee even when consumers do everything right. Plenty of curbside recyclables end up in landfills.
> inject

I see the problem.

The whole point of spring XML was so you didn't have to "write code" to wire things up. Now we're using annotations to replace XML - we're writing code so we don't have to write code. It makes no fucking sense.

Annotation injections are a completely ridiculous turn of events.
Why faster-than-light implies time travel (2016)
How do you reason about a probabilistic distributed system?
Epic might.
Interpreter bug report = litigation. Expensive, time consuming, personally draining and uncertain. Only the wealthy can even begin. Worse, e.g. insurance companies strategically litigate to establish a line of precedent favourable to their long-term interests.

um, contingency fees change this (in some areas)
Isn't it great that you have that choice! That's the marketplace at work. Now imagine if you developed the same privacy concerns about the Apple App Store.
Free webflow HTML template that comes with copywriting guidelines
KDevelop 5.6
Personally I watched an old episode of “Firing Line” on amazon prime with him and Ariana Huffington on it. Ariana was arguing against trade with China.

Edit-might be this one:
https://youtu.be/U4bBftiRo2Q
Good article/comment. Thanks!
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> Preserving a (possibly revolving) core group of people (20% of the userbase generates 80% of the activity)

very true but 100% of the userbase will consume 100% of the activity, extreme numbers but point being that whilst only 20% are creating content a greater share, assume everyone, will consume it.

In the UK there is a community called mumsnet - I know so many people (including me) who consume from it but do not generate back.
I see you're one of those people that base everything on price and not on other things. Got it.
I was with you until the end - how does transferability function with this kind of loan arrangement?
>We need to just force manufacturers to bear the costs of recycling their products 100%

There's literally no way to do this. Any costs you try to pass on will just be passed to the customer, and there's no legal way to prevent that from happening. And no, the customer won't care about a 5c recycling tariff, which is about the most you could charge for this without getting sued to oblivion.
I promise you the antibodies that prevent people from using one of the approved languages don't have permissions or disclosures at Apple to actually implement any language bans.
Honestly, there are lots of things this is untrue for. I went bouldering (indoors) with my friends and it was fun but okay with rental shows. Then I went and bought myself some climbing shoes and it was amazing. I went way more often, found it way more fun, and progressed faster.

Same with cycling. Getting a $1k bike makes it so much more enjoyable than a $300 bike.

Don't make things harder for yourself than they need to be. Yes, the people who most desire doing a thing will do it with barely anything. But if you know you're not that person, you know more pleasant tooling will bring the threshold of the activity down, and you have the money for it, absolutely do it.

Better tools lower activation energy significantly. You want activation energy to be low for things you want to do but can't summon the motivation for.

Sure, in the end if you find you don't really want to do it, don't. Now you have to sell these ski boots for way cheap. But so what. That's just money. Life is short. Don't make things harder for yourself.

And creative arts are no different. Sure I could paint with paints. Etc. But having a Wacom makes it way more likely I will.

But sure, as an autodidactic technique, starting from a restricted environment and progressing to complexity is superior to starting with complexity.
Amazon’s Alexa for Landlords Is a Privacy Nightmare Waiting to Happen
Honestly, I was freaked out by the ordering in the article (equity, benefits, salary, something else). That is completely opposite how I'd normally view an offer. Maybe I'm just not Silicon Valley enough but equity doesn't pay rent.
I understand your arguement, but it seems to me a separate problem independent of what I proposed.

As an evidence, the problem your describe already exists under the current amount a 1000+ TLDs. It won't be a new problem arising from my proposal.

Since it's a separate problem, there should be a separate discussion on how to solve it.

- Should we "cancel" TLDs altogether and just allow entities to register arbitrary sentences as names (why not?)?

- Should Internet companies be called apple.com instead of apple? (the problem is less harmful for non-internet business, right?).

- Should we remove only similarly-sound TLDs (com vs cons)?

- Should we tolerate that apple.com belongs to Apple while apple.con belong to different legal entities, in the same name that two companies in different countries can have the same name?

I could go on and on with possible solutions, though my point was only to demonstrate it's a separate problem.
There's at least one company in the west (US) that still does this. Have you tried Strauss farms milk? The creamtop is absolutely delicious. There's a $2 bottle deposit which encourages the bottles to be returned. Only problem is you can only get this milk at higher end grocery stores or fancy co-ops.