skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You cannot decay if you don’t experience time.

Interesting take! But if photons couldn't decay due to not experiencing time, they couldn't do anything else either.

The reality is that a photons creation and destruction are not prohibited, but simply "experienced" as two events at different locations at the same time, with the photon being the "thing" that connects those events.

Given that interpretation, it might be reasonable to assume that all photons have beginnings and ends, regardless of the duration we perceive between them, or they wouldn't exist.

Time being no barrier at all for photons.
Kudos on the docs: I encourage all open source projects to have a "Why Quill"[1] type page so I can quickly understand the philosophy of the project and how it aligns with my goals.

Even better when they also have "Why Not Quill" type content so you can quickly learn situations where it may not be the best fit. Every project makes tradeoffs and communicating those directly and clearly helps ensure users have a better experience.

[1] https://quilljs.com/docs/why-quill
I had a similar thing happened to a paper of mine at the start of my career. Someone found an issue and published a paper to attack my paper. I felt like shit for a long time and thought about retracting. But then decided that my paper actually contained a lot of cool stuff, and so published an update with text highlighted in ted throughout the paper talking about the attack and about the sections that became obsolete.

In retrospect I’m really happy I did the right thing. It can be nerve wracking to publish something that ends up being wrong, but being transparent and not taking things personally, and understanding that whatever happened is still providing value to a lot of people, is the right path.
A fantastic technological advance for election interference!
This particular question cannot be answered definitively because any answer is subject to the same question - why does that thing exist rather than nothing?
The other way to look at it - China's regulators give Apple explicit instructions, vs Europe complaining that things weren't done in the 'spirit' of the request.
As a lifelong liberal, I really wish other liberals wouldn’t talk this way with words like “intentionality” and phrases like “white male Westernized construct.” I understand what she’s getting at and I’m willing to believe her heart is in the right place, but this is kind of crap that continues to furnish the far right with unlimited ammo to use to paint all of us as “the radical left” and “liberal elites” and so forth.

Why can’t my fellow liberals get it through their head that constantly talking as if you were giving a graduate level gender studies lecture is a big part of what is driving away everyday people from the Democratic Party and liberal causes?
To abort or to return an error: why not both?
I gave up trying to center fonts and icons in every situation. I can't explain to my boss that I need 3 days to center a fucking button, especially when he doesn't even notice the problem to begin with.
Well, IMO, but you write a parser only a couple of times for each language, but you read code all the time.

So, anything that makes code easier to read is a must. That includes the extra expressiveness of an LR grammar.
Consider formal US position is attack on critical infra is comparable to physical attack, with associated retaliation. IMO cyberwarfare is small stopgap escalation step before mass mutual homeland strikes. US has communicated potential of hitting mainland targets in event of TW contingency, hence PRC need to be able to reciprocate. In which case equation is about who has most industrial expertise and construction overcapacity to recover fastest. And who has most targets to tank hits and survive the homeland attrition game.

Regardless, wonder what the state of domestic PRC industrial control systems is in terms of adoption, and whether US has sufficient familiarity. Mandarin fluency is severely lacking in US 3 letter agencies. PRC has just a metric fuck ton of surplus hackers and familiarity with western ICS having imported a lot of western infra over the years. But then again, PRC is also uniquely vunerable with how cashless society has become. Maybe they have huge stashes of rmb notes for when payment infra goes dark.
The politics of who does vs doesn't make the cut sounds difficult to manage.

I think an individualist model makes sense, or barring that, a group Patreon (i.e. a music label instead of an individual band).
I get the feeling it's "someone's going to do this, so it might as well be us."

It's fascinating how research can take on a life of its own and will be pushed, by someone, to its own conclusion. Even for immensely destructive technologies (e.g., atomic weapons, viruses), the impact of a technology is its own attractor (could you say that's risk-seeking behavior?)

> Am I going to have to do AuthN and AuthZ on every phone call and zoom now?

"Alexa, I need an alibi for yesterday at noon."
> Just look around you. You have computers, GPS, mRNA vaccines, etc. etc. etc. Those things were not produced by philosophers.

You're clearly not getting this. Yes, you can see the products of scientific progress. That's not the same as seeing the absence of knowledge produced by anyone else. And one would expect that truths revealed about the physical world we live in should of course be the ones that give rise to physical artifacts you can point at.

> Ethics are instincts produced by evolution.

... and yet, our ethical beliefs are not biologically determined, but change as a function of culture, and at least in part through the work of philosophers. Our beliefs about the importance of freedom, equality, fairness (or what those mean) change dramatically over decades, far too quick for genetics to have any contribution to the change.

Re arithmetic, "the integers are closed under addition" is still something one can know without making any observations of the world, even if standard addition were somehow not useful in making predictions about the physical world. Further, by arguing that the importance of mathematical knowledge is only its relationship to making predictions about physical reality, you are once again begging the question.
Too bad there is no link to projects using mptcp, such as Openwrt derivatives.

PS: I mentored a student for 2 years at GSOC to patch Openwrt with mptcp:

https://blog.freifunk.net/2017/05/29/gsoc-2017-add-mptcp-sup...
There will be a new cottage industry of AI detectives that serve as expert witnesses and they will attest to the originality of media to the court
Exactly. Seeing a lot of articles on HN reminiscing the old internet and it's getting tiring.
> I agree with you that the vast majority of the blame should be placed on the communists, but in my opinion the United States was still too naive and conciliatory towards Stalin during the war.

Historically, is seems as there is a normalcy bias[0] towards Moscow, whether it's the USA, UK, Germany, or France, trying to consider Russia as a "normal" European peer society. While Moscow keeps proving that they are not, and mostly that their leadership sees an advantage in being some sort of contrarian opposition to the ideals of Europe.

A while back in modern history, imperial Germany was also this type of problem. Is it too late to destroy and rebuild Russia, as Germany was rebuilt, now that nukes are involved?

How this divide is to be conquered all these decades later is still the challenge of our times. I almost give up. Our governments are clearly not up to the task, even today. My only hope at this point are very brave Russian artists like IC3PEAK.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalcy_bias
Either you're inventing reddit-but-each-upvote-is-worth-a-fraction-of-a-cent, or there is some sort of select professional board who is responsible for deciding what is "good content" on behalf of the public. Sort of like national public arts grants, or maybe public broadcasters like the BBC.

Right? Or are you imagining some third model
Its pseudo-science and extends way beyond software in various parts of our life.

Look at nutrition with a new superfood each year (pomegranate, seaweed, chia seeds, coconut oil, turmeric, ...) a new diet every couple years (keto, paleo, etc)

Did the superfood of 2018 suddenly stop having all the antioxidants "benefits" ? Or did the hype cycle burn out?
> Modern psychology is a little better than astrology back in the day.

That really sounds like you're implying that modern day astrology is better.

It's shocking how popular astrology still is.
I feel like this article could be condensed into a simple answer. I got tto annoyed looking for it to find more than the answer, "yes, if the standard model holds"

So at the risk of venting unconstructively, I wish I had a way of screening physics writing that is not a physics paper. Articles like this are frustrating because they only have one or two interesting tidbits for me, but they hide them in a whole lot of highschool level hand waving.

Honestly HN would be perfect if it only allowed physics papers - no pop-physics - and if it banned any blogs or news sites with paywalls or newsletter nagware (looking at you, medium, new york times).

Alas. I'm wishing for something I will have to build if I really want it.
> But anything that has turned into a franchize is no longer about selling a product

Yeah. Sadly the infinite growth mentality has destroyed many a franchise. Most of the franchises are simply rebranded sysco foods reheated in the microwave.

I pretty much just don't eat at old franchise locations anymore as a result. Why get fettuccine from olive garden when it's basically exactly the same as a frozen stouffers meal at triple the price. So a "chef" can heat it in the microwave for me? No thanks.
Very good point, not only in live service games... I've seen a thing or two and it's usually obvious how developers treat the modding community. In some games they are viewed as an asset (people mod my game, they make it different, this attracts more people to buy my game) and in other games, modders are the scum who always want to cheat/commit "fraud" by not wanting to buy all the microtransaction slop/etc.
Influential tech network Women Who Code shuts down unexpectedly
ZeroMQ yeah!
Good point.

I’d like to suggest the swap of oyster in the place of clam, because oysters are less mobile than clams.

This leads to a funny observation: for some reason I think a worm and an oyster are obviously animals, like if you were a caveman with no notion of genetics or the tree of life and you came across either, I suspect you’d think “this thing is obviously some kind of animal.” But a sponge is not so obvious, I think, to our hypothetical caveman. I could believe a sponge is a weird plant.

I think you need at least one distinguishing feature beyond the minimal to become obviously an animal, for some reason.
Oh, I see. You put files/objects/data on a timeline. I wish the semantic desktop had brought us that. There's a firefox extension that conveniently displays your history in a calendar form and it's really useful.

Do you have any articles about that ?
> Technically html + css + user interaction can be turing complete: https://github.com/brandondong/css-turing-machine

Turing completeness is about what computations can be expressed, not what user interactions can be performed. The lambda calculus is Turing complete, but, if I whip up a lambda calculus interpreter and don't give it a print statement, then you'll never know anything about the computations it's performing.
The stomach has stretch sensors which is used to determine the feeling of fullness via the vagus nerve - somebody will hack it one day and no need for Ozempic.
Misattributed to Bill Gates, he never said it.
Typically you'll need some form of monopoly, close monopoly, or collusion between competing entities. For websites this can be the 'network-effect' cost. You use that site because everyone else you know uses that site.

The web itself is an environment ripe for abuse because, again typically, your end user doesn't pay directly for the services (they are the product). This is pretty much why every large social media site is an advertizer. About the only way to make money pushing web pages is by selling your users to advertisers.
Don't even know how to respond to this lol. Their EV's are head and shoulders above the competition
This isn't clear to me, either, and it also seems from the docs like images, videos, and formulas are the only embeddable content types. However, elsewhere they say "Quill exposes its own document model, a powerful abstraction over the DOM, allowing for extension and customization. The upper limit on the formats and content Quill can support is unlimited. Users have already used it to add embedded slide decks, interactive checklists, and 3D models."

I wish they had a page covering what it takes to create a custom content type for the Quill DOM.
Would that seem like a fold in spacetime to the photon?
> Just because a question is philosophical in nature does not mean it cannot be answered or that there’s no point in asking.

I never made any claim starting from the premise that the question "is philosophical"

I directly explained why the question can't be answered definitively.

Lots of philosophical questions actually can be answered.
You're being downvoted but I think the comment raises a good question. what will happen when someone gets accused of doctoring their dashcam footage? Or any footage used for evidence.
I don't see that as an outcome. We have already seen a grand erosion of trust in institutions. Moving to an even lower trust society does not sound like it would have positive consequences for discourse, public policy, or society at large.
I think you may have to hold it down to force it to stop, but this isn't something that I've tried.
Come on, this is the kind of project that could be done by an intern in a day or two. Not much of a waste and it's nice to be able to access models without login or history.
It would be difficult to manage, but not impossible. Certainly if you have a strong organizational culture and know what your org values. Like universities, for example. At least in the past.

Otherwise you’re just dependent on the popularity of the market, which I don’t think is a great thing all of the time. There are a lot of things I’d enjoy reading or writing that have zero monetary value and thus are strongly incentivized against existing.
Orbital Megastructure
Discussion:[0](113 points, 19 hours ago, 183 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40081761
Or they create a github organisation (which might be even worse because the old repo probably still exists but could be stale)
Show HN: New NPM library itty-time is much smaller/faster than the popular ms.
I've seen basic functions split across apps, broken cloud services, and even big-budget banking apps that are painful to use. Reliability and security often feel lacking too.

I have a few theories why this happens: Are we all too distracted to do focused work? Does the industry focus too much on the newest trends rather than building things right the first time? Have easy coding tools led to devs who don't grasp the fundamentals?

Plus, what does the rise of AI mean for software quality? Could things get a LOT worse before they get better?

What are the worst examples of bad software that drive you crazy? Are there shining examples of exceptional quality that give you hope?
> Is there a “larger point” that too many elite journalists share similar backgrounds, and think the same way in assigning and shaping stories? Yes, I think so, but it’s a subtle issue that has more to do with people’s educations, experiences and associations than with partisan registration. There’s less of a headline in that. And it’s an issue that NPR has tried to address with some of the people it has promoted, and by leaning more heavily on reports from our local stations across America.

> Many journalists describe the debate within their profession as not so much left vs. right as younger vs. older, or old-school journalism vs. a more activist position. Such debates can be good; but sometimes the traditionalists have fallen silent or struggled to find the language to hold up their end of the discussion. Uri was one who spoke openly, but ineffectively. He didn’t work any of the beats he complained about, which might be why his critique misfired so wildly.

This is exactly how I felt reading Uri's piece - NPR clearly has viewpoint issues, but not having enough registered Republicans or obsessing over the Biden laptop story did not seem like valid examples.

I appreciate that Steve Inskeep didn't just stick with how Uri was superficially wrong, but actually engaged in fair faith here with the point Uri was trying to make.
I can imagine someone being in a rush and forgetting to put on Car Wash mode. 100k down is a rough way to go.
I think the moral obligation is slightly different when you have capabilities that no other firm has. I believe IBM falls into that category then, a company like ASML would now. Google Cloud would not: Israel can get cloud services anywhere.

(note this is true regardless of your feelings on the morality of Israel's government's choices)
> One dealer offered him $200 less than the $2,000 he had paid. Taking such a loss would thwart his plan to rack up credit-card points buying the gold and quickly reselling it. He kept at it, and eventually found a local coin dealer near his home in Philadelphia willing to pay $1,960, or $20 under market price.

Good thing this young man didn't try flipping Costco diamonds to rack up credit card points.

I wonder how the Cybertruck flippers are doing.
There are groups you can fund on Patreon that have a bunch of creators under them. Second Wind which is spin off old Escapist staff is one.

The issue with these groups if there is a popular person in them, they will generally leave the group and start their own thing because they can get more money. So you will still have issues where top tier creators want all money and don't want to "subsidize" smaller creators.
> Let exceptions propagate, catching them at as high a level as possible.

This can't be done cleanly in Java.

Checked exception can encode union types, but this extra power is not complemented anywhere else in Java's type system.
E.g. in a `Consumer` lambda passed to `forEach`, Java's checked exception forces you to convert that to a RuntimeException.
This concept of possibly get money for doing fitness activity, lose money if you don't has been tried a couple times but nobody has cracked it that I know of. One used location to see if you had visited the gym that you are a member of.

This seems set as specific individual money pots you can buy into instead of monthly goals as at least one previous app was set on.

Money is the best universal motivator, there are others could be more motivating but to a lot fewer people.

I hope this succeeds and more people accomplish the goals they set.
We need some clear legislation around this right now.
Such an exciting startup idea! I'm thrilled!
Excerpt from your second citation Nature (1882) paper:

From this we may conclude that the increasing pollution of the atmosphere will have a marked influence on the climate of the world.

The mountainous regions will be colder, the Arctic regions will be colder, the tropics will be warmer, and throughout the world the nights will be colder, and the days warmer.

In the Temperate Zone winter will be colder, and generally differences will be greater, winds, storms, rainfall greater.
> I am quite... what's the English word for someone who gets way too excited from the thrill of gambling and forgoes the caution?

I think degen is the common term that used here. It's short for degenerate.
> I'm implying that the presentation of "facts" that would get a bunch of rainbow flag waving leftists to support a group of right wing ultra conservative theists only exists online.

Leftists are still supporting the Israeli government? News to me. And funny thing about your reference to rainbow flags. We queers were scapegoated in the Holocaust too. Only, the international community didn't think we deserved our own country, or much of any right to life, for that matter.

If only... it were possible to believe in the rights of people, without giving full-throated support for the government they live under.

I believe that Palestinians, Israelis, Jews, and Muslims all have a right to life and peace. That just ain't the same as supporting Netanyahu's government, nor Hamas. But speaking of supporting Hamas!

Netanyahu has been supporting Hamas for decades now. So why are people so critical of the left? Netanyahu is one of yours! And he's got a helluva lot more influence than some protesters in a corporate office.
Bombardier beetles shoot boiling chemicals at their enemies! 100 degree Celsius eye/respiratory irritants.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombardier_beetle
The lower the rate at which the stomach empties into the intestines so you feel fuller for longer - the bad side effect is sometimes it causes stomach paralysis.

Your stomach stops working (the rythmic muscle contractions that turns food into mush).
A bit odd to see this downvoted... I'm not exactly a HN newbie, but still haven't fully grasped the reasons people often downvote here - simply not liking something (regardless of relevance or correctness) seems to often be the case, and perhaps sometimes even more petty reasons.

I think Zuck's discussion of energy being the limiting factor was one of the more interesting and surprising things to come out of the Dwarkesh interview. We're used to discussion of the $1B, $10B, $100B training runs becoming unsustainable, and chip shortages as an issue, but (to me at least!) it was interesting to see Zuck say that energy usage will be a disruptor before those do (partly because of lead times and regulations in expanding power supply, and bringing it in to new data centers). The sheer magnitude of projected power consumption needed is also interesting.
Great article for a great game. I loved every Monkey Island game (maybe just “liked” the 4th). I even loved the ending of this last one, that was, again, controversial.
they're in no way even remotely similar

Unchecked exception

Foo foo = myClass.getFoo() // throws exception, but doesn't tell you, and nor does the compiler

Checked exception

// now we have to do this everywhere, in every layer, lol (or put throws)
try {
myClass.getFoo()
} catch(Exception e){ //now we're catching ALL exceptions, yay
// do what? who knows
}

Sane Either/Option

Either<Error, Foo> foo = myClass.getFoo()

^^^ the compiler disallows treating this as a Foo - but also doesn't force us to handle anything, we can pass this around without handling anything, and only when we want to, call map, flatMap, fold etc

Notably, it's just an object, it doesn't require weird special syntax, halting execution, hierarchies of exception (which mean you catch too much or too little etc etc etc)

it's objectively better on every metric except familiarity

but since Java devs are stuck in the 90s and refuse to listen to even their own language designers about how traditional Java ways of doing things are fundamentally broken (don't take my word for it, go listen to what Josh Bloch and Brian Goetz say), they refuse to even consider adopting it until they're forced to (like when Java introduced Option) (which itself is the worst implementation of that type in any language, but that's a side note)
In their defense, priests at least used to dress up weird by their own choice, making them easily identifiable as non-credible sources. We really should encourage all religious leaders to go back to that convention.
> What if you get injured? What if something comes up and you won’t have time to achieve a goal? The list goes on and on and on…

This is between friends (maximum 5) so I’m sure the answer is: work it out with your friends.

If I was using this with friends for say, exercising each day, and one guy was in a car accident, I’m confident we’d all give him a pass and return his money.