skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hoping a physicist can correct me here, but... I believe index of refraction is a function of the photon being absorbed and reemitted by the electrons in the dielectric material, so it's no longer correct to think of a photon moving at a fraction of the speed of light inside the material, it's more like a churning series of them being created (always moving at c) but constantly being absorbed and canceling each other out.

I also seem to recall that the speed of light below c is actually the group velocity, and each individual photon still would move at c. I'm also not entirely sure if photons can be said to exist except at creation and absorption; isn't a photon a phenomenon best described by particle interactions, and moving through free space it's more correctly described as a field? Genuine question, though I somehow doubt I'd understand any good elaboration.

IANAPhysicist, though. I just play with light recreationally.
> why shouldn’t the place you spend so much time and effort for be democratically governed?

It’s inefficient [1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_the_firm
I think they're just used to it, or genuinely don't care that much. To them, reading an article through the four-line letterbox between the autoplaying video ad and the "you might also like..." box is just what the internet is.
> Have any of the leading models been trained on that kind of corpus?

Does such a corpus even exist? Maybe a bunch of Mathematics papers, and even then...

To build a corpus like that would mean trusting the human gatekeepers or curators, which just shifts the problem, because humans are also prone to this sort of mistake.
Depends whether they're owners or renters.
Wittgenstein's discussion of what _all_ games have in common (nothing, really) led him to the notion of "family resemblances".

Margaret Masterman, who was Wittgenstein's student in Cambridge, may have passed some of that on to her student Karen Spärck Jones -- later of TFIDF fame (Spärck Jones, 1972; [1]) --, and Karen's Ph.D. was on semantic clustering, which years later were published as a book [2]. Her husband Roger needham published a paper about the notion of a "clump" theory of meaning [3]. So it seems Wittgenstein put some precursor ideas to clustering (linkage?) out in the Cambridge air for others to pick up...

[1] https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/eb026526...

[2] https://dl.acm.org/doi/book/10.5555/22908

[3] https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&d...
It turns out that all of the various interpretations are more or less equivalent, with the exception of the various collapse theories, which are empirically testable and have so far all been falsified.
You continue to spread misinformation and lies.

all three quotes are false and do not reflect reality. A true statement would be:

"Hamas, a genocidal organization that has often been found to make inaccurate or totally false statements is claiming without sufficient evidence or proof that 34,000 people have been killed in the ongoing war they started; the IDF confirms it has killed at least 15,000 Hamas or PIJ operatives".

If you'd like a succinct headline that includes some information:

"Hamas unverifiably claims more dead today, of ongoing war they initiated"

"Over 16,000 civilians killed in Hamas-started war" (group those killed by Hamas, and those killed by IDF, only using data that has been independently verified, even Hamas only claims it can actually verify ~15k of the deaths[1])

You are of course guilty of innumerable logical fallacies throughout our discussion, your favorite is of course an appeal to authority, but here you attempt the bandwagon fallacy. Just because a bunch of people have been duped into believing something to be true, that doesn't make it so. You cannot wish truth into existence.

To use that number at all without any context around the fact that it has been soundly debunked by multiple organizations who examined the claims [0] is irresponsible or more likely dishonestly malicious.

Again the only conclusion I can come to is that you are intentionally trolling.

[0]https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/how-gaza-he...

[1]https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/media/7168?disposition=i...
Society pays a pretty high price for that casual fun for people like you.

Maybe go see a movie instead.
You're getting very close to the motivation behind VisionOS, aka a 3D spatially oriented operating system.
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Coughlin for an example of US ideology aligned with Hitler's.
Yes, all foundation series at >$100k.
What a journey. Used it in production when I just needed arbitrary richtext documents in whole.

Customizing has been harder than anyone would like. I became an event sourcing aficionado, initially to support parchment’s delta format. It’s a solid idea, but also required (unless you do backend diffs, which I tried too).

My vanity test: I can’t believe how hard it still is to make a TODO checklist with indented levels. I try like every 18 months, surveying the plugin ecosystem.

It never works well, so far. Editor.js isn’t a one-stop rtf editor, but that was the first thing I noticed “just working.”

That said, I’m upgrading an old prototype to quill v2 today.
How many genocides is Google supporting that those people failed to protest against?
No, you're just looking at the multi language results instead of the English results. Llama 3 isn't as good in other languages.
Please make your substantive points without crossing into personal attack. Your comment would be fine without the second sentence.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This is well before Dawkins was an active Eugenicist and before it was known that he was an Islamophobe. Also while Pinker certainly has problematic views on colonialism and class, as well as suffering from euro-centrism, I wouldn’t claim he is in scientific racism. Also this is in 2002 and Pinker hasn’t come out as a liberal democrat (i.e. capitalist ideolog) either. I think it was only in 2005 when he first sided with an anti-feminist on the gender equality issue (aside, that anti-feminist was ultra-capitalist Lawrence Summer, who was also involved with Epstein).

I think the only connection here is with Brockman, however, Brockman represented a lot of successful science writers, including in addition to Dennet, Pinker and Dawkins: Jared Diamond, Daniel Kahneman, David Gelernter, Brian Greene, Marc Hauser, Alan Guth, Jordan Pollack, Jaron Lanier, Lee Smolin, Martin Rees, Craig Venter, John Maddox, Chris Anderson, and Rupert Sheldrake.
Newest repo location
https://github.com/bpc-clone/bpc_updates/releases
Whats the benefit of an openwrt router supporting mptcp?

I'd think support on web servers and mobile devices would be most important...
The effects of relativity cause that thought experiment to fall apart quickly. I build two clocks, and send one to alpha centauri and back in a spaceship. When the travelling clock gets back to Earth it will be showing a different time (because of time dilation during acceleration). What does "the same clock reading" mean then?
Maybe you discovered Dennett after 1992, but he was a well-known and widely published philosopher long before.

"Elbow Room: the varieties of free will worth wanting" was a landmark work and was published in 1984.

"The Minds I" (w/Hofstadter) was, relatively speaking, a hugely popular work published in 1981.

In 1993, the cover of "Dennett and his critics" began

> Daniel Dennett is arguably one of the most influential yet radical philosophers in America today.

Doesn't sound much like someone who "became widely known" after a book published in 1992.
SCTP is used a lot inside telco networks for carrying switching control metadata for voice connections. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIGTRAN
Munro is transparently biased at this point.
> I'm afraid the old internet is simply gone forever.

Are there no more hobbyist-curated lists of good content on whatever is their topic of interest? Are they just impossible to find on modern search engines, or have the communities just given up on maintaining them?
> Ethics are instincts produced by evolution.

I would also clarify: We have instincts about ethics. This does not imply that ethics are instincts, any more than having instincts about geometry implies that geometry is instincts or having instincts about physical quantities implies that measure theory is instincts.
SaaS starter kit, MIT license - https://github.com/makeitcount/saas-express-starter-kit
> Why would Asian-Americans be upset with this?

Most of the article is under paywall, but does it say that Asian Americans are upset with this?

I only read “Chinese plaintiffs” which implies, to me, Chinese citizens not Chinese ethnicity.
And maybe we just need a new social media platform geared towards the youth ;)

Unless the search engine aggressively curates it's target pages, I can't see how it wouldn't end up falling down the same trap as search engines of the past. Much like all social media sites end up overran by grandmas.
My understanding is that the best current interpretation of quantum mechanics is that there is no interpretation and that you just have to do the math.
>(2) a massive refuge movement by Jews who could no longer live in Europe

This one is a head-scratcher.

Europe, European crimes, European antisemitism, European pogroms, Europe Europe Europe. Also European double-dealing of the mandate of Palestine after Lawrence of Arabia, Sykes-Picot, all of that stuff.

Seems like Europe is the problem here.
I think this is sort of besides the point. If you build a box, paint the walls black, and put a flashlight in the box, then the photons coming from the flashlight are shorter lived than if you shine the flashlight into the sky on a cloudless day or night. Not shorter lived from their own perspective — shorter lived from an outside observer’s perspective. Sure, one could quibble about the choice of observer, but you would he hard-pressed to put an observer in the box who thinks the photons last very long.
Belive it or not, but the Internet is usable even with Ads. I'd even say that Ad quality has gone up without adblock users noticing, I don't see fullscreen or 1/2 screen Ads anymore.

Privacy on the other hand...
A genocide need not be a continent wide phenomenon. Systematically killing people with specific tags based on ethnicity, religion or regional markers are under the purview of it. And for a detailed explanation you can refer to the ICJ ruling on the current one.
> You might also be interested in SCTP[1] from the year 2000, which also hasn't gotten any traction so far.

Probably partly because middleware boxes (e.g., firewalls) either didn't/don't support it and/or rules were written to only support "TCP" (as opposed to 'stream') or "UDP" (as opposed to 'dgram'; see also "DCCP").
I get that the source is Nikkei Asia , and China is the only Asian country* on the list, but the headline and a good chunk of the article made the law seem like it was exclusively targeting Chinese nationals.

*not counting Russia
I disagree, because "real age" is defined in terms of the epigenetic clock. We don't have enough time observing them with humans to connect them to real age, at least as far as I have ever seen. If there's some major paper I have missed, and my other sources have missed, I'd love to see it.
> Is every single executive and manager at my credit card company completely unaware that right now anyone can clone anyone else's voice by obtaining a short sample audio clip taken from any social network?

Your mistake is assuming the company cares. The "company" is a hundred different disjointed departments that only care about not getting caught Equifax-style (or filing for bankruptcy if caught). If the marketing director sees a shiny new thing that might boost some random KPI they may not really care about security.

However in the rare chance that your bank is actually half decent, I'd suggest contacting their IT/Security teams about your concerns. Maybe you'll save some folks from getting scammed?
Wellcome/GlaxoSmithKline experimented on children in care homes from the 30s to the 70s with state collusion in both Ireland and the UK, including experimental vaccines without consent. I learned about it after a colleague told me his mother, who was raised in a so called 'Mother and Baby Home' for single mothers, discovered she was a victim. GSK has refused to provide details to victims or contribute to compensation.
It gives access to paid models for free...

I bet a bunch of people use it for actual life tasks.
From my reading, they wanted it to match the sort of grammar that type constructor/type cases have. (looks like a declaration) I have not read the mailing list discussion to see what other alternatives were suggested.

My kneejerk reaction would be to prefer something like "threw" in place of "throws", but I'm sure there's a reason not to.
It's too bad that bearblog has no discussion of each article, but I suppose that's considered a feature, not a bug
Whether or not you're comfortable with it, it shows that they bent their own manufacturing standards by using nonstandard parts that weren't purpose-built. When I buy a new Dell computer I don't expect to open it up to find parts taped together with electrical tape and wire nuts on connections. I similarly don't expect parts in my new Model Y to be made from materials that someone bought at Home Depot.
It mentions it at least twice.
How about two hour shifts that pay a million dollars an hour? You can't change the market rate for that kind of labor by magic; employers are operating in a competitive market. You can get more money by working more hours.
How far along are you? I like what Recurse Center is doing, for example.
This was my line of thinking when making the comment. Obviously there has to be some balance, but in general I'm a fan of consistency, even if I'm not a big fan of the things we are being consistent on.
When lamenting the "old Internet", a lot of people forget that the vast majority of the people creating content on it were gainfully employed with strong career security. Meaning that they didn't need to make money from their hobbyist online projects, so they didn't need to monetize it.

People struggling to pay the bills couldn't afford to be on the old Web. There were as many (or more) desperately poor people in the world 30 years ago, but they were too poor to get online at all. The needed hardware and service were expensive, and online stuff was unimportant to everyday life. So the early Web was dominated by university students and people with middle class careers at established institutions.

Today it's a lot less expensive and a lot more universal to communicate electronically. Many desperate scrabblers now use electronic communications in hopes of making money -- whether it's offshore scammers trying to defraud American retirees or "mom bloggers" enticing you to click on their unoriginal and unneeded "awesome diaper brands" article.

In absolute terms there are still a lot of people who don't need to make money from writing and therefore write things that are as interesting and commercially unmotivated as the best of the 1990s Web. A couple of examples that frequently show up on HN:

Ken Shirriff's blog https://www.righto.com/

Daniel Lemire's blog https://lemire.me/blog/

There are also some bloggers and substack writers who do get income from writing, but write about topics that are sufficiently far removed from product placement that their writings remain lucid, engaging, and untainted by desperation. A couple of examples:

Bret Devereaux's blog "A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry" https://acoup.blog/

Hannah Ritchie's substack "Sustainability by numbers" https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/about

There's still more good writing published on the Web than there are hours in the day to read it all. The thing that's harder now than in the 1990s is filtering out the commercially motivated writing. That's one of the things that keeps bringing me back to HN -- discovering interesting writers who aren't making "content" as a substrate for ads/promotions. (And yes, there's a lot of commercially motivated content here too, but that's not the part that keeps bringing me back.)
Maybe this already helps: https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr
Yep that liberal company that’s owned by Trump. ISIS is the GOP, they both believe the same things about women.
I have removed my viewpoint and I concede the argument to you. It was inappropriate of me to speak my views as I am unprepared to substantiate them. I apologize for doing so.
Do you feel you would be entitled to affordable housing in Atherton, Vail or Highland Park - or you’re ok with that because they don’t make any accomodation to the lower classes?

Would you support bulldozing Dolores Park and building towers there. Try suggesting that at the next YIMBY meeting and watch their heads explode.
We already rely on chains of trust going back to the original source, and will still. I find these alarmist posts a bit mystifying – before photography, anyone could fake a quote of anyone, and human civilisation got quite far. We had a bit over a hundred years where phographic-quality images were possible and very hard to fake (which did and still does vary with technology), but clearly now we’re past that. We’ll manage!
It is easy to put the right behavior in a function wrapper like

https://github.com/paulhoule/pidove/blob/97f8ec697d2890f13ba...
Unfortunately, there are questions that cannot be empirically answered. Some of those questions are important.
Flagged again. Is HN like this now?
The Psychology of Social Status (2009)
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Are you willing to bet the safety of your family on the efficacy of some wood trim that someone bought at Home Depot to meet their manufacturing quota just because none of them have spectacularly failed yet? Really?
"God is light." (1John 1:5)
No wonder that it isn’t continent-wide given that the Palestinians of Gaza are walled in.
I mean, what do you want them to do? If we think their security officers are freaking out and holding meetings right now about what to do, or if they're asleep at the wheel, we'd be seeing the same thing from the outside, no?
> Also, why aren't we size-sorting fields already?

We are for struct/enum fields. https://camlorn.net/posts/April%202017/rust-struct-field-reo...

There's even an unstable flag to help catch incorrect assumptions about struct layout. https://github.com/rust-lang/compiler-team/issues/457
People are less motivated by these sorts of systems if they know the money will go to charity because giving to charity feels good. See https://blog.beeminder.com/anticharity
For that passage the authors were talking about hydrogen, marsh gas, and ethylene. They state "those have the property of a very high degree of absorbing and radiating heat, and so much so that a very small proportion, of only one thousandth part, had very great effect."

Whether CO2 is referred to as "pollution" or not depends on the context. In this case they were talking about other industrial greenhouse gases.
What this calculation shows is what glide ratio Godwit must have if it spends 1/3 of its body weight very efficiently to gain altitude and reaches destination in completely calm air. By the looks of it it doesn’t have this glide ratio, and I doubt it spends 1/3 of its weight only gaining altitude.

So it means that it must gain altitude and, perhaps, travel speed by alternative means, most likely using updrafts and riding winds.
Wow just straight up playing a video saying you’re fired is crazy.
What people wish is still aiming quite low.

These "privileged" netzen who were able to shoot web for free because they had other sources of income could also be accused of knowing things.

We now have [for example] content creators who build their own workshop and make an effort to figure out something interesting. This is different from people who already have a workshop where they do practical things. The later will teach you stuff that is applicable, useful and/or marketable. It is deeply baked into their soul.
I found the video on Reddit and reposted it here using another account, as I figured the HN crowd is more interested in Wikipedia.
Why link to that guy instead of the original source? https://www.tiktok.com/@captian.ad/video/7358236474321505578

There was never a claim made of a denied warranty.
I'm not so sure about that. I don't use an adblock on my phone, and the internet is close to unusable when I venture to top google result websites on my phone.
I found a local poker club, fortunately. $40 buy in tournament, no rebuys, every week, with the same 30 or so people that show up. Way more fun than playing at the casino with sad addicts and sad poker pros grinding $40k annual salaries.
But if your clock doesn't tick, then infinite lifetime means the same as zero lifetime.

From the point of view of the photon, time doesn't even exist. So it is pointless to ask the question from the point of view of the photon.
A lot of the Middle East’s problems can be identified with European meddling (and domestic atrocities), yes. But that meddling is not a necessary or sufficient condition (there’s plenty of ancient religious and ethnic hate, irredentism, etc. to go around).
> I don't think eugenics by means of killing people was ever widely considered moral or even a gray area.

Oof, how I wish that were true. You may be interested in Pernick, Martin (1999): The Black Stork: Eugenics and the Death of "Defective" Babies in American Medicine and Motion Pictures since 1915.

Several nations (the US included) were well on their way to "Great Society" ideas of shaping the next generation by controlling genetics (be that in who reproduced or who was allowed to live). A lot of experiments ended abruptly when the Allies reached the camps, and a lot of politically-powerful institutions have kicked dirt over their own pasts to try and help people forget that's where we were headed.

(Quite a few experiments did not; forced sterilization wasn't outlawed in the US until, IIRC, the eighties).
Yep, just standard detailer wisdom. Washing in direct sunlight requires extra care, especially when using chemicals that aren't ph-neutral.
The ML media cycle is so unhinged that I've seen people simply assume out of hand that MLIR stands for Machine Learning Intermediate Representation.
The greatest adventure game of all time. Larry Ahern is a genius