skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For a large enough black hole you could theoretically pass the event horizon pre-spaghettification since the radius between the singularity and the horizon would be large enough that the tidal force wouldn't be unbearable. You may have enough time to realize that you've now passed the ultimate barrier before you're eventually torn to shreds by the singularity.
According to physics as we currently understand it, yes.
They are now named Academi, and were briefly called Xe Services after renaming from Blackwater.

The talk page is amusing: the current owners of Academi are trying to get their history rewritten on Wikipedia, because “Academi (ACADEMI), which is a Constellis company, was formed by a group of investors in 2010, who purchased certain assets from Blackwater”.

I think they were active in Yemen the past few years.
Blazingly fast parsing, part 2: lazy parsing
Please dont fiddle with your phone and drive. It is illgeal* , and more importantly you will end up killing an innocent person.

*Perhaps not in your specific country.
Gusto is great - they have handled all our payroll and contractor payments for our remote team extremely well.
https://github.com/seletskiy/carcosa
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>The private frameworks cannot be used by non-apple applications. In some cases, this restriction makes it impossible for an App developer to develop an App that has the same functionality as the corresponding Apple app.

How's this any different than Android, where some functionality is gated behind permissions that require signature or signatureOrSystem[1]? You could say that there's rooting/LineageOS, but those are out of reach for most users, and are entirely at the whim of the manufacturer.

[1] https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/permissi...
It's best to start with an early validation website, showcasing an MVP or at least testing interest and pricing with sketches or other mockups.

You could use one of the various landing page websites out there like leadpages, kickofflabs, etc. and have an email sign up form. From there you can email updates to your list of early adopters.

Buffer's MVP story is an easy to follow example: https://buffer.com/resources/idea-to-paying-customers-in-7-w...
I thought Hawking radiation was going the other direction, but that it doesn't carry information about the original mass/energy. Is that right?
I feel exactly the opposite.

As a US citizen living in the US, even if the Chinese were to have every bit of my private data, they wouldn't really pose any threat to me as I'm not in their jurisdiction. The US, on the other hand, has a very real ability to use my data against me.

With very few exceptions (e.g. you are being explicitly targeted by a hostile nation-state for high-profile activities), surveillance by foreign governments will always pose less risk than surveillance by your own government.
So while this is bad... I don't know how to feel about this.
The other side of the coin is that these companies pay WAY ABOVE average salaries. I'm intimately familiar with this having

FAANG companies average of 50% more compensation than average. Especially outside of the bay area.

Typical range TC Sr. SDE in nyc: 150-250k + Bonus.
Typical range TC for Sr. SDE in nyc: for Google/Facebook/Amazon 300-400k ( and goes higher ).

Only the most well paid Quants working in horrible environments made 500k+ There's a good portion >E5 engineers at these companies making well over that.

Anti-competition is bad.. but they are at the top of the industry on compensation. :( So again, don't know how to feel about this.
I like to leave off at the end of the day knowing what the next step is. I leave a small task that I could easily do then and there. This way I can start my morning off with a simple, quick, productive task. This gets my momentum rolling. I learned it reading about some famous author that used to use this trick.

Other fun productivity tricks include drawing a simple diagram when you can't focus or don't know what to work on next. I also try to have tasks that take all different levels of focus and cognitive energy in the backlog so that I can choose a task based on my mood.
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> still using vanilla javascript and trying to do as much as possible with just html and css.

Thank you. As someone who only allows JS to run very, very sparingly (and even then only on sites that are, for one reason or another, actually indispensable to me), I appreciate this very much.

If a site requires JS to work, and if that site is something that is optional for me, then I won't use that site.
Why do you need the app to stay open while the phone is locked? I don't use Google Maps, but when Waze is open it keeps the screen on and the phone unlocked.
I was there too and this post is a great description of what you experience!
Credit cards aren't really used for age verification purposes in the UK so I'm not sure why it would be accepted for this.

Also, "All adults own a credit card" is far from a good assumption in general and credit card ownership is actually in decline in the UK so it would be bizarre to tie credit card ownership into this.
Go check it out, I was able to see this a couple of months ago. I really enjoyed it, Gilliam has an amazing film style / world building ability.

I really feel transported to another universe/world in his films, Zero Theorem/Dr Parnasis/12 Monkeys/Time Bandits/Fisher King.

I can only imagine what it feels like to finally release this film after so many hurdles.

Love his work, his distribution lately has been rather crap, thumbs up from a random on the internet.
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I started with Anki(1), but had trouble sticking with it. I moved to a Leitner system with handwritten flash cards, and it’s much more comfortable to use — something about working with physical objects makes it much more effective. I’ve also played with the contents of the cards much more than I would have with Anki, because I don’t have to deal with the templates.

As it turns out, most of my cards are either Cloze deletions from known-good texts or reciting declension tables.

For the declension tables, I have one card for each row and column. That’s a lot of work, so I only have these for irregular words and a few representatives of each regular patterns.

For the Cloze deletions, I’ll read an article or a book chapter straight through without stopping to look anything up, and highlight 1 or 2 sentences on each page that seem interesting and come back to make flash cards out of them (and look up words I don’t know) after I’m done reading. Sometimes I’ll delete entire words, sometimes everything except the first letter, and sometimes drop the dictionary form in place of the declined one - The goal is to get my brain trained to choose the right word or word form without me having to think about it consciously.

For new words that aren’t obvious in context, I’ll look them up in a native-language dictionary. If I can understand the entry, I’ll make a Cloze card from that as well, usually just deleting any form of the word (especially the heading itself). In my dictionary, there’s generally an example sentence and I’ll transform key words there into dictionary form so that I have to remember which case, gender, etc I have to use.

(1) For learning Icelandic, not Korean or Japanese, but I suspect the concepts will transfer.
I definitely get your point. One difference between theoretical physics and just math is we have since we use math as just a tool to describe the world, we still have to input physical assumptions to make any sense of what we see. There are many instances of things being mathematically "OK" but we don't think physically exist. See "White Hole" for instance.

I will try to give a better explanation later today! Funny enough, I am off for the section for the QFT2 that Daniel teaches right now, hah. I can also ask him personally questions later in the week.
>paid to acquire control of the GitHub repository

Paid who?
much of the internet traffic is served over TLS these days, DPI and such equipment are becoming more and more useless. But hey, up to L4 is still plaintext!
elites attempting to distract population and create scapegoat for impending economic/sociological/demographic crisis.
To add to our set of anecdotes:

I baked a dead graphics card in the oven and it hasn't failed for half a year or so until I replaced it with something better. It probably wasn't the smartest thing I ever did and I wouldn't recommend it unless to anyone unless they have an oven they aren't going to use for food anymore in a well ventilated are (which was not the case for me).

The card had bad graphics glitches in whatever mode the BIOS puts it in and would cause boot to fail at an early stage.

First I disassembled the card and ensures that all remaining components were heat resistant and that there was nothing that seemed likely to fall off on the bottom side. I carefully mounted it in the oven on some balls of tinfoil. I also added a thermometer that came with a cheap multimeter because I didn't feel inclined to trust the oven not to overshoot.

I ramped the temperature up slowly, using hot air and keeping it under 100°C for a while in hopes of getting out any water and keeping it from going popcorn. When raising the temperature to the point where I expected the solder to go soft (can't remember the exact temperature) the thing suddenly started to smell rather badly (but not burnt), forcing me to open the windows and leaving the room most of the time. At that point I got worried about the fumes and where they might condensate but decided to go through with it, heating it up a bit further and then cooling it down slowly.

In the aftermath I got a working graphics card and a smelly oven. The smell went away after a few hours at max temperature, a lot of ventilation and some cleaning. I hope there wasn't a health issue with any substaces remaining in the oven as the smell was gone and food doesn't really get in direct contact with the inside of the oven. Anyway, it's the reason why I wouldn't recommend it or do it again.
> That's said, Earth at its worse is still probably infinitely more livable than Mars at its best.

Except for taxes. Anybody, who will live on Earth and be above average, will need to support other living beings (humans, animals, fish, forest, grass, birds, insects) with his taxes, otherwise we will have dirty cloak with few billions of angry and hungry living beings, which can dig you out of any bunker.

At Mars, it will be hard to survive without external support for about century, but much lower taxes and self selection of educated people with high IQ can make it booming.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ride-along
Even the arts aren't necessarily safe. A story told by the composer Philip Glass in 2011:

> While working, I suddenly heard a noise and looked up to find Robert Hughes, the art critic of Time magazine, staring at me in disbelief. ‘But you’re Philip Glass! What are you doing here?’ It was obvious that I was installing his dishwasher and I told him I would soon be finished. ‘But you are an artist,’ he protested. I explained that I was an artist but that I was sometimes a plumber as well and that he should go away and let me finish.
This way of talking (using very short nominal sentences, citing many more or less related next to one another) seems very common among conspiracy theorists. I genuinely wonder where that comes from and if it's a conscious choice or some memetic imitation.
I was really surprised by his comedic ability hosting Saturday Night Live.
Binoculars with image stabilization can render a still field at 15x magnification without being much heavier than those without IS. I bought these ten years ago: worth the $$$ https://www.usa.canon.com/internet/portal/us/home/products/d...
Can a toaster oven vent heat away on demand? No
Wow, this is huge. If cyber insurance doesn't cover cyber attacks, then what does it cover? Having seen the process for cyber insurance paying out for an intrusion, I'd be super concerned if I were a CSO/Chief Risk Officer and there's a chance the cyber insurance wouldn't cover you.
Not always. Faster than light travel has never been bent.
> People naturally equate complexity with quality

Which is weird because, generally speaking, higher code complexity is a signal of lower quality.
Yes! I do know this one. And it is very interesting to me.
Finally ?

I saw it around a year ago in theater.

Is it just out now in the US ?

Edit : it seems that it is the case [0]. Well, we were lucky in France I guess

On a side note, I really liked this movie !

[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1318517/releaseinfo?ref_=tt_ov_...
Not sure what country you live in, but in the US only someone who gave or sold the alcohol/tobacco to a minor would get in trouble.
Netflix's episode on dog shows for their "7 days out" documentary series was strangly familiar after having recently watched Best in Show again. There were eery similarities. I prefer Guest's rendition but you could watch them side by side..

https://www.tvinsider.com/740004/netflix-7-days-out-westmins...
Tantalum caps are great fun. I remember we would booby-trap each other's breadboards with them in EE lab, to this day I'm still extra vigilant about polarity of all components. Measure twice, apply power once.

Regular electrolytic caps also make a nice pop and ball of fuzz, often the shell will fly across the room at good speed. Also they have that unforgettable odor of shame that will follow whatever you were working on for a few hours.
I know this is HN and not Reddit, but I'm surprised by the lack of `Not Hotdog` references.
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Who gets to judge how much an engineer is worth to a company making billion upon billions of dollars a year? If some of these engineers are what is enabling these companies and their executives to make millions then maybe they really are worth a 1 million dollar salary.
An exact same issue was raised in the 1910's about railroad companies who owned the rails and started transporting their own good and barring transportation access to other companies.

I invite you to read this (quite old - 1914) book named "Other People's Money" by Louis Brandeis, it's in the public domain now, quick free read:

https://books.google.com/books/about/Other_People_s_Money.ht...

History repeats itself.

PS: you might also read this book to understand how the people owning today's banks are the same group of people that owned railroad companies!
Well you have got all the logic correct except that there are millions upon millions looking for 'cushy' IT jobs in developing world. So when IT worker complains about being burnt they can be replaced before they even spell 'overtime'. This is true in India, China or Korea. At least these are ones I am directly aware of.

Also as much employee or employers claim that they are developing and maintaining a hugely complex systems. Most of it are age old 3-tier applications. Employers can easily replace most of the grunt workers with another lot. Average employees know this and that's why they put up with these demands. It is not like companies are lining up to hire run of the mill CRUD devs in these countries. I personally know many folks once they are laid off it would take anywhere between 3-12 month to get next job.

So what remains are few exceptional developers/engineers who can negotiate better benefits and working hours independently with companies. Companies absolutely do not feel any need to extend same level of respect and perks to everyone.
Is there interest in this sort of automatic code review? I'm curious if it's worth expanding it into a service.
> And why is that?

Because by definition, their job puts them in close adversarial contact with people inclined to breaking the law and violence.
Who is the "we" who thinks White Holes don't exist?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GRB_060614
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One of the things that made my mind explode was that this was blatantly recommended in The Hard Thing About Hard Things. Horowitz argues that your relationship with your business partner is worth more than the employee and you shouldn’t entertain solicitations for employment.
try a good light roast. surprisingly flavorful in itself.
helped me.
I hear you.

On the one side we have corporate interests looking to exploit everything they are not barred from exploiting and piously declaring that not exploiting things they are not barred from exploiting is failing in their mission.

On the other side we have governments trying with varying degrees of success to add regulations on this stuff that most lawmakers do not understand.

As a parent, you cannot just rely on the government. Some regulations are good. Some don't go far enough. Some are kind of dumb.
> a significant number of users who just associate "AdBlock == AdBlock Plus"

AdBlock uses Adblock Plus filtering engine internally and also supports and enables "Acceptable Ads" by default:

> AdBlock is a popular ad blocking extension for Chrome, Opera and Safari, now based on the Adblock Plus code.[1]

* * *

[1] https://github.com/betafish-inc/adblock-releases
How would you elect someone to get that done when every issue is tied to a hundred other issues in the same candidate and basically none of them will have any meaningful progress made during their term?

Specific opinions cannot be expressed by electing a "representative".
On the bright side, due to time dilation, you can still make the trip in your lifetime.
Because the US is engaged in a strategic struggle with China over ideological dominance and influence on world events.

You can see the conflict spanning the South China see to trade relations and economic investment to accusations both directions of misconduct in technology manufacturing.

China has been getting more aggressive due to perceived US weakness, and this kind of PR is part of a multi-pronged US response. As are increased prosecutions for financial crimes and kicking up a fuss over the trade deal.
As an alternative sample size of one, I spent my entire childhood sniffle and stuffed up and I've had a total of 1 cavity in my mid-30 years. My sibling, who had no allergies, also suffered no cavities.
Guess HN needs to banned then. Their news feed is designed to exploit my need for novelty and it works. I'm here far more than I should be. I guess I should expect the government to regulate HN to save me from it's exploitative patterns
Yes, but it has to be presented in a manner to avoid blame, which is exhausting over the long haul.
My wife is an evolutionary anthropologist and she says that you set your baseline for life under the age of 5. Things like metabolism, reproductive strategies, etc.

There is this great study of Indian girls adopted from an orphanage into Western families. After being adopted, the girls reached menarche at the ages of 7 or 8. The evolutionary signals are clear: if you are starving and then get a huge influx of calories, your body interprets this as temporary so you better reproduce while the going is good.
Yes - and I was saying that I realized that solving these problems require the elusive "common sense". If we get that figured out, even just roughly, I think we'll break the barrier of general-purpose AI. I'm not sure we're close to doing that... But, maybe I'm wrong.
An interesting talk about how organisms when they left the water could see far further, it is suggested this was the main spur for the advantage of intelligence.

I was just wondering if building telescopes making astronomical discoveries has taken this a step further?
Also, this happened many years ago. Wages have soared since this was uncovered. Now (actually 4hrs ago, the last I checked) a college hire’s signing bonus is 2/3 my base salary was 6yrs earlier.
Not beating Dropbox, sure Microsoft may not care about that even now. Not beating the iPhone, one of the most successful consumer electronics products in history, they will always care.
What I would like is a way to build static websites programmatically. Javascript builds the page, and I throw in a npm which does all this for me.
This argument is very weak IMO. Paraphrased “I got paid happily, industry collusion to suppress wages is therefore OK”
I will try to exemplify internet cables with a fisherman going into the ocean. The person can take a variety of strategies to achieve their goals, here are a few:

- Fisherman goes to X location because he knows at that time he will be able to catch tuna & mackerels.

- Fisherman goes to a random location capturing whatever he can. He can later decide what is of value or not, whether he will throw it back into the ocean or not is up to the captain.

- Fisherman goes to a random location and captures everything. There seems to be some stuff he doesn't know if it is edible or not, but it doesn't matter. He can store the catch and see if he can cook it later.

Some of the catches will spoil before you are able to figure out whether it is edible or not, others can be useful decades later.
If it's no different, then Android should be next in line for an investigation.
Depends on your usage patterns. If your job means you always get home after 7pm, or if you cook with gas, then it may still be worth it.
small typo here: De Autoriteit Consument en Markt
I am very uncomfortable with your presumptive use of 'degenerate' here. Are you equating addicts with degeneracy, and what comprises degeneracy in your view?

And what is a drug - Does alcohol count? I know a guy who's drinking himself to death but has his own house.

Also what do you think of this https://www.spectator.co.uk/2015/05/the-case-for-prescriptio...
Because then it could read the phone's system settings, which could have dire security and privacy implications. It would also presumably need the ability to change them, because otherwise how do you restore the backups?
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>Microsoft was attacked for the exact same thing 2 decades ago

Can you elaborate on this? Windows isn't sandboxed, and there's no approval process, so I don't see any reason why a program can't use private Windows APIs.
Not knowing machine learning - are neural nets deterministic at all? Given all their randomness, I'd assume not.
git repositories are not somehow incompatible with encryption.
Making ad block filter lists Turing-complete: really bad idea.
Yeah, that last point is a constant fear for me. I don't have a lot of money, but it would be highly damaging if they decided to make good on their court ruling that says they can take my money.

Worse still is that when I went to the bank to ask if they would limit it to the amount of money that I have rather than letting them overdraft my account, they didn't give me a clear answer, so for all I know, the debt collectors can essentially transfer the debt to the bank where I would be unable to close the account and would start accruing overdraft fees, which would then eventually get put back into collections.

Again, this hasn't happened, but the bank won't tell me whether or not this is possible, saying merely "it depends on the court order".
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Do you think the NSA or China is more likely to blackmail you into giving up trade secrets of your employer?
So where in the article does it say that China is spying on the cables?
It could just as well lead to better support models for contributions to fix and audit open source.

The open source model is benefiting too many businesses to just up and throw it out.
Its Monday, I think there is a widespread lack of flux today.
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