skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As it stands, as far as we know, Hawking radiation is completely thermal and random

Is it? Can you cite?

IANAP but the best I could find on the matter is:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole_information_paradox

> There are various ideas about how the paradox is solved. Since the 1997 proposal of the AdS/CFT correspondence, the predominant belief among physicists is that information is preserved and that Hawking radiation is not precisely thermal but receives quantum corrections.

Maybe that is wrong, but not sure what the basis for the claim to the contrary is.

Another citation which speaks to the views of Hawking on the matter:

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1367-2630/7/1/203...

> Now if information is really lost down a black hole as Hawking originally proposed [64], and if the Hawking radiation really has negligible correlations between what is emitted early and late, then it might be true that A/4 −tr(ρ ln ρ), suitably regularized, would never decrease. But since this information-loss proposal has been controversial since near the beginning [65, 66], and since now even Hawking has given it up [67];

Direct quote from Hawking:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn6193-hawking-concedes...

> “If you jump into a black hole, your mass energy will be returned to our Universe, but in a mangled form, which contains information about what you were like, but in an unrecognisable state.”
Out of curiosity - can you share if you received any new paying users through this Show HN, and if so, how many? I realize there's a 7 day trial so even number of trial signups would be interesting. Trying to gauge the HN effect for a product like this.
In our SMB we went with Nutshell CRM [0].
The starter version has all the features minus sales automation. The UI is fine, they have well written docs [1] and their security docs is actually insightful [2]. Things like an well written API and an actual, live and up-to-date status page etc. make it look like a decent run SaaS business imho.

[0] - https://www.nutshell.com/pricing/
[1] - https://www.nutshell.com/security/
Yes, I'd prefer my products to be clearly labeled, but that's just a personal oddity, I know.
How do you see your work being used? I only skimmed the paper, but it seems like Fuzzification hinders fuzzing but doesn't actually solve the issues that fuzzing would expose, which makes it seem ripe for misuse by "lazy" teams that aren't willing to fix the underlying issues but see it as a way to obfuscate their vulnerabilities away. For open source projects I can see attackers just fuzzing unmitigated binaries they compile themselves and translating these techniques to release versions, and for closed source projects security is predicated on the original authors running fuzzers themselves and actually acting on the results they find (which has historically been a smaller and less motivated group in fixing vulnerabilities).
I watched American Factory last week and was pleasantly surprised with how unopinionated it was.
I used to do it all the time, just by running my laser printer. I was in an old house that some amateur must have wired, so all the power for the entire second floor, plus both bathrooms, plus all the lights on that floor, were routed through a single GFCI outlet. It would pop every time I ran the laser printer, but only the first time. After I reset the breaker (in the dark, because the lights would go out), I could try printing again and it wouldn't pop that time.
> Your FICO score and detailed credit history already serve this purpose to a large degree.

a) what purpose is that?

b) FICO score doesn't include political outlook or social behaviors. (see also 'a')
Yeah I'm gonna be that guy and say all I see are a bunch of little empty boxes.
Have those not also been flat?
My only experience with OpenJDK is trying to run Minecraft with it at much worse performance than Oracle's JRE
We use Cesium at https://ayvri.com (with some of our own magic sprinkled in). It is an incredible bit of software, completely agree with your comments regarding Patrick. He's also the driving force behind glTf and wrote the book on virtual worlds in webGL. https://www.amazon.com/Patrick-Cozzi/e/B004LGLPIA/ref=dp_byl...
Try some of the new Virgil's drinks, they are truly low carb( sweetened with erythritol) and the canned versions taste really good. They have a cola version as well.
How easy is it to theme for when Material starts looking dated?
BTW the person you're replying to is roughly but not quite correct: TAOCP doesn't have a separate references section, and when citing papers (inline in the text) Knuth does cite names as the authors typeset them, except for abbreviating to initials of course. It's only in the index of the books that he gives the full name of each mentioned person, including middle names and transcription in additional scripts.
You literally agreed with me two comments ago that Tyson chicken is worse than locally (read not mass) produced chicken. Don't try to turn it around again just so you can win an imaginary argument I'm not trying to have.
>we use a wonderful Italian caterer, so flavour isn't going to be missed

A non meat dish is still going to taste like a non-meat dish. Perhaps your colleagues were just being polite and avoiding treading into politically charged territory after you brought up the Amazon.

Personally I'm a picky eater and vegan/vegetarian dishes simply do not compare to meat. I'm sure others feel similarly. Though for one meal I suppose it isn't a huge deal - but acting like it's just as good simply isn't true for the majority of people - that's your personal taste.
No doubt. But until we quantify it throwing out baseless assumptions is ridiculous either way. It can't just be said "Beyond Meat" is better for the environment without any numbers or data to back that up.
In the UK gas-cookers, and even gas-based boilers/heating, are extremely common.

I moved to Finland, here gas is an oddity, and not so common at all. I really miss the speed of a gas-based hob.
Also Zulu, by Azul: https://www.azul.com/downloads/zulu-community/
JQuery Accordion – Smooth Animated Transitions
The baobab tree[1] is already pretty close - it grows to large circumferences and has hollow trunks.

1. https://www.awesomestories.com/asset/view/Baobab-Tree-Home/
(Point of order: tptacek probably brought up chicken because TFA is about KFC, a purveyor of ... chicken.)
> Sales would say anything to convince buyers (campaigns) and had no idea how the technology works. You can take any sentences uttered by them and quote it to the data scientists, their reaction would be… bow, shake their head, “Yeah, not, that’s… not it.”

This is frankly par for the course in data science. I work as a data scientist/statistician for a relatively newly established (~5 years) analytics team at a large company, and the first order of business was weaning our teams off of the snake oil that grifter consulting companies were making millions selling them. The things I've seen referred to as "machine learning" and "AI" are absolutely bonkers. The reality is that most of the analytics services being sold B2B is total garbage, and yet it thrives because most customers aren't aware of why its bad.

To be fair to these consulting companies, my impression is at least some of the time they aren't knowingly selling BS, and that often times they just have very poor analysts/data scientists who have a very surface level knowledge of what they are doing, but not enough depth to realize why they can't do/aren't doing what they think they are. And the actual sales people know literally nothing but buzzwords.

These days we've been able to largely get the company away from vendors where possible and to rely on internal analytics teams, but it is still an issue when our team will come back to business partners with an answer someone doesn't want to hear, and they have external vendors essentially promising they can solve literally any problem with AI, and magically always produce the safe answer the customer wants to hear (but they never are willing to share code, the low level details of their process, or really anything that can make their analyses reproducible).
OP appears to be talking about change of ownership of a line, not merely bringing it across.
Hard to move too far forwards without acknowledging that copyright law's constructions are deeply divorced from the public's values.
Why do American (and presumably westerners) vegetarians want to replace meat? I hated vegan and vegetarian food for song long until I ate meat free Indian food. It was always the meat replacements like veggie patties and tofurkey type products that turned me away.

Indian food doesn’t have some weird mystery replacement I find on almost every vegan or veggie dish. I had a conversation with and Indian colleague who lives in the states and she agreed a lot of veggie/vegan food is just plain weird.
From the article:

> But by definition and by its main purpose, this tax should erode over time. If the revenues don’t start dropping, at least relative to population growth, then it just isn’t working.

This is an easy statistical mistake to make. He is comparing today's consumption to the past and declaring failure because the today isn't better. But the correct comparison to make is today versus the alternate today we would have now if the tax had not been passed.

It may be that sugary drink consumption has gone up, but would have gone up even more had the tax not been passed. In that case, the tax is a success.

Of course, figuring out how to estimate and measure an alternate timeline is hard. But that's what you have to try to do to make sound choices.
As long as it's not state enforced, not equivalent.
I'm only speaking anecdotally, but I have in mind Taco Bell's ground beef and McNuggets, for example. Cane's chicken, by contrast, always seems surprisingly high-quality.
Wordpress falls over under an even modest amount of traffic without jumping through a bunch of caching plugin hoops, it’s written in PHP, it requires dynamic hosting, and it regularly has major security issues. It’s not good.
Do you know why people think it's bad meat compared to the supermarket? Is it just the general attitude society has developed towards fast-food and big business?

I don't mind KFC but Taco Bell meat always seemed a bit...off and low quality.
Can you say how many? Were they organised or independent actors? Was he the biggest player or are there bigger fish?
Any plans on adding Qualcomm (Bluetooth) chips?
The even greater problem with sending email is that your platform will immediately and comprehensively be abused by spammers.

To make your email woes go away, I would recommend using MailChannels [1] rather than SES or SendGrid because MailChannels has a built-in anti-abuse layer that will send you a webhook whenever a bad user is detected. SES will just terminate your account, which probably isn't what you want. Also, at high volume, MailChannels costs less.

[1] Disclosure: MailChannels is my company.
What would you consider Impossible Burger, if not lab-grown meat?
It's still extremely high compared to other countries though.

To put it in perspective, nearly as many people die by suicide alone in Japan (per capita) as suicide + guns combined in America (per capita).
or that would welcome your visit anyway even if they do require it.
That's the general line of reasoning. I don't really buy it since a well cooked meat burger is going to be better than the beyond meat at a much lower cost. For perspective, the price per lb is more than a sirloin steak.

Very few people eat sirloin steak everyday and so Beyond Meat isn't going to do much for the in terms of transitioning people who primarily eat cheaper meats.

On the other hand, Margarine (invented in the 1800's) converted tons of people from a purely animal product to one that doesn't need animal products without marketing it as "plant based".
Please note that, misleadingly, this article is about literature, not chemistry.
Better question: What do we call veggie burgers that predate impossible and beyond meat?
I can't understand how people enjoy this fake food. It just can't match the original taste. This sort of food is extremely unhealthy, and vegans will never be able to get the protein they need to survive. We should not encourage the appeasing of certain niche markets, the radicals must be made to realize that normal KFC is just a fact of life.
Java is just as open as it always was. Oracle has been gradually moving itself away from being the sole source & driver of Java. OpenJDK is open and free, and is both community-supported and driven by several companies prominent in the Java ecosystem.

Oracle JDK is based on it, and Oracle is adding proprietary features so they can make a buck.

Honestly, I'd say the new situation is better than the old. Oracle no longer has the stranglehold over Java that they had since they bought Sun.
Shell accounts were cheaper to provide because people spent most of their time doing things that were purely local-- news, mail, etc-- so the bandwidth per user needed was trivial.

While users using Moasic/Netscape on dialup were likely to be pegging their modem link the whole time, and almost all of those bits were bits you needed to buy from a transit provider over an expensive leased line.
Don't you think that's a bit of a strawman? The user is explaining how that number is pronounced in their native Swiss French. Clearly nobody is suggesting you have to learn French to say some numbers.
Did you read the first half of that comment and not the second? Local chicken is generally "better" than supermarket chicken. That doesn't make supermarket chicken "shitty"; supermarket-grade chicken is necessarily what most people are going to eat, most of the time. It has for more than half a century been our standard, and our standard is better than what preceded it.

You can always do better. But I'd like to see a well-grounded argument that KFC-grade chicken is somehow "shitty". I think it's possible that there is one (I think the argument that all fast-food chicken is necessarily shitty is much harder to defend) --- but I haven't seen it yet.
Do you mean the CSR family? We don't currently support the XAP architecture, but it is technically doable and we would do it with the right partner. Get in touch if you want to chat!
It's right there in the name -- it's a "thrift" store, a store that resells product that people have given away / disposed of.
depends where you were abroad, i would rank most above USA and a few slightly below.
>Do you want to live in a country where parents have to simply accept the death of their child because they can't afford a treatment?

I want to live in a country where people are responsible. The argument presented basically holds children hostage so the parents can live their lives free of trade offs between lifestyle and health, education, and etc. I fail to see why I should care more about my neighbor's child than my neighbors do.
Yeah, if you trained an AI to write Harry Potter fanfic (and remove all the trademarks by hand, no Harry Potter(TM) etc), is the result a derivative work? It seems like it could be, even if it's generic child wizards at a generic wizarding school. Fanfic is generally a derivative work.
Could be wrong but this has always been the case if the jdk/jre is not the very latest download?
> A digital book requires the same minus actor

The digital book also requires formatting work. Depending on the type of book and the publisher's workflow, this can be simple (an export from InDesign) or very complex (a custom process for converting a non-technical author's Word documents for a cookbook with an inconsistent layout into an EPUB that renders nicely across devices).
Africa set to be declared polio free
I would assume the margins are really high. It's a premium product right now because they're still building out a market and because there was a big up-front research investment, but the fundamental sustainability of the raw materials and process must be miles better than raising cattle.
Air heat pumps are common in the Nordics with as cold, or coldet, climates. But ground heat pumps are better. (You want good insulation too obviously)
Is Enron Overpriced? (2001)
We use Netlify and Hugo for our company site, which also shows our 'real-time' inventory. In reality, I have a python script that grabs our inventory from our internal ERP system, generates a hugo site and redeploys to Netlify every 20 minutes.

It's been running like a charm for ~1 year.
The Macy Conferences of 1946-53 (2017)
We have an autistic child and have faced backlash of a different sort, namely scorn from parents of "real" autists.

Autism is so difficult to pin down because it's a highly individualized disorder. Two people with a similar severity of the disability may exhibit completely different symptoms. Is one autistic and the other not? My child has an extremely difficult time understanding why or even that others feel things, and he will react in extreme ways to the slightest disruption of his schedule, and he has other ("mild") symptoms, yet he is able to attend school with "typical" peers (and lots of arm twisting, legal threats and an IEP) and by all outward appearances doesn't "act autistic." Is he not autistic?

Maybe we need two descriptions or to separate conditions by severity or something, but I'm not convinced we need to consider them as completely different and unrelated conditions.
Red flags for me were language and sources. The writer didn't try to test her assumptions, as far as I can tell.

I think it's true that Musk went in and tried to save SolarCity by assuming control and changing the course. That was news at the time where it happened. He did the same to Tesla, actually. It's also true that he's always talking about visions.
> All meat is plant based :)

This is a bad-faith argument.
What would you say to someone who was worried fuzzification would introduce additional vulnerabilities? For example, Section 5 reads "To be specific, FUZZIFICATION changes the original condition (value == 12345) to (CRC_LOOP(value) == OUTPUT_CRC) (at line 20)." This is a dangerous bug, since it's trivial to find tons of different values with the desired checksum.
I've never been a vegetarian and never been tempted by it. However, if meat can be approximated very well then I'm excited by the idea of displacing much of the environmental impact of producing meat. Even if real meat never goes away fully.

I don't consider myself problematic for eating meat. However, clinging to meat on principle, to the point of getting triggered like this with accusations and insults, is just shitty.
Amazon fires: What we know and what we can do
I am personally doing all that with my own Sciter Notes [1].
That is a free form personal database of HTML documents if you wish.

With notebooks, tags and events.

For customers I have single template in form of definition list (html's <dl> under the hood):

- principal contact:
- address:
- service until:

So to make new customer I simply copy that template and fill
those fields. Adding more info if needed for particular customer, etc.

[1] https://notes.sciter.com
GitHub: https://github.com/c-smile/sciter-sdk/tree/master/notes
I get where where you're coming from with regards to "from scratch". Non-processed is a better way to describe it.
See what happens when you don't have antivaxxres on a continent?
Attn: Hackers,is this DRM software process secure enough?
This article describes all the components of a successful DRM deployment in an easy to read and engaging format. But is the process secure enough?
https://go.buydrm.com/thedrmblog/how-to-protect-your-content-with-drm
The problem with existing meat substitutes is that they are high in processed carbohydrates and low in protein.

The taste has been fairly ok for a while. It's the nutritional value that's the problem.
My opinion: this is an idiotic thing to do. I got triggered in a huge way by this for a number of reasons:

1. An attacker skilled enough to perform black box binary fuzzing, and create a testing harnass. Will only be minimally hindered by anything less than full blown obfuscation.

2. This approach aims to 'fix' the problem of someone looking and testing your code, it's hiding (not fixing!) a symptom of the problem: you wrote vulnerable code. Why not spend this effort on improving existing and actually helpfull mitigations such as dep, aslr, re-linking and pledge systems? Even better, why not re-write error prone or complex code in a safe language?!

2.1. This is security through obscurity, the vulnerable code is still there, someone will find it.

3. End users will be inconvenienced because obfuscation implies inefficient code.

4. This widens the gap between white hat research (not funded, often done for reputation) and black hat research which is worth good money for a quality exploit and therefore more sustainable for researchers making it their day job.
Soy milk is an entirely different product than animal milk and they don't taste at all similar, yet I'm ok with it being called "soy milk" because "soy-based beverage that looks similar to milk" just doesn't roll off the tongue.
Ponzi schemes don't produce anything of value, like amazing supercars that cost <$50k. (I'm biased)

By that same logic, any Y Combinator "unicorn" startup is a ponzi scheme. Overvalued, unrealistic investor expectations.

Granted, this SolarCity deal was definitely not in Tesla's best interest... having chatted with a former engineer there who left because of their dysfunction.
>How many people... take the seeds out of their oranges

...Everyone? Are you saying that you eat the seeds? What?

Either way, no one is developing diabetes because they eat three peeled apples on a daily basis. C'mon.
"Gross" being defined as amount of chemicals, likelihood to be spoiled and/or make you sick, etc.

Beef won't go away completely in 20XY; maybe not ever, which is fine. But at the scale and quality standards of fast-food, and with the recent progress in the meatless space, I would bet McDonald's will stop selling it in my lifetime.
I imagine that that difference is going mostly to recoup R&D costs at e.g. Impossible right now, who is making the patties.
Humans Don’t Realize How Biased They Are Until AI Reproduces the Same Bias
Areas where Linux is BETTER than Windows 10
I am surprised also. People had sailed to at least around the entire continent in 1820.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Russian_Antarctic_Expedi...
I’m a meat eater and want to replace meat. It’s not just vegetarians. The factory farming of animals doesn’t sit well ethically with me, but meat has been a staple of my diet my entire life. If there were a viable plant based alternative that’s indistinguishable, factory farming can die out.

It’s not ready yet, and phase 1 was the really weird stuff. I think Beyond Meat is like phase 2 of “pretty close”. In the near future, you won’t be able to tell the difference
You’re just hiding the loss:

The loss in your operation occurs when you zero out z, and there’s no way to implement it without that loss.

If it’s reversible, how do you zero out z, from the environment?

The energy cost of a computer fundamentally comes from having to use energy and discard information (heat) in clearing z.
The desperate plea at the end, asking readers to pay more for used books is bizarre. Authors don't profit from used book sales, and the price of a book is not its value -- merely an approximate lower bound. The natural reaction to a more efficient resale market is to raise prices on the new products (at the risk of creating a market for lemons).
That is not what the article said. You are being just the kind of asshole the author complains about.
Actually I think the 2x16A should have a different phase per fuse. Otherwise you hit the max of your phase fuse when you put all 4 (assuming a somewhat standard one) heating plates to the max.

In NL, assuming a somewhat modern setup, you have two sets of fuses: one per phase capped at the phase capacity ( commonly 25A), and then another fuse per group (usually: 16A).

(Source: lives in a recently renovated apartment in NL :) ).
Wondering how this isn't in the top of hacker news...