skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, Disco Elysium was such a special experience. Haven't played anything as well written and unique since Planescape: Torment.
I don't mind your sketch, except I guess that "in physics" was meant to be "in particle physics" or perhaps more specifically "in QED".

In QFTs (and more broadly in gauge theory) it's the infimum at which gauge freedom cannot remove an excitation that produces a state orthogonal to the vacuum. You can have a mass-gap in a massless scalar or vector field, for instance. Explaining mass gaps gets hairier in specific gauge theories (Yang-Mills theory notably) or when considering interacting fields or when stepping outside the safety of purely Lorentz transformations.

It's almost impossible to work on compact objects without engaging with gauge theory, so I think it's safe to bet that whoever originated this astrophysical "mass gap" (MG) terminology would have been aware of the uses of "mass gap" in particle physics. However, I don't see a straightforward path from there to an analogy.

I like the (year-old) chart that appears after the animations at https://media.ligo.northwestern.edu/gallery/mass-plot since it shows the MG pretty starkly.

One is free to wonder whether some strange (pardon the pun) nuclear process shrinks compact neutron stars into ultracompact objects (the latter are defined as having a photon sphere but more generally low-ellipticity orbits of photons and neutrinos within the object and a cloudy atmosphere of photons and neutrinos just above the surface; there are theoretical descriptions of ultracompact neutron stars, ultracompact quark stars, and even ultracompact string stars), whether progenitor star physics prevents the formation of MG compact objects as in silicon-oxygen rebounds, whether there are semiclassical effects in the gravitational backreaction around relativistic stars generally that become strong in the MG (and then does that lead to loss via gravitational radiation rather than an MG-mass equilibrium state?), whether
MG BHs are always formed by mass transfer from Roche lobe overflow with the relativistic accretion spectrum (high X-Ray luminosity tending towards burstiness) frustrating binary mass-ratio estimates, or whether it's just blind luck that nothing in an apparent-but-not-real MG has been observed yet. Or some combination.

Ultimately further "multi-messenger" observations will help resolve these issues. There are a lot of compact objects in the sky to be found.
Someone should invite that economist to a modern rock climbing gym. Then explain every piece of technology that made those wall designs affordable and commonplace in most major cities. Being able to train in state-of-the-art facilities, focusing exactly on the moves you need to make, day and night, rain or shine, that's crucial.
you can pass ownership to a company not run by you or legally move the ownership to someone you trust
You're right, it's not perfect, and it might be sub-linear improvement, but it can practice on its predecessors' input in a way a human can't. (There are plenty of scifi stories where they found a way to do this for humans as well, so it's certainly conceivable, but seems a long way off, whereas "feed all existing training data into the new model" is something we have now.)

You're pretty much guaranteed that self-driving technology "skills" will collectively improve over time, at some positive rate, whereas we don't expect "Gen Z" to be more skilled drivers than previous generations.

This is all entirely skill-focused. We're not guaranteed that self-driving cars will actually get safer if we don't have the proper incentives to favor safety over speed or cost. Similrly, despite the stagnancy of human driving skill, I anticipate safety will improve with human drivers for non-skill-related reasons -- specifically, driver assistance technology, and a shift towards just getting a Lyft if you're impaired.
My place of employment desperately needs something like this. We have a number of sky bridges between buildings that are just a suspended hallway with floor to ceiling windows on both sides, so to birds it looks like they can fly through. We're located at the edge of the city, so there are just rolling hills of farmland and more natural space for birds to approach from. I regularly see dead birds under the sky bridges.
You might want to look at smaller projects. But it’s generally true that maintainers don’t have a lot of time and you might get ignored for many reasons.

If there’s a project you use which has bugs, reporting them and submitting fixes is always a great way to start!
Can you post the code that was found or how they are doing this? I feel like details are needed before everyone grabs their pitchfork here.
> Surely, then, one could write a program to generate a copyright-free copy of a font by selecting different control points that yield the same curves. Or would the computer be the copyright-holder, as it selected those points?

The new three points would be derived from the old ones; hence it's still a derived work, and still falls under the old copyright. Your bits have the wrong color.[1]

1: https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23
I would love to see the news story about Comcast having fewer remaining subscribers than the DSL provider...

still wouldn't make them change their practices, I believe they are too far corrupted to ever 'heal', but it would be hilarious if they gave up serving an area because it wasn't economically viable anymore.
Goose isn't really like those. Many of those simulators are full of jankyness and that's part of their appeal.
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I have GB fiber from CenturyLink for $85 until the city broadband, the city has had FTTH for at least 10 years or so, so anything new this should be doable.
FYI there's a typo in your home page...

> We surveyed the landscape of complicted web scraping tools
I'm dismayed that none of the filmmakers see this as the accessibility issue it is. Being able to play at slower speeds can help people with various disabilities. I'd liken this to them being against subtitles.
I sell/invest in Pokemon/Magic the Gathering/Yugioh Cards. It's some work to keep up to date with prices, managing the online store / in person matters. But it's a fun hobby and I've made lifetime friends as well.
I agree with everything except for the jab at (paid) open access, which looks quite gratuitous to me. It may be true that "authors are willing to pay more to get their articles published in more prestigious journals. So, the more exciting the findings a journal publishes, the more references, the higher the impact the journal, the more submissions they get, the more money they make". But this is also true of non-open-access journals. Journals live off their prestige, and before paid open access was a thing, publishers still wanted to have high-impact journals so that university libraries would subscribe to them. It was a very distorted market (as it is now), but a market nevertheless.

While I often bash for-profit journals for being parasites that do little actual work and profit from withholding access to science that should be public, and for this I would open a bottle of champagne if they disappeared, I don't think journals have much to do with this particular problem of incentivization of bad science. Journals just respond to the demand of publishing more, and shallower, papers. That demand comes from hypercompetitivity in academia, where researchers need to fight for scarce positions and scraps of funding, often paired with too much bureaucratization (selection processes that look at "objective" and "verifiable" metrics like number of papers published at a given impact factor quartile, etc., instead of just asking a bunch of neutral experts whether the person is doing good research, which may be more opaque but also much more meaningful).

As evidence that journals are not the problem in this particular case, in fields like machine learning, where publication happens mostly in arXiv and conferences that don't charge for publishing or reading papers, the problems pointed out in the post also exist. Published models that only beat previous ones because they were lucky with random seeds or data splits are widespread.
> A lot of complexity simply doesn't stem from emoji in Unicode, a lot of the complexity comes from all the writing systems that Unicode supports.

Yes, it's not that emoji are doing anything odd compared to lots of real world languages, it's that emoji are just latin script writers' "first"/"only"/"most likely" interaction with that sort of stuff. The fascinating bit that that if it weren't for emoji a lot of these problems would still go unfixed in a lot of real languages, but because emoji are fun and everyone wants to use them we've seen a lot of Unicode fixes brought about by emoji that's a rising tide to lift other Unicode boats.
Seems to depend on the location and the specifics of the situation and the contract, but it's not out of the ordinary: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2016/12/09/developers-side-pr...
Honest question: If I own the copyright to a webpage (say my personal blog) and Comcast modifies my page to insert this "helpful" warning message, is it likely I'd have a case to sue them for creating an unauthorized derivative work of my content?
Surely we need a hat tip to Jeff Minter as the godfather of "odd animal references in video games"...
I downvoted you because this is not true. 0% offers end with the interest rate spiking. Mortgages have extremely low rates right now. All you'd have to do is carry that 0% offer past its expiration for a short time to make up the cost difference.
I what way?

What do you use it with?
Biking to work or micro-commute is a hipster activity. Most folks do not care about such things and at any given time only a small % of total commuters are "micro commuting". God forbid if this number goes up it will create chaos on our pavements.

Public transport is more efficient and better alternative to cars but has its own constraints. The only thing that can totally replace cars is some kind of teleportation technology.

Economics of Driverless cars.

Electric bulb did not replace candles. In fact we sell more candles today than 100 years ago. Electric bulb opened up new unforeseen possibilities. One of which was that people were able to be productive at night. That caused a revolution in human productivity. Suddenly there were new industries, night schools and what not.

Driverless cars will not replace human drivers any time soon and yet will turn out of be revolutionary in next 10 years or so. Google's honeycomb sensor in itself is finding uses in various other sectors. Waymo's plan is not to have a fleet of vehicles that replace Uber for you. Rather they will provide their services on fixed routes to begin with. (Example from airport to a train terminal). Even such minor improvements will help them get profitable soon.
Camera is the one thing that has me on the edge of should I get a new one.

Everything else...could probably rock my 7+ for another year or two. Maybe do a battery replacement.
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Deadspin, on it's own, was and is a profitable vertical. This story is completely about mismanagement and an unbelievably dumb calculation of believing the strength of a media brand is unrelated to its contributors. Further, don't ever confuse private equity for something more than it is: in nearly all cases, it's designed to suck out blood, saddle it with debt, and leave things in ruins. Ask Sears.

Please read this for more background: https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/the-adults-in-the-room-183...

It's an absurd and ridiculous shame what is happening to them, and while I know this is HN and HN is connected to YC, that thin-skinned vampire Thiel is at lease partially to blame.
Has there been any point at which you have lost money, e.g. expensive repairs, long vacancies, etc.?
$80/month.
Regular Expression Pocket Reference for O'Reilly. 1st edition in 2003, 2nd edition in 2006.

$1k/month
Medium back catalog.
I moved everything I've ever written behind Medium's paywall and took out any CTAs so that I'd qualify for distribution inside their algorithm.
Nearly two-thirds of Uber customers don’t tip their drivers, study says
I recommend checking out Graham Stephan on YouTube. He's got a lot of great content about real estate investing.
That doesn't feel like the same thing at all. A shady developer tricking people into a subscription because they don't know any better is way different from malware that reinstalls itself even after a factory reset. People have to agree to pay for the subscription from an OS-level prompt in the first instance. They don't have a choice in the 2nd.
I'd say you either don't understand the english language or are a bored grad student with nothing better to do than attempt to defy objective reality on the internet.
A startup I worked at used to have a crying room. So not just Jeff Bezos.
Very similar to smelvetica (https://github.com/tholman/smelvetica) which did get takedown notices from Monotype.
I don't know much about this. Could you recommend a single online resource where one could learn the very basics?
> Socialist planned economies usually provided food, housing, employment, education, and medical care for free or at a subsidy. Socialist elites did live better lives, but they tended to be more modest compared to the ultra-rich excesses under Western capitalism.

This is patently false. Socialist regimes pay lip service to public services while keeping them in a disfuncional state where they exist only in name only.

> Chavez's terms over Venezuela proved to be very popular with the poor people of the barrios because he used state resources to raise their standards of living.

This is patently false to the point you surely are being disingenuous. I have relatives living in Venezuela and since Chavez and his cronies took over not only are they desperate to make a living but also the whole nation has been forced to fight for survival by any means necessary. One family member of mine died due to lack of medical care because the hospital couldn't even access drugs or medical supplies, and his immediate family is scrambling to get out of the country as soon as possible. Before you speak about the delights of socialist economies first get your facts straight.
> I'm really not sure what deal ensured it wouldn't be on Steam.

The simple fact that Epic offers a much better deal in terms of cost to be on the store. Half of what Valve demands per sale.
Sure! Send me an email, address is in my bio.

The sponsor/operator is definitely the most important thing. I would argue even more important than the property itself. Thats also why I don’t like to invest in REITs as its not clear who manages those.
Ah yes, ".ttf" will work just the same.
Seems like you only look at one side. I thought by now we have mostly understood that unlimited globalization also has dark sides, especially for the broader local population in richer countries.

To me the sentiment of GPs post felt like "internet makes it better on average for all of us". You're "now I very easy can find even cheaper workers" doesn't support that, even though it certainly is an improvement to a select few at the very bottom.
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It looks like there are credits for automating it outside of your browser
> Show me where the ADA says that software developers must think about assistive access to content, and that not doing so is illegal.

The ADA is not software specific, but specifies that you must provide access. Courts have been increasingly interpreting that to include websites. See the recent Domino's case where the circuit court ruled the website must be accessible (the Supreme Court declined to hear the case, so it is technically only binding precedent within the 9th circuit - western states, including California) https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-dominos-pizza/u...

> EDIT: Also, would you care to explain how the ADA has any impact on anyone's behavior outside of the United States?

It isn't the ADA, but Europe has explicitly adopted WCAG 2.1 accessibility standards: https://www.w3.org/blog/2018/09/wcag-2-1-adoption-in-europe/
Where do you visit? From the darknet to using translation software to read what is going on around the world the internet... to checking out random pastebins. There is a lot of interesting stuff...just not on facebook/twitter.
Television incentivizes forgetable reality TV, the radio incentivizes meaningless poppy music, social media incentivizes bickering about the controversies of today.

But, nowadays, you can also use your TV to watch a French arthouse film, to go to Youtube and be recommended a Japanese jazz album from 1974, to join the conversation on Twitter and ask questions to leaders in their respective fields.

Now you can swim against the current: Force all these power - and money - hungry institutions to fundamentally change their tune. Or you can find one of the many new waves to surf. Life is good, science is good, progress is good. The choice, as a scientist, is up to you. Can't write one groundbreaking paper a year? Write two or three mediocre ones. No amount of foundational change is going to make you a groundbreaking scientist. And change the channel once in while: the world is only getting bigger and more connected.
> The "big one" IME for most English users is the Emoji Keyboard accessible with Win+. or Win+; (whichever you prefer).

No, API-wise the on-screen keyboard generates keystrokes for emoji (astral keystokes, multiple keystokes for multi-scalar-value emoji) even to an IME-aware app. In contrast, the emoji picker built into the Windows 10 Pinyin IME enters emoji via IME API.

> Under Settings > Devices > Typing > Hardware Keyboard you can turn on the IME "Show text suggestions as I type" even on a hardware keyboard in Windows 10, which gives you mobile-style auto-suggestions (you can also turn on mobile-style autocorrect even on a hardware keyboard).

Thanks!
If you can de-anonymize so-called "anonymous" data through some well-known (intended, even) procedure then said data is not anonymous. This is trivially, definitionally true.
The invention of how to create fire or the wheel also created a bunch of jobs but also allow warmongers and thieves and murdering pyros to do their evil deeds.

Every innovation has consequences short and long term.
> "squat" on something you wrote for fun at some point, promote it until it is widely used, and then refuse to work on it anymore until people pay you because they can't use anything else.

Does that happen? Sounds pretty extreme, I hope you are exaggerating.
Letters are too close to each other on a normal DPI screen with the 10-12 point size font. Maybe it looks fine on a high DPI screen, but on my screen it illegible. For the reference, I prefer Iosevka and Fira Code for code editing and console.
No country allows self-determination of it's regions. Do you think that USA would allow Texas or Lakota Nation to secede?
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Getting a job offer at a FANG company as a felon
hello there,

just wanted to reach out to the community here and ask if anyone has experience getting hired at a FANG company as a software engineer and as a felon?

I recently passed my interviews at a FANG company and am waiting to get placed into a team and to get the final offer.

I'm also a felon - with a residential burglary conviction from 8 years ago when I was homeless / lived in a car. (was 19 years old, had addictions, served 3 years, released 5 years ago)

since my release I've been sober and have worked as a software engineer at a startup for the last 3 years.

I'm afraid of accepting the offer and quitting my current job, and then the company taking back their offer.

or even worse - to relocate and then get fired quickly after they find out.

or even to have the offer get rejected after the background check.

does anyone have experience with this issue? or does anyone work in HR at these companies that can offer any advice?
The media plays as much a role in pushing these unrealistic hyper-growth narratives on public companies as anybody.
You could check this one
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Also you could ask there for local for you specialist certificated in Swiss center for the methodology
Disagree. Paying per byte is a critical part of making people realize they are part of botnets and to create the only incentives that have a shot at working naturally like pressure against poorly secured smart devices. Unlimited bandwidth just forces everyone behind Cloudflare and breaks the internet.
To maybe give an idea on how important those shoes that Alex wore were - or at least how perfect they were for the ascent: the athlete that designed them w/Sportiva, Tommy Caldwell put up all but two of the free routes on El Capitan (so only 8 or so in total), including the hardest free route on the wall. The shoes were effectively made for that one area.
It's linked to in the article.
Are we sure that there won't be an exception installed to this in favor of broadband providers, considering the paths already taken?

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You could also just purchase the magazine with cash at a newsstand...
Does nothing about the traffic problem, massively wasteful of electricity and other resources that will have to go into replacing every single car.
I personally loved Firewatch. What did you dislike about it? What are you comparing it to?
STWD
Your dad and you both sound like nice and smart people. I smiled when reading the last sentence.
> Most contracts don't allow for commercial side projects and the company owns anything you create even outside of working hours

Well, they don't. This is an obvious case of common law. An employer is not your slave master. Don't use your employer's resources, and you're fine. Plus, most employers don't want the expense of having to operate a product they have no knowledge of.

In some states, like California, this is explicit. If the employer is in California, I believe that, even if they write this in the contract, it's completely unenforceable. Feel free to cross it out, or sign it. There's no way it'd hold up in court; they can't even argue for it.
Why WhatsApp is pushing back on NSO Group hacking
Setting up your own VPN with something like Streisand should protect against this right?
I agree, that

> building solutions that are also usable by people with disabilities should no longer be an edge case, but the default.

should be the thing we pursue. This will happen when people who care about assistive access technologies finally make solutions that are easy to implement into normal contemporary software development workflow. Online video had the same challenges but due to corporate and commercial interests we solved that problem already, arguably a much harder problem to solve than assistive access. I know because for many years I worked on precisely these kinds of assistive access concerns in the audiobooks industry. I am certain that we are not there yet, but we will get there one day.

BUT...

> The whole point of the ADA

None of this is the point of the ADA. The only "whole point" of the ADA is to regulate particular aspects to certain commercial and government services/products.
The arrow uses a cut internally which renders it nonlogical and ruins any benefit you'd get from even writing Prolog. At that point you're just using Prolog as a quirky imperative language.

Unfortunately since it's almost impossible to model ideas without stuff like the arrow, cut, or \+ (not) operators, writing actual pure logical Prolog programs that actually do interesting things is supremely difficult.
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Do tenants communicate with you via email for repairs, etc?