skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be very surprising if the things that fall into a black hole affect the radiation coming out of it.

The reason is that "the things that come out of it" are reference frame dependent. That is, you and I will disagree on what is emitted as Hawking radiation. In fact a free-falling observer will observe NO Hawking radiation!

So Hawking radiation must be determined entirely by spacetime geometry, which depends only on mass-energy-momentum and not things like baryon number.

Oh, and "smoothing things out takes energy" doesn't seem right. Consider the heat equation: a solid with a temperature differential reaches equilibrium while conserving energy.
20 years from now, statute of limitations, right?
Sure. Could have clarified that what I meant was "It is more or less fine while it is working." When the valuation goes under the amount invested, I'd say that is no longer the case. That is, while everything is going well no one thinks to file a lawsuit. Appreciate your correction nonetheless.
This appears to confirm a prediction of mine that black holes aren't really black holes -- you can escape them just fine !

I think physicists will become more and more convinced of this fact -- there can be no impassable communication barrier (no event horizon).

I believe black holes will be understood in the future as simply arbitrarily massive stars with increasing time dilation. That's because historically it was always assumed black holes do exist, and worked from there. Models of collapse were never fully laid out, and most don't consider an external observer as the correct reference. It's essentially analogue to thinking the field of electrons would diverge when sufficiently close to them (and the paradoxes this would bring).

The light escape mechanism will not turn out to be exotic -- it's simply ordinary light being emitted by objects making its way out in an ordinary null geodesic, which is possible since there is not event horizon :)
I just spent a couple dollars for a "block" Since I'm just downloading text, I don't imagine to burn through it quickly.
Nope, though it is a common TV trope.

In the US, there's a concept known as "prosecutorial discretion," and it refers to the fact that prosecutors have nearly absolute authority over what charges are brought.

There are limits to this, but they are extremely rare. For example the Supreme Court has held repeatedly that a prosecutor can't base their decision on race or religion because it would violate the 5th Amendment.
I tend to find the following few questions a quick way to evaluate an ML/AI pitch in an elevator:

Ask yourself: could a human given the inputs reasonably produce the outputs you are looking for? — this helps avoid/identify the pure magic pitches.

Then ask the person pitching:
1. What’s your training data and how is it collected?
2. What’s your validation data and how is that constructed, and how does your system perform on that set?
3. What are the blind spots and biases in your model and how are you mitigating them?

If they don’t have succinct and competent answers or major red flags like no validation or claiming no biases then run away.
That's a bizarre optional feature to have; it's tantamount to having a "blindly reorder logic" function that sorts your source alphanumerically.
Or remove javascript entirely. It's a damn block of text with zero interactive content. Why would you ever need javasccript for that?
No numpad is an ergonomic benefit. Your mouse is closer so you don't have to move your hand as far.

The best way to have a numpad if you really need one, I have found, is to have a separate one like how the Microsoft Sculpt keyboard does it.
yes, some jail is warranted, but the magnitudes of the crimes make a difference. a few days for a watch. a couple years maybe (what the defense had hoped for) for millions of dollars, because that represents stealing a few dozen person-years of economic output (not to mention the non-monetary aspects).
I have this constant internal argument of where do I go to live. I work in a city with an outdated tech scene, and very little vertical growth. The local tech managers and developers are trying. But the local government is raising taxes, making it a non lucrative way to start or run a business in the city area.

As someone who has been primarily remote for the past four years, part of this seems like an unnecessary argument. On the other hand my roles are largely short term contracts. So when ever my contract ends I think about moving to another city.

But I'm only looking at a very minor pay bump in the range of 10 to 20k. While rent doubles at the lowest option, and regular expenses increase by ~15%.

The other trend I'm seeing is the rise of reverse commuting. Due to the aforementioned tax issue in my area. A lot of companies are moving out to the suburbs. I've seen really interesting job opportunities. But the distance/travel is an issue. I'm not traveling four hours a day to job, and having to walk several miles along an interstate to get to work.

As someone who can't drive for medical reasons. I feel I have a very limited number of cities in America I can live in. I prefer walking, and transit. Going out several times a week. I'd love to live in NYC. But fiscally it doesn't make sense right to me. Only 10k more than my current role, but double the rent and higher cost of living.

Of the cities with transit. NYC hands down wins in regards to better opportunities to my current city. But at the cost of work life balance, and fiscal independence.

So I can see this. I know a number of old co-workers who have moved to a more rural environment. From a big city environment to reduce cost of living, or stress of city living. Or move outside the city to a nearby suburb.

Being a general short term contractor. I've worked in a few of these super star cities on site. Trying to help boot strap a new team. They have an issue finding "talent", paying well below market rate with really hard work and long hours. I try and sell them on partial remote, or full remote. Which isn't a stretch because they have a full staff-aug team in another time zone. But the hire has to be on site.

I also know a number of co-workers adhering to fatFIRE. There are a number of people who are tired of this rat race, and just want to be done with it. It's something that needs to be addressed, but there isn't an easy solution.

http://money.com/money/5241566/vicki-robin-financial-indepen...
> So while the most Gitlab can do is fire Candice, or censor communications she makes on their platform; in China, such dissension could get you locked up, exiled, or disappeared.

This is a bit of a short-sighted argument, because in our times, pretty much everyone lives beyond their means, from paycheque to paycheque; if you're a tech worker in SF, you're probably not an exception to this rule, either. So, if you suddenly find yourself out of a job, and potentially unhireable due to your unwillingness to compromise on issues such as these, then how's that much different from being locked up, exiled or disappeared? And you have to remember, Epstein didn't kill himself, either.
I'd say most of the FAANG engineers I know cash out their RSUs when they vest, or within about a year or two after.
Changing jobs is only way to fix this.
Level(3) DNS (4.2.2.1) Spoofing All Domains
Has been like that for quite a while, it has up and lows with the 90s marking a winter season for AI, and now the hype machine is on full steam again, until people find out again a lot of it is marketing BS to get funding. Then the research that is worthwhile gets mixed up with that, go into a lack of funding and in 30 years or so it's back on full hype again.
I'm mostly typing on Corne keyboards now; a split kit keyboard with 42 keys, so still considered 40%, but fewer keys than most other 40% boards. (so you have to learn to cope with not having dedicated arrow keys, for example)

I can't imagine ever going back to a non-split keyboard; for me, it's a much better typing position to have my hands shoulder-width apart rather than squeezed together. I think that's more important than the "every key is within reach of the home row" argument for the 40% size in particular (although I've kind of fallen in love with the 40% size, but I could cope with going to a larger keyboard again better than I'd cope with going to a non-split, I think)

But more than that, as a programmer, there's something meditative about maintaining the custom hardware I use to do my job. Double-checking the soldering, tuning the firmware, taking it apart to polish the components and then putting it back together again, etc. Reminds me of the Zen of Motorcycle Maintenance, in a lot of ways.
For sure. There are counter-examples however - fully unsupervised machine translation for resource poor languages comes to mind and is increasingly getting business applications.

I think that in the future, more and more clever unsupervised approaches will be the path forward in huge AI advances. We've essentially run out of labeled data for a large variety of tasks.
Animal testing is not now, or has ever been, considered vegan. Veganism isn't a diet.
RSUs are not the same as private equity in a startup. While they are subject to market fluctuations they can be liquidated immediately on vesting (annually then frequently quarterly). They are taxed just like regular income... because they are regular income.

As to how many engineers are liquidating at vest? It’s honestly the most sensible option to diversify quickly since you don’t want your investment, savings and income all tied up in one company.
Any leads?
Yeesh, I can't read assembly. Is there somewhere I learn what all movsxd, lea, cmp, ja, and friends do in plain english?
Same problem with your Back4App/Parse links.
After working on high voltage circuits as a lineman for a couple years, and currently writing software for industrial machinery and regularly working in industrial machining cabinets, I think that applying the same level of precaution used for mining to doing minor work on a 100V circuit is being a bit overzealous. To be fair, you're never going to get hurt by being superfluously safe, but at the same time I don't expect my dog is going to flip the circuit breaker on me, so I'm probably not going to resort to LO-TO when doing some minor electrical work when home alone.
I know I have tinnitus in one ear, it happened at a nightclub when I stood to close to a speaker. This was 10 years ago.

I'm perfectly happy with my condition, it's not getting worse and it's not preventing me from doing anything day to day.

What good would getting my hearing tested now do me in the future?
I use the Diverge 3 + Khaili box whites as my daily driver. It has more layers than I personally could ever effectively utilize. Absolutely love this setup.

I picked it up over the Ergodox. After having used my co-worker's erogdox repeatedly, I did not like how far the thumb cluster was and this simply brought it closer which is what the author is explaining with the minimal amount of movement.

I don't like 40% keyboards because I am still traditionalist in that numbers are still a first class key. Basically, what am I willing to give up and allow to be put into a cord/layer?

If I could, I would bring the arrow keys back out, but the design's cost goes up a lot when that happens.
Dirt-Road America
> So if a person from Europe starts to lecture you on guns in the USA, you're going to get a little defensive at their incorrect assumptions, even if you agree with their stance in general.

That is very much unlike, say, "defending all American gun laws to a T, without mentioning at all what you actually think, because they made you do it for being unfair or mistaken about something". And where that is the case, how you say things doesn't really matter, you won't get anyhwere either way. So you might as well be blunt, and if they want to correct something, let them. If they want to make excuses about being offended and not correct anything, it stands as is.

I know, because I get that all the time, when Americans say "Germany doesn't have freedom of speech" or such, because glorifying Nazism is illegal. I don't start pretending Germany is perfect in response to that, I quote them some basics about freedom of speech, stuff about American law and whatnot, and try to explain how there is no "totally unrestricted" free speech anywhere there is a listener. Then they always (no exceptions so far, probably because intelligent Americans don't even say "there is no freedom of speech in Germany" to begin with) drift off into nonsense or fall silent, because their brain seems to be unable to process what I'm telling them.
I rolled that around in my brain for a decade and eventually decided people who commit financial crimes need to have a day in prison tacked onto their sentence for every $1000 they steal. Under that scheme Jeff Davis dies in prison. And that shouldn't be anything we should care about.
Onenote.

For everything, literally capturing meeting notes, screenshots everything. A local notebook but can sync to the cloud
Are you on Linux with an Nvidia GPU? I fixed that bug recently. https://crbug.com/535392 On other platforms requestAnimationFrame has been synced to the monitor for a long time, in Chrome at least.
I have been looking for a shelf that’s as close to 50” wide and 10” deep as possible. No search on any site that allows you to search for such a thing as far as I can tell.
Predicting the Future of the Web (2020 and 2025) [video]
Exactly. Some of those colored unlabeled keyboards look stunning on the desk. Why should a keyboard be purely a utility and not part of the room design.

I own an unlabeled keyboard and I mildly regret it. I have no issues typing with it but I struggle with special keys like trying to find ^ or f5. Typing 2fa codes are a pain. If I was buying a new keyboard I would get a labeled one but with no numpad
> If it runs on your computer, your computer gives you better information about what it is than the network possibly can.

Except if that computer is in your TV, or is in an iOS-based device, or in another piece of hardware.

> The problem is that you don't control or trust a device you've plugged into your network.

Yes. I would like to use the device and filter out any of its harmful effects -- the best of both worlds really. Same reason I run an ad-blocker on my browser.

> Either way: DoH is a red herring.

I agree. My point was not to single out DoH in this scenario. It's just one more way in which we've lost control of our local network. When it's not our network, it's a benefit. The same reason why use we SSL.

> It's making you aware of a problem you most definitely already had with untrusted devices

Oh definitely. We used to have at least this as a last line of defense. And now we won't. I think it's good to be aware of that. I'm not saying that we shouldn't use DoH or the benefits don't outweigh the costs -- but it should be noted that there are costs.

Honestly, I never considered the personal costs of all these good security practices until a cloud hardware device I own had the company go out of business. Their security was very good -- all SSL, pinned certificates, etc. There's no way to emulate the cloud services it connects to because there's no way it will connect to anything other than it's own services. It's just a black box on my network. I can see what DNS queries it uses but that's not very much help...
Yeah, after doing a few years of VoIP I pretty much learned the same. Yes, there are multiple methods of traversal, yes they are sound in theory. Yet stuff breaks all the time on consumer routers.
It being a different cut by a different cloth is a big draw for me if I'm honest (I am getting tired of reading image heavy medium blogs), and I really dig the overall aesthetic it gives off. I personally like the wider text, I wish more sites did it, although I would agree that maybe 80-100 chars per line would be more readable overall after seeing that comparison instead of the full 120. I also like how minimal the header and footers are, instead of being greeted by a full 1920x1080 image and having to scroll a whole page to the content it's right there ready for me.

Not that I think every blog should adapt to this style specifically, but I really appreciate it being what it is myself.
I sort of started my career in finance like this. Never sought or intended to be on finance, but I could identify and solve problems the firm(s) I worked for that they didnt even know they had. Used to quip "when I'm doing my job well, noone knows that I exist. The moment I fuck up, everyone knows so exist."
University required one year of Latin, or two years of French, German, or Spanish. I opted to go for the 'easy' route... and took Latin. Fast forward when our company was expanding into EMEA, and had a coding gig in France. I spoke no French, the guy I was working with spoke no English, but both of us could do parsable Latin. The code comments as we worked together were priceless when the next wave of folks came in.
"But do you have a flag?"
Microsoft's new road map for Cortana
Square footage cost realities, contract negotiations, market norms in price, such things...

Im not saying they DO have such insight, but if they have zero, or negative insight - well, then it goes more to say about those who invested in them doesnt it?
OT: Thank you guys for the work you've been doing. Been using ZT for years and looking forward to root server decentralization.
If we’re being honest with ourselves, few (if any) home owner is ever going to go through with locking circuit breakers. Because it’s completely overkill.

In the Real World, you’ll just tell your wife/kids/roommates “Hey don’t touch the fuse panel until I’m done doing this thing” and it’s not an issue.
I don't look at the outside of my car when driving, but appreciate what it looks like when driving.
Yes you can report problems with the road network and people update GMaps manually. And up until a couple of years ago users could do it themselves, but they took it down for some reason.

Changes to other types of places can still be done manually by GMaps users themselves, and other users can evaluate that, and I guess if it's a "controversial" (low rep user did the change or people voted against it) a Google employee evaluates it. And if you're beyond certain level as a GMaps user you can get most changes published immediately.
This online reference is helpful: https://www.felixcloutier.com/x86/index.html

For something more formal, the official Intel programming manuals describe what each instruction does in painstaking detail.
BTW folks who haven't tried VS Code SSH remote yet, it's _very_ impressive. For all intents and purposes you get "local" dev experience on a remote box, connected over SSH. Python code complete and cross-referencing is much smarter than what you'd usually get in Vim, and if you want Vim keybindings, you can have that too. I still use Vim for a lot of things, but when I need to work on a large codebase and need better code navigation I find myself reaching for VS Code more and more. Kudos to the team, very impressive product, especially the remote stuff. I've never before seen anything as seamless as this.
Not sure plain, but still:
http://kipirvine.com/asm/gettingstartedvs2010/

https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-sdm
It's a jekyll site automatically built with github pages. I personally can absolutely see the trade off of not having to manage and build your own website just to post some thoughts of yours, especially with the modern internet where a few kb of javascript is really probably not going to make too much of a difference to the majority of your audience.
I see. Instead of modeling the complexities, you simply record the choices picked by the adversarial entities in play.
Features of Tape Measures
Considering that the Impossible Burger is not vegan (it was tested on animals), the buns and sauces it comes with are not vegan, and the burger is cooked alongside dead meat, absolutely nothing about this is aimed at vegans. It's a plant-based burger for meat eaters. I very much doubt that the man behind the lawsuit is a legit vegan as this is beyond dumb.
This is fascinating. For some reason it makes me really appreciate the modern economy and mobility when someone can choose their job and home based on a video game community.
You could just buy new keycaps and switch them on your current keyboard.
Yazdani's criterion
Seems like there was a time when "machine" was the term grant committees wanted to hear, they were perhaps fed up with the theory and wanted more tangible stuff. So the theorists branded their stuff as machines. See support vector machine, kernel machines...

Similar to how "dynamic programming" was coined to please funding agencies.
Node.js runs on V8, so if you add the DOM and HTML... you have, essentially a browser.
I think that's a romaniticized view of Latin, probably helped by the fact that real Latin speakers are long dead.

For every Cicero and Virgil, there were a thousand who had said "Fuck I got shitfaced at that whorehouse and I'm fucking sure that bitch took my purse, if mom finds out I'm dead LOL FML," or something like that, except in impeccable classical Latin.
This is something I don't really understand about the open source community. If something's not being worked on right now then it's seen as useless, regardless of the current state of it.

There are plenty of libraries, utilities etc. that haven't seen an update in years, because they're done and there's nothing more to add or take away.
// quae est infernum
You can see this in the recent selections of places like Amazon HQ2. Under the headlines there are big companies, huge organizations, doing extraordinary technical work that exist in places like Columbus Ohio, Oak Ridge Tennessee, Tri-Cities Washington, Northern Virginia, etc.

The pay is good for the areas, the work is incredibly challenging and interesting, and the quality of living can be much much better than squeezing out living in a box in the Bay Area or NYC.

In fact, Amazon HQ1 is in a more or less underserved city (Seattle) and Portland, OR ain't bad if you're on the West Coast.
My understanding is that Sweden under no circumstances would have been able to extradite him to the US, and certainly not with less difficulty than extradition from the UK.

The fact that Assange fled Sweden for the UK, skipped bail, and then concocted a Swedish conspiracy theory is a bit on the implausible side.

>He was never formally charged

My understanding is that the Swedish system does not allow formal charges in abstentia.
Mind blowing paper: Chang, T. T.(1988). Indo-European vocabulary in Old Chinese: A new thesis on the emergence of Chinese language and civilization in the Late Neolithic Age. In Sino-Platonic Papers eds Mair, V. http://sino-platonic.org/complete/spp007_old_chinese.pdf

I'm don't know enough about Indo-European reconstructions to make my own opinions on what's exposed on the this side and the paper is a bit dated but examples are very compelling.
This is a real annoyance of mine. None of the real nice mechanical keyboards are available in a fullsize layout. A numpad is NOT negotiable for me...several creative apps I regularly use use the numpad for control (and no, the regular number row keys ARE NOT mapped to the same commands).
Makes sense. But computers have a lot of interesting applications so maybe something will come out. For example gaming in the beginning, in 70s and 80s still attracted a lot of teenagers.
Azure and Office 365 Outage
> DoH can traverse even the most locked down network over the same HTTPS channel as any other web traffic.

Given there is a virtually unlimited number of DoH servers you can trust available. With only a couple of servers available it is easy to block them.
do you clear your cookies and html5 storage? That should wipe any personalization that's happening, but the ads will become very generic then.

You can also block ads (Ublock/Umatrix)
Also note that poetic forms and loosened syntax go and in hand.