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You don't really need quantum mechanics for this argument, though. Even in a non-quantum world, non-linear and, in particular, chaotic systems effectively prevent you from predicting the future. While you could do it in theory, in practice you would need do know every single variable very precisely because the outcome of chaotic systems can change drastically due to a small change in initial conditions (which is colloquially known as the butterfly effect). Quantum mechanics just makes this even harder or downright impossible (think of determining the exact values of the wave function or predicting the outcome of measurements). But even if we did know all the variables, we'd then still need to simulate every single atom to predict the future, so we'd basically be building another universe. So, you're right, in that sense the universe is the most efficient computer simulating our physical reality.
Pawn Storm APT conducted spear-phishing attacks before zero-days was fized
Am I the only one who react when they write in the article

"Although more men than women take their own lives, the rate of suicide has nearly doubled among middle-aged white women since 1999..."

And the whole article is about women who take suicide. The writer is a woman but this is typical for big publishers like Washington Press. They very seldom write about mens problems and challenges.
Your comment is not very clear. Stories can´t be downvoted. I guess that you are asking that the story not to be flagged.

The problem is that this story is 100% political, so it's off-topic according to the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> What to Submit

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. [...] If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

And there has been a few big stories in HN about the current(last?) presidential race in USA. Usually in this kind of cases the mods allow a few exceptions, but only a few.

--

Also, you posted 4 of the 6 top level comments in this thread. It's bad netiquette. And the comments are not about the article, but about related political topics.
GM isnt exactly the shining beacon you should follow and listen, they did get scammed out of $1B on Cruise after all.
Alternatively, "Ack".
No nightmares. It's result of propaganda, which pictured Trump as pro-russian, so some, which are susceptible to propaganda, are in worry because of war with Russia.

I, personally, welcome republicans. Ukraine is republic, by Constitution.
It doesn't really make that much difference whether the city is sprawled or not. People move to other cities.

Of the friends who I used to hang around as a student in Helsinki region (Finland), one lives in Singapore, one lives in Jakarta, one in Turku, and two in Tampere, one still in the Helsinki region where I am too. I spent a stint in Beijing in between.

We do stay in touch over Facebook etc, and see perhaps once per year on holidays or in family parties, but is it really a problem of urban sprawl that I don't see them so often?
I was going to mention that the enforcement cost is largely borne by the copyright holder, so there's a built-in tax there, but don't forget mechanisms like the DMCA provisions are cheap and can be applied with a heavy hand.

There's a solution to orphaned works: Reduce copyright to something like 25-50 years (plus life of creator?) and allow for one renewal, which requires a filing fee, for another 25-50 years. That's it. Suddenly all these orphaned works are liberated because it's not worth it for people to file.

Taxing based on valuation is absolutely, monstrously ridiculous. Many people write short fiction they publish online. Are you going to suggest they need to get an appraisal on their book, and then pay taxes on it? How many millions of people are going to review this and ensure that everything's tallied up correctly.

Orphaned works are a problem, but taxing them is not a solution.
Worst experience with a python toolkit ever. I hope new versions fix all bugs and issues.
If this is notation then what does an implementation of notation really mean? What do you get when you run Leibniz code?
Show HN: Tap curl in your editor before it gets to sh
The tax solves nothing, just as Vancouver's tax won't actually address the problem. It'll just generate more tax revenue.

Intellectual property is such a vast, ethereal concept that even pinning it down is damned near impossible.

That picture your kid drew that's on your fridge, do you pay tax on that? What if you put it on Instagram? What if your picture goes viral? What if it's co-opted by Wal-Mart and put on a bag, so you file a cease and desist? What if you make your own merchandise? There's such a slippery scale here that to tax everything, unilaterally, is absurd, and pinning down when something is impractical.
You can also easily explain to students how a piece of complex software works, at the same level of detail. The point is biology is vastly more complex than any software humans have ever written. Evolution selects for spaghetti code.
As interesting as it looks, I would hate to have to dust or clean some of the contraptions made from these blocks…
That's an ass-kicker of a story. Chiang is awesome.
Like others are saying here, the branch named "master" is always deployable.

Feature branches are named after a ticket. Pull requests are across branches in the same repo, not across repos. (It's marginally easier to collaborate on feature branches if they're all in the same repo.)

We don't (yet) do full continuous deployment, so many feature branches get grouped together before a release. Our strategy is to test* each feature independently and then merge all the tickets together to a branch named "staging". The staging branch then gets run against some extra regression/acceptance tests and whatever manual tests we may want. If they pass we merge to master, tag, and deploy.

Seems fine so far. Specifics about our tests and deployment process drive the Git workflow more than anything else.

*Run the test suite, test manually, whatever.
Not all users may use Amazon or S3. This means that if we were to build something requiring S3 we'd cut off those users.

Building some kind of generic storage layer with multiple backends (S3/S4/etc) would result in us only maintaining whatever we happen to use for GitLab.com. It could also complicate maintenance too much.
Hi,
Time off might not always help. The burnout feeling will resurface when you go back to work. I am not able to give you any concrete suggestions as there are no specifics in the question.

With a little bit of conscious effort, we can channel burnout into helping our betterment. Try to accept that it is a normal reaction of your self trying to tell you something. Calm down a bit and try to work through your feelings. What is causing the depressing feeling? The lack of structure? Uncertainty of a problem? Lack of recognition? Workplace environment? Very little social interactions?

If you can isolate the problem, you can look for fixes. I believe everyone in the tech industry burns out once in a while. It is often indicative of a lack of balance somewhere. The trick is to, with time and practice, learn the triggers and symptoms of an approaching burnout. Then, you can address the issue before it grows into a full-fledged problem.
That's why I wrote https://github.com/ory-am/hydra
That's not the point. You know why Google removed them from the search results.
>>...the python programming _language_ as documented in the _langauge_ reference. There is no official language specification but the _langugage_ reference.

Hope you proof-read your code better than you do your prose!
It's very unlikely. Quantum computing is just a bunch of random generators (very fast generators indeed) with bunch of filters on top of them. They good for searching a solution in broad space, but that is all. It's reinvention of analog computing with electric models, but using new tech.
Seems like an app would be antithetical to first two conditions?
The video on https://blogs.oracle.com/cloud/entry/oracle_bare_metal_cloud... is interesting. They rent the entire machine, with all cloud management software running outside the server.
Not op, but

Computing events (so many stereotypically smelly antisocial people)

Fight sports (many wannabe criminals and general low lifes)

Ecological gardening (lots of self righteous hippies)

Then again, I guess if there are so many people I'm not fond of interacting with, maybe it's not them...

(to be fair there are also people in the above groups that are normal, but they're minorities)
Heck an iPad Air 2 is fast and cheap, if you just need a terminal, or anything else. Pro is good if you use stylus or need ridiculous power.
I't funny that so many people assume intelligent beings who build space ships capable of interstellar travel would need our help with understanding human language.
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OAuth 1.0 is often implemented somewhat wrong too. I've only worked with OAuth 1.0 so I can't speak for 2.0, but the I think main problem is that social networks don't 100% stick to the specification, so you first have to figure out what exactly is different (at which point the guy who originally coded the thing that I had inherited had already given up), and then you either have to figure out how to get the library you're using to work anyway, or just implement it yourself. All of these tasks have pitfalls.
Nowadays most people (most people reading this at least I suppose) live in a metropolis (SF, LA, NY, London, Paris...). If you're an adult wit a family, chances are that you're living in some suburb because of housing prices.

I live one hour or more of traffic jams away from these places where people cultivates their friendships (trendy bars, inner city restaurants, concert venues, etc).

Almost all of my friends seem to spend their time around République in Paris. All in all, either you're living in Paris intra muros and it's a few minutes of metro away, or you're simply not getting there at all (I myself go there not more than two or three times a year).

Most of the time and understandably, I lack any motivation to spend more than 3 hours to have the chance of having a talk with a friend around a coffee, or even a dinner. It's 25 km away, but as far as I'm concerned it's as out of reach as Marseilles. Unsurprisingly, I go to République about as often as I go to Marseilles.

So either it's a large party with many people, or I don't go. No more quick interactions with friends, it's just too much work.
Is there a terse bird's-eye view explanation what Material Design is from a programmer's perspective? I tried approaching Google's documentation more than once, but, invariably, got completely overwhelmed every time.
Trump: Twitter helped me win but I'll be 'restrained' now
Ask HN: How could I optimize YouTube to show more relevant videos?
Sometimes when I want to learn something, I'd open Youtube, do my search query, glance the results and choose 1-2 videos to watch. However, when I've learnt the stuff, I necessarily don't want to see more videos related to that subject. For example, I saw a video explaining how car clutch works. After watching that, it's not like I want to see 20 more videos about car clutches explained by 20 different people. Yet, those videos seem to pop up in the recommended section.

Things I've tried:
1) Use incognito mode for the subjects that I'm interested only once
2) Enhance the recommended section by removing the non-interesting channels from the list
3) Remove non-interesting videos from the search and watch history
4) Do queries to fake interests

Unfortunately, none of these seem to work. Almost everytime I open Youtube, I cannot find the videos I'd be interested in. I'm not sure want I want to see but most of the time it's hardly anything that is offered.
I did not realize they were on Azure until I read this comment. GitLab post did not mention it, why did you then?
> Qt is not open source

Not only is Qt open source, it is also free software according to FSF. Core Qt and most modules are released under the LGPL, the rest under the GPL.

https://www.qt.io/licensing/

Qt even has a binding poison-pill promise that will make the code BSD-licensed should Qt (the company) stop releasing it. See https://www.kde.org/community/whatiskde/Software_License_Agr... and https://www.kde.org/community/whatiskde/kdefreeqtfoundation....
You stick a copyright notice on things so people know who to contact if they need to license it. That clarifies ownership, it does not establish it.

> I don't see any reason, however, that I need that protection for every single thing that I create.

This is the social network problem. When the network starts to co-opt copyrights, demanding they're able to license the work you submit to them for any purpose, for any reason, without compensation, people understand that's a form of property theft and fight back.

The problem with "intellectual property" is it comes in forms both inconsequential and profound, and in the middle is a very, very grey area. There's been flippant comments on Reddit that have turned into screenplays. There's been stuff posted on Instagram and Pinterest that turned into a line of merchandise. These things have a way of growing in importance when you're not even looking.

Like code, where a quick throw-away hack might actually turn out to be a big breakthrough and gain popularity. This is why we have license like GPL, MIT, and CC that describe how your work can be used.

You're talking about a pre 1970 world where copyrights had to be registered, and honestly, that sucks. Can you imagine having to get each and every revision of your code officially copyrighted? What about someone stealing your idea you write about on Medium, or ripping your content wholesale and publishing a book. It's not stealing if it's not copyrighted, but thankfully it is. Automatically.
For context, check out this 'Science International' video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fF8vLUEp29E

If you're of a certain age, you'll remember this series from when you are a kid, they talked about 'all the future things'. Except almost none of it came true.

The future is hard to predict.

Maybe they will make some progress in 12-18 months in Quantum, we we are a long way off from seeing anything working, I believe.

The Crytpo implications alone are pretty crazy.
Wake me up when they've successfully thawed an otherwise healthy person after a period of a year.

Until then I'm going to insist it's a cash grab because it's completely unproven.
Oh, I don't have too much of an opinion on multi-winner systems right now---apart from the practical observation that the post-war German systems seems to produce appropriately boring consensus politicians. (But I highly doubt it's an particularly optimal system.)

I'll look into it, thanks.

My note was about single-winner systems.
Oh, it's the Lite model, that explains it! The layout is really cool, a pity it doesn't use Topre switches.
I think this is the key. Given that the game is winner-take-all, maximising your expected value isn't necessarily the right way to go. To take an extreme example, suppose I had a magic strategy that gave me a value of 1 every few throws and a lousy number most other times. That might give me a good expected value, but I'd still lose most rounds.

So what's the right objective? Trying to beat your opponent's median score, so that you win more than half the time?

Edit: I think you're on the right track, but I'm not sure I believe that you will lose more than half the time if you land below your opponent's expected value. I think that assumes their distribution of scores is non-skewed, which is not obvious to me.
Have you tried D?
Where can I find the game put moves? watching a 3 hours movie on the site isn't that good.
Nostalgia perhaps?

Russia has it even worse---they went from world wide (perceived) number 2 and scary antagonist to `also-ran in decline'.
Node.js to C through C++
Continuous integration AKA trunk based development is the workflow you want to have. Ensure you meet the prerequisites first though (reliable automated tests, solid code reviews, feature flags, etc).

To be precise, small feature branches are perfectly fine. They are meant to be reviewed and squashed into master ("trunk") in a few hours to a few days maximum.

Squashing instead of merging has a big advantage of being able to quickly revert the changes if things go awry despite all best practices in place.

PS Avoid gitflow and similar workflows as they introduce leaps and thus risk. As everything in software engineering, you want your workflow to be as incremental as possible.
Most superconducting qubits, such as the "Transmons" used by Google and various other labs are made of Aluminium, as this is a material which has good properties and can be easily deposited using e.g. evaporation-based methods (i.e. heat Aluminium in a vacuum so it evaporates and gets deposited on the surface of a chip that you put nearby). The microwave circuits on the chips are typically made out of Niobium (another superconductor), which is not very suited for making qubits but which provides very good properties for building large-scale structures such as coplanar waveguides.

To fabricate a qubit, normally one first deposits Niobium on a Saphire/Silicon wafer and then etches structures into this using photo lithography. Afterwards, the Aluminium qubits get deposited using so-called shadow evaporation technique, where you create two layers of Aluminium separated by a thin insulating barrier that is created by first depositing a single layer of Aluminium, oxidizing it and then depositing another layer of Aluminium at a different angle. This process is quite finicky and the yield of working qubits you get out of it is (or at least was at the time I worked on this) rather low. Adapting techniques from conventional semiconductor manufacturing (were error rates are < 1^-9 per transistor) seems therefore very promising. So far it seems that there are still many hurdles to overcome for this, though the fabrication methods get more reliable every year.
Unless you are batman.
Show HN: A Firefox Extension “Quick Update Checker for Hacker News”
I guess that's not as interesting or as impressive as others Show HN but this is my modest contribution to a problem that I think I'm probably not the only one to face. Opening a new tab to check HN a dozen times a day can be painful so here is an alternative.
It's actually a lot of people. The most common diseases are genetic in nature, and there's so many of them in the long tail that the combined effect of these is staggering.

It won't be long before they've mapped out the genome to the point where tools like CRISPR allow them to swap out broken genes or re-enable genes that were erroneously disabled. When that happens there's going to be literally thousands and thousands of diseases that go from a death sentence to an inconvenience.

Some conditions aren't immediately fatal, but you are living on borrowed time, and those people might benefit by being put in a form of suspended animation. Those faced with the choice between toughing it out to a death that's going to be undignified and painful and, where applicable, some kind of assisted suicide could have a third choice: Sleep it out and hope it works. If it doesn't, you still have the other options, but the decay could be slowed down enough you've bought some time.

If done right, torpor or something like it would be very inexpensive. You'd just need someone to monitor vital signs, no big deal, as there's no expensive cryogenic equipment involved. Just a cozy place to rest that's kept at a comfortable temperature and fresh air. I can imagine this is like the most chill "coffin hotel" you've ever been in since people only wake up once every few months.
I just don't think India is ready for collapse. It was thriving economy sustaining life of 70 crore Indians.

Now they created this panic n confusion n artificial scarcity. Artificial scarcity helps create black funding.
How many scientific papers just aren’t true?
In a nutshell, Material Design's philosophy is around using animations and transitions to enhance the user's experience and their perspective on the interactions with components. An example is when a user clicks on a button there will be a ripple effect. It's more of a spec with the UX and guidelines around it.
I did not open the link to see no spoilers.
Zero-allocation Trie Traversal
Why not? We can build space ships (technically, even interstellar ones - they'll eventually get there!) and we barely understand some of our own languages.
Some would call the cops, but this still isn't the same as having different people in there from weekend to weekend.

In the AirBNB situation, the police could be giving a citation to a different person from weekend to weekend. If it were a traditional rental, the landlord could force the offenders out: But I'm not sure if there is much legal recourse for a series of short-term rentals being loud.

And some of the noise isn't such that you can get legal help. Loud vehicles and people banging luggage up and down stairs is one of those disturbing things that is over by the time you call the cops. What then?
"a white person's viewpoint of education."

A) This is a little racist :)

B) "Education = Daycare" is easily proven, right from the article -> Finnish kids don't start school until they are 7 years old (!) and they are #1 in the world for 'outcomes'!

So it would seem that 'doing nothing put let kids play, in a semi-structured way' is equivalent to sending them to school.

Ergo, one could argue that 90% of 'early childhood education' is, in fact 'daycare'.

That your friend 'runs here kids like soldiers' - simply means she has a lot of control - it does not mean they are necessarily learning. Possibly they are learning more self-discipline? And other behaviours, but I wouldn't take that it means more 'learning'.

As long as they are socializing, maybe learning some words, some basic reading - the rest is playtime.

As for your 'racist' (I mean, it's kind of racist, certainly near 'dog whistle territory') comment - this is the reason people voted for Trump - when someone makes a comment somewhere about something innocuous - and then someone says 'racist'. It would be funny if it weren't true. Look where we are now.
I sent you an invite. Happy you want to join us.
Sorry, I probably wasn't expressing clearly. Yeah, that'd be interesting, haven't seen anything about that yet.
Please tell me your email address and I will send you an invite right away
Please give me your email address and I will send you an invite
> back in the early days ram and cpu was pretty much equal in clock

Not "pretty much". On most early system they were clocked exactly the same. That includes things like the C64 and th Amiga, where there was no cache on the basic models (on Amiga models with 68020 or above there was some cache).

On the C64 in particular, timing things to the clock cycle was essential for some demo effects. E.g. if you used a hardware sprite, it'd "cost" the CPU access to RAM for two clock cycles per scanline that you had to account for if you wanted certain effects to work, for example.
While I would say that I have fewer close social encounters in my 30s that I did in my 20s, I also have the hindsight of realizing how superficial many of my friendships were when I was younger. I prefer having fewer but more meaningful friendships as I've gotten older.
It's more you want your own place to start your family, but the only (reasonable) available housing for first time buyers is available in the burbs