skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Replying to your first paragraph.

You're casually ignoring how it got to eigenstate a in the first place. The particle is in an eigenstate a because it was acted on by the A operator.

If it was in an eigenstate b prior to this, or any other state that isn't a single eigenstate of A, the action of operator A disturbed that original state.

The HUP itself is a direct consequence of measuring the uncertainty of two noncommuting operators, and its derivation is a fairly straightforward, though a bit annoying, mathematical result.
That's not true, I've been fined for same thing.
Ehhhh. I work with batteries and have worked with electric engines in the past. When an ICE vehicle breaks down, or doesn't work, or goes fast, or goes slow, we know why. With batteries and electric engines, when stuff doesn't work... nobody really knows why.

Copied from another comment I made on HN:

Nobody really understands lithium-ion batteries. One production run might have substantially higher or lower capacity. Some batteries might explode. Some batteries are high discharge and some are low discharge. The "explanation" for all of these things is 'heat'.

Imagine that happening to any other industry (for example the auto industry.)

- "Why did my car just explode!?" "Heat"

- "Why does this car last a tenth the lifetime of this car?" "Heat"

- "Why does this car go a thousand times faster than any others?" "Heat"

- "Why is this entire production run of cars not working?" "Heat"

People say "heat" for two reasons: 1) because nobody understands li-ion batteries and 2) because yes, the real answer does have something to do with heat.

Batteries are one of the most important industries and critical to every company on HN. But the state of the art of batteries is putting together random metals with a bunch of random chemicals and watching which ones don't explode.

Imagine talking to the CEO of Boeing: "We just did our millionth test, engines made of cheese and wings made of coconut shells. It crashed during takeoff, of course. We haven't had any improvements in over a decade, but we're sure we'll get there eventually - we've spent billions on research so far. Wanna come watch test 1,000,001? We're trying engines made of cheese and potato-chip wings next!"
Completely agree with this. Google suite has struggled to gain adoption in my past 3 companies because of a number of little things it doesn't quite get in parity with Office. It's a (rare?) example of when the 80% or even 95% solution isn't enough.

Also, few products are so ingrained in a user's workflow as Office. Many professionals have been using the suite for over a decade(s), so the switching cost is high.
Unbanked use prepaid visa cards to purchase things online. This just gets rid of the "tax" incurred when buying prepaid visa cards. Stat that would be interesting to see is smart phone penetration into this group of people.

Also unbanked can purchase amazon gift cards with cash.
Someone in there is using Vivaldi? Wat?
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> it's much easier to spend 100 dollars meaningfully than a 100 billion

Is that true? $100 is such a small amount of money that you're completely at the mercy of the supply chain. When you have $100B to spend, you are the supply chain (or at least a major part of it). Big money always makes the rules. They're either making money off of you now or planning to in the future.

Now you might say, "but wait, plenty of products/companies have done poorly because I wouldn't give them that $100." But that's not true. In reality, product success is always in terms of big money -- it's just spread out over enough consumers who individually have the $100 buy/don't-buy option.

Another objection: "yeah, but I always hear about big money wasting $30M (for example) on something stupid." Maybe so, but remember the scale. $30M waste on $100B is the same as $0.03 on $100. Moreover, the stupid thing they're wasting money on may not be that stupid -- you just might not be privy to all the details.

All that may sound like it's bad, but I think it's pretty great system. I sell my products at a markup to get small money, then have the discretion to buy or not buy somebody else's stuff with the money I made. En masse, I form a part of the "big money" consumer group at Home Depot, Amazon, etc. that has power over the more centralized big money.
Our current benchmarks tell us what's happening after OS sends keystroke to the text editor and before we hand off rendering to the OS. This tool has potential to tell us what's happening outside these bounds.

I would like to see a visualization of the recorded sound, so that I can set the "input" frame to exactly when I hit the keyboard. I'll even pay to have this accurately aligned.

Good job so far!
What you said is correct but immediately raises the question "what's the value of that integration?" Obviously GM and Shell have been successful and profitable without being integrated, and it's not clear that merging would yield them advantages. Why do these advantages exist in the electric energy arena?
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In the truck/SUV/CUV segment, the engines are dated- sure. But that segment barely exists in other markets, at least compared to small cars. Particularly in Europe and Asia.

Regardless, I don't think it's a tech issue, but rather an image issue. Trying to sell hybrid trucks to Americans is like trying to feed boiled spinach to kids.
For countries that are cash heavy, it's a common way to pay for online services. Some examples:

Brasil Boletos: this is interesting as there are registered and unregistered versions of Boletos. With unregistered customers can pay any amount of money to it.

Taiwan has a similar system. You take vouchers to various stores (like 7-11 or the post office), pay cash, then it'll make its way to the online company.

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"If I close my eyes tight enough, the corruption will go away!"
And that even google-sourced devices have a very short lifecycle for OS and security updates. Google seem to be running under the assumption any phone over 12 months old is reaching the end of its usable life.
To the best of my understanding, Linux has the ability to add and remove drivers to the system. Android should have a package manager for these drivers to allow for updates in the same manor.
It is a fine line in race car driving. The very very fastest are usually not entirely smooth. Almost smooth. But even too smooth is much better than out of control. This may be a general truth.
Don't underestimate the value of dealerships, Tesla took two months to replace a friends cracked windscreen
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I think there is a shocking difference here. Windows install is, for all compatible devices:

1. Insert install disc/USB.
2. Boot to install disc.
3. Spam the next button.

Installing new Android OS versions manually often involves custom third party unlock tools from sketchy download sites.
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I don't know about the US but here in the U.K. prepaid credit cards have all but disappeared.
I don't think most people are complaining about gaining knowledge but the relevance of the test to job performance or the requirement to study whilst working and raising a family.

"... you wont be able to discover how to solve a problem if you don't have knowledge about the solution in advance."

Is simply false, whilst research is a skill all of its own it's most definitely possible to go off and learn key techniques when you need too. Relying on serendipity for knowledge to be useful is not very efficient after all.

At best the additional knowledge gained is a helpful side-effect.
I don't really understand it either.

I get Windows security updates on every damn computer I buy. Yes, the computer is pre-loaded with bloat, but I still get updates like everyone else.

Meanwhile, on Android, I mostly get nothing. What is so fundamentally different between PC and phone? Why is it so hard on mobile phones?
Getting people to physically visit their B&M store, for whatever reason, is hugely valuable.
> The better managers translated the quantitative metrics into qualitative guidance for their teams. The worse managers provided no such buffer and instead made their teams achieve metrics by any means necessary.

This seems like a key insight.

Metrics are key to good management – but metrics are for the managers, not for the teams. Managers that pass metrics directly down to their teams as goals aren't doing their jobs; they're trying to make their team do their job.

Maybe. Thoughts?
So I dont see how the quote ties in with your statements about Tesla knowing where to invest (=capex)
You can't wash your hands and blame everything on Satan. You are a human being with your own free will, responsible for your own choices. The legislators are morally responsible for the laws they support.
Fair. I would assert that one would only have to look as far as the parent article to get an indication of where things would go however. As others have said, adding metrics that become targets is bad, and in academia this usually turns into using publishing to determine who gets tenure. In this sense, professors are essentially non-union teachers and their promotions are based on random metrics.

I should also mention that we've already seen some of these effects in public schools with the "teaching to the tests" debate in which students are often subjected to a large number of standardized tests that are used to make funding decisions.

I think the problem is that in the end, any debate over schools at the federal level will always turn into something reminiscent of the gun regulation debate where neither side's argument is founded in reality and as such, the teachers will be the ones to suffer.
The problem kind of exist but the comparison is mostly bullshit -- or at least was until recently. Windows regularly breaks driver compat, even more so on Windows phone.

Only with Windows 10 Mobile they engineered a strong way to upgrade the OS without needing vendor intervention too much (or at all?), it is a shame Windows Mobile market share as fallen so low and Windows Mobile is not even a priority of MS anymore :/

On Linux side, some (most?) phone vendors are most of the time not supposed to distribute the kernel and their binary-only driver the way they do it, because most of those distributions are likely GPL violations. The sad thing is some high profile organisations (Linux Fondation comes to mind) don't give a fuck about licence compliance, which is insane given the technical side NEEDS licence compliance in order for the end result to work well and not be dangerous for end-users for a large part of the ecosystem. (Worse, the Linux Fondation happily accept obvious GPL infringers at the highest levels.)

Anyway the kernel part is a small part in an Android distribution, and I'm not sure anything is available to handle the security update problem, or that somebody is even working on it... The technical update model MS has chosen is the way to go and Google is endangering us all by having such a huge market share and not wanting to take any responsibility that should come with it. (It's even worse given how Android has reached this market share levels, using practices that would make look past MS ones as respectful of competition!)
Why doesn't the NYPD take a picture of the person, license, and car when they issue a ticket? Cameras are now really cheap and that would help solve problems with mistaken or forged identities.
«Surely this is the worst-of-the-worst kind of non-DRY code you can write, where you have to have two identical implementations in two different languages, but they also have to have other responsibilities? Even if you did write tests for both, you would have to make sure that the tests were testing the same things.»

It's always been somewhat common in client-server programming since the dawn of time. Even sometimes in the same language on both sides like many classic C/C++ game models where the client and server are intentionally kept at a remove and use different codebases. In the classic game architecture paradigm, the client can't be trusted, but you also want to make sure that the client responds as quickly as possible.

It's interesting to see some of those game architecture approaches returning to web development: things like "optimistic updates" in the Redux world are a very similar pattern to classic game state client/server management. Client reducers act as if the server-side action was carried out in advance of server response and server response corrects only if necessary.

I don't think I can comment that deeply on the rest of your post, but maybe the above digression helps a bit?
Thanks -- this is the explanation I thought was missing from the critique. In that case I agree.
The short answer is that phone hardware is all over the place .. x86/64 has actually made generic kernels (including Windows) possible by having a slew of very similar machines. You can't expect the same thing from ARM systems yet - each system has to be specially targeted.
If there is a law forbidding SSN for some things, it probably isn't being followed.

For driver's license numbers, I've been asked in multiple situations to show it (for banking and employment), and seen the number written down.
Yeah, I don't get it either. Maybe if you want a smaller denominatioin? I think gift cards start at $25.
Well amazon isn't really competing with kum & go (a gas station) or grocery stores (yet). CVS, I would also say not a big competition--you primarily go there when you need a couple of items quickly.

The value to them is they get a cut, of course.
The way managers are taught is that you can't improve upon a process unless you know exactly what to improve.

The trouble is, if you've started from a fallacy of that scale, you're already doomed.

Introducing any form of measurement can in itself change the behaviour of the system you're trying to measure.

Introducing any form of target will bias a system towards reaching that target, but not necessarily without incurring costs elsewhere.

Introducing measurements and setting targets based on them is not only not an automatic win, it can easily become a significant loss.
Email security vendors losing the battle?
Turns out, others beat me to this ages ago. There are already loads of scripts for automation of VPN's, proxies, etc. Search for Streisand, AutoVPN.

There are also many scripts, including Ansible playbooks to spin up Linode, DigitalOcean and AWS VPS's automatically.
they can't help themselves? short term gain, long term consequences
Ford also signed a deal with Blackberry's automotive division and will be making their own software platform based on QNX.

Sounds like they may be trying to compete with Android, Apple, and Tesla on the software side. And QNX has a good microkernel architecture for an automotive OS.

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To me, it's a lack of imagination -- not the ability to imagine the kinds of work people will be doing in 100 years (which is very difficult), but the lack of empathy/ability to get out of the here and now. In 1800's over half of US workers were in agriculture, today it's under 2%. If you were to tell a farmer that in 1900 they'd freak out, very similarly to how this guy's freaking out today.
It looks like the retailer is essentially selling a gift card that gets automatically credited to the purchaser's Amazon account via the barcode they present. I suspect the retailer is getting a small cut of the sale just like they do with normal gift cards. Some of those giant gift card stands rent space from stores and I suspect Amazon has a similar arrangement for this.
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right and talking down to the person who experienced it and telling them they shouldnt laugh about it is..... common sense?
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I won't hold my breath, but this could be interesting if this caught on with other more mainstream websites, and they all shared the same tracking cookie. Google Analytics for congress. As is it's obviously relatively limited.
Oddly enough I also heard it a lot when I was doing Judo
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This is a ridiculously misleading headline.
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Surely it is their fault, because Google is the very first to give the example of selling devices more expensive than desktop computers, above the minimum wage in many countries, with updates limited to 2 years (+1 for some fixes).

As for the other OEMs, there is this thing called contracts and legal obligations.

No updates, no access to Google services from invalid devices.

It is as easy as that, if Google actually cared about the consumers.
Yeah definitely! No later than yesterday was I asking myself how I could measure the latency of my bluetooth controller connected to my retropie setup. The latency seems quite high and I find myself struggling to play Super Mario World correctly. Now I can tell if it's a technical issue or more of a 'getting old' problem.

Thanks for this project, it's really cool.
How can I find such cars? Where do I look for the information regarding data collection policies of a specific car? Reading page after page of verbose legalese of licence agreements and trying to interpret them for hidden meanings is not practical. How do I, as a privacy-concoius person, find a car?
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Hell their main site is a mix of various styles of ui changes from over the years. It's really inconsistent and sometimes confusing. Example being search filters. You can check the prime button but changing another filter may remove it.
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