skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't touched this stuff in a while so take this with a grain of salt.

This is good progress since it's about an order of magnitude faster for operations than previously constructed CNOT gates, however it still has many caveats for a semiconducter-like leap towards real quantum computers:

a) Low temperature bound for the level of fidelity they want

b) Doesn't allow us to engineer quantum chips of more qubits efficiently since the decoherence between quantum dots is still a major issue.

c) The science journalism title is a bit misleading. While this happens in a silicon structure there is nothing new about it, what's new is that they managed to use the driving resonance to control the dephasing during the gate operation.
Now that you said it, I realized I really want a Mac with a 64-core EPYC...
Net Neutrality Protests Move Online, yet Big Tech Is Quiet
Do these specific changes from Google impact negatively the community? Otherwise, IMHO good ideas, are good ideas regardless where they come from.
By "external" technical debt, do you mean crufty old 3rd-party components? Why not deal with those by just swapping out that one component?

edit: Nvm, realize you're probably talking about something like migrating off of VB6, or ditching a mainframe.
Responding to my own inquiry, from the article:

> Under current tax law, the income from exercising ISOs, a special type of option typically reserved for executives and senior employees, falls under an alternative tax calculation designed to prevent high-earners from using deductions to avoid paying tax. Non-qualified stock options, more commonly awarded to regular employees, are taxed the year they’re exercised on the gain in the stock.
I'd argue it isn't Twitter with this history, so much as society.

Good thing about extreme limitations is it also makes exploitation harder. Though, there is money in exploiting social channels, so I'd expect that to follow quickly.
Thanks for the voting records link!
My advice: Remove Java from your resume, or at least bury it at the end.

Rationale: Generally only relevant to Android development and bigco. Your major clients in consulting will be SME.
What's a "very modest spend" when it comes to advertising? How much is enough to validate whether and ad is or isn't working in your experience? Also did a majority of your new users come from being featured on app stores or was it primarily through turning the modest spend into a serious spend once the ad was converting?
Ffwd: delegation is (much) faster than you think
Sure, of course! So this is one thing that might be unique to Winnie — local data is one of our value props (and the best one) but it's not the only one. We discovered pretty early on that even in the local communities people were asking not-local questions like "what's the best diaper?". This told us that there was some demand to be part of a parenting community, even if it wasn't giving you particularly local insights. This is one feature of Winnie that works anywhere in the world, and we do have an active cohort of users who just use us to talk and get advice from other parents.

We also did something that I forgot to mention in the article that helped us grow nationally before we had a lot of proprietary data. One of the nice things about starting a company in 2017 is that there are tons of great resources available to you. Free or cheap services that solve what used to be really hard problems are readily available. One such service is Foursquare. When we launched Winnie, if you opened the app in an area where we didn't have data, instead of showing you nothing we instead showed you results from Foursquare. This was admittedly not the best experience, but it gave people affordance to still find places and write reviews.

Refusing to go market-by-market also forced us to build a bunch of proprietary and very cool infrastructure that collects data at scale. One early system we built could actually figure out which restaurants had changing tables and highchairs, nationally and instantaneously, at a VERY low cost. I can't say how we did that but you'd be surprised at what's possible if you have the will and ambition :)
Gotcha, I thought you were saying that a bailout already happened. It's obvious to me now that you were saying someone has already asked for a bailout.
I'm pretty sure it's because his strike price was far lower than the value of those shares. For example, if he pays $100 to get 20 shares at $5/share, but the shares are worth $100 each, he just got $2,000 and will need to pay taxes on that larger amount.
Neat. As someone who has largely surface-level knowledge of ML, does this development mean we can expect many more on-phone networks in the future?

Phrased another way: Is this a huge step up from previous pruning methods?
Sorry for the late reply, I am not a regular poster so I forgot about the comment :(

I didn‘t say that there wouldn‘t be any favoring towards early adopters... a „better system“ will by definition always favor early adopters at least through efficiency gains accrued through the usage of the system over users who have not yet adopted. BUT bitcoin is crazy in terms of „value“ increase that is not related to any real gains in practice. People buy tokens because people invest money to find tokens because people buy tokens. And because everyone seems to be „making money“ from that things just continue... It‘s like with the rat who can control its own cocain supply...

So what I meant to say is - this specific system design is madness!

DLT in general is very interesting and I am playing around with some ideas regarding currency pegged tokens that increase in value if empirically verifiable achievments/improvements have been made. The goal is to create common-interest communities that are rewarded for realizing real-life impacts. So even people not participating profit. People who join in profit a little more. The goal is to have sustainable growth and predictable prices.
You appear to be disagreeing with the opposite of what I said. The question isn't "What percentage of people with a carry permit would get drunk while carrying?" but "What percentage of people who go out drinking while carrying a gun have a carry permit?"

Those two answers can be completely different. For comparison, it is extremely uncommon for a human (group A) to be in my immediate family (group B), but everyone who is in my immediate family (group B) is a human (group A).
no, that half the picture is accounted for. that's part of the riskiness of the asset which you incorporate as the statistical variance.
I'm a vocal convert.

This approach helps me find bugs and repetition in my programs which makes my code shorter and faster as a result.
Right. So in the eyes of IRS you just didn't buy something, you in fact gained in net worth, except all those new assets you've purchased is illiquid.
We need have a couple Google homes and family uses them all the time. We first had the Echo but since purchased Google homes.

The big difference is the Echo requires rigid language or basically commands you memorize versus the Google home natural language for most things. It is like the Echo is a command line and the Google Home a GUI.
> Instruction cache misses are rarely going to be a limiting factor.

k's performance is a combination of a lot of small things, each one independently doesn't seem to be that meaningful. And yet, the combination screams.

The main interpreter core, for example, used to be <16K code and fit entirely within the I-cache; that means bytecode dispatch was essentially never re-fetched or re-decoded to micro instructions, and all the speculative execution predictors have a super high hit rate.

When Python switched the interpreter loop from a switch to a threaded one, for example, they got ~20% speedup[0]; I wouldn't be surprised if the fitting entirely within the I-cache (which K did and Python didn't at the time) gives another 20% speedup.

[0] https://bugs.python.org/issue4753
https://www.nceo.org/articles/stock-options-alternative-mini... does a decent job explaining it. Essentially, you exercise at the price you were granted the options, but if the value has gone up since then, you're taxed (AMT) on the delta between the exercise price and the current value.
> Except comcast has datacaps for total transfer per month.

For you. Not the public wifi network that is served before it hits your LAN. This is what I meant by my original post - there are tons of misconceptions on this.

Your ratelimit is not effected either, at least not any more than your neighbors do who exist on the same headend as you.

> why should a user who is paying for the service subsidize comcast.

How is it subsidizing Comcast again? I just don't see this point - the only possible way you are subsidizing it is with increased spectrum usage (which is a valid point) and perhaps additional power usage - but we're talking pennies per year if it's even measureable.

Tower space? This sort of product wouldn't exist without it.

I think it's confusion on where customers think or feel the demarc is. The ethernet port on the modem is your demarc, not the cable entering your house. If Comcast did something to alter and/or impact traffic after

> They are not getting a discount for offering the wifi to customers.

Of course they are? You get access to everyone else running the same AP in their homes, so when I travel I don't have to worry much about broadband access. It's especially great at airbnbs with broken internet - I can simply use the neighbors xfinity AP. It's actually an incredibly consumer-friendly thing we used to speculate on in the late 90's and early 00's when wifi was just starting to become a thing.

I do agree it should be something you can toggle in a user interface, but turning it off should remove your access from the xfinity wifi pool. I also completely understand why it's not optional - due to the ignorance shown in the thread. Most consumers think that me torrenting on the Xfinititywifi AP is somehow impacting their data cap and/or throughput. It's not, and even highly technical people continue to perpetuate this myth.

I'm about as anti comcast as they come - but this is one of the better more consumer friendly things any ISP has done, much less Comcast.
I think it is a combination of finally enough people starting to actively speak out against that behavior, the power these groups finally gained and amassed pieces of knowledge that those practices are really harmful. We just gained critical mass to flip the switch. To replicate it faster we should probably speed up human learning and development in some way.
I was just about to comment the same thing. :)
At the time you exercise the option, the IRS asks for the difference between the price you paid to exercise, and the estimated value of a share of the stock (based on the company's latest 409a valuation). If those numbers are different, you owe tax on the amount of the difference. The IRS doesn't care whether you actually have the ability to realize the gain by selling stock; they just care that you paid $X and now own something worth $(X + N) where N is positive.

This is a massive issue in this era of companies which never allow their stock to freely circulate, and mostly is based on the previous eras in which a startup that granted options would actually go public at some point and allow the holders of the options to sell their stock for money.
I agree, and migrating from a dead end platform is one the few legitimate justifications for a full rewrite.
Can I? On Android, apps now can decide if they want to accept user-installed CAs, or not.

So if an app is hostile (say, all the Google apps), then I have no way to intercept their traffic anymore.
thank you! That makes sense.
Which is daft because you can just cut another slot and shove a bit in at an angle to lock it — no glue needed. Also the CAD is useless unless you have the exact thickness of material to laser cut since you can't adjust the cut width. This could easily have been a clever script to generate an SVG to match your material thickness and laptop dimensions.

This is submission is well below the bar for what I usually see on HN.
I use a roll of toilet paper (not a joke).
`git reflog` gives you the historical list of SHAs that you've pointed HEAD at; even if you destroy your branch with a rebase, you can still see what commit your branch pointed to before you started the operation.
I wouldn't expect modern 100BaseT or such to work, but probably the older 10Base2 over coax type ethernet i'd expect to work.
Sorry about that! But actually ReSharper have attributes to annotate dynamically loaded interfaces, so they don't get flagged as unused.
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Enough to get statistically significant data. There are programs to get $100 AdWords or FB Ads credit and that's more then enough to get a few thousand to 10k impressions on your ads and give you decent data about how well they perform. I would usually set a testing campaign to spend about $10/day for 5-7 days, and would shut it down early if it was looking particularly bad.

Our app is free, so we aren't eager to pay for installs at any price, and paid aq is not a major channel for us. The lion's share of our new users come from organic search, social sharing, and word of mouth.
I've been seeing comments like this for a while, and for my most recent PC I got Radeon RX560, the card which is highly recommended for its excellent Linux support via open drivers. Yes indeed, it worked great, but it's the little things that inevitably get you: the fans on this card are supposed to be off if the GPU temperature is under 50C, but on Linux they're on 100% of the time [1], with everyone saying "just run some scripts that fiddle with lm-sensors every second". The bugzilla issue is over a year old and marked as "medium" priority so it's unlikely to be touched soon. So I plugged my older Nvidia card back and the binary blob works just fine.

[1] It baffles me that this obvious behavior needs any kind of driver support. "turn off the fan when temperature drops below X" feature was present in cars before software was even invented.
What about pacemakers?
Hey, good on you: always be happy about selling early and not sad over selling late.
This works and you can do it today. You actually can get faster than your current service plan (assuming you aren't at the top-tier already) if you have a linux router you can set up for dual-wan.

Last I played with it, I could get an additional 35-40mbps or so out of a typical 100/25 comcast connection in my area.
"some of these smaller projects"

Which ones? There are hundreds of these things, and my personal view is that they're mostly worthless. I really don't think the hard part at this point is coming up with a cool use case for cryptocurrency, or even building the technology that works (though many of these alts have yet to even do that). The hard part is adoption, and my estimation is that almost all of them will fail at adoption. Time will tell, I guess.

I'd argue that BTC and ETH are both extremely overbought at the moment

You might be right, you might be wrong. It'll only be clear in hindsight. Which is why I don't time the market or trade. I just buy and hold for the long run. It's a small portion of my networth, weighted towards BTC and ETH, but I'm buying some other alts with 1-2% of my net worth (total).

In the long run, the cryptocurrency market will be worth $0 or trillions, so I'm not particularly worried about whether I got in when it was $10 billion or $500 billion or how it goes up and down in the meantime.
Eh, a physicist friend of mine working on his PhD noticed something interesting in his tea during a tea break with his labmates and they went and researched it. Had the result turned out more interesting they might have published, and maybe being nominated for an Ignobel. It's not about gunning for, it's about curious people researching whatever they happen to touch, which is usually a cup of hot beverage.
> but the risk there is whether the advisee believes that a client relationship has been created opening the lawyer up to malpractice liability

Getting a bit meta here, but I read "IANAL" caveats not as limiting personal liability but as a "reader beware". Almost as a courtesy to the reader by saying "I may not know what I'm talking about" without saying it. I doubt people discussing things on these boards are really concerned about the liability attached with actions someone takes after reading their comment.
But when so much of the change in labor force participation rate is so easily tracked to aging, why would you make inferences about automation based on that?
For me it serves (alongside Weird Al's "It's all about the Pentiums") as a reminder of what an odd time the 90's were. People were just getting onto the Internet, and computers were really slow and expensive and painful to use, but progress was being made rapidly into totally uncharted territory (both socially and technologically) and it seemed like some sort of singularity-ish event was just around the corner.
I don't know if I love that, but it has turned into all of those things indeed.
The seedy side of crypto is 100% the reason I am staying away. One of it's biggest benefits (lack of institutional control) is also it's biggest detraction; anyone who is trying to avoid law enforcement is using it. When you purchase bitcoins, there's probably a good chance you are funding: hackers who are holding systems hostage; child pornography/prostitution rings; illegal arms and drug dealers; scammers; etc. etc.

The banking system, for all its issues, makes collecting and moving large amounts money around very difficult. We are going to quickly find out that that is a Good Thing.

I really think the debate about crypto has been poisoned with malicious intent. We all sit behind our computers thinking the people on the other end are just like us, with wonderful ideas for a technological revolution, but we have no clue what the real motives are behind its push.
"The standard on copper twisted pair is IEEE 802.3ab for Cat 5e UTP, or 4D-PAM5; four dimensions using PAM (pulse amplitude modulation) with five voltages, −2 V, −1 V, 0 V, +1 V, and +2 V."

if you can rig the equipment to provide five voltages over four dimensions...
Aluminium dents easily.
But he specifically used the word "blockchain." I'm making two claims: first, that blockchain-based systems (for most people's definitions of "blockchain" other than a meaningless buzzword) are worse for people in situations like that of the "African farmer" than centralized systems, and second, that the vast majority of Bitcoin detractors dislike it specifically because of things related (directly or indirectly) to it being a blockchain-based system.

For instance, "Bitcoin is a bubble" only makes sense if it's its own unit of currency. "M-Pesa is a bubble," "Square Cash is a bubble," etc. aren't meaningful statements to make; they just support transmission of the underlying currency. ("Kenyan shillings are a bubble" is a meaningful statement, but I've never heard anyone claim that you should use cryptocurrencies to insulate yourself from hyperdeflation of a fiat currency.)

"Bitcoin is environmentally dangerous" only matters if proof-of-work is relevant; in a centralized system, you don't have the problems that lead to you wanting to even consider proof-of-work.

"ICOs are a scam" doesn't make sense in a centralized system. "The transaction rate is too low" isn't a complaint anyone has about a centralized system (the usual complaint about the US markets is that the transaction rate is too high, and HFT should be throttled). And so on and so forth.
Since nobody's spelled it out directly: Let an approximant be a rational number p/q which is near the desired irrational x. Then, let p/q be a best approximant iff no other rational with denominator smaller than q is closer to x.

It's a delightfully beautiful result that the best approximants for x are given by x's continued fraction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continued_fraction#Best_ration...
I don't know which people were on the cover but I saw Fowler and many more on the "cover" [referring to the Time "Person of the Year" video on their website]. No one reads the magazine anymore, right? The real prestige is being featured in the video IMO.
It takes time getting used to, yes.

And it is not for all people.

But it's just a foreign language; You could look at Japanese text[0] and make similar statements, and would be just as valid (or rather, invalid) as your statement.

You expect to be able to read it because you're used to a class of languages which are all similar enough at the surface level -- perhaps you are even familiar with more than one fundamentally different classes, say, "lispish and algolish" or "germanic and latin". But that doesn't make APLish or Japanese[0] horrible.

This is just APL using C syntax.

[0] assuming, the proverbial you does not know Japanese
I'm seeing a lot of people who may not have agreed with Ed Lee politics, but still have good things to say about the man. That gives me a little hope that we don't have to accept the "politics as warfare"attitude that seems to dominate American culture.
Apologies; I never used DOS enough to retain that acronym.
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Until a real AI emerges, I am not worried, because my strategy is based on the human greed and fear, so it is going to work the same as long as people are designing and implementing algos...

If one day a real AI comes a long and we finally have the singularity, who knows... but maybe the AI will be as greedy and fearful as his human parents, which wont be a good news for the human race, if you have to think about it :-)
I wasn't complaining. The "only" was in response to suggesting I made "huge" amounts of profit. I didn't gamble that much, and so I didn't make that much even with the return. My profit was less than my paycheck. 2.5x is better than anything I've ever made in equities (in fairness 90% of my strategy there is selling covered calls on dividend paying stocks) and far and away my best gamble on a percentage return basis. I doubt I'll ever be as lucky as that again.

But I agree it does highlight how insane the crypto craze is.
This is really interesting. What is that very very special treatment that can change the network in the brain responsible for focus? Any links or further details about it will be really appreciated.
GitHub is basically DeviantArt for programmers. When you look at it that way it all makes sense.
Not really, 10+ years before the average life expectancy and 17 years before the life expectancy of 3 years ago is definitely young.
Agreed. The GPDWin is technically a Xmas present that my kids can play Terraria on, but I may have been dying to play GTA5 for a while now...
Plus I'll load it up with emulators.
Can I ask for a ballpark of what # of users it took to get to that inflection point when SEO and word of mouth takes over? At least in my experience getting to there has proven to be the main challenge.

Also- thanks for taking questions and congrats on your success :)
Great interview article posted yesterday on this exact topic with an actual practitioner:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15901628
It looks as steady as some of the pricey aluminum stands I've bought.
Makes sense about 1000 addresses not 1000 people. I didn't consider that.

The cold storage aspect is interesting. What happens if the drive is corrupted? Can this type of content be raid(ed)/duplicated?
This is very much true, and has been since the 80's. Source? Me. I'm still here, but 95% of the people I met when I moved here in '85 have moved back home.