skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you have an N-bit classical computer in a black box, you get at most 2^N possible outputs. If you have an N-qubit quantum computer in a black box, you can get at most 2^N possible outputs, not 2^2^N. We write the N-qubit registers as a vector of 2^2^N elements to make the math work, but measurement means we still can only distinguish between 2^N possible values.
Stripe removed it primarily because they got almost no adoption (most merchants I know using stripe weren’t even aware they offered it; merchants had to opt in).

Verification times are clearly an engineering problem, not a fundamental issue. Long-term solutions are currently under experimentation (lightning, DAG currencies, etc.)
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Mental Roadblock [Short Blurb]
For the same reason I don’t subject you to my pubic hair. Just put on a t-shirt FFS.
You don't have to tell anyone if your face is on the news.
Did you even read his memo? Because I did, and while I don't agree with all of his conclusions, I didn't see anything there that constituted denigration.
Sounds like a good solution. Thanks for taking the initiative to look into this already!
Used VPN much? Tried to open suspicious sites? Issued suspicious search queries?

A potential target for a harmonization effort.
What a profoundly interesting man. Here's a bit more for those interested in his work:

Forbes: Why Spy?

by John Perry Barlow, 10.07.02

https://www.forbes.com/asap/2002/1007/042_print.html

Grateful Dead Lyricist and Burning Man's Co-Founder Talk Tech

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jAyedG67_I
Presumably because people were buying once every four years?
Live views of Starman [SpaceX footage from Tuesday]
why do you think it doesn't need to be corrected? you don't see how an equitable distribution of resources between the sexes is much more productive for the whole? nm the morality of it.
> That's not the experience I've seen on newer hardware

Works fine for me at 1080p VP9 on a mid-2014 Macbook Pro. 720p VP9 also works fine in VLC on my iPhone 7. Haven't tried 1080p on the phone. It doesn't have the resolution for it anyway. 720p AV1 will probably work on the phone as well (AV1 decode is about 1.5x the complexity of VP9).

> What I'm talking about is the difference which hardware acceleration makes

So it's time to get Apple to enable the VP9 acceleration present in their latest models (around 2015 and later).

But don't worry about it. AV1 is coming and everyone is finally on-board with royalty-free video. The bad old days are nearly over.
Things like this are exactly why there is a need for these transparency laws. If the jokes are so damning, maybe he should take his chairmanship a little more seriously and not make them.
True or not, that’s the message you’re sending to others.
Would have liked to see a "gallery" of writing that I can subscribe to. Sort of like how ecommerce platforms have a list of stores that were built on this platform.

On a side note, I like how you have written the body of this post. Not to mention a very useful product.
Depending on the field strength, it can be sufficient to do more than light fluorescent tubes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SD2dfMfgkTw
Study: Experimental Evidence of Radiation Reaction in the Collision of a High-Intensity Laser Pulse with a Laser-Wakefield Accelerated Electron Beam

Citation: J. M. Cole, K. T. Behm, E. Gerstmayr, T. G. Blackburn, J. C. Wood, C. D. Baird, M. J. Duff, C. Harvey, A. Ilderton, A. S. Joglekar, K. Krushelnick, S. Kuschel, M. Marklund, P. McKenna, C. D. Murphy, K. Poder, C. P. Ridgers, G. M. Samarin, G. Sarri, D. R. Symes, A. G. R. Thomas, J. Warwick, M. Zepf, Z. Najmudin, and S. P. D. Mangles. Phys. Rev. X 8, 011020 – 2018-02-07

Link: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.8.011020

DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.8.011020

Abstract: The dynamics of energetic particles in strong electromagnetic fields can be heavily influenced by the energy loss arising from the emission of radiation during acceleration, known as radiation reaction. When interacting with a high-energy electron beam, today’s lasers are sufficiently intense to explore the transition between the classical and quantum radiation reaction regimes. We present evidence of radiation reaction in the collision of an ultrarelativistic electron beam generated by laser-wakefield acceleration (ε > 500 MeV) with an intense laser pulse (a0 > 10). We measure an energy loss in the postcollision electron spectrum that is correlated with the detected signal of hard photons (γ rays), consistent with a quantum description of radiation reaction. The generated γ rays have the highest energies yet reported from an all-optical inverse Compton scattering scheme, with critical energy εcrit > 30 MeV.
Which is a little odd, I mean, if you put it on LinkedIn you already gave it away to corporate data banks. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a nice feature and all, but I honestly wouldn’t care if it stole any of the info I already decided to make freely available on the internet.
Munger's Psychology of Human Misjudgement might provide some relevant explanation: http://fermatslibrary.com/s/the-psychology-of-human-misdguge...

Or not.
Agreement.
This came up a while ago in the PC community and the consensus I saw was that it's a fake. It uses too much language that is deliberately evil in tone like "bait and switching" etc.

That said, Activision (or maybe EA?) recently received a patent for matchmaking technology that "encourages" you to buy items by first allowing you to be demolished by them, and then if you purchase you're allowed to demolish others so that you feel vindicated.
स्वच्छ भारत मिशन नुक्कड़ नाटकstreet play by  diet ) Part-1 by DIET, Etah
Well, adults have multiple threads of parallel thought.
They are definitely more engrossed in their internal world than children.
For example: Consider meeting a friend and not recollecting their name, sometimes their name pops into our minds after a couple of days without us actively pondering or being burdened by the finding process.
A majority of adults truly aren't in the moment so to speak, juggling multiple choices that surround their day does cause cognitive load.

Also, the need to instinctively smile is replaced with conditional reciprocation based on what they see and assess. That's learned behaviour.
No telecommuting allowed: Why is Google investing billions in office buildings?
Yeah, the "finance office" is a little different and, in my experience, usually not that pushy about upselling you.
Agreed. I would say: Never, ever lie to yourself. Lies to others are sometimes justified — but be honest with yourself about when that is.
Where would this occur naturally?
A couple ways to dress down your current look:
- Wear sneakers instead of dress shoes

- Wear a tshirt or hoodie instead of a dress shirt with khaki pants.

- Wear jeans with a polo or dress shirt. This dresses both of those options down. I’d also go with sneakers here.

- Wear a dark tshirt under the button ups and half button them or keep them open. This will (again) give a casual look.
these two things are in such direct contradiction

>systematic influences can easily cause such an effect

>how this just goes to show that it's really the SYSTEM that's biased

that i have no idea what you're really trying to say.

> Non-malicious

no one cares if it's malicious or benign. ask a black person whether they care about the intentions of those they're being racially profiled by (for example). it doesn't matter. what matters if systemic inequalities exist - and here is proof that they do.
Welp now he can be free to explore all those other universes.
Not all bodybuilders juice. I experiment with my diet and regime all the time. Intermittent Fasting & Keto at the moment, and lots of protein.
I have a desktop, sub-$800 printer and can print to 0.1 mm thickness without extraordinary measures and using inexpensive calipers, you can measure down to below 0.01 mm. (Thereby getting potentially more than native precision by repeated attempts.)

Thermal expansion of the plastics being different than the machine is a small issue, which could be solved by measuring, calibrating, and adjusting all at a given temperature.

Your point about limited motivation is spot-on, of course.
This is either some next level trolling, or really odd.

> The entire point of the paper is to show that you can observe a statistical anomaly like wage disparity whenever you compare two different populations, even when you essentially control for job effectiveness and isolate out any influence from malicious discrimination.
FaceID samples are generated from a very small camera.

It’s trivial to train a CNN image classifier that can identify an individual, even when they are wearing a hat, grew facial hair, have a scar, etc
They probably just create the key and then encrypt it with the pass code, as people usually do in these cases.
GuiLite – Build all platforms UI framework with 6,000 lines code
Tesla Pushes Back Standard Model 3 Deliveries to Late 2018, Early 2019
Thanks for that link with the very detailed explanation. That's really informative, even though it's pretty in line with what is reported on financial websites.

So this does not improve my opinion on the government's falsification at all. Especially how the numbers have changed over the years is telling (see later).

Even discounting changing the reporting, it seems extremely unfair in a number of ways, for instance how part-time work is counted (anyone who made or did something attempting to make 1$ in the past week is employed. Worked 2h babysitting ? You're employed)

(especially this affects a LARGE number of workers)

To make matters worse, anyone "temporarily unemployed" is considered employed. For instance, if you're a freelance construction worker that didn't do anything for a month, you're employed.

Anyone employed by a bankrupt business is employed, despite of course very likely neither working nor getting paid.

Furthermore they demand active job search methods only. So anyone who's passed by every employer in their town ... is not unemployed from that point forward.

This is, of course, bullshit. Reality is that anyone who wants a job but doesn't have one is unemployed. Anybody forced to work less than they want to is partially unemployed (this is a large number of people). This is not measured at all.

And the changes in methodology are the really telling part. An example:

> Up until the Clinton administration, a discouraged worker was one who was willing, able and ready to work but had given up looking because there were no jobs to be had. The Clinton administration dismissed to the non-reporting netherworld about five million discouraged workers who had been so categorized for more than a year. As of July 2004, the less-than-a-year discouraged workers total 504,000. Adding in the netherworld takes the unemployment rate up to about 12.5%.

One might wonder, was the purpose of the government's changes to increase accuracy, or was it to falsify the number ? Well one can easily distinguish between these 2 goals.

If the goal was increased accuracy, then the BLS would have been instructed to adjust it's historical time series, at least in estimation, so that comparisons would be fair.

If the goal was falsification, then numbers from the old and new methodology would be reported, with no or hidden references to the changed methodology.

The situation is that the latter is what was done [1]. The difference in methods is downplayed to an extreme degree, clearly indicating that falsification was the goal.

The Clinton, Bush and Obama administrations all changed the methodology of counting the numbers, and especially Obama, but also Clinton are guilty of claiming what are very clearly statistical artifacts from changing the methodology as accomplishments of their administrations.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2017/u-3-unemployment-rate-was-... <- zero mention of methodology changes
I'm curious to hear about your 50 year career spanning some of the most important revolutions in computer history. What do you work on now, and how does it compare to what you worked on it 1968? How did people such as yourself get into computing in 1968? What was the availability of computers and what rules dictated human participation with computers? What improvement was the biggest leap forward? Where there any 'winters' you felt where innovation became dormant, stagnated or even declined?
John Perry Barlow's Principles of Adult Behavior (1977)
Bitcoin’s value beyond hype
Idea for a Black Mirror episode (from the past):

In the future, people of the internet are unable to write about new technology without resorting to increasingly tiresome, lazy and spurious references to a popular British Twilight Zone remake.
“Asparagine is frequently found in various animal sources including beef, poultry, eggs, fish and seafood. It is also found in many vegetables including asparagus, potatoes, nuts, legumes and soy. Since these foods are so common, it seems that diet restriction may not be the ideal approach”
I wonder what combinations of the above make this compound more pronounced
I believe strongly in an equal distribution of opportunity between the sexes. How would you propose fixing the gap that the paper describes? Simply paying women drivers 7% more? Would that be fair?
I wonder how many americans can't afford their cell phone if they had to buy it all up front.
Credit Card Magic!
Since this thread is about an article mentioning Black Mirror, I am reminded of the episode "crocodile". It depicts a tech that allows insurance companies and law enforcement to tap into people's memory and extract images of what has been seen.

Reading visual information from the mind is still far off, but if someday smart glasses become widespread, and assuming that they backlog their video input to the cloud or something, then for all intents and purposes, it'd be basically the same.

A very significant fraction of the population already wear glasses, so it's not too far fetched to imagine that soon, everything we see will be logged somewhere.
Savings accounts are not a popular way to save.
The problem is that there are so many different players in the event game. You have the artist, the people that own the venue, the promoters, the ticketing company itself, and then you also want to provide comp tickets.

It’s not always as simple as “does the purchaser really want to go to this event? Is the purchaser a person or a company? Is the ticket being used bought from my reseller or from the primary source?”

The people that own the venue typically do not care how the tickets are bought because they usually make most of their money from concessions. The artist also don’t necessarily care where the tickets are bought from, the promoters also don’t care necessarily where the tickets are bought from because in both cases they just want to get paid.

The only people that are really affected by resellers and scalpers are the person or people that genuinely want to go to the show and can’t afford the prices that the scalper or reseller is selling them at.
I think we romanticize "being on the lamb". For the 99.999% of the time, if someone is a "wanted man", it's much better for society if he is apprehended. I don't see this as a threat.

If, however, every innocent person were tracked, and crimes were generated based on observations ( like souped up red-light cameras for every imaginable crime ), and charges were created automatically ( and algorithmically ), that would suck. Or, it would make us realize most laws suck and we'd remove them.
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I don't think this survey says what they think it says.

"Methodology: This GOBankingRates.com survey posed the question, “How much money do you have saved in your savings account?” to 8,131 people among all 50 states and Washington, D.C. Responses were collected through a Google Consumer Survey conducted from Aug. 15, 2017, to Aug. 17, 2017, and responses are representative of the U.S. online population." [1]

This shows that a lot of people don't have saving accounts. Not that they don't have any savings. For example, they could keep their savings in a checking or money market account. Or as cash.

[1] https://www.gobankingrates.com/saving-money/americans-saving...
Pretty much this.

If you want to reduce the consumption of some thing, make it more expensive.

Paradoxically: increased efficiency reduces costs and so increases total consumption. This was noted by economist and engineer William Stanley Jevons, in the 19th century.

There are different ways of increasing costs, and not all necessarily involve prices (or taxes), though those tend to be the most effective and easiest ways to do so. Legal, social, and moral costs can also be imposed (criminalising use, making use anathema, making use taboo), but these take time to impose and have various side effects.

This is a difficult problem, and even recognising the dynamic is difficult. It's deviled ecolologists, economists, politicians, and others, for over two hundred years (and arguably, for over two thousand).
still, it's not like they couldn't do it before, with security checkpoints and face recognition cameras everywhere.
Banking is eventually consistent and the most incorrectly used example when it comes to any database scenarios.

CRDB is also master-master, all the nodes are the same and can serve reads and writes. That has no bearing on AP or CP.
My family restored (to good driver condition) a '59 220S (just sold); our experience was that not every minor cosmetic or interior part was available at Classic Center. Mechanical and functional part availability is excellent, pricing reasonable, and the staff there is top-notch, but they don't have everything.
You realize this is China, the same government that literally ground their citizens to a paste with tanks?

Idk why everyone is talking about this in such impartial terms, this is a totalitarian state that has no concept of civil liberties. The idea that this is going to be used just for mere criminals is a pipe dream.

Unless you classify criminals as those who disagree with the CPC. This is going to be used to repress the population, without a doubt.
It seems sensible to me. (It's a huge subject but:) I think he's referring to the well-known paradox where aiming directly for happiness doesn't work; instead going for meaningful goals that will give satisfaction does. Asking "Am I happy?" constantly stops you being so. etc.

>"Your mission" is simply a placeholder for what you believe will make you happy.

Simply?! Well no. Even without that, it doesn't seem right. I think I know what you meant, (like I think you know what he meant) but the two aren't always equivalent. Some people have important and unattainable goals that they know won't make them happy. Or doing your duty, like taking care of sick family etc. More to do with meaning than happiness. It sounds like you would argue no-one can do anything but what they believe will make them happy.

And Socrates and Kierkegaard etc realized that often in life we would regret either of two choices. The grass is always greener, and feeling regret doesn't mean the other choice would have been better. (e.g. To marry or not)
> However, the percentage of people with $0 in savings has climbed to 39 percent from 34 percent in 2016.

When savings accounts are yielding 0.02%, what's the point? Might as well keep it in checking or an actual investment.
Audio version (with JPB himself):
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/74/conventions/act-three
This is why you shouldn't play free-to-play games, or perhaps we should say "99.99% of android and ios games".

I mean, it's not quite this bad ... mostly ... yet. But it's very clear that this is where it's going.
You don't need to go too far South in the US... Had a scorpion walk up to me while I was using a public toilet in Northern Nevada - I fired up quite a few neurons and sweat glands!
It is interesting to consider how much fully autonomy will impact attitudes toward private property. I agree it's a stretch to assume most potential buyers are willing to rent their car out as an autonomous vehicle to offset the cost.

However I do think that % of people will be higher than it is today because full autonomy creates more situations where you've bought an expensive asset which sits idle throughout most of the day when you're working or sleeping.

Elon's assuming that Tesla will be the first to market with Level 5 autonomy. If that's the case, people will be willing to pay a huge premium to get one, especially if they think they can offset the costs by having it "pay for itself while you sleep".
Do they really only mean bank savings accounts?

I have exactly $0 in savings but tons of money in mutual funds and stocks and bonds.
bingo. the most popular savings vehicle for americans is probably the equity in their home
The use of such invasive practices is unsettling even in countries where such things aren't regular (now)... Politics change, and what is acceptable changes. Any technology or legal tool available to the government will eventually be used in the worst way imaginable.
Most countries, yes. But some countries, clearly no. Snowden is still in Russia, for example. And China typically doesn't cooperate with the NSA and its friends.
Last time I saw these stats the amazing thing was how little they had to do with income.

A huge chunk of people even making over 100k had essentially zero savings.
That's... not what it says dude.

> The conclusion is that men are speeding more frequently than women.

Prove it! I'm not American, but I am pretty sure that the average speed of 19.532 mph for men and 18.760 for women makes speeding an unlikely explanation without some evidence I just can't see. Can you point me to where breaking laws is the explanation?
>survey posed the question, “How much money do you have saved in your savings account?”
"I identify as a non-binary person - what do I get paid?"
I can't help but disagree with your 99.999% assessment.

I feel like at best it might be 50%. At which point, it's horrible for society to be rolling the dice on every person in prison, if they should be there or not.

I would refer you to the Innocence Project [0] for a useful exposition of wrongful convictions, and error rates therein.

[0] https://www.innocenceproject.org/cases/
I thought this was already called Star Wars Battlefront 2?
"Savings account" however is commonly interpreted as including things like a stock market account, and therefore include most investments.

It would not include housing equity and pension savings, but it would include more than just an actual savings account.
This is very misleading. The question is phrased “How much money do you have saved in your savings account?”

I only have checking and investment accounts.
Why Email MARKETING?
Well, then clearly it was either designed with an agenda in mind or the person who wrote it doesn’t really understand how people save.
The people without savings aren't holding all their money in stocks. 46% of people hold no investments. [0] I'm betting there is a large intersection between that 46% and the 39% with no savings.

0. http://money.cnn.com/2017/10/20/investing/trump-stock-market...
Who is going to play such games then? It might be good indeed, emulators will be popular for real gaming experience and people might spend more time in nature doing stuff in real-life.
"The same government that..." -- Hmm, I think government is comprised of people, and the people that did that have likely aged out.

This government is like the son or daughter of that government. And this government has realized many free market principles (and certainly many other lessons). It's not the same, nor totally different.

Either way, I have to talk about it impartially, as if I were contemplating its use in the states.
Popular entertainment isn't a new phenomenon, there are plenty of books on Project Gutenberg that anyone could find enjoyable without needing some deep understanding of literature.

And remember what's being discussed here. You can't blame "brainjunk" on people unwilling to pay for content, as they are also ignoring the free content on Project Gutenberg.