skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know very little about the topic. Will post-quantum crypto require new hardware? The few techniques I have heard about rely on special networks capable of transmitting quantum particles, not just bits.

If new network infrastructure is required, I can't imagine how we would ever get quantum computer resistant cryptography before it's way too late.
That's probably why Google is using the Progressive Web App version of Google Maps on Android Go instead of a native app...

The issue with web UIs in general is that it's still too hard to get optimal performance (eg. make sure you leverage the GPU as much as possible, don't force reflows, etc.). That could be solved by better tooling but we're not there yet.
It's true that at 50-100 physical (not logical) qubits, it's no longer possible to simulate classically. That does not mean that they are useful.

As other people pointed out, you may need a factor of 100-1000 more physical qubits to get as many logical qubits.
Exactly. Just like I'm not buying a computer on which I cannot run Linux, I'm not buying a smartphone which isn't supported by LineageOS.
Thanks, I'm with you on this. I have the S8+ and I greatly prefer their UX to the stock Android; iirc, certain things like screen brightness controls and volume control have been ahead of stock also. Battery life is awesome also.

S9 looks awesome, a notable refinement over the S8. Stereo speakers and that camera! Let's not forget Samsung retaining the headphone jack either, a major win for those who prefer quality non wireless headphones. Having said that, I wonder if APTX-HD is supported by the S9 now.
"the kind of person who spends 800 - 1000 on a phone also upgrades it every year or two"

Nope, I don't mind how much my phone costs since I use it daily, but I will use it until some component fails in a terminal way. I had a Note 3, swapped its display module once, but it finally died. It lasted maybe three or four years.
Works for Pixel too, but doing this with any of the other android brands would turn out more expensive.
Setting difficultly is tricky, i guess it depends on what kind of game you are trying to make, who your audience is and how much you care about mass market.

I was surprised there was only 20 puzzles, and was a bit confused where the next button had gone until I had realised that was it... but then I learned a while ago that something like only 10% of people complete the games they buy, so from that perspective if you care more about the 90% then it wont make any difference. I'm probably in the 10% who came from that unreal/HL generation used to blasting through long games with lots of medium difficulty puzzles who don't expect to be walked through everything, but that's now the minority.
Then again things keep becoming more API driven, with the JS delivered just containing the views. If it gets easier or harder remains to be seen I think
I'm a lot less worried about that thanks to Chrome Headless and the puppeteer library: https://github.com/GoogleChrome/puppeteer

puppeteer makes scripting headless Chrome for scraping-style tasks trivial, and it's supported by the Chrome development team so it's likely to keep on working long into the future.
Can I install it on a phone?
> This connection is interesting because it implies that differential privacy techniques applied to machine learning must in turn result in more generalizable models, which is very useful in general.

I'm confused. Wouldn't a model that produces completely random results be differentially private but not generalizable? Or is giving more random results considered generalization?
Warms my heart that ttl was the first thing i thought of when hearing the bug.
Huh, downvotes. Seriously, I was there, working in a related field at the time of the iPhone and iPad hypes, and that was exactly when ill-advised uses of touchscreens popped up everywhere. They became the thing every product needed to have to be perceived as modern.

Just to remind you how hypey it was, "tablets will replace PC-type computers for most consumers in the next few years" and "world's first iPad DJ". I wish I was making up the last one.
I'm self funded. I have been for a number of years and throughout the crucial stages of my work. I chose this route to ensure the integrity of my work.

While I have always remained truthful which indeed has consequence, I am becoming my open as it does not (at this stage). I know exactly who frequents this board, who will likely be able to read my comments here and other places where I have openly attributed my name. I also am aware of what can be mined to unmask me in other places. I know exactly what the potential consequences are.

If funding is withheld from me because I state inconvenient truths, I don't desire it from such entities. Capital is plentiful in the world. Powerful ideas and manifestations are not.

I speak more openly because I see a world increasingly at war with itself because truth and intelligence have sit at the back of the bus whereas disinformation/manipulation/profit for profit sake sit at the front. I don't want to birth something as powerful as AGI into such a world. I don't want to be funded/influenced by someone who holds contrary views... which is why I've operated from my own capital base up until now.

How open and frank I am relates to the stage of my work. Take that as you will. For some, the bane meme comes to mind. Were going to enter into the intelligence age on new terms not via carry over terms dictated by careless capital. If a particular capital entity wants to be on board for the incredible financial upside such a technology maintains, they'll necessarily have to get on board and get comfortable with the ideas that I have outlined.

It isn't a hard pill to swallow. It's centered on truth and genuine progress of mankind : Intelligence embodied in a truer form. It currently functions on consumer grade hardware. You can also take that as you will.

Thank you for the advice ^_^. However, I know exactly how the 'game' is played.
> The fact that medical records are not electronic being a standard is laughable. I cannot speak for anyone else but the United States. HIPA laws are one of the reasons which makes it harder for researchers and doctors to actually get data they need to develop cures because of the need an individual signature for everyone.

In the US it is a standard that Medical Records are digitised. Unfortunately the existing eMRs are so awful that they decrease efficiency, so much so that many american clinics are removing them - [0, 1, 2]. If you think that the limiting factor on advances in medical research are access to digital records, you are severely misguided.

We have the same control on medical school spots in Australia. We train 1 per 6,285 people per year. You train 1 per 16,150 (roughly). However you also have Nurse Practitioners and a range of other allied health professionals and are a huge importer of overseas Doctors. It's not an ideal solution for the country. In Australia the medical colleges can limit training positions and this cartel behaviour has been the focus of the ACCC a number of times. On the other hand, How can you ensure that people are appropriately trained in the field they are representing, and going to be a net positive to patient safety? I have some ideas that I will be trying if I get to Series B.

I can't speak to your inventor of the X-Ray machine but would suggest that if in the last 18 years he has still been unable to get a market for it, or to launch it himself, than probably the technology has other problems than having a distributor. Disruptive technologies always find a way.

Let's be very clear: there are a lot of problems with healthcare, particularly in the United States. One of the biggest problems worldwide is that healthcare is a demand-inelastic good. When someone needs it, they will pay whatever they can to get it. In my opinion the US model is so completely fucked that the only way I see it being fixed is by transitioning to a post-scarcity economy. An illustrative example: When I was undergoing my medical school elective in Boston in 2013, which under Romney introduced State-wide access to insurance, I observed people accessing their care inefficiently. For example, Tram Drivers coming to Beth Israel Deaconess to have their Lipoma operated on by the Professor of Plastic Surgery at Harvard, because they had insurance. Normally this patient would have presented to the County Hospital, which in the US is the most efficient provider of care, but because they were able to access insurance, they wanted gold-plated healthcare. This is an example of 'universal care' twisting the market forces even more, as the most efficient providers of care are put under more pressure.

[0] https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/it/study-docs-spend-more-ti...
[1] https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/practices/unhappy-ehr-one-p...
[2] https://twitter.com/gphymel/status/952559168975769600
This definitely seems like something you shouldn't rely on and may change in the future (either due to browser bugs, actual shift in policy, or browser differences)
I've had good results from kiwi.com. They allow you to use date ranges and will can show a map with fares to various locations. They also include airlines that don't normally participate in aggregators (e.g. Southwest). They also allow multi-leg itineraries, which is really useful for longer trips.
Governors Fear for Election Security Amid Russian Cyberattacks
Or easier? You just need to look the endpoints the Javascript is using to get the data in JSON.
Code words for sussing out leaders vs those who need direction.

Know how to grow, know when to bite your tongue.
Nearly Half of 2017’s Bitcoin-Backed 'ICO' Projects Have Collapsed
Do they have any mobile work in the Redox tree yet?
Does "weak correlation" not mean that there was very little difference either way? I just meant this study seems to show that suicide is unaffected by intelligence. Either I read it wrong or I worded my content badly but I was just trying to draw a conclusion from what I thought the data said
> Lee is seeking unspecified damages in excess of $25,000

This sounds a bit odd to me. I've definitely heard of much bigger settlements than this for just a single incident, not something that went on for 8 years. I'm not a fan of the sue-happy culture in this country, and TBH 25000 sounds more like it ought to be the right ballpark. But standard legal practice is to have another zero there at the end, isn't it? I guess there are multiple possible interpretations for this number, some charitable, others less so.
I just don’t see where Samsung is going with this. To me, iPhone and Pixel really beautifully fill the market for as phone of this price range.
another factor that gets overlooked some is on-hand skills and hireable skills.

if you have experience (and/or your team does) with dedicated, that should probably be for a non-trivial in decision making. likewise if you have more aws/cloud experience (or have those skills available on staff), there's benefits to that.

cloud skills don't magically happen - someone with minimal AWS skills can provide you with a setup that is more expensive to run, and possibly more insecure than a locked down dedicated box.
What I Learned Burning $14k on YouTube Ads for Candy Japan
What Google AMP means for the JavaScript community – molily
I love stuff like this! It's one of those things that seems so simple to execute, though I'm sure involved alot of planning. It aggravates a few people, but in the end, the thing that is stolen is found, and the temporary-losing party is able to milk the publicity.
Ugh...school wheel hijacking in the middle of the page ... still not has bad as the KaiOS page.
The main problem here was the lack of turnout not that those who voted tended to vote for HRC. Black voter turnout dropped significantly from 2012 to 2016.

"The black voter turnout rate declined for the first time in 20 years in a presidential election, falling to 59.6% in 2016 after reaching a record-high 66.6% in 2012."

Source:
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/05/12/black-voter-...
Nokia acquires Unium, a mesh WiFi startup that works with Google Fiber
Also Samsung has the one handed mode which saves my ass when I'm standing on a train (1h a day) or lying in bed.

Plus they have dark mode for all their stock apps!
We have seen how WebOS and FirefoxOS turned out. Wishing Google good luck with PWAs on slow devices. Having seen Inbox web app animations and memory usage I'm not holding my breath
> Github is just not interested in becoming an hosting provider for such files.

That's a strange claim given that they authored git lfs in the first place and run servers for it.

> That said, I prefer git-annex to LFS, since it doesn't need a custom server; you can just use a "dumb" file server (rsync, webdav, S3, etc), with all the metadata being synced over the git repo.

Significantly better multi-remote support as well from what I can tell, which would make transitioning or partially transitioning significantly easier. OTOH, no filters so you'll be manually spamming `git annex get` as I understand it: http://git-annex.branchable.com/todo/smudge/
Traveling to all the railway stations in Great Britain [video]
I’m stealing that.
Correct, however, Companies will not fire #1 overnight or even understand if they can do that. Through some tooling, these will be rendered as not required (with data points to prove), just like "Architect" jobs have reduced as Sr. Engineers have taken up that part as well.
If that's the case, I think the easiest thing to do would be to transcribe the document and include annotations inline about where content was omitted.

e.g. Go from "XXXX people connected with.." to "[REDACTED] people connected with". So long as it's noted that redaction happened and one doesn't have the source document to glean things from, that would probably be sufficient to block the things the author of this article is doing.

What I'm wondering, though, is if this is permissible. Being able to see how much of a document was redacted gives us some important context:

1. We know we're looking at the "original" report. This might not be the case with an approved transcription of some sort.
2. It's easy for a layman to get a sense of how much information is being withheld.

Knowing what and how much was redacted seems like it's pretty important for maintaining trust and transparency with an organization that has legitimate reasons to withhold some amount of information.
Choosing a Conference in 2018? Four Questions to Ask Yourself
Patients report higher satisfaction with their medical care the longer that they spend engaging with clinicians. Even if this was a practical solution, by deploying cameras and ensuring that the resulting files were accessible and categorised simply and easily (no easy IT solution!) it doesn't change the fact that by reducing the amount of time a doctor (any doctor) spends with patients is going to worsen their outocmes, even if they are self-reported. Anyway, we already spend far too much time not with patients. And how is this any different from reading a 'transcript' of the last interaction a patient had with a Doctor

[0] https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/it/study-docs-spend-more-ti...
From the FAQ

Can I develop apps for KaiOS?

KaiOS is a curated platform for apps and we are working closely with app developers to provide the best experience for our users. At the moment we are not accepting submissions into the Store, but will do so in the future.

If you are interested in developing apps for KaiOS in the future, leave your email in our developers section. We will notify you when of important product updates. You can also follow us on Twitter to stay up to date.

I'm not sure if this is really a good way to get developers on board given the ease of starting and experimenting on iOS and Android.
Can Cryptocurrencies Ever Become Reliable Means of Exchange?
Mechanization 'destroyed' millions of jobs, when people were replaced by mechanized equipment replaced farm workers, horse breeders/tenders, folks in the transportation business, etc.

Electronic computers 'destroyed' jobs when they replaced human computers.

Motorized street sweepers 'destroyed' jobs when they replaced people with brooms sweeping debris off of streets (except in Beijing where, as of 2015, this is still a thing).

Firearms 'destroyed' jobs when bowers no longer had any reason to mass produce bows and arrows.

People will find a way to stay busy. The past is literally filled with examples of a new technology replacing people, and those people eventually found other things to do. It's not hard to see, in hindsight, how many of my silly (but real) examples above translated into entirely new industries.

Pardon the harshness here, I feel like the only people this is truly a surprise to is either folks that ignore the past, or are incapable of understanding the past.
Even in JS heavy sites, the rendered output is still HTML. You just need to make sure you add a pre-render step. Page.REST, a micro-service I wrote a couple of months back follows this strategy.
Ask HN: What old desktop software are you still using?
I'm still using Adobe Fireworks CS5 (released in 2010).

I use it every day, but I can’t imagine paying monthly for it. It might sound silly for the SaaS folks, but I grew up buying desktop software, and it feels insane to pay for it as a subscription.

(Incidentally, I also use Transmit FTP, Screenflow, and Deckset almost daily as well. They're not SaaS. I happily pay for new version upgrades if I feel I need the new improvements).
Children struggle to hold pencils due to too much tech, doctors say
Wow, this couldn't have come at a better time for me! Thank you, thank you, thank you for this library.

I was beginning to feel that if I wanted to use the actor model I was gonna be forced into Akka or Erlang and not be able to salvage my JS knowledge. All other actor JS libraries are way out of support (either unmaintained or too small of a community).

I will begin using it as fast as possible and hope to learn enough so that I can contribute and give back.

Cheers again for this much-needed library.
What do you call disenfranchisement?
Detroit (Michigan State) - average monthly wage 2016, 3,210 EUR per month
(source: bls.gov)

EU/EEA countries, selected average monthly wages:

Portugal : 1158 EUR
Estonia : 1201 EUR
Latvia : 925 EUR
Lithuania : 851 EUR
Poland : 1102 EUR
Czech Republic : 1149 EUR
Slovakia : 980 EUR
Hungary : 955 EUR
Romania : 787 EUR
Croatia : 1081 EUR
Bulgaria : 586 EUR
Greece : 1092 EUR

(source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_countries_by_...)

Summary - Detroit/Michigan wages are three to five times higher than all of the above EU/EEA countries.

No figures are PPP adjusted (but clearly there is a very large gap between Detroit/Austrian-grocery-store-wages compared to much of the EU/EEA).

If we don't want to stick to the EU (btw, you originally referred to "Europe"), using the examples proffered so far:

Mexico 664 EUR per month vs Ukraine 264 EUR per month
I have an S2, S3 and S7.

The S2 and S3 have both been banged, dropped, thrown, splashed and sat on and they're still going strong.

The S7 slid off a low couch and fell about 30cm onto a wooden floor. It had a protective case on it, but the screen is wrecked.

Unless Samsung start manufacturing their S-range phones out of synthetic diamond I won't be buying another.
I feel more strongly everyday that human intelligence is a hodgepodge of "weak AI" systems glued together with an exceptionally efficient executive function.

I’m in complete agreement with this. I try to avoid AGI discussions because people get upset when I argue that the vast majority of human “intelligence” seems to be strong pattern matching, and we can’t really define the parts that aren’t in any useful way.

Take the person you are discussing this with. The majority of their point seems to be a hang-up on the word “intelligence”.

I find that a pointless thing to argue over. Just agree and say it is an intelligence simulator which is indistinguishable from a real intelligence.
Technically, the output quality of a completely random model stays the same when you try to generalize. It wasn't actually good to begin with, but it doesn't get worse.
Its a smaller problem for sure.
I would not doubt that Google has paid to manipulate social media to promote its phones. I wouldn't doubt Samsung does either. But just remember that as you read that comments.
I'd really like to see a truly open alternative on the mobile space. The biggest issue is the hardware. It's just not standardized and there's no incentive to do so. It's really preventing the way Linux took off on developers desktops back in the late 90s/early 2000s.

FirefoxOS and Ubuntu Touch looked promising, but they lacked good hardware to run on. I'd really like to try Plasma, but I don't like any of the devices it supports.

PostmarketOS is just a way to turn an old phone into a Raspberry Pi type device, but maybe that's the first step in a truly unified mainline kernel for all mobile devices.
You could use steganography to store the redacted parts.
There's more to it than the joke, because there's a thing or two to say about the use of articles. The "the" there is not incorrect in one reading, as the quote points out, the y combinator can be seen as a generic noun, like "the dog" as a species, or "the blood" as an organ; On the other hand, "the" is "used before an object considered to be unique, or of which there is only one at a time", e.g. "the Queen". So it's kind of contradictory. Just using an indefinite article or nothing at all, is still valid and shorter. People prefer
shorter. I got into an argument before because "some" isn't a useful qualifier. It's perfectly normal to hold seemingly contradictory thoughts like "people like rambling about syntax" and "people don't like that" at the same time, because the meaning that each pertains to only some is obvious from the context. Yes, I'm rambling, and I clicked the article because I need to learn more, so I'm wondering how the y combinator (there, I said it) can illuminate this confusion I just elaborated.

Also, "the" is used to mark abstract terms, e.g. "I go on monday", but "I go on the next monday" (or just next monday).

Does that show why people care about the articles?

One explanation I found for myself why this is a problem is Normal Forms. A DB table can only have one primary key (definite). All else is secondary, n-ary or arbit-ary. The spoken language should be normalizing, too. Spoken lang... it doesn't make a difference in practice though, noone cares to be precise.