skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair enough, I think Kuhn was referring to things like the world-models and you're referring to finding out if the predictions of the model matches reality.

The heliocentric model of the solar system made less accurate predictions than the geocentric model for years, because the geocentric model was mature and had had lots of tweaks applied to it. In that time, you could have asked the heliocentric model to make a prediction, and shown that it was wrong compared to the geocentric model. You would have been wrong to conclude that heliocentrism was wrong though, it just hadn't matured as a theory enough yet.

All models are wrong, but some are useful.
Agreed.

The true crypto use case - raising money without consequences. A shitty use case, but one none the less.
Hi Scott

There are non-quantum physical systems that exhibits positive and negative amplitudes and interference.

Can I factor large numbers by throwing rocks in a lake and measuring the water height at the right place? Why not?
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> They would not need to block access. They needed to set up a time-plan

Exactly. And that is part of my point. Everyone acting as if something dreadful would happen if the timeline was not met RIGHT AWAY!!!. It would not. The EU might bring an action after initial outreach to the companies legal department. The legal dept would do a dance and explain why they need more time. The EU would then agree to the time line. Any any case would go to some court and would also involve appeals and some form of due process. During that time lawyers would work back and forth. Any fine would almost certainty not approach the worse case scenario. Not going to happen. And certainly not to a small fish or anything close to that.
openssl and libz are particularly fussy
I also find it frustrating you can't tap on a place while you're in "directions" mode. If you're going somewhere and want to see if some place on the way is open, you have to exit directions, tap the place and then request directions again!
Yes, I have to concur with this. I think of myself has relatively experienced, but it takes me generally a day to get new boilerplate working. This includes time to read documentation and get things set up and to get a start in understanding how things differ from what I usually use.

The amount of software you've produced and published using a variety of stacks -- Objective C, Cocoa, Swift, JS, Node, Clojure -- and APIs is really impressive. Most people haven't even tinkered with that many things, nevermind publish stuff out for the public to use. That last part is an extremely high hurdle, especially since it requires UI/UX skills and user empathy.

Hell, even your portfolio website is far-above par for any software engineer. Not just in content, but the well-considered layout and visual design.

I don't want to downplay your situation, you indeed have an uphill climb. But you do have skills and actual experience that put you in higher probability at success with software publishing, compared to most software engineers who were to find themselves forced to find employment without the ability to network or get recommendations. Hopefully you can find success again in iOS publishing. I think many if not most iOS developers would be envious of the variety in just your iOS portfolio.
gah, what the heck is wrong with that woman's head on the homepage. Nightmare fuel.
> Round everything up a nickel ($0.05) and call it a day.

This already happens at convenience stores around the country, too. The "pennies for everybody" trays are the physical manifestations of our collective irritation with the penny. I know I only ever get change back rounded to the nearest 0.05 because I always leave my pennies in the tray. And since I often never have pennies, I'm only prepared to make transactions to the nearest 0.05.

Many of us are already doing it, but just in a roundabout way that requires more effort for no reason.
> I've made many thousands of orders that extend out to 5 or more decimal places.

The point wasn't that a trade containing that number happened to pop up. It was that the specific number 13076.389 was in the top 50 traded amounts on the exchange.

You'd expect there to be on average the same number of trades for 13076.388 and 13076.390 as there were for 13076.389, but that's not what the numbers show. Unless there is something special about the number 13076.389.
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The article mentions Canvas, Battery, Audio,and WebRTC. Should these all request a user OK before being used?
>Fiat Chrysler had issued two technical service bulletins relating to Pacifica’s PCM software before the plaintiffs had purchased their vehicle

Aren't TSB's public knowledge? (Answer: yes [1]). So if FCA issued a TSB for this before the customer purchased the van, how much responsibility do they have to tell the customer every known issue with the product before they sign the papers? And how much responsibility falls on the customer to research any known issues?

I'm responsible at work for talking about our software before customers make the purchase... should I be worried that now I have to have a slide in my deck that talks about every known defect in the product, even though our bug tracker is publicly visible?

[1] https://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/owners/SearchSafetyIssues
Nails and such sold individually at hardware stores. Things sold by weight as well.
I believe there's still unincorporated land in the American Southwest. I've heard secondhand about a "new intentional city" project in Colorado. Someone had a big chunk of land; other people -- invite-only -- were buying lots.
I believe Google Maps cycling and walking directions take this into account, but not driving directions, because typically cars and motorcycles have 0 issue with up and down grades; poorly maintained and narrow should be taken into account in Google Maps directions for cars, though.

I'm not 100% sure how much Google Maps Cycling directions try to avoid hills, but they DO list the elevation change in the sidebar, at least on a web browser, so they're aware of the concern over elevation change.
> When a collateralized position falls below the 150% (or whatever) mark, that position gets automatically liquidated and auctioned off to pay for the debt

The same thing happens with banks. It turns into a run when this forced liquidation drives prices down further which in turn fuels further redemption requests. It’s very possible to start the day 150% capitalised and end 20% because you sold 10% which tanked the market.
Hi Scott,

David Deutsch, in his book "The Fabric of Reality", gives example of a problem that is presumably easily solvable by the quantum computer. On the other hand, he explains that the total number of particles in the universe is smaller than number of computations that will take place. The question that he poses is where the problem was actually solved? His answer is that there parallel universes, and the computation is performed in these universes. He also stipulates that the "weird" quantum behavior of particles, such as spooky action at a distance, all could be explained by the multiverse. What is your opinion about the multiverse and potential of quantum computers to solve quantum physics problems?
Neither you nor the street pay Google as much as Chipotle does - maybe that's part of the issue?
This looks very promising for people like my parents, for whom using a touch-screen device is much more difficult than using one with hard buttons.

They each have an iPhone/iPad to look at photos and read/send emails, but their mobile phones are low-end Doro devices with nice large text and a comfortably-sized numeric keypad.

The Wikipedia page lists the Nokia 8110 (coming out in the UK in a few days), a Doro phone, and a couple of others.

Can anyone with experience using one of these as a daily driver share their thoughts?
It does feel dead. Like hurry up with the kick and quit standing around unless you're going to DD stoppage time.
Which is a big reason not to use Chrome. Their incentives are not aligned with users'.
> This is the crucial thing that distinguishes DF stories from LP writeups of other games.

I had never heard that term. To save others the time of googling it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let%27s_Play

A Let's Play (commonly referred to as an LP) is a style of video (or a screenshot accompanied by text) series documenting the playthrough of a video game, usually including commentary by the gamer. A Let's Play differs from a video game walkthrough or strategy guide by focusing on an individual's subjective experience with the game, often with humorous, irreverent, or critical commentary from the gamer, rather than being an objective source of information on how to progress through the game.
None of my friends gamble. So you're correct they don't have my perspective. But I don't make money gambling either, so we make about the same amount. And I know that saving $3 on strawberries at the grocery store isn't going to make or break them so it seems irrelevant and petty to even talk about.
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Hi guys!

I'm Yasen, one of the people behind CryptoStandardizer. It is a side project which was born from a pain I had on a daily basis while working with a few of my last clients.

As a web developer I see a trend of websites wanting to stay relevant by integrating crypto-related information and news on their pages and that's what my clients wanted to do as well. The task was simple at first sight - get crypto coins data from a few exchanges and let's unify it so it's easy to consume by our clients. It wasn't long before I came to realize there are a staggering number of exchanges, each using their own coin symbols (one would use DSH for Dash, while others would use DASH, for example).

CryptoStandardizer is exactly what it sounds like - it's an API that allows you to easily standardize crypto coin symbols across 100+ exchanges, make your system as stable as possible and as an added bonus it gets rid of your headache!

It's a work in progress, I'd love to know what you guys think of the project and I'll be more than happy to get ideas on how to make the service an even more enjoyable experience.
I had to read that a couple times to make sure I wasn't missing something.

Wow. It's sad that has to be said. Do people not get fined for abusing 911 like that?
> I never used a JVM language before the JIT compiler, so I have no personal experience with the speedup it introduced

Speedup in runtime, slowdown on startup. Early versions of Android (before 2.2 i.e. before 2010) used Dalvik JVM that interpreted the byte code.

BTW, apparently google still can’t decide what’s the best way. After couple of years, in 2013-14, Google threw away the JIT and introduced another JVM, with AOT compilation instead of JIT.

After another couple of years, in 2016, Google re-introduced JIT to the new JVM while keeping the AOT. It’s complicated but AFAIK they work together on modern Android.
I think parent was making a joke.
> They can start by not offering iCloud services in China.

Even better, they could only offer end-to-end encrypted services in China so that the datacenter operators can't track more than the ISPs already can.
Well, NoScript (and uMatrix) help with security too, so it might still be a good idea to use them.
We just listened to ep #1 over dinner.

Great production quality, I was surprised. We both enjoyed it and sat to the end before going to do other stuff, will definitely be checking out the other two.

I'm interested to see how this develops.
Played with this. It is stupid easy to make apps for Alexa with Flask-Ask.
In the U.S. if the data has leaked to the public then the First Amendment protects you unless or until there's some intervening obligation, like for people who have government security clearances. But if there's any serious doubt about whether its already public then you should ask a lawyer. Unless it's already been disclosed by major media then you may want to at least think twice.

There are obvious analogies to stolen goods, but you have to be careful there. You could distinguish data similar to how the law distinguishes money. If a bank robber uses a $20 bill at the 7-Eleven for a 6-pack of beer, the 7-Eleven is NOT in possession of stolen property and therefore doesn't have to worry about the government seizing the $20.

Similar considerations can be made regarding data, especially on First Amendment grounds. Certainly journalists have some protection in this regard. But in general I think the law is rather murky in this area so either seek legal counsel or caveat emptor. Certainly if you could be considered to have any relationship to the person who stole the data or to whom it was stolen you would want to steer clear.
I'd love to see this network tested on hybrid breeds (but still trained on pure breeds) to see if the probabilistic output would be divided between the two parent breeds.
That is... bizarre. It looks like they had a simple head originally and then attached it to a too large body (facing the wrong way), and then tossed some hair on it to not look like it was a sockless handpuppet coming out of the neck
Have to agree. Even the code examples for some of the skill types aren't examples of using the API, they're examples of things like migrating existing code to a newer version of the API, which means much of the code is not only hard to read but irrelevant.

And the Smart Home skill APIs are very different from the normal skills, so most of the tutorials that are available don't help much.

Lambda is required as a back-end for Smart Home skills, but must still be set up manually which means copying and pasting things back and forth between completely unrelated management interfaces, some on AWS, some on Amazon Developer Services.

User authentication is required for Smart Home skills, but after checking the configuration very carefully and still seeing the auth step fail in the Alexa app even though the OAUTH calls succeeded, with little to no visibility into why it failed, I stopped wasting time on it.
Okay. Why?
Author here: we noticed consistent sources of duplicated code when designing cross-platform dApps and built Cleargraph out of necessity. We thought it would be broadly useful as a generic dApp back-end, so we polished it up and open sourced it!

Right now we're working on some dApp/smart contract templates that use Cleargraph, and want to know what y'all would think is useful. Maybe something along the lines of a CryptoKitties clone, a token monitor, a todo-list with staking, or a graphical transaction explorer. Open to any ideas! :)
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> That doesn’t work unless everyone else is doing it. And for that to work, everyone should be using it in the first place. It’s a catch 22 problem.

If that were actually true, Wikipedia would be no more than four stub articles written by Jimmy Wales.

The real barrier is people looking at a volunteer project and asking themselves "how can I take from this what I want?" rather than "how can I contribute to this, even in a small way?"

No one says anyone has to take on the herculean task of totally fixing all the problems they see in their area. But if you spend a little time fixing something, it will get better and perhaps even attain a high enough quality to satisfy you.
To save people some googling:

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cataclysm:_Dark_Days_Ahead

Home page: https://cataclysmdda.org/

Github: https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA

Stable releases: https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/releases

Daily builds: https://cataclysmdda.org/#downloads
And in the Eu card issuers have been raising prices to defeat the recent clampdown on interchange fees which cost me almost £20 a month due to loss of rebates.
I've been thinking that the "State actors like..." argument is rather weak because it seems like the more we learn about "State actors" from anywhere the more it seems like they can get around anything. If they happen be be focused on your or your organization it seems like it's just game over no matter what you try to do.

Luckily, I guess, securing yourself against state level actors keeps you safe from everyone else that's trying to do bad things, so, win/win?
Not Scott, and this has nothing to do with interference, but it is possible to "calculate" certain things using physical phenomenon like water levels. It's basically a variation of "analog computing".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_computer

An analog computer or analogue computer is a form of computer that uses the continuously changeable aspects of physical phenomena such as electrical, mechanical, or hydraulic quantities to model the problem being solved

I don't think it has much to do with QC, but analog computing is interesting in its own right.
It depends on the device, but there's also the phenomenon where failures go up after a certain amount of time just because parts wear out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathtub_curve
At the same time, there is no pressure on users to use iCloud. Or even buy Apple devices. Apple doesn’t have a monopoly in any segment.
Thought I'll see Olofsson in there.
Isn't that just Zeno's paradox rephrased for aging? If I shoot this arrow it will asymptotically approach but never actually reach you.
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It's not obvious why you'd want to talk about complex amplitudes, whose squared absolute values are probabilities, outside the context of quantum mechanics. Maybe a better way to say it is: once you're talking about such amplitudes, essentially by definition you ARE talking about quantum mechanics. :-)

Having said that, in classical probability theory, it's sometimes useful to look at the (positive) square roots of probabilities, for example to get a distance measure between probability distributions. See here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhattacharyya_distance

Also, we've often been able to use quantum tools to prove new results even about classical theoretical computer science. See here for a beautiful survey, though one that's already a decade out of date:

https://arxiv.org/abs/0910.3376

In this way, the mathematical tools that we've developed in quantum information can "pay rent" in classical CS, even if we counterfactually imagined that our world wasn't quantum-mechanical at all. It would take some time to go through an example of this, but (e.g.) it was shown that if a certain classical error-correcting code existed (called a 2-query locally decodable code of subexponential size), then an even better quantum error-correcting code would also exist, but the latter was something that people already knew how to rule out.

In these situations, some people would argue that we're not "really" using quantum physics or amplitudes; we're just taking MATH that was developed for that purpose, and repurposing it for something else. But it would be weird to say in a talk, "I'm now going to introduce a unit vector of complex numbers that's just an ordinary vector, nothing physical at all about it, then apply the following tensor product of 2x2 and 4x4 unitary matrices to it...," when everyone knows full well that all your intuition about this came from quantum states. Indeed, I confess that even when I'm doing linear algebra that has nothing to do with QM---i.e., my vectors really are just vectors of real or complex numbers, not amplitudes---I sometimes slip up and use the physicists' notation for quantum states (called the Dirac ket notation).
I recently read this phenomenal article on stablecoins: https://medium.com/reserve-currency/why-another-stablecoin-8...

Here's some relevant context on how Tether works:

> A traditional asset-backed stablecoin is simple to describe, and only gets complicated in practice. The issuer sells tokens for $1 each, and holds all of the dollars from those sales in reserve in a bank account. Any time someone wants to, they can redeem tokens for dollars with the issuer. This design is best with a trustworthy audit mechanism, like Trust Token is using for TrueUSD, in order to reassure holders that the money is there.

> This means that the issuer can maintain a buy wall equal in size to 100% of the circulating supply of the stablecoin at all times. If it’s a trustworthy actor and does in fact maintain that buy wall, it can implement a perfect currency peg. This system is a lot like Hong Kong’s currency board, which has classically maintained very high USD reserves, and had no trouble weathering the storm in the Asian Financial Crisis we referenced earlier, in which many exchange rate pegs broke.
Is Michelin Maps an app on iOS? Are you referring to this? https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/viamichelin-gps-route-planne...
"KaiOS originates from the Firefox OS open-source project started in 2011, and has continued independently from Mozilla since 2016" [1]

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/2qihtgrzllws8ki/AABmo9X1KMT6lHnvh...
What happens when the Library of Congress, or the British library, burns down? What happens when the Vatican library burns down (a large part of it consists of unique documents with zero other copies)?
I am talking about the part where the link has to be named that way.
>KaiOS is a web-based mobile operating system that enables a new category of smart feature phones. It is forked from B2G (Boot to Gecko), a successor of the discontinued Firefox OS. [1]

I'm curious whether they'll stick with Gecko considering Google's influence over the project. I also wonder how they plan on succeeding where Firefox OS failed.

[1] https://developer.kaiostech.com/
You believe it's axiomatic that you are entitled to the services of Google and Facebook and they are not entitled to save the information that you willingly send them during the use of their services?
Landline phones generally work during a power outage in the United States.
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What books do you recommend on those topics?
oof. Their getting started doc[0] has you create a virtualenv called "skill" then asks you to create your project in a folder called "skill". I can't imagine the confusion that's going to ensue.

[0] https://github.com/alexa-labs/alexa-skills-kit-sdk-for-pytho...
Sounds like you're familiar with this space and this guy; any thoughts you'd like to share?
there are more tyrannical equations if you are promoting space colonization. I mean if you compare earth to a petri dish, what do you think a small domed shelter on some other planet will be?!?

I like space, lots of neat things to learn, but the discussion always seems to get a little religious and doomsday-ish, and I find it less than genuine. Like have people thought about where the energy to get massive numbers of people off the planet will come from, and how that will leave the planet in even worse shape for those that can't leave?

It is folly to think technology can fix everything, and I sometimes wonder if it has actually "fixed" anything, aside from helping to enable overpopulation.
BFD. Imagine the profits on quarters though...nevermind hundred dollar bills.
No, I'm saying that advocates should be clear about what the precise harms are and that taxes should be used to ameliorate the harms of the taxed activity, and that anyone unable to put such numbers on it is not advocating a serious policy we should listen to.
You are conflating implementation with philosophy.

While the First Amendment is one such implementation of the notion of free speech, it is not the philosophy of freedom of expression itself.
Well precisely. And not like Comcast doesn't have money aka "But budgetary constraints and financial reality...". The reality is that they do annual surveys and find out spots on map where cutting happens very rarely and in those places they won't have any redundancy running - something, you know - the whole internet is based off of.

So no, two cuts like this are not something out of ordinary. The fact Comcast is cheap and don't have redundant pipes/contracts to operate secondary backup lines is simply being cheap and saving money on their part.