skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi Scott,

Is there any chance advances in quantum computing will affect crypto currencies. I.e. it might be possible to shortcut mining or mess with the quorum of the distributed ledger?

I'm curious as crypto currency is so hyped, it would dismay me that advances in quantum computing might disrupt the current landscape, or even better improve it in some way. Entanglement is already deployed and in use for data transit, in curious how annealing or other physics might be a game changer
Not trying to sound salty, but just for general reference. A heatwave in the UK starts somewhere around 23C. At 20C they are already anouncing in the stations for people to carry water at all times.
so that they can send a few more people down ravines (I guess Apple has too much money)
>Surely the solution then isn’t more housing for them, but more mental health services for them?

Agree with your other points, but both is the correct answer. It'd be wasteful to treat someone's mental health and leave them in a situation that deteriorates their mental health.
People frequently dying doing roped climbing too, even the most experience and skilled climbers; and often of stupid mistakes or random hazards.

But more importantly, it's probably better to let people do the things they love as long as they're not directly hurting others. Surely the feelings of fans shouldn't override the preferences of the object of their fanaticism.
Am I hearing this right, you think the whole multiverse concept is... meta-physics at best?
I don't think this is correct. For all the people who would have their data exposed in a public torrent, their data is likely safe at present and just needs to be removed from that website. If you put it in a torrent, you're hurting all of those people in a very direct way - you're the one stabbing them in the back.

What the authors here did is correct - they've publicized the issue. Releasing this data as a torrent is not
'publicizing' anything - it is stabbing millions of people in the back, and then waiting for the crowds to come and gape at the dead bodies.
I don't think anybody's suggesting Twitter move to only having a paid offering, which I agree would be fatal. I also suspect the market of people who really would pay is not large enough for them to bother with, but it depends on what they put in the premium version. Dropping ads is easy to implement, but is a niche market. On the other hand, being able to create private spaces could be huge. And they do a decent business in access to data that nobody seems to mind.
Thing is its very difficult to integrate long form audio when the only available source is download or stream from a website. Many people will pass this on by just because it doesn't show up in their podcast app.
Apple maps is an odd sort of problem for apple to have taken on.

First, it's Google head on. This is exactly the stuff where Google is very hard to beat. For Apple, it's a little outside their strengths. Too fiddly. Every damned place in the world has their own little public transport issues, data sources. Apple are more of a clever solution with the right compromises bunch than a "slog our way through 10 million random issues until a pattern emerges" bunch.

I like the moxy, but there's always going to be an "are we the new Bing?" cloud hanging over projects like this, unless and until they "win." All that said, I'm glad there is something out there that isn't google.
somebody is testing offensive tools. expect a false flag operation.
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I would also love to see that, for a number of reasons.
Has no one seen Scorsese's Gatsby?

You take ice, put it in front of the fan, and let the fan blow on you combining several of these low-tech ways to keep cool.
Stitch Fix is a profitable company that recently had an IPO. Their business is mostly subscription: each month they send a small selection of clothes chosen by a stylist. The customers keeps (and pays for) the ones they like, and returns the rest. Here's an overview: https://www.sramanamitra.com/2017/06/15/billion-dollar-unico...
Not sure how AC is the solution to climate change...Forgetting about the economical barriers (more than 30% of this world doesn't even have running water, let alone AC), you have to pay a price to nature whenever you try to reverse entropy. For every 1kW of energy you remove from your isolated system, you put at least 1.3kW into the global system. This energy has to come from some where like fuel which creates even more carbon emissions. AC will only increase the effects of the heatwave.
Doesn't mean you go rob people's houses.
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Quantum gas reveals first sign of path-bending monopole
I think what firebase provides has changed over time. These problematic instances maybe be legacy.

And the difficulty of setting up firebase's auth may also have changed over time. Did they always have hosted user/password auth or did they rely on third party pre-google?
Adam Gopnik wrote about Romain Gary in the New Yorker six months ago. Gopnik's article is a nice companion piece to this one:

The Made-Up Man
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/01/01/the-made-up-ma...
The writer Romain Gary was an inveterate fabulist. But his work is sustained by an authentic moral vision.
Hmm. Interesting stuff. I am surprised that Julia has come along so far. Where can I read more about Julia's integrators?
Depends on how you pronounce 'Q', I guess...
> I don't mind being a little less performant than other compiled languages.

What other languages? Because the language uses "Fast as C" as part of it's tagline. Is this a false claim?
But think about how much it costs to have the item physically delivered. There is no way that Amazon can make money on a $10 item that they need to deliver in a two day time frame.
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Facebook wants to hide messages in TV ads to make phones record audio
The description in the first paragraph made me really excited. [in that robotic voice from the 80ies] Proceeding. To. Your. Site.
Of equal annoyance, I've discovered searching for food on Google maps doesn't include the best and closest local pizzas joint, it'll only show if you search specifically for pizza
Hi Scott,

Do you think that chaotic systems would be better analysed by quantum computing over classical computing? More generally, is BQP powerful enough to deal with chaotic systems in the same way P is for linear systems?

Oh, and I think your review of "Enlightenment Now" was a bit too rosy. When he analysed the data he's superb, but he seems to lambast people he heavily disagrees with. Its a tad disheartening.
Remember that car attractiveness is an opinion. Plenty of people (including me) feel the exact opposite, ie that the Model 3 is really derpy and dumb looking
Another problem with the quantum suicide thought experiment is that there are plenty of branches where you end up alive but horribly disabled.
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/360/6396/1429.full

Arxiv preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.06228
3. Everything critical to your company is a 3rd party SaaS accessible via public IPs.

#1 and #2 have been symptomatic of the tech industry since at least the 90s. The difference back then was the surface area was generally limited to your private network only.
It might depend on where you live. I've been driving around Copenhagen with a group of colleagues and we had to ask the one with the map to switch to Google maps because Apple maps seemed determined to give us a city tour rather than lead us to our destination.
I haven't read the article yet but just wanted to let you know that you are not alone.

May you be well and may we all find strength, together.
That goes to my point, rails doesn't have the symbols in code for the editor to use to refactor because they are added at runtime dynamically when ActiveRecord reflects the database. You can have a full model that just has `class User < ActiveRecord::Base; end` that has 15 fields on it, none of which are in the code.
How to make your Twitter account Super Secure with a YubiKey
It was a real cringe here watching him drop the peach.

Peaches should never be dropped. They are easily bruised. We shouldn't teach our robots to drop them! Bad robot trainer!

The point is -- while I realize the peach thing may seem trivial -- if our AI trainers can't even get this right, how do we expect them to instill AIs with decent behaviors?
I don't know if Handmaid's tale can be considered Dystopian because, frankly, it is not that scary for two mains reason:

Firstly, it is completely unrealistic. No one would separate a child from their parent in any world.

Secondly, the characters are unsympathetic. Sure something terrible happens to them but then you realize that they broke the law. Clearly, they are at fault for breaking the law.
Kids using Maps as a globe would find that useful. Why not search for "Asian food"?
Link to full paper: https://sci-hub.tw/downloads/d669/10.1038@s41380-018-0097-2....
No, as a US citizen you have no such GDPR protection. If Exactis operates also in the EU, Eu citizens may request their data or erasure of their data from Exactis.
"There is never enough time to do it right the first time, but somehow, there is always enough time to do it over."
Warming outside temps is loss of habitat.
Exactly the question I would love answered.

Edit: this seems roughly answered to a question by user r4um
And then your freezer turns on and dumps a bunch more heat into your environment.

Better only use store bought ice for this trick.
Even on the equator traditional approaches are nicer than air con - not least because AC dries the air so uncomfortably. I'm the one who turns the hotel air con off, opens a window and turns the fan on. :)

If we really get the vast majority of the world using air con we may as well get them to power their homes by diesel generators 24/7 too and be done with the planet, environment and any claims to care for it.
It feels really uncomfortable that, if you have infinitely many people wearing red or blue hats that they can't see, then they can all guess their own hat color with only finitely many of them being wrong. Not to mention Banach-Tarski and a hundred other strange phenomena. This all militates toward rejecting AC.

But then, if we reject AC, we can have infinite sets that are incomparable (i.e., they're not isomorphic and neither is larger than the other). So pick your poison!

Thinking about such things for too long makes me feel grateful that I spend most of my time in the finite world (or, let's say, the world of continuous parameters that we only ever measure to finite precision, so that the statements we care about can ultimately be phrased arithmetically). In this world, because of e.g. the Shoenfield absoluteness theorem, anything that can be proved with the help of AC can also be proved without it.
This is not true, as far as I understand: The vast majority of DAI is backed by fiat currencies via a complex mechanism involving multiple outside parties. The earliest version of DAI was envisioned as being 100% unbacked, but the collateral requirements to make that feasible ended up being prohibitive.
> No one would separate a child from their parent in any world.

Is this sarcasm? We are literally less than a week off the tail of the US government doing literally this.
> That's the thing you don't understand about Republicans. They don't consider regulation on social media platforms as something in their interest.

There is a liberty-leaning wing of the Republican party, but it's not currently the dominant force in the party.

There's also a liberty-leaning wing of the Democratic party.

> However, this is the model which liberals subscribe to.

Well, that's just definitionally false... I think you meant "democrats" or "leftists" or something.

But just like the Republican party, the Democratic party has both liberal and illiberal contingents (and the illiberal democrats tend to be further to the left than the liberal democrats). It's hard to say which wing is ascendant because the party is in flux.

US party lines aren't really good predictors of whether someone will support free speech; a slim majority of Republicans support banning flag burning, while a slim majority of Democrats support banning hate speech.
Even "small government" Republicans are far more unified around tax policy and welfare while relatively split on questions of free expression.

In the 1990s, in the midst of the Culture War I, the thing Rs and Ds could really unite around was the illiberal policy of regulating speech in the music industry [1].

> Govt should only act against things which are objectively morally wrong

Ah yes, objective morality! Definitely a thing that exists and is never a source of contention! Now, if only everyone were as objective as me ;-)

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parents_Music_Resource_Center
> The concern around Tether may well be justified, but some of the things I've seen presented as evidence suggest a lack of understanding about what normal exchange activity can look like.

MOST of the concerns I've seen about Tether are based on a lack of understanding about how most markets work.

Its funny to me because the reasons I don't use Tether have to do with it being centralized in general, (with the assumption that they are full reserve). The systemic risk fractional reserve fear is why other people are concerned about Tether, and it doesn't really matter? That company is a huge target either way! If they seek to prove their reserve by an accountant, then their banking partner gets exposed and will close Tether's accounts, or that bank will be cut off by other banks.

This is what has happened in the past, when Wells Fargo cut them out of their international wires route.
One of my gripes with iOS is the ability to select a default maps app. It bothers me that when I try to share my location through iMessage, it forces me to view the information by opening apple maps and you cannot copy and paste the location into another mapping app. I believe this was a terrible strategy to get users to use apple maps.
>No human would enter that order

Yeah, even if this is code vs. human, it's just as easy for the code to round or vary the amounts.
Actual quote from the article:

> All Gentoo code hosted on github should for the moment be considered compromised.

Not putting a "..." in between "code" and "compromised" is a bit click-baity.
> No one would separate a child from their parent in any world.

Except current US immigration policy..
To anyone reading this this nonsense above. DO NOT USE WINDEX, LYSOL, OR ANY CLEANER ON YOUR DISPLAYS. You WILL ruin it. Use a damp microfiber cloth with water.
Ask HN: How do Google's iOS apps track your identity even after reinstalling?
I uninstalled all Google's apps from my iPhone and reinstalled them. Even after re-installation, Google Maps still knows the Google account you previously signed into. How do they persist identity on your device? Doesn't iOS remove data when you delete the app?

How can you force-remove the sticky identity whether or not an app allows you to?
In that case, your assertion that "doubling should be sufficient to get single unit price" was wrong, cause you aren't going to get a queen from either of those companies for $500.
Having received 10s of millions on grants since 2002...
Yes, I was aware of that (but thanks), and that's why I had written above:

>a) many modern editors will do it for you

although I tend not to use those particular vim options much.

And for anyone else who does not know, many other vim set commands also have shortcuts, like:

:se ai (for :set autoindent)

and ts for tabstop, sw for shiftwidth, ic for ignorecase, wm for wrapmargin and many others, probably.

I tend to do this in my .vimrc or .exrc as soon as I start using any new instance (on a new machine) of vi/vim:

:se ai ts=4 sw=4 showmode showmatch ignorecase expandtab report=0

Also, like:

>" See the current format

> :set ff

you can do this for any boolean setting, like readonly, ignorecase, etc.:

:se readonly?

:se ic?

to query their values.
Laws move slowly relative to tech, allowing companies to basically get away with things that aren’t illegal “yet”. They know they can rapidly build a thing, and benefit for (probably) years before anyone is able to stop them.

We may need more talented tech people to pause and consider entering lawmaking, in order to find more ways to apply the speed of tech to laws. Why the hell for instance do we not have a “GitHub for bills”, allowing rapid turnaround for edits and full revision history? We should be building tools to accelerate public participation and review by all parties required to make new laws so that it can be done quickly. It should take weeks or months, not years, between the time a company does a questionable thing and a verdict is handed down on whether or not it should be illegal.
The suburb I lived in, in Italy was mostly built out after widespread use of automobiles.

And yes, it was walkable, because things were close to one another.
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Sounds like a vicious circle.

Too much carbon in the atmosphere warming the climate? Of course the solution is to build more air conditioners and blast out more carbon. /s

Why would we opt for air conditioning instead of improving our building practices and performing retrofits to require less energy input?
This sucks. Was on my way to the airport when my support team called me saying the app was down. But Pingdom didn’t alert me! Lots of users still having issues.

Trace route indicates a Telia interchange in ATL is causing the issue, at least for me.
I always understood it as avoiding a complete dependency on Google, since (some form of) Maps is a must-have feature for any modern smartphone. After the Schmidt/Android thing I think the Apple leadership basically assumed Google would screw them over sooner or later if they could.
I'm pretty sure both of their points are sarcastic, yes.
A New Universal Music Player
Yes, this should be a requirement for all ad platforms.
I wonder, where is the line when air conditioning starts to consume more energy than heating, over the year? How far south or north is the breakeven point, where people tend to spend about an equal amount of energy for both?
I believe if you go to General -> Storage -> App -> Delete application data , it would delete all authentication tokens it stores in cache.
Ask HN: Is /u/dang one person or a group of moderators?
In which we learn that Domino's is a tech company and that everything is tech's fault.
Also, the problem is those damn techies who see problems and try to solve them, not the actual... problems they're trying to solve. Clearly a filled pothole with a logo on it is worse than an unfilled one.
While it might not be novelty (and therefor it doesn't seem impressive to some), Transfer Learning is actually highly efficient even for small datasets and should at least be considered before wasting energy and money in building your own convnet. Its a good first step when tackling a new problem in this problem space.
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An Easier Way to Build Alexa Skills Using Python
Google is doing a great job of making their mobile app a PITA to use. I just want to see a map, not a persistent screen filling list that refuses to be dismissed. If Apple were smart they would make it cross platform and strengthen their data collection with Android users.
Well, I described the situations from which I get my ideas of complexity... Regarding iterators, I'm fine with their usage depending on what they _do_. However I don't think it's a good idea to iterate over an abstract stream that under the hood does sorts and zips and folds. Because you lose control and understanding how much intermediate data will be produced (constant small amount? 3 times the amount?), and in what order code gets executed.

And if you think consciously about the intermediate data you probably can use it for a whole lot of other things!

In Haskell, unexpected memory expansions and duplication of work can happen. And these problems are not nice to debug.

I might be generalizing too much, though. Maybe you're talking about short-lived web applications that never see a large amount of data, or something like that.
I had that thought as well.
Thank you for this, i remember reading about it back when single core chips were hitting absurd temps (if memory serves the headlines were something like "top end p4 produces more heat per mm2 than a thermo nuclear power plant") before they managed to find another way there was much talk of GaAs

just for fun id love to see what a GaAs Bitcoin mining ASIC could do but i seriously doubt anyone will be producing one of them
The second part of the claim seems much, much stronger than the first part, but he makes it sound like it's a minor detail. I am confused as to why.
Something that drives me nuts with maps is when zooming in/out the map often jumps - very quickly - to a region off screen. Seems like an easy fix. Does anyone else experience this?
Was on my way to the airport when my support team called me saying the app was down. But Pingdom didn’t alert me! Lots of users still having issues.

Trace route indicates a Telia interchange in ATL is causing the issue, at least for me.
> Lukewarm showers

I think this is personal. Ice cold showers help me immensely and consistently in multiple climates. My wife (originally from another country) prefers to take hot showers. Although that sounds awful, if I feel her skin afterward, it's cool to the touch, so I know it works for her. So I of course tried it and it was a nightmare. Never again.

Where I live it was 40C/105F yesterday and we don't have air conditioning. It's actually not bad when you have a strategy in place. In college I lived on the 10th floor of concrete building that also lacked air conditioning. I think the list in this article is good mainly for short term relief. It's also optimized for situations that aren't very applicable to most of its readers.

In France, it's standard for windows to have white exterior shutters that both repel sunlight and prevent it from entering a home through the window. They are controlled easily from a handle indoors next to the window. This should be standard in homes and buildings worldwide. If you prevent heat from entering in the first place then you can greatly reduce the "need" to use air conditioning. I can personally attest to how effective they are.

Simply opening the windows at night helps a lot since where we live it gets cool enough. Whole house fans (run in the early morning or late evening), ceiling fans, and cool drinks are enough to keep me comfortable indoors no matter the temperature.
Of course it's understandable why they've taken this on, but it's not a surprise what the result has been. For me, the biggest shame is that the quality of maps on the iPhone is worse than it used to be- it used to be Google provided the APIs and Apple wrote the app. Both did the part they are best at doing.