skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I disagree with your assertion that Honnold isn't "ripped" (a word for which we seem to have different definitions) it is worth noting that the primary muscles(/tendons) used in climbing are hand/forearm based and you can do quite well even with everything else being significantly weaker in comparison.
Oh look, my earlier comment is relevant again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17350291
Given his track record, I'm not going to believe a single word of his facebook post. Find another source that does not rely on that post to prove the point.
Apple has the luxury of not needing to shove ads in their mapping application. Google needs to show you a list so they can put ads there or shuffle the priority for a high value advertiser.
Makes me wonder how stuff like this makes it past QA. I bet there was a low-paid QA engineer or college intern who pointed this out to their supervisor and they were ignored.
Hi Scott. I did not listen to the podcast (yet), so sorry if you answered this already, but what, in your opinion, could be the greatest impact quantum computing has in society? I know its a broad question, but curious of a few bullet points.
They should just turn it into a web-site.

I used to use iTunes extensively, but have since switched to Vudu (Walmart), Amazon Digital, and Play/YT for my digital rentals because I'd prefer to watch them in a browser or on a Roku, neither of which are possible in the iTunes/Apple ecosystem.

One big reason why is that browser video streaming is extremely reliable on a reasonable connection, but iTunes' rental buffering was a huge headache last I tried to use it (and the data usage significantly higher than browser video for some reason, even at the same resolution).
I would like them to rebuild the Macbook Pro from the ground up.

I think you posted in the wrong thread. This one is about Apple Maps.
This & please replace the keyboard, touchpad (bottom half) with full retina touchscreen, dual graphics, bezeless, fanless, and add in apple pencil with a laser, microphone, and twisting/push in eraser (for presentations).
If your few hundred lines of code takes 30 seconds to compile, then either it's a crazy macro that expands to hundreds of thousands of lines of code, or I suggest you report it on github.
No. I said that it removed avenues for Chinese steel. Chinese steel is imported directly to the US too. It accounts for 2% of US imports.

Please read above referenced documents.
The hardware could not be updated for years and I would still use the Mac because OS X is just so damn useful for me. The SSDs alone are so fast and the design is amazing. The keyboard is shit and ram could be improved but the OS is awesome, well only because of brew
I almost started writing a sincere answer to this question before I read your post history. Cynics like you would never understand anyway.
Well yeah, if all underlying reserves lose value, the stablecoins are going to tank as well. And yes, holding all reserves in one form of value is not good.

But the eventual idea is to hold reserves (allow people to borrow using collateral) in multiple forms, like tokens tied to ownership of things like stocks, bonds, gold, etc. as well as other cryptocurrencies.

And despite what this guy says, DAI has remained pretty stable: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/dai/
I find Apple Maps to be more usable in terms of UX, how it gives directions, and how it displays information.

Their data still isn't as good though. For the most part, as long as you're in/near a population center or sticking to major highways it's fine. But it still makes a lot of minor errors when you're out in the hinterland. When I'm going places I'm not familiar with I still default to Google Maps since it's more reliable. This is especially true in countries outside the US.

Google also does a way better job at address verification. Apple Maps tends to take the names I type very literally while Google is pretty uncanny at being able to infer where I'm actually trying to go. For example, if I type the name of a local French restaurant, I can't count the number of times Apple Maps defaulted to showing me a restaurant by that name in Senegal or France or something.

This is especially weird in light of the fact that it's Apple, not Google, who has access to my chat logs and calendar appointment data and I have location services on by default for Apple Maps.
I’ve tried to transition from gmaps to Apple maps a couple times in the last few years. It’s not broken anymore, but it’s still sufficiently inferior that attempting to switch was painful and I ended up going back. This despite wanting google and it’s snoops firmly out of my digital life.
There's a whole book on this topic you might enjoy called Abundance. It talks specifically about what is changing for the better, despite what we see/hear every day.
IMO Crystal as a lot more mass-appeal than Rust, and once people realize that the interest might swing in that direction as pretty much anyone could pick up Crystal. Rust is an awesome, very cool language, but Rust code is super weird looking, and the backflips you have to do to deal with safety make even basic tasks sometimes extraordinarily difficult, or so I've heard.
Apparently the Github organization title and logo was changed, along with a couple of packages edited to contain scripts that were supposed to erase all files on user computers.

The Github repos are just backups of the main package archives, so it would only affect users manually downloading packages from there (which is not the case if you haven't explicitly changed your system config to use those repos for some reason).
I found the dearth of street name labelling a huge pain in the ass the last time I was on foot on holiday trying to orientate myself and get around.
> No, I just don't like living near other people. I live on a 10-acre farm.

In the context of OP, we're talking about the bulk of the population, who in the US have a median household income of $57,230 to $59,039 in latest census statistics. By virtue of sitting around chatting on HN, there is a very high probability that you have a very privileged position where that median household income is close to or below your individual income. It certainly is below my income.

I get it. I like living in a large space, too (50-100 acres is my ideal). And I get that there may be individuals like yourself in that bulk of the population who feel the same way. But realistically, when discussing policy decisions over how to structure a nation's infrastructure so it is affordable for most of its citizens, at our population levels, with our energy infrastructure, IMHO you're only looking at high density. The energy consumption profile alone of living low-density, combined with prevailing low-efficiency stick builds in the US, makes low density a punishingly expensive proposition over time for middle income families.

Those of us who are wealthy and/or privileged enough to avoid high density, I'm not prescribing we should do anything but pursue what we enjoy and are able to afford. But for a disturbingly large and increasing segment of the population, I don't see low density as a viable option, absent some pretty radical changes in the socioeconomic and cultural order. I welcome discussion to the contrary, as we need a solution for the burgeoning middle classes in developing nations better than the US model, and I'd prefer a low density approach because it is simply currently an easier sell.

> ...far cheaper to buy municipal water than to dig wells and process your own...

My thinking was more along the lines of, if you're building mid-rise to high-rise for high density, then you're going to be digging into the ground anyways for the foundation. You might as well dig a bit further for the marginal cost of getting your own cistern, letting the water seepage that is normally fought against fill the cistern, and use the water like gray water for a food forest and orchards, and let the filtered runoff feed downstream aquaculture arrays.
How big of a boom are we talking when I go through a molecular cloud at 0.1c in something like, let's say, the space shuttle?
Article linked in the discussion - https://www.justinobeirne.com/google-maps-moat
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I imagine many apple software engineers read hacker news. I don't think hacker news is as popular with the computer engineering crowd though, but I would wager there is a decent amount of them that still reads it. But the apple designers, product owners, and other people that have a lot more say on the direction of a product probably don't read it at all.
The merely smart learn from their failures. The wise learn from others' failures.
I wish they'd just sign a deal with Google and be done with it. The problem is less with the maps app and more with their source of data. OSM is neat, yay competition, etc etc, but the quality is just not there.
It really depends on where you are. If you're using it for car navigation in the US, it's probably fine. When I need a map on a hike in rural Germany Apple Maps is completely unusable. Google Maps is much better and OpenStreetMap is even more accurate.
How do you figure? As far as I know, you can't buy points with money, so it's $XX,XXX worth of flights.
Panzarino has just posted a follow up answering questions about the update:

https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/29/questions-about-apples-new...
I agree. But eventually they plan to allow for many forms of collateral, and peg the price to a basket of goods. If convenience were the same, I would rather hold an overcollateralized currency with stocks, bonds, gold, ETH, etc. underneath. Such a thing does not exist yet, but I'm excited that it will, if MakerDAO continues to follow through on their plans.
Bash had the shell shock bug for over 25 years before someone found it. No physical analogy for that comes to mind, but we can pretend I suppose.
"For another, true multitasking would be possible under Windows, claimed Microsoft"

I had forgotten how terrible the early versions of Windows looked compared to Lisa, Amiga and even OS/2 and DR's GEM.

Even 7 years later Windows 3 only had cooperative multi tasking that in reality was program launcher with background printing. Applications were hopeless at releasing processor and if you tried to multi task you often crashed the whole OS. It was, of course, hugely commercially successful from 3 on. :)
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I don't think any language feels as close as crystal does to dynamic languages while being completely type safe with strong types. I think thats why so many people choose to use it so early. It truly doesn't feel like any other language out there.
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I have that problem in google maps all the time, but have not had that happen in apple maps yet, but I don't doubt it will.
No it does not. By default it locks down your empty database to only authenticated users.
I think my original comment may have been a bit too snarky. But countries like the US could absolutely be doing more for their poor and downtrodden than they currently do. And yes, I guess I am fine with spending "other people's money" (AKA money belonging to people who don't need it) if it means that the quality of life for those with the least advantages was improved.
I think one of my favorite "how the ...?!" geography names is the Owyhee River area of south east Oregon. It's a high, dry steppe where nothing much grows except sagebrush, and hardly any one lives.

Owyhee, though, is a different spelling of Hawaii, and the river was named for some Hawaiian explorers who set out to explore the area and were never seen again.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owyhee_River#Naming
This was insightful! I've read though previous long discussions on HN and elsewhere about the relevance, meaning and value of estimates in project management. Your comment really summed up how to approach estimating tasks in a logical and sensible way, that I think makes sense for both developers and managers.
>> Honestly, I think Apple is wasting resources at competing with other companies by providing mediocre solutions.

The fact that Apple Maps exists forces Google to dedicate resources towards keeping Google Maps decent on Apple's platform. Competition is good, even if you don't use the competing product.
> They did it by making the single worst strategic mistake that any software company can make: They decided to rewrite the code from scratch. [0]

[0] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...
That is not true. The default access is only to authenticated users.
Oh, you think Apple only has 30 engineers and that they have to choose between the MacBook Pro and Maps? They don't. Apple is trying ver very hard, and very intelligently, to build both platforms optimally.

Please consider the quality of your comment before you post it, plus its relevance to the topic.

I, like many, rely on HN for high-quality news and high-quality perspectives on those topics. I'm frankly more and more dissuaded by low-quality, hardly-on-topic comments like yours. You appear to enjoy co-opting the topic to gripe about the MacBook Pro. Please do that somewhere else.
It's been mostly fine for me, but their database of places isn't as complete. I recently tried to look up a restaurant that opened two years ago and it was completely missing, had to use Google Maps to find it instead.

If you're looking for walking/hiking trails, Apple Maps has pretty much nothing. Google certainly isn't as good as a dedicated trail map app, but at least they try sometimes.
I would never trust Apple or Google maps to get me anywhere more complicated than a local restaurant. If you're wandering out amongst the logging trucks (or anything that isn't paved, for that matter), try something like Gaia GPS. Gaia allows you load whatever maps you want, including USGS Topo maps. On the dirt-road-loving motorcycle, I paid the $50 (or whatever it cost) to get the topo dataset on the Garmin that rides on the dashboard.

EDIT: BTW, if you're on anything that might be labelled "fireroad" you don't want to be depending on a map app that needs a connection to begin with.
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P.S. There is also a slightly related Transactional Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics, which is more about '2-phase commit' of past and future :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transactional_interpretation
I usually shop at Meijer because they were the last grocery left without annoying loyalty cards.

(quizzical look)

Are you aware of their MPerks program? Tied to your phone number and an email address, electronic receipts, tracking of your savings, online/in-app clipping of coupons auto-applied at checkout time, automatic "rewards" of $2-3 for every $150 you spend.

The only part of a traditional loyalty card program it doesn't have is making their sale prices apply only with card, but it definitely gives you measurable (and measured) discounts both passively through those "rewards" and actively via the in-app coupons.
I think it's too easy to see the way things are today as the way they will he forever. I've made this mistake too often myself, so I find it generally useful to overcorrect and assume that over long periods of time technologies/companies/people can get far better than you expect.
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Hi Scott,

Shtetl-Optimized's tagline is famously "Quantum computers would not solve hard search problems
instantaneously by simply trying all the possible solutions at once". What phrase do you think should replace 'trying all the possible solutions at once' in the public conciousness as a succinct description of the mechanisms of a quantum computer? Or is this topic simply too complex to be distilled into a neat synopsis while retaining accuracy?
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I always use Apple Maps first, and sanity check what it gives me. In my area most mapping solutions work, but Google Maps will frequently give me difficult (though not wrong) directions. Such as going down three blocks instead of two, skipping an intersection with a light, and instead asking me to turn left across 4 lanes of busy traffic, for no evident reason.
You were said to be a skeptic of quantum computing company d wave. Then you started believing and then went back to skepticism. What is your current status, do you think it works? What would you like to see from them?

Also, what is your take on Max Tegmark's quantum suicide experiment. Would it work? If yes would that imply that each of us should expect to live a really long time subjectively?
That seems like a server side problem, related to poor search and/or bad data.

IMO The UX of apple maps is better than google maps (exempting biking directions)
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could this method detect really small concentrations? for example, in the 1 PPM range
Ironic that Apple introduce improvements to Maps just as they open up Car Play to Google Maps and Waze. Maybe it's because they think they're on par now (or will be) and don't need to block everything else.

Our car has Car Play so I've been using Maps exclusively up to now and whilst I think I still prefer Waze overall, Maps is perfectly fine and I've gotten used to its rough edges.
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How far are we from "emergence" in terms of AI ecosystem ? Will quantum computing pave the way for it ?
If you compare the article, the main takeaway is that Apple seems to be starting to use some of the improvements that Google has been adding to their map program the last several years.

-Satellite imagery to generate build footprints.
-Lots of human intervention
-Land based car imagery
I have this problem with gmaps. It happens sometimes that I can’t for the love of humanity find out the name of the street I’m on
Short answer: I think the greatest impacts might be in simulating quantum physics and chemistry themselves, and thereby giving a new window into nature that could have applications to drug design, materials science, batteries, high-temperature superconductors, and more. But I could be as badly wrong as (e.g.) someone speculating about the impacts of classical computers in the 1940s, who could see applications to weather prediction and other physical simulation problems but would've totally missed the creation of Hacker News.

Long answer: See my recent blog post https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3848 about exactly this!
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That is true, the free soloing is the eye catcher. But he has a very likeable and relatable personality too. I would be really sad if something happened to him.
WKHTMLTOPDF is pretty inactive nowadays. It uses an older webkit engine, and there's only been 1 release in the past 2 years (which happened to be 19 days ago, actually).
Your analogy misrepresents the grandfather's point. A closer analogy for his argument might be:

- Some high number X of dark alley stabbings occur each year.

- But alleys still "feel" safe to people, because the stabbings aren't well-publicized. So people don't know to avoid them and the rate X remains the same.

- Let's publicize alley stabbings in an emotionally impactful way, so people know to avoid alleys and we can bring X down.

In the actual case at hand, the argument is that you break a few eggs so people understand the issue viscerally, and hope to achieve massive regulatory change because people now actually care. I don't know if it would work, but it's a more reasonable idea than you're making it out to be.

Solving the root problem here is orders of magnitude more important than any single data breach today is.
My uni lectures used to be in the same style as wiki articles. Professor reading from a extremely dense abstract script every lecture and not really explaining anything.

Bad times.
I don’t know but at least that strategy gave us keynote so I’m grateful. Powerpoint is a pretty bad software compared to it.
I'm the creator of Kemal, glad to see that you're liking it :)
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Realizing you need compliance and security procedures requires competence. The two of you are basically saying the same thing. There is no world where a company that can't get the most BASIC security practices right will realize they should have security procedures in place.
An "awesome story" that isn't the way it happened (as with too many "awesome stories"). See the comment I made (posted below by niawalker). To summarize here, I said I love "Rocky's Boots", and I love the basic idea of "Robot Odyssey", but for end-users, using simple logic gates to program multiple robots in a cooperative strategy game blows up too much complexity for very little utility. A much better way to do this would be to make a "next Logo" that would allow game players to make the AI brains needed by the robots.

So what I actually said, is that doing it the way you are doing it will wind up with a game that is not successful or very playable.

Just why they misunderstood what I said is a bit of a mystery, because I spelled out what could be really good for the game (and way ahead of what other games were doing). And of course it would work on an Apple II and other 8 bit micros (Logo ran nicely on them, etc.)
IMHO you are probably smarter than they are, especially if you can remain scientific about things.
Yeah I'm aware. I am not signed up for them. That's the reason I don't like Kroger, their stuff is way marked up without a card. That said, I figured out a 'trick' of just asking for a card and saying you'll fill out the application at home. Doesn't seem like such a trick now since they're all just tracking me by my payment methods. Oh well.
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In my opinion, you're one of the most entertaining and approachable writers on mathematical topics like QC. How did you get good at writing?
That's optimistic. I usually see it at about 4 years, which is absurd, and directly leads to the 26-year-old senior dev I worked under a couple of jobs ago, who's primary concern in code reviews was that I always cache my jQuery selectors "for performance reasons".
Like most I prefer Google Maps, but having a car with CarPlay, I either want Google Maps to have access to it (you can jailbreak, but it just puts the app on the screen; it doesn't provide the CarPlay specific functionality) or get Apple Maps to "good enough".
Do you think that quantum physics can tell us anything about 'the hard problem' in philosophy? Is it possible that the mind could somehow control how quantum states collapse in situations where randomness would be the typical explanation?
The banks don't actually eat the risk of inaccurately offered loans, this is why the housing market collapsed (simplified). Most of the logical incentives in financial sectors have become corrupted by perverse incentives with securities trading.
> US based company that holds USD in escrow

It appears TrueUSD has set up a "legal framework [which] enables you to exchange USD directly with escrow accounts" [1]. When cashing out, you "receive USD from one of the escrow accounts in [their] network of fiduciary and banking partners to purchase or redeem TrueUSD." (You also need to pass "a standard KYC/AML check."

This is much better than Tether. But I'm still skeptical. If a TrueUSD token is frozen as part of a bankruptcy or divorce case, or is involved in criminal proceedings, is the token frozen or the entire escrow account? How do the escrow account managers certify they know the beneficial owners of their escrow accounts? "Know your customer" is a basic American financial principle, and one stable coins of any stripe inherently butt up against.

[1] https://blog.trusttoken.com/trueusd-a-usd-backed-stablecoin-...