skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're not alone, but we can't withdraw. Moderate your news consumption, go get some exercise, see a therapist, but don't just tune out. What are you going to do, tune out for the rest of your life?
Great, now consider to add link on your frontpage, there is no way somebody can discover this by himself..
There are other big search engines beyond Google. And currently Google pays Apple quite a bit of money to stay the main search engine on Safari.

But I would be very suprised, if Apple had not a team working on search algorithms, so they could start a search engine of their own, if the need is there.
I took a grad-level quantum computing class which I didn't quite have the physics background for, and the lecture that lost me, about 3 weeks in, was on the different kinds of physical gates quantum computers use.

My recollection is that there were 3 necessary gates for a quantum functionally complete set: One gate was classically functionally complete, the other two are where I got lost. Can you explain like I'm 5 (or explain like I'm an undergrad with minimal QM knowledge) what these other gates are doing?

Thanks!
Serious question, anybody try VPN, and then connect to AWS?
I'm on Comcast and cannot get to Twitter and a few other places... But Netflix and YouTube work just fine. I wonder why I can get to some stuff but not others...
Well, we all know they’ll learn to do better because of this: they’ll take all that money from monthly fees and make sure to improve quality of service! Right?

Nope. They’ll probably raise prices if anything, and receive no ill effects as a company for basically failing to provide what they happily accept money for. (Buried somewhere in an “update” to Terms of Service, they probably pardon themselves from exactly this type of outage.)

There ought to be strict laws around long service outages, resulting in automatic multiple months of free service, etc. as a deterrent for allowing things to just collapse for hours at a time. This isn’t just Internet anymore; entire businesses can be affected for example.
You'll see a lot more white roofs in hot countries than cold ones. Can't repaint just for the summer here in Canada :-)
If you peruse through his keynotes (https://allaboutstevejobs.com/videos/keynotes) it seems like the famed turtleneck outfit actually came fairly late in his career.
I just want to second your comment because I can't stress enough how badly I want anyone who hasn't read it yet to read it. The week he published it, I must've shared it with every single person who I felt might even remotely care for it. It's a phenomenal piece.
Ha,did a bit of digging and found this nearby (Little James Island): https://www.google.com/maps/@47.9117387,-124.6449377,3a,75y,...
I think they'd just prefer no one speculating on Tether at all. If Tether had a bunch of people actively trading the USD-Tether pair, it would be much more expensive to keep the price fixed.

By keeping the price volatility extremely low, they discourage speculators from trading, since they don't stand to make a profit without price movement.
Hiya, Scott! I recently heard the first episode of Rationally Speaking podcast episode where you were the guest (yes, I'm catching up with the RS Archives during my long commute). I've also started reading QCSD (hey, if it's going to be our decade's GEB, we may as well give it an acronym. :: grin:: )

I've already corrected my very mistaken understanding of how QC works, as in the tagline of your blog. Are there any other concepts that we need to shake off that would make explaining these concepts easier for the layman? Do you have any words of wisdom for the masses?
They used a nasal spray.
I don't listen to music very often, and as a result, I rarely use iTunes. What is so bad about it (just wondering)?
A Japanese cyber-security expert who defended basic decency was stabbed to death
On Comcast here in the bay area. Some sites are fine. Some are just gone. Luckily, my corp VPN endpoint is accessible, and if I VPN out, I can get to everything again.
Especially the Pika, which needs very specific temperatures that are only found at high elevations to maintain thermoregulation. Global warming means that they will literally die of heat exhaustion during future summers as the temperature increases at higher elevations.

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

Edit: specifically the American Pika

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_pika
Is your VPN IPSec or SSL or other?
>Everything humans do, including asking questions about virtue signalling, is virtue signaling.

Do you not believe in the existence of true dialectics?
This has happened, and AFAIK, DAI is still stable. Maybe that's the result of some extra manipulation by the project or whatever. I would love to see an in depth analysis of DAI over the past 6 months.
Ah, you're right. I skimmed over the top level comment and missed that. My bad.
Memory/learning difficulty is a symptom of depression. Taking your words at face value, maybe you go see a doctor.
Why don't we call Qbits just "qits". Since Quantum-Binary-Digit doesn't really make sense. Do people in the field refer to them in other ways?
I originally learned programming with BASIC, then Pascal, then C and assembler. So I didn't start out with map/reduce, but I find them very intuitive now. In fact, I got annoyed with a new non-imperative language I was learning, because I was looking for map and reduce, and I eventually found map but not reduce.
I'm guessing "such a pity."
It's a 50/50 change once 105, and given that the odds of 32 coin tosses all coming up heads is 1 in 4,294,967,296 does that mean there's a 137 year old person running around somewhere?
This leads me to believe they are testing to see what they can get away with for fastlane access.
Netflix and YouTube have caches inside Comcast's network. That'll probably be why they are still serving?

https://openconnect.netflix.com/en_gb/

https://peering.google.com/#/options/google-global-cache
1896: Immigration and The Atlantic
Yes, that's the kind France has, rolling shutters. And like the article says, they're awesome for blocking out light and helping you sleep. I'd bet they also at least slightly reduce noise.

Unfortunately I can't install rolling shutters on my windows because the gap between the top of the window and the roof outcrop is too short, and existing products are just way overpriced anyway since it's such a niche product. Maybe we'll make something ourselves that produces the same effect.

I think exterior rolling shutters and white rooftops are the two most effective changes we can make.
I do cross country drives and love PIP on Android. I also like how I can schedule a stop at a gas station or grocery store based on how it impacts my route.

The only complaint I have about maps is that it doesn't seem to know where I'm going next. Nine times out of ten the place I'm navigating to is the same place I navigated to from the same spot yesterday.
The USD/USDT price has no impact on if Tethers are issued. A USD/USDT trade occurs on only a few markets, one of which is Kraken, and it requires one party to already have USDT, which they are then selling for "real" USD.
Hi Scott,

If somebody claims that there is no freedom of will, what what you accept as a reasonable proof? It seems that one can be sceptical even in presence of extremely precize predictions as it my be easier to alter memory about predictions than to produce them.
Yet another problem with that is no matter how small the measure of those branches is, you'll end up in them anyway.

The death of natural causes qualifies too.
how can you play world of warcraft when your duty as a citizen remains unfulfilled?
Do you believe that nation state actors are currently utilizing quantum computing, and if not now, do you see this happening in the near future? If so, what use cases do you foresee?
I didn't notice for a while because my primary Amazon Workspace wasn't affected, but when various requests weren't working on wifi but were working from my cell phone, that's when I figured out something was up.
This is my #1 complaint about the product as well - it would be really nice if they let you dismiss or collapse the list.
It'd be interesting if we saw an e-ink like tech that can switch the color of paint with a single electrical signal and not need to stay powered the rest of the time.
Just tap the map... Quite easy to use Google Maps by scrolling around the map.
You’ve benefitted from the resources and business environment of California. They looked out for you when you were getting started. Why avoid paying your fair share now that you’re successful?
Same for me. All seems fine except GitHub.
"Wear wet clothes"

Oh Man, when it is hot I love go sleep and use a wet towel as a blanket. Girls hate it.
that's rumor
https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/8uukck/comcast_le...
this guy agrees and he's on a bridge
Webpass looking fine, another reason I'm glad for not switching to Comcast despite potentially greater speeds.
Practice for the midterms?
Australians Can’t Get Enough of the Barefoot Investor
Methuselah lived 969 years, so there's that data point. ducks
It means that they found data not agreeing with the model of limitless increase of mortality with age. This is just a statistical observation, not physics yet, not by a long shot.
I'm using PIA
It doesn’t make perfect sense, though, and (possibly because of that) doesn’t quite act as it now.

With a mouse, the 3 actions

- hover
- click
- double click

form a sequence where each action is an extension of the previous one.

Ideally, the actions triggered by them are extensions of the previous one, too. With the mouse, we have that:

- hover = tell me more, but don’t really do anything
- click = tell me more and select this item
- double click = look, select, and open this item

A big advantage of that is that it allows the interface to be faster. A GUI can react to a click by selecting an item without having to wait whether it will be part of a double-click, for example.

⇒ if we can’t get a real hover, in an ideal world, a softer or shorter finger tap, not a long one would mean “tell me about this”. I doubt we can shoe-horn that into the UI this late in the game, though.
If what you're saying turns out to be true, it would be very disturbing.

Disrupting your paying customer's access with unannounced 'tests' is a sure-fire way to torpedo your brand value and rating.
possibly...
https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/8uukck/comcast_le...
read 1st post
I thought the whole idea of tether is that the price is purposely manipulated to be worth roughly 1 dollar?

I think seed capital of people who funded tether is used for that.

How else could you have stable price of anything durable and tradeable? Even if you have some control over supply you'd still be lagging behind demand and won't be taking into account supply that private holders will provide.
I use them at work and home (no choice). From a technical perspective, Comcast is usually rock-solid for me. Sure it's expensive, and an absolute joke that I have to call every year to keep the discounts and a TV plan that I don't use, but I'll give credit where they have actually done a good job. I'd much rather a stable service that's a bit of a pain on the billing side than a terrible service that has a nice website.
it's been over thirty yesterday and today, it's virtually record temperatures for us and almost no one has air conditioning or even much in the way of fans.
Was hoping for an image of what they recreated.
Sure it makes sense - a qubit is canonically a quantum spin system, which has two eigenstates, up and down.
An exchange between Sinatra and Harlan Ellison at a bar, as recorded by a journalist following Sinatra.

Isn't it obvious? (not to mention that a link to the full story was given).
I also second this question. Do you believe we will be able to construct real machines that can run Shor's or Grover's algorithms in a practical way, and how long is it likely to take to achieve that? (parents question put much better than mine, would like to hear the answer)
Facebook downplays “ambient audio” tech that can eavesdrop on you
Show HN: The Task Switch
> Think about 10 years ago, we never think of a small company,community be able to writing a programming language.

Perl, python, ruby ?
And the previous few administrations as well, if we're being concise. (even if this entire comment thread is OT to begin with)
It always comes to mind how many fictional immortal characters and creatures just basically choose to go into an eternal slumber. There seems to be a de facto consensus that it is actually pretty boring stuff.
But then you're having THEM dump the heat into your environment, doubly so if you have to burn dinosaurs to get there and are expelling a bunch of green house gases. Think of your neighbourhood!
It is better than the options elsewhere in the US. Note that temperatures above freezing all winter is already a significant improvement. There are very cold states that have a great social welfare system, but weather makes them undesirable.
Of course nothing will happen. Comcast is too good at lobbying and Internet still doesn't get treated with the same legal importance as other infrastructure like road, running water or even snail mail.
Hello Scott,

can encrypted data on blockchains easily be decrypted with quantum computers in the coming decade?
Hi Scott, thank you for writing your blog all these years. Your Busy Beaver essay ignited my passion for computer science, especially in algorithm analysis, logic, undecidability, and probability theory. I used to be someone who only thought in code; thanks to you, I now also think in math.
I'm on HN...seeing your update...I an connect to my employer remotely... Feels like Comcast is not the whole story...
“Comcast” and “brand value” do not go together very well as it is.
Comcast confirms nationwide outage
If I recall correctly, deleting an app on iOS only deletes its container, it leaves any shared containers behind.

Your Google credentials are likely being stored in a shared container.

I'm not sure when or even whether shared containers are garbage collected at all, it's not documented either way.
Switching my DNS to 1.1.1.1 alleviated some of the problems (access to Google/YouTube)
Yeah and then most Customers still have no alternative.
Microsoft details secret ‘pocketable’ Surface device in leaked email
I think bicycling directions might be the hardest thing. Google has it but it's pretty bad. It often tries to send me up routes that are shorter but MUCH too steep [1], or up an off-road trail on which bicycles are forbidden [2]. They should combine their data with Strava global heatmap to work out which routes are actually used by practicing cyclists. You can see from Strava[3] that all three of the routes in [1] are ignored by all cyclists, who choose another route that isn't presented. The routes given by Google are very difficult for even strong athletes to climb.

Anyway, it's possible that Apple sees it as just beyond their capabilities at this time.

1: https://www.google.com/maps/dir/37.8505318,-122.2224643/37.8...

2: https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Canyon,+CA/Oakland,+Californ...

3: https://www.strava.com/heatmap#14.73/-122.22836/37.85920/hot...
They have been consistently rated as the most-hated consumer brand in the US. There's nowhere to go but up.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/350979/comcast-is-americas-most-h...
The specific lane guidance in Apple Maps beats Google Maps hands down at the moment. I can finally just listen to directions without ever referring visually to the map. The announcement timing is earlier than Google Maps (which you can hear if you run them both simultaneously) and more information rich, for instance telling you the subsequent-after-upcoming turn direction, which helps you get over in time. Google Maps always leaves me scrambling at the last minute. And Siri's voice is definitely less robotic as of iOS 11.

I still often have to use Google Maps (or Waze) to find directions to a location in the form of "Albertson's on Tropicana." Google always gets this right, but Apple Maps only gets this only if you're close to the location. Same thing with intersections. Google Maps is always right, but Apple Maps requires you know and provide the full street name, including Blvd, Pkwy, Avenue, etc, which is infuriating.

Lastly, Siri's speech recognition often gets place names badly wrong, recognizing them as generic sound-alike nonsensical phrases, ignoring travel context, where as Google tends to get them right as local location names, somehow factoring travel context into the recognition.

If I can get the destination into Apple Maps easily, I prefer Apple Maps, if not, I go with Waze/Google Maps.
Admittedly I live in a very densely populated place, but now everything is hidden until you hit the correct 'zoom zone' - I still use it of course but it's less usable and far, far more bloated...
Against privacy defeatism: why browsers can still stop fingerprinting
What do you hate about Bishop's book? I'm genuinely curious.
The US Mint lost $69M making pennies last year
What about superposition? Or is that not considered a 'state'?
It's been about 95f-100f in Kansas lately and my AC unit has been dead. I've resorted to keeping my tub full and taking a dip every half hour and letting myself air dry.

I also haven't worn clothes at home for awhile.
I'm not having any issues with Comcast in San Jose. Been using every normal website for approximately the past hour and a half. Odd.
Ruby is pretty useless on Windows too to be fair.

Good luck trying to compile native libraries.
I know that me-too type posts are frowned upon here on HN, but in this case I think an exception is warranted. Too many scientists ensconce themselves in the ivory tower and treat the rest of the world with attitudes ranging from indifference to outright disdain. I also want to thank you for not following that model.

On a totally unrelated note, I've been trying to wrap my brain around coherent states and the photon-number/phase uncertainty relationship (e.g. http://hitoshi.berkeley.edu/221a/coherentstate.pdf). Do you know of any simple intuitive stories one can tell about that like one can with position-momentum uncertainty? I know this isn't really in your wheelhouse, but people who both understand this stuff and are willing to field questions like this are exceedingly rare (see above paragraph).

(FWIW, and for the benefit of lurkers, this question was prompted by the discussion on this blog post: http://blog.rongarret.info/2018/05/a-quantum-mechanics-puzzl.... Also FWIW, that's my blog.)
Doesn't really matter considering Comcast's customer's only option is to move.
Which is both a good and a bad sign. It's good that apple is doing these things, but not encouraging that a year after a blog post highlights some of the more interesting things google is doing, apple starts doing them. Apple maps isn't catching up, they're just barely keeping up with Google maps. And their PR people are doing a big push to brag about it.
WWG1WGA.
It was the same with Denver. I couldn't hit a handful of sites including github for almost an hour.
Don't forget all those folks without home phone service and unable to make emergency calls.
Are there any roguelikes designed specifically for story generation? DCSS is probably the most playable but with the least interesting stories, DF may be the inverse.
Yes, a nasal spray is available (prescription) for breastfeeding women who find it difficult to start the flow of their milk
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17426219
If life was fair, the traits that would make Harlan Ellison a "social outcast" would be more socially acceptable than the polite phoniness that is the norm...
Comcast's brand image and reputation is largely irrelevant - they enjoy captive markets, little competition and are mostly defensive in their brand posturing. There is little choice in the markets they are in and they know it...
Uhh, most people don't even try to succeed in academia! So no surprise if they don't. It's not like I made it to the NBA or something. :-)

Let me speak only about academic CS, since that's what I know best. Of the students who enter the major CS PhD programs in the US, I think something on the order of half of them (maybe a bit less) end up in academic positions, with the rest going to startups and industry and government. So, of the PhD students who really want academic positions in CS, fortunately a large fraction are still able to get them---just not necessarily at a top-tier school. Of course, many students outright prefer industry -- Google and Microsoft can, after all, offer compensation packages that blow academic ones out of the water -- or else they prefer industry to the academic options that are available to them. And that's fine. I feel lucky to work in a field where PhD students have multiple career options, and when a student comes to me for advice, I try to help them figure out what's best for them, rather than imposing some global preconception on it.

From what I know, the situation is worse in other academic fields, like math and high-energy physics and certainly philosophy and other humanities fields -- where you can get dozens of well-qualified applicants for every academic opening, with all the cutthroat competition and other pathologies you'd imagine that would lead to.
Ruby's getting much faster now with recent speed improvements, JIT and recent developments by the TruffleRuby team
I'll quote my reply from a similar comment...

What choice do they have? Maps, location data, and the services they enable are critical to mobile devices today, and will only get more so with AR and devices without screens.

“Everybody but Google” isn’t good enough judging by the current state of affairs, and Google doesn’t play by the same privacy rules as Apple, so they seem to have few options.
That HAS to be from others countries then. Where I lived, in Montreal, there was HUGE AMOUNT of peoples playing that game all around. I remember there is a tiny park close by my work, it's cute, almost always empty but there is 3 Pokestop there. During the first few months, there was literally 30-40 peoples there constantly. It was always funny to see them all flee somewhere else when there was no longer the "boost" on theses Pokestop. That wasn't including the people I was constantly seeing walking around playing. I now rarely see people even play that game. It still happens but it pretty far from the first few months where it was everywhere.
The Archive Team has been doing this work for at least 10 years. If you'd like to help archive the internet, they have an easy-to-use tool you just run and let work in the background.

https://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=ArchiveTeam_Warrior
Apple doesn't have to "win". Apple just needs to have something good enough for them to tightly integrate into their other services. Bing's purpose for Microsoft is both to be a revenue generator and to not be dependent on Google for search. Apple's only motivation for Maps is not to be dependent on Google for Maps and for integration into iOS.

Every time someone doesn't use Google Maps, Google loses ad revenue. If people don't use Apple's maps, Apple has lost nothing but a few bragging rights.
>> making your position clear that this is where and how you would like to die.

Have a good think about how that death will actually go down. This isn't falling asleep in a field of flowers. Say you have a stroke. Then follows days, weeks, of confusion and fear as you rot away on the ground. Or say you fall and break a bone. That's weeks of pain as you wait for the infection to kill you. On anywhere other than an island a predator would eventually come along to quicken the inevitable.
Is there any implication with the gravity wave detection, that since gravity has been verified to travel the speed of light that it is transmitted via particle?

I would think that as inflation is not limited by the speed of light, gravity as a purely geometric phenomenon, would possibly function at supra-lightspeed.
23C??? I keep my AC set to that temperature in the US Midwest.
A reflection on “Why Women Don’t Code” and my own personal experience
L3 Fiber cut is the rumour
Addiction is real, and rising.