skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are quantum algorithms for certain problems that are exponentially faster than any known classical algorithm, and there are good reasons to believe that BQP is not contained in BPP, but we don't have proof of that yet as far as I know.

(Technically we still don't really know whether physics actually allows quantum computers with more than a few bits. Quantum mechanics says yes, but the universe can still veto.)
I wonder if there's any chance of improvement of that under linux. Only chrome needs access to my chrome data directory. It also doesn't usually need access to anything outside it. There's not that much use of solid security preventing apps from gaining the root access when all my sensitive data is accessible from my user.
Toyota has committed $500B to a partnership with Uber on self driving cars.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17853248
Did I just hear “almost”?
thanks a ton !
this is so neat !
Are you able to sponsor work visas?
I'm surprised that with Uber leaving the market, Didi didn't get better at response times. Surely all those Uber drivers would have switched to Didi, increasing the number of drivers. And with prices rising, drivers would get paid more money.
Which should I be most irritated by:

1) Apple's app review is nigh useless security theater.

2) The App Store is easily manipulated with fake reviews to boost malware.

3) Apple's approved channels for vulnerability reporting are low priority, opaque, and unresponsive.

4) Apple acts (and swiftly) only upon media attention.
The author's point about capsule-style living is a interesting one. Are there any examples of capsule hotels or similarly-tiny micro-rentals in the United States?
The easiest way to understand quaternions is as quotients of 3-dimensional vectors.

That is, if Q = u/v, then Q is the “quaternion” (complex sum of a scalar and a bivector) which rotates and scales v into u. Or written out, Qv = (u/v)v = u. The bivector part of Q has the same orientation as the plane spanning u and v.

If we want to use that quaternion as a representation of a general rotation of 3-dimensional space, we need to use a “sandwich product” because just multiplying Q directly by an arbitrary vector will rotate and scale the portion of the vector parallel to the plane of u–v, but then also produce a trivector component from the perpendicular part of the vector, which is not what we wanted.

If we define R = √Q, then we can multiply any vector a like RaR`, where R` is the conjugate of R, and get the scaling & rotation operation we were looking for. Multiplication of any vector perpendicular to the plane of u–v by this sandwich will just scale it by the magnitude of Q, but not change its direction, that is, for a vector b perpendicular to the plane of u–v, RbR` = |Q|b, whereas for a vector c parallel to the plane of u–v, RcR` = Qc, or in other words c gets rotated by the angle between v and u, as intended.

The square root here is where the half angle measures come from.
Rails is still very relevant in 2018.
The meme templates used are from 2011 though.
>it is certainly proven that quantum algorithms are faster than classical algorithms.

yes. What isn't proven is that actual implementation of quantum algorithms would be fast enough (i.e. while a given quantum algorithm may be order of magnitude faster using the number of steps/operations a the metric, may it happen that the runtime (using time as the metric) of those quantum steps may take order of magnitude longer ?). There is some indications that various corrections/etc. have to grow faster than linear with the number of qubits.
Because they're too focussed on catching whether or not your app uses their In App Payment system with 0 possible links to other payment methods.
Seems like the top and bottom ribbons would work. But the ribbons on the side get a kink every 2 rotations that the animation sort of sweeps under the rug?
Some kind of pithy phrase, when repeated, will exhort people to look at the content of the argument rather than just the structure.

I understand what you’re saying, but if this unequal silencing is so obviously a real phenomenon and isn’t simply a reflection of the views being espoused - then it should be easy for the author to come up with examples. And it’s not just this author. It’s every author I’ve read commenting on this ‘phenomenon.’ They always say that it’s right-wing voices being silenced, but never suggest what left-wing voices should be silenced that aren’t.

So I invite anyone to suggest the left-leaning equivalents of Nazism and white-supremacy.

(And by equivalents I don’t just mean viewpoints, I mean comparable levels of influence. Some random bloke on the web claiming to be left-leaning and saying that their race is superior to whites isn’t the equivalent of white-supremacy as a movement.)
I've done a lot of work in Python and a fair amount of ocaml and rust.

I find that in Python - probably any dynamic language - a lot of the tests I write are just to make sure the pieces fit together. It's too easy to write well tested units that don't work together because of a misplaced argument or something at the interface. That type of testing is largely not needed with static typing.

Also, when I create a data structure in Python my mental model of what it means and how it relates to other parts of the program can be kind of fuzzy. Which means the pieces may not fit like I think they do because I missed a detail.

But a strong static type system forces me to clarify my thinking much earlier in the coding process than in a dynamic language. It encourages me to encode more of my mental model into the code and that allows the compiler to double check me.

It's kind of like spell check but for design.
In short: ARC builds on top of DMARC to fix some cases that DMARC didn't handle well. (And DMARC, in turn, builds on top of DKIM and SPF.)

DMARC is overall a very good thing, and has significantly cut back on the effectiveness of forged email for spam/phishing, at the expense of mailing list/forwarding headaches.
I think people are conflating ideas here.

Democracy is a political system. You can have a democracy coexist with as many "echo chambers" as you please. (In fact, in a healthy democracy, you would have "echo chambers"). The reality is that "echo chambers" created the conditions that allowed Trump to be elected. But, he was ELECTED. The democratic process worked fine.

What I'm trying to, gently, point out, is that "echo chambers" not giving you the democratic results you want, is not the same as "echo chambers" being an "enemy" of democracy. Everyone can say whatever they please. Everyone can listen to, or indeed, ignore, whatever they please. Simultaneously, along a completely different and orthogonal axis, everyone can vote however they please. Now obviously in such an environment, if there really is complete freedom of choice and freedom of association, "echo chambers" will develop. This doesn't show a lack of freedom, rather it shows an abundance of freedom. Any person is free to position themselves wherever they please in the space defined by that democratic environment.

Freedom of speech, freedom of choice, freedom of association etc, these are some of the most important features of a democracy. So "echo chambers" don't represent a threat to democracy. Quite the contrary, their existence actually indicates the presence of healthy environment in terms of democratic freedoms.

Now of course people won't like this, because it allows the ill informed to remain ill informed as long as they choose. But that goes back to freedoms. As horrible as this is going to sound, it's the democratic right of the ill informed, to remain ill informed.
Search for "app store review farm" and you'll see how easy it is to fake reviews. Apple's system is sufficiently advanced to prevent people from doing it in a fully automated way, so it's done with the manual version of click farming. Basically the same idea as paying somebody to farm gold in a MMORPG. Trust nothing.

https://www.cultofmac.com/311171/crazy-iphone-rig-shows-chin...
Who wrote the anti-Trump NYTimes op-ed? Using tidytext to find doc similarity
> Patagonia is a designer of outdoor clothing and gear for the silent sports: climbing, surfing, skiing and snowboarding, fly fishing, and trail running.

Patagonia is a tech company? Is every company with a web presence considered a tech company now?
The last time I looked at this, a few years ago, it was ~$0.10 per HIT, and 2-3 would be needed, and that was for very simple data processing. We have quite complex data processing requirements with multiple interdependent fields, and UI, which would have increased the processing time, so I'd have guessed $1 per item processed total, plus extensive integration time.

Our outsourcing gives is far better communication and the ability to train staff doing the processing over time, feedback on their performance, and help them get better. I don't know the figures, but I suspect it's a similar price but with far better accuracy, but we do have enough consistent work for this to make sense - if we were more spikey in our demand then it might not.
I do it at Stop&Shop with a dedicated scanner all the time. Does anyone do it with a smartphone app?
Sure you can, but when one weights the language complexities and opportunities for unsafe code/UB, Julia certainly wins in productivity.
For how long has people been pulling the master switch? Seems that "master" has long been used as an alternative form of "primary".

I would guess Master and Secondary is the more common relationship in other technical fields, through I would be surprised if master and slave originated in computer technical documentation.
Just be thankful you can still use other browsers on Mac!
It isn't actually disabled in that instance; just right-click twice and the Firefox context-menu will disappear and present the web page's menu.
> though you'll need to acquire either a static IP or a dynamic DNS record

That's the whole point. With some ISPs using CG-NAT, you don't have a public IP.

I have three computers at home running an SSH server. Two have to be on non-default ports, since I only have one IP.
The Witcher indeed does a great job, and to a somewhat lesser degree Horizon Zero Dawn does well too. However these are essentially worlds with small villages and towns. Novigrad is pretty impressive but isn’t much bigger than a typical European small town.

What I’ve love to experience is getting lost in the sprawl and scale of a metropolis. Oddly enough L.A. Noir did a pretty decent job of this.
Of course Amazon has a PR department. But it also has thousands of teams and products, most of which were started by a handful of people and grown (or killed off if unsuccessful). There's a big difference between handling the global scale news stories Amazon is involved in and the naming of new products.
"Smooth sailing"

Edit: What's the common practice here for status pages? Shouldn't they be using external health checks to auto-update the page?

Edit2: Seems to be working again for me
What city/town are you in? In SF I usually get UberX's in < 3 minutes, and pools in ~5 minutes.
> Would it be as useful if it weren't being subsidized? Say 2x the current costs?

Yes. Outside of a few markets in the US it was a gamble to get a cab at any price. You'd call and it would be something like "30-45 minutes" and then an hour later you'd call again and hear the same thing. And this just on a regular night, forget about it if there's an event going on.
While I agree in principle, in this case I'm not sure any permission system would help. An anti malware program has legitimate reason to access the internet. It also has legitimate reason to read files. Heck it may even have legitimate reason to upload some of that data for analysis. Those first two capabilities are very hard to keep separate (you'd need one process for each capability and a very tight restriction on interprocess communication). The third is game over.

I think ultimately the problem is more about trust and oversight.
Supply and Demand is too simplistic a model to think about housing costs because it fails to account for velocity of inventory vs. velocity of occupancy. It also completely ignores the law of retailing which is “Charge what the market will bear”. Let’s also be honest about how opportunity growth drives demand for housing.
If I understand correctly, they say that meditation deactivates default mode and this has a positive impact on pain tolerance. Interestingly, there is lots of discussion on the importance and value of default mode for creativity and other things. Are these at odds or have I misunderstood?
Your statement is headed in the right direction, but misses some important subtleties. Money in the bank, even if you never spend it, can have velocity because the bank can use that deposit money for fractional reserve lending. Also, and very importantly, velocity has a multiplier effect, so small changes can be more important than one might intuitively expect. If you dramatically increase money supply, but velocity dramatically decreases, depending on the relative amounts of both, you may have inflation or deflation. In other words, both aspects supply and velocity are important.

This ties into the infamous parable of the Greek hotelier, where you can see that it is the movement of money that has the greatest impact on the economy:

It is a slow day in a little Greek village. The rain is beating down and the streets are deserted. Times are tough, everybody is in debt, and everybody lives on credit. On this particular day a rich German tourist is driving through the village, stops at the local hotel and lays a €100 note on the desk, telling the hotel owner he wants to inspect the rooms upstairs in order to pick one to spend the night. The owner gives him some keys and, as soon as the visitor has walked upstairs, the hotelier grabs the €100 note and runs next door to pay his debt to the butcher. The butcher takes the €100 note and runs down the street to repay his debt to the pig farmer. The pig farmer takes the €100 note and heads off to pay his bill at the supplier of feed and fuel. The guy at the Farmers' Co-op takes the €100 note and runs to pay his drinks bill at the taverna. The publican slips the money along to the local prostitute drinking at the bar, who has also been facing hard times and has had to offer him "services" on credit. The hooker then rushes to the hotel and pays off her room bill to the hotel owner with the €100 note. The hotel proprietor then places the €100 note back on the counter so the rich traveler will not suspect anything. At that moment the traveler comes down the stairs, picks up the €100 note, states that the rooms are not satisfactory, pockets the money, and leaves town.

No one produced anything. No one earned anything. However, the whole village is now out of debt and looking to the future with a lot more optimism.
That's pretty expensive, but I guess getting top 10 can potentially be really lucrative.
Looking at this, I can't seem to find any examples of Wiremock being used to test async callbacks, which is one of the more challenging things to get right. Can anyone point to some documentation or code samples showing how to do this in Wiremock?
Scaling neural machine translation to bigger data sets with faster training
> extremely responsive to support

And yet https://github.com/tomakehurst/wiremock/issues/97
Agreed. I want everyone else just as nervous about it as I am.
Haha, local residents in the Bay challenge the quantity of the agglomeration bonus. They believe they're currently at the perfect balance of dense and neighbourhood-like. Presumably this balance was attained shortly after they arrived and any further increase in density would cause congestion effects that dwarf the value of having more people around.
Why? Could it be that the financials are so bad they are unfixable? Could it be that that person is being pushed to stretch things a bit here and there to make them look better?

Maybe. Could it be that qualified people with financial backgrounds don't understand what it's like to be under THE SPOTLIGHT and think they can handle it before they get in there and say "Oh hell no" and walk?

Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe all finance and accounting people moving up in management spend time in boot camps with training sessions for "Being a public face in a personality-driven company" and "Learning to love being vilified." That's never been my impression though. I may be stereotyping, but I think people who can thrive in that kind of public-facing position are a lot more likely to have gone into Sales or Marketing positions.

And on the internal side of things, it's probably almost as difficult dealing with an erratic and public CEO like Musk as it is dealing with an erratic and public President like Trump.
That's pretty close to what they have today. Apple started enforcing sandbox restrictions in apps distributed via the Mac App Store, and opening an app downloaded directly from the web takes more effort than it used to.
- Not allowing people to live longer than is otherwise natural is not the same as killing.

The problem with this argument is that it is not clear what is a "natural way". By that logic one can argue that letting half of the children to die before reaching 5 years, and not spending money on accessibility infrastructure is good, because the natural way is for all these people to die.

The only logical solution is to accept, that not allowing life extension, because one wants to get specific distribution of people in society, or because a corporation wants to get money for copyrighted drug, is murder.

> - Societies today are allowed to kill some people for some greater good via the death penalty.

In more civilised parts of world (e.g. Europe, Russia, Mexico, some states in USA:) death penalty is not allowed. And in general the fact that something is allowed in many places is not a good argument for it being ok, since from history we know many widely accepted things that are considered abhorrent now.

> - Having to leave your planet because you're being "pushed out" is not what I'd call an incentive or good

Having to leave your planet (and explore underworld) because there is a law that forbids you to get resources required to sustain your life, is way worse than young people looking for better place to leave going somewhere else. It's actually the most natural things for all living beings as most of the young always have to leave their place of birth, and find a better place to live.

I agree that there is a lot of subjectivity in topics like this, but it mainly comes from not knowing the tradeoffs a technology like this will introduce. But if life extension doesn't make people less smart, societies that disallow life extension will lose, because people simply will run from there to societies that allow life extension.
> * Being able to clean up environmental messes is more important than preventing them in the future, and they are not mutually exclusive.

I want to discuss this point. I think some people are reading this as "clean up >>>>> prevention", which I don't think is your point. Rather, your point is more along the lines of the Agile Manifesto (we value X over Y, doesn't mean we don't value Y).

Clean up is more important now because we've created a mess and can't simply discard it. In quality control (for companies) it is more important to improve quality (reduce messes, by analogy) because that reduces the amount of time spent in later rework (cleanup, in this analogy). However, companies have the option of discarding (deletion if it's digital, recycling or trashing if it's physical) their inventory. Deletion and recycling waste nothing but the time initially spent on it. Trashing, however, is an option for a company because they're not in a closed system. It may be expensive, but it is an option. They can close a poorly functioning facility, or a contaminated plot of land, and go down the street.

From an environmental standpoint, the planet is effectively a closed system. We can't ignore the messes that exist and just move down the street like a business might. We all need healthy oceans, healthy rivers, healthy lands. And we will run out of those things if we don't clean up the messes that presently exist.

Obviously, we still need to prevent more of them from happening. But clean up ought to be a higher priority (as a percentage of global effort) with reduction in waste and environmental impact happening simultaneously.
There are messes that cannot be cleaned up. We have the leverage to destroy everything. Therefore it is better to focus on preventing the mess, than in futilely pretending we can clean it.
The supply-siders have been saying this since Reagan was in office.

Jude Wanniski's wrote similar statements in his newsletters and book: "how do you expect to make something more valuable by making it more expensive" (the interest rate being the price of money).

Looking at actual rates, not targets, the overnight target is a blunt instrument that doesn't always follow the target very well. And even when it does, the exchange rate relationship seems to take long vacations.

Art Laffer had similar views IIRC from a paper he did looking at the trade-weak dollar connection.
At least they put "mouse" in the title.
Chemtrail Blockchains
Introduction of the Sonos Developer Program
Good if you set up DMARC. Quarantine setting guarantee that fake email goes to spam. Reject setting drops the fake email altogether.
More information: https://objective-see.com/blog/blog_0x37.html
I’ve been given two and half PIPs.

1. Was completely deserved. My attitude was horrible. I had stayed at a company too long and my attitude got worse as the raises were minor and our bonuses kept getting cut. It was a vicious cycle. I should have left a lot sooner.

2. Was partially my fault. My performance wasn’t the issue, but I didn’t show the correct amount of respect and deference to the younger team leads. I didn’t know how to play politics correctly. I stayed for a year afterwards because their were some technologies I wanted to be able to put on my resume along with saying I worked for a well known company for 2+ years.

3. The “half” of a PIP came when the company where I was the dev lead was acquired, everyone was jockeying for position above me and I couldn’t get enough permanent developers to meet deadlines - only substandard contractors. I could tell from one of the meetings we were having that I was going to be the scapegoat. I called one of my recruiters and got the hell out of dodge within two weeks and “self demoted” to another job as a senior dev.
Are there actually barriers to search? I feel like I could start writing a web crawler and index the results with little/no real problem, other than how much worse I would be at it than Google is.

Does being really good at something actually constitute a barrier for others? Practically, it definitely does, but wouldn't any check on that provide some pretty perverse incentives?

Also, I don't think GM, Ford and Daimler Chrysler would merge to become a monopoly. Volkswagen, Honda, BMW all would still provide stiff competition.

The thing we care about w/r/t monopolies is the stifling of innovation. Do you think innovation is being stifled, in any of the areas Google has products in? I largely do not.
There's a nice 3D animation of Amsterdam's growth from Stadsarchief Amsterdam:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvsHvfs3G1M
Slack is down, we are also experiencing AWS issues (latency, hard to diagnose right now). Anyone else?
Oh, shit, you're right. I didn't read your part not-in-italics.

Well, I suck. I was rude and incorrect. Thank you for taking the time to keep me humble.
CEO Says Launching Satellites Without FCC Permission Was a ‘Mistake’
They were probably already driving for Uber too, just like most people in SF drive both Uber and Lyft.
Platform Justice: Content Moderation at an Inflection Point