skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many of the comments have pointed out this flaw in the argument. I will try to post my own summary of this flaw:

The problem is that this case against quantum computing due to the sheer scale of the number of parameters is also a case against randomized computing, but randomized computing certainly exists in the real world (a computer with a coin flipper). A 'state' in randomized computing over N bits is specified by a probability being assigned to each of the 2^N possible states of the N bits.

For example, to describe the distribution after flipping 100 coins, you require 2^100 real numbers to specify the probabilities for each outcome, since there are 2^100 combinations of heads and tails you can get. But it is very clear that we can do this in real life. The point is, you don't need 2^100 parameters with full precision to flip a coin 100 times.

To be more precise, we can write the state as a 2^N length vector, and our operations (think logic gates) on the vector are called stochastic matrices (this is the type of matrix required to so that the operation maps states to states).

Quantum computing is no different, except that instead of using real numbers for probabilities, complex numbers are used and they are called amplitudes instead. Also, instead of stochastic matrices for operations, they are now unitary matrices. The point is, the scale of the number of parameters is the same, the only thing that's changed is that it is complex numbers instead of real numbers.

Now an argument might be that it is not possible to create gates with a very specific probability distribution with just a discrete and not very precise coin flipper, but it's actually possible to show that for randomized computing, you only need a constant factor more flips to get exponentially close to the distributions you want. A similar result was proved pretty early for the quantum case, and it is a foundational result. So this is not really a problem either.
Why would you be surprised by ineptitude, or willingness to conspire, here, anyways? You should read about the Gulf of Tonkin, Iran Contra, watch the documentary 1971(1), McCarthyism, the FBI's dealings with MLK, or read about Gary Webb. It's not surprising.

The FBI apparently sent agents to other countries trying to frame Assange. Iceland told them to fuck off: www.katoikos.eu/interview/icelandic-minister-who-refused-cooperation-with-the-fbi-ogmundur-jonasson-in-an-interview.html

Many also claim Assange has proof he was conspired against, or at least was innocent: https://abc.net.au/news/2016-12-07/julian-assange-goes-publi...

1 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_(2014_film)
Does Gnome under X11 allow you to set the desktop's size higher than the screen resolution and scale that down? Because that's all Apple's "fractional" scaling does-- macOS only supports integer scaling (specifically, 1x and 2x; iOS does 3x but not macOS); the "more space" scaling settings just render the screen at a resolution higher than the physical size of the panel and scale it to fit (for example, current 15" MacBook Pro panels are physically 2880x1800; the default screen resolution on the current machines is 3360x2100 with 2x scaling).
Not 3X. Three orders of magnitude faster. If true, this is indeed, an exciting result. Maybe as exciting as Strassen’s algorithm was for matrix multiplication - this enables a bunch of powerful optimization methods that were previously thought intractable for modern DNNs.
You're misinterpreting the semantics of finite mass in this conversation about abiogenesis by taking it out of context of conversation.
> If there is a job, say museum docent, that the majority of qualified people would love to do then the salary of that job will approach $0.

Sure. But then you are assuming that what I love is what other people love.

If there's only very few people who want to do those job, and I'm one of them. Should the pay be less only because I happen to love the job?
It's sad to see people waste time on such pursuits. Getting a recipe is very easy. Just google it. Or even reverse image search it.

I do get that these exercises add a lot of know how to the deep learning process, but I really wish these smarts are applied to more practical and immediate problems.
> even though the underlying rules (or underlying “language”) used in different areas of mathematics are different, there ends up being some way to translate between them—so that at the next level of abstraction the path that was taken no longer critically matters.

This and the previous arguments made me feel much better about the value of using proof assistants to advance mathematics! For example, there’s been quite a bit of controversies surrounding the usage of e.g. Coq to prove the 4-color theorem; folks complain that although the proof can be verified, brute-forcing it doesn’t provide us with further mathematical insight. But that might be fine, since we’d use the proof to build up other abstractions, and if we felt the need, we can always come back and re-prove 4-color using a more humanly explanable method.

The other nice insight is that maybe we get to define “simplicity” with a bit more rigor than how we usually define it (I’m aware of Clojure’s definition of it): a few number of somewhat orthogonal axioms, that enable the biggest reduction of quantity of steps needed when proving things with said axioms. For software engineering, this means having relatively few primitives, that are composable enough to greatly simplify a program either statically or dynamically. No need to try too hard to reduce the axioms/helpers into a single one, as the ratio of utility might tip to the wrong side.

It’s also cool to notice that such common definition of simplicity might change depending on what new concepts we assimilate. Also interesting that you can somewhat quantify it by using a probability distribution over the common use-cases of your axioms!
Yes, the more frequently you eat, the faster your metabolism gets, and you get hungry faster. I'm not sure why people came up with the nonsense that faster metabolism is better as since when accelerating aging is desired? Well, muscle mass also ups basal metabolic rate, but that's a bit different mechanism.
They also believed that the British military had "sealed off several London blocks, aiming rifles at British civilians, had police confiscating cameras, 'which in any case wouldn't work because they were deploying technology to interfere with digital cameras while they raided the Embassy'."
"Accessing any address [on 6502] higher than the zero page (0x0 to 0xFF) causes a performance penalty."

I never thought of it that way, but that's true. However, he didn't mention the biggest issue with C on the 6502, i.e., the extremely constrained 256-byte hardware stack. To do anything practical requires some sort of software-maintained stack to have stack frames of any decent size or quantity (in parallel, or replacing the use of the hardware stack completely). "Downright hostile to C compilers," indeed.
Got me thinking. Are there tools out there that solidify "auto"s into their types? Type inference is fast but what if I want to eventually lock it down and prevent accidental changes in type by adding a decimal or whatnot.
What exactly is partisan?
What this article doesn't mention is why vacuum tubes are still used in guitar amplifiers:

The "distorted guitar" sound common in rock music is a direct result of nonlinear characteristics of tube amps (both the tubes themselves and the coupling transformers necessary to connect an output tube to a speaker). Tubes exhibit "soft clipping" when pushed to their limits, which has the effect of producing the harmonic content associated with distorted electric guitar. Rock and roll pioneers got their sound principally from driving tube amps past their limits. "Overdrive" pedals are usually just voltage boosters that make the amp's input signal louder, but this pushes the amplifier past its clean linear section into the nonlinear crunchy overdrive that guitar players want.

Modern tube guitar amplifiers, even "new" designs, generally follow one a handful of basic circuit topologies, all derived from a few classic designs. Even the iconic Marshall "Plexi" amp was a close copy of an earlier Fender. These circuits are extremely simple; a handful of tubes, transformers, and passive components, often less complicated than the internals of a single LM741. Here's an example:
https://www.thetubestore.com/lib/thetubestore/schematics/Fen...

It's possible to mostly recreate this sound with digital signal processing or carefully-tuned solid-state analog circuitry, but players like the sound of tube amps and are willing to pay for them, and so the market exists as it does.
GPS mapping application in uLisp
Wow, your weren't kidding! I did a deep dive to compare airtable to a lot of other planning tools and never even noticed Notion...

The one downside compared to airtable seems to be no automatic backups. But the ability to format notes is super handy!
If I’m interpreting you correctly, both those approaches involve Google housing (owning?) the data.

In the early days of Google, I assumed that to organize and make accessible meant to index and link to information presented by others - and not to ‘own’ the data.

It saddens me that that interpretation is no longer correct - and perhaps never was?
They'll tell you the exact opposite once you get your bill and they're trying to collect. I just had that conversation with a provider myself, after I got the bill.
In the line of business that AWS, Azure, GCP, etc. are in (IAAS/PAAS/SAAS) there is a related software concept called the "free tier". It's very popular.
Stickeroid Released New Version of API for Apps
It was just that I'd wake up and feel like I was struggling to move air in. The machine was working as intended as far as I know. It was still registering that air was getting through so it was not adjusting the pressure. I just have allergies and even though I'm on Montelukast, I still have to crank up the pressure just to feel comfortable.

I'm not sure now that you mention it, maybe it should have been increasing the pressure.
What other smart air cleaners do you recommend?
It's https://www.sharp.com.hk/en/model/762-hd-plasmacluster-dehum...
> The title makes no sense if you interpret it that way

The lesson of weird machines is that weird machines can lurk anywhere; that's why they're 'weird'. Something to do with CPP or bit endianness, perhaps, or exploiting undefined behavior is what I thought clicking on it.
Maybe referring to gene expression. Einkorn is a tetraploid meaning it has 4 copies of each gene. Compared with hexaploids which have 6 genes. More genes may mean higher protein expression. In some cases.
Maseratis are the lower tier of luxury cars.
Honestly, I don't see why the smart kids would care. I knew plenty of people who cheated frequently, some even got better grades overall than me. I didn't hold it against anyone though. I was lucky enough to be able to do most of the same assignments very quickly without much effort because it came easy to me. I'm not going to begrudge others the same thing.

The real problem is that most high schools provide a completely worthless education. They don't genuinely challenge gifted students or most anybody, at most they just a larger volume of work at them. High schoolers who can pass the entrance exams should just be able to go straight to community college. Community college, even for talented young people, can actually be a humbling experience for a whole host of totally different reasons.
There's one big catch there - once you reach a "fair" income level, many people will think that you are already getting enough and won't bother to sponsor you.

Look at the statistics [0]: unless you are in the top 100 creators, you'll get far less than your regular FAANG pay.

[0]: https://graphtreon.com/patreon-creators
Ok can you give me a couple of examples of these egregious errors by Greenwald you're talking about?
Scientists who make apps addictive
I hate them. So formulaic and false.
I have developed and maintain what started out as user stylesheets but are now user scripts that improve certain third-party tools we use internally. The one for our support ticketing system is deemed invaluable by most, having turned what was a fairly- to very-painful-to-use system into a moderately pleasant one. Some of the modifications it makes are fairly radical, functionally or visually. Almost all it does is optional, with a settings panel to tweak the user script.

I have also written various user styles for myself for particularly bad sites, over time, though I only have one such installed at present (on my phone, actually, to turn a poorly-implemented dark mode into a more complete and more actually-black dark mode). The progressive diminution has occurred mostly due to me ceasing to use bad sites.

I have more user styles on my browser, doing things like hiding the tab bar in favour of the Tree Style Tab extension, and the sidebar’s title.
RIP my portfolio it’s at like 50% compared with 6 weeks ago.
Often they don't know themselves. It takes an elaborate back and forth negotiation with the insurance company to come to a final cost even when you wind up on the hook for it.
Visual Studio still isn’t even 64-bit native on Intel. I wouldn’t be surprised if that got fixed in the next year or two, but I think ARM native is farther off (depending on how well ARM machines do in the marketplace)
I’m sorry, but this sounds really crazy. Why would Russian intelligence need to “run” Assange through some kind of leverage? What exactly makes you think this?

His hatred towards the US goes back a very long time and has certainly only grown stronger given how he’s been treated.
maybe we can get windows phone back.. I miss mine :-(
Now if only I could apply user styles to about:reader again, like I could before WebExtensions. Then I could make reader mode’s dark mode use an actual black background instead of an only-moderately-dark grey.
> I really hope that web components take off, because I'm getting pretty tired of having to learn different ways of building components every damned year.

I feel like this is a gross exaggeration. You would have had to learn a maximum of two, of which the dominate ones have been around for years now.
> Where is it ethical to work?

Oh I don't know, maybe one of those companies that isn't building software that's used to incite genocide?

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/technology/myanmar-facebo...
“unadulterated”. I used the tools from Amazon itself to get the shortlink. I didn’t “adulterate” the URL.
Hey, how do you set this and what version of gnome are you using?
Y'all were pretty miserable before that.
> Google, for all the negative press and bashing they are getting lately, has not hidden what they collect, how they collect.

I'm curious what led to you to this conclusion and how you define "hide." What about how they were tracking location information even after you turned off location history??
I get sick and tired of this nonsense being pushed as "wisdom".

Perhaps smart people, don't measure success the same way.

--

I could, go and work, for a shit company, with a shit corporate culture, get "paid", while trading the few years I have on this planet, for worthless scrip, miserable colleagues and a corporate culture designed to kill intelligence...

OR,

I could use that time to locate a set of colleagues, who are equally as intelligent, in a company that tries to tackle the "big problems" and move the state of the art forward.

--

I could work at a company where "relationship building" is the primary focus (i.e. small-minded politics), where I am either wasting all my time fielding constant attacks from the lower echelons, or consistently seen as a "resource" to be exploiting in some pointlessly complicated machiovellian scheme.

OR

I could go work with a bunch of adults, who come to work, do their job, get paid, and fuck off to go fuck their wives/husbands, and leave all that mini-munchkin shit, out of work.

--

I could spend, the entire workweek, carrying worthless "team members", who don't even know enough to shut the fuck up, and let the only professional on the team, handle it.

OR.

I could actually get, shudder, competent team members who I rarely have to interface with because their shit just works, and who can coordinate without constantly having their balls held.

--

I could join a company where the "corporate" advancement, is some ridiculous mating dance between you, HR, and some shit manager or where the "job title" is a straight jacket, not a definition of responsibilities to be handled....

OR

I could join a company that understands that smart people, should be let loose to handle the corporations problems, and that job title, is a reflection of necessary duties; but not something to straightjacket an employee who is handling there business.

--

I could go to work for a company where things are always done last minute, two or three times, with regular failures

OR

I could join a company where the shit gets done right the first time; where long-term success matters just as much as short-term success.

--

I could... simply not care, what someone with mediocre intelligence, thinks the problems people with intelligence "suffer from"....
Driverless cars will lead to more sex on the road, study says
> If we start saying you deserve happiness, then anything that makes you unhappy is an attack against your very being. It's a human rights violation.

It is. This way lies truth. But one is too afraid to walk it. At the end of it is horror.
Came to say basically this. I am self taught and basically viewed source and tried stuff that I thought would be cool.

That's a bit tougher to do these days with minification, but now there is stack overflow and jsfiddle.
> When US agents started their smearing campaign against Assange in Sweden, they accidentally added smear to wikipedia that did not happen yet.

Citation?
Contrived and controlled releases to influence a narrative in a particular desired direction.

Being given a trove of documents categorized as misdeeds by both sides of government and largely sitting on those by one side, and releasing those that adversely impact the other. Partisan.
How I implemented a CI build of Delphi binaries using GitLab CI
As an alumnus of GMU Law School where the Mercatus Center was once located (maybe still?), I'm hesitant to disparage them. Without a doubt they have very intelligent researchers and students. But the pressure to publish--by both the school and the center's benefactors--is tremendous and, frankly, the research output I saw as a student (often pasted on the walls) never seemed to remotely justify the conclusions. I vividly remember one poster describing MRI scans (with a ridiculously small sample size, not that a large sample would have mattered) used to justify some sketchy hypothesis premised on some neurological/behavioral science that I'm pretty sure has since been debunked. Most of the research I encountered seemed of similar quality.

I'm not a professional economist, but my undergraduate (International Politics) and graduate school (Law) programs heavily emphasized economics. The thing about economics, such as with the Principle of Comparative Advantage, is you can often draw whatever conclusions you'd prefer if you don't rigorously examine, empirically, the actual state of affairs. The parameters matter, and there are alot of them to pin down. That kind of rigorous examination is extremely difficult and expensive, and even huge, well-funded, well-staffed organizations like the World Bank and IMF have historically sucked at performing all but the simplest empirical studies to justify their policy arguments. It's a good bet that most institutions, such as the Mercatus Center, simply lack the resources to do the kind of empirical research necessary to justify their conclusions. So when I see these centers make concrete policy statements or recommendations, I'm always very skeptical.

I used to work at a national security think tank on K Street. I see the Mercatus Center on the same continuum as K Street think tanks; perhaps more academically focused given where its based, but ultimately its work is both fundamentally limited by the inherent complexity of the research area, comparatively meager resources, and strongly tainted by its institutional biases. Importantly, neither the organization nor its researchers acquire funding or prestige by admitting as much; they get funding and prestige by publishing strong, sometimes radical claims based on methodological approaches preordained to provide the answers they sought.

The value of something like the Mercatus Center is in how it chooses to apply basic economic principles. The arguments they make are often theoretically interesting. But, again, the dominate factors in reality are invariably empirical, not theoretical. So at the very least they provide me food for thought, keep me honest, and help me form my own constructive criticisms on issues; but I heavily discount their policy conclusions, just as I do most such organizations (but especially the Mercatus Center because, frankly, they aggressively pursue funding from a very particular subset of benefactors, such as the Koch brothers, which means they're incentivized more than many other organizations to publish results that align with those benefactors' worldview, if not the immediate financial interests of those benefactors).
Article is wrong in a few ways. One is about the R3000 where it says that integer overflow traps. there are actually two separate addition instructions, they operate the same way, except for one difference. One will trap on signed overflow and one will not. They both produce the same result. No c compiler I know of uses the trapping version of the instructions.
This is absolutely amazing concept and is a step forward in the right direction. I wish more "non-popular" cities did this.

Whether they succeed or not, it's impressive they came up with this rather than throwing tax cuts to corporations.
An IDE could do it, but the risk for local variables seems smaller compared to the confusion when someone accidentally changes the input or output of a function.
The question is whether WL has passively (or worse, actively) allowed its position as a conduit of information to be leveraged by malevolent actors to shape (or distort) the truth?

Obviously leaks that reveal actual wrongdoing are an unalloyed good. When the leaks that merely provide voyeuristic windows into the routine business of institutions (e.g. the diplomatic cables), the social value of the visibility becomes less clear. When leaks of that sort dominate, and consistently target American and western interests we have to question the motives and the integrity of the conduit.

Truth is power, yes, but is that power being granted to you, or used over you?
How is it a price control when it’s free, or something like $3 for any script I’ve ever filled.

I don’t see a downside for New Zealand, but acknowledge that money has to recouped somehow. I just don’t believe anyone would sell to us at below cost.
Doreen, I’m sorry to hear you spent a lot of time suicidal.

If you don’t mind me asking, do you think that comments like mine are self serving / and ineffective at actually preventing suicide?
Well, I'm no financial advisor, but keeping the bulk of your portfolio in individual stocks is probably a bad idea. Consider funds that track markets.
Which would be more costly? The criminal sentence for pickpocketing or the patent infringement lawsuit that follows?
So like Los Angeles?
What part do you find false?
If the city is renamed to Tulsi, then I'll be among the first to move in there.
> You're not really describing Shareware

These days, yeah, but the term shareware started out as OP described. It later became synonymous with trialware.

https://asp-software.org/www/history/the-origin-of-shareware...
If you are targeting the enterprise I wouldn't recommend the Windows store as its blocked by IT department policy in most large companies.