skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You can't actually "make a mark" on a particle

Yes, of course. That was loose wording for "affect a particle a way that is meaningful", i.e. prepare it. :)

> "But that's cheating!" you say. "I want the flip to be random."

Actually, no, I'd rather the bit be useful!

> If you flip a coin with enough precision you can make it come up reliably on one side or the other.

Sure, if I know enough about the universe at some moment in time, by unitarity, I know its state at all other times. Having enough information to run the laws of physics forward to compute the outcome of the 2020 super bowl coin flip isn't much different, then, than running them backward to get the 2019 flip (and just as impractical). But what is interesting is that I could correlate (say) the spin of an electron with the result of the flip and read it later to tell what the flip was, but not earlier to tell what the flip will be.

(Obviously information about the past coin flip is available in many more places than just in my prepared particle, but I don't need anything more than that one qubit to precisely know the result. That's a big difference from needing to know everything in the coin's past light cone! )

If we peel away the human-imposed notions of time and causality (as you do in your article), and see spacetime as a "block" with microscopic time symmetry, or perhaps even further dismantled into only basis states of Hilbert space, it's still obscure to me why particles-- even individual ones-- seem to "carry" information only from the past and not from the future.

On an intuitive level it seems perfectly natural. On the level of (time-symmetrical) fundamental physics, I can't pin down why it would be.
In 1986, the life expectancy for Soviet men (at birth) was 65 years:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2546027/?page=1
The CIO’s Guide to Artificial Intelligence
Do you intent to stop providing material support for known terrorist organizations[1]?

1. https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5c127778e4b0835fe3277f2f
“Hello World” in morse: turning an FPGA into a radio transmitter
In my country, many retailers now have to connect their cash registers directly to the taxman. The law behind this was enacted last year to counter tax evasion.
Cool Crowdfunding: Wooden Globes, Expressive Robots, and Learning
Its not hardcoded, its just the default server. You can specify your own via a cli flag.
Since you are here. After reading the post I was left with one very big question.

If the network is p2p, and nobody but me can delete my posts, how would you be able to deal with illegal content?

I’ll have a look, and I second the need for a mobile app. Reddit happens during train rides :)
(author of magic-wormhole here)

Nope, the server gets no more power than a random network attacker. The codes are single-use, enforced by PAKE, so an attacker (or the server) gets at most one chance to guess the code for any single execution of the program.
You are correct. It is, however, a fascinating journey through consciousness.
With custom UI toolkits more prevalent than ever these days, do such tweaks even work across a wide range of applications?
You can do this without it being two separate views. Send a request on lose focus of the username field to check if the account is from a federated service.
The main thing we try to help with is orchestrating Spark, TensorFlow, TensorFlow Serving, and other workloads without requiring you to manage the infrastructure. You’re right that we have a thin layer around tf.estimator (by design) because our goal is to make it easy to create scalable and reproducible pipelines from building blocks that people are familiar with. We translate the YAML blocks into workloads that run as a DAG on Kubernetes behind the scenes.
Here are three excellent tools for decision making:

1. http://programs.clearerthinking.org/decisionmaker.html

2. http://getfirstmate.blog/startdeciding

3. https://80000hours.org/career-decision/
Thanks for letting us know, we'll take a look
To Grid or to Flex?
Why the downvotes? Do the rest of you like paywalls, or?
Why is it a requirement to have two separate views? Why not just do the check when the user leaves the username textbox. I don't see the reason for the other page to be displayed separately.
magic-wormhole uses a 256-word list, so the two-word default provides 16 bits of entropy. But the code goes into PAKE, not a symmetric encryption key, so an attacker only gets one shot to guess it (it's an interactive protocol, so they must commit to their guess in the first message, and don't discover whether they're correct or not until the second message).

It's basically spending interactivity (and single-use-ness) to buy adequate security for a short secret. Magic-wormhole is not useful for encrypting long-term data-at-rest (because the sender needs to stick around to perform the key-exchange protocol with the receiver), nor is it useful for encrypting data to multiple parties (because the code is single-use). But it's great for getting a single file to a single person, or to establish a full-strength session key for continued use later.
Again, shooting oneself in the foot by losing 25K jobs won't kill New York. It just would make it a little poorer than it otherwise could be (some people a real lot poorer - talk to some RE developers that bought properly expecting Amazon to move in nearby...) New York doesn't need HQ2, it doesn't need any one particular development at all. But if it starts approaching all of them with this attitude, it gradually will start losing them, one by one, becoming poorer and poorer as they go. Would it kill it? Probably not, Detroit still exists. Is it a smart way to conduct affairs? I guess that's for New Yorkers to decide, if they think losing 25K jobs and billions in future tax income worth sticking it to Bezos - well, they can rejoice.
You think Arco evades taxes? They're a pretty large gas station chain and they don't accept credit cards.
Ancient Earth’s Weakened Magnetic Field May Have Driven Mass Extinction
I’m not sure what internal resource exist or what access is available to your team, but I would think that Google’s search indices would be the best resources on the planet for analyzing existing URL fragment design patterns. It seems like you could classify various implementations and run tests against each of the major groupings so that you can be confident that xxx.xxx% of sites that currently use fragments will be supported by this design.

It’s an exciting possibility to link more directly to resources. I hope it is implemented in such a way that all browsers can follow those links with parity in the future. If that is the case I have a few hundred thousand outlinks that could be refined for clarity.
Is AI a fad?
See my point about realpolitik above. Politicians more or less reflect the people, for better or for worse. Politicians are also the leaders and deciders, if not them, who else? There is a healthy nuclear industry, lobby, and research, so it's not like nuclear is unfairly excluded from the solutions table. As others have pointed out, cost overruns have sunk many modern nuclear projects.

> real understanding/evidence

Well, where are they? I originally replied to trimbo's comment because he seemed to be pro-nuclear and scientific, but then all his arguments seemed to acknowledge that well, nuclear wasn't up to the task. So where are the rational arguments that nuclear can be a solution?
A flash freezer doesn't use the power of algorithms to make the fish cold. The algorithm it uses should not be covered by the patent. And in practice the algorithm is probably on a PLC in a nearby closet, not truly part of the machine at all.

With software, the machine is not merely "relying" on physics which in turn "rely" on math. The functionality is purely mathematics. This is very very different from a patent on a machine.
I am a portland agnostic and have never experienced discrimination that I've detected. Then again, I've never been invited to the best mormon parties, so I could be missing out.

I also don't generally discuss my religious beliefs unless directly questioned about it -- and since being so-questioned is quite rude, I would likely try to avoid the person questioning me going forward -- thus avoiding any discrimination risk.

My family are all southern fried baptist. I lied to my grandfather who asked me on his deathbed if "I was saved". Otherwise, religion is just not on my mental radar.

Amusingly, the reverse discriminatory problem is sort of true. If someone goes out of their way to tell me about their religious beliefs, I will think less of them. I'm trying to work on this about myself, though.

I think there are bigger problems to solve personally, but this one seems like a cheap "win" so hey, why not I guess?

$0.02
“desperately”

Are you sure you’re outside the bubble? Because the taxi industry could have done with some improvement, but it didn’t “desperately” need “disruption”. People got from a to b just fine, and drivers got paid.

The only thing that desperately needs disruption is the destructive influence SV has on societies that were doing just fine before its “disruption”.
IRS forces card processors to issue 1099-k for any card processing payments. That's how it goes.
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But is there a material that humans could build that would sink into Earth like that, for a few kilometers say, either due to melting its way down or gravity or density?
Access WSL filesystem easily from Windows Explorer in latest Skip ahead preview
There is also Janusgraph which Google contributes to http://janusgraph.org
The reaction to Chernobyl was excessive. What we've learned since is that while a lot of rapid response was needed at the immediate site, at least a portion of the rapid evacuation likely did more harm than good. Large parts of the exclusion zone remained livable (and the Chernobyl plant itself remained operational for many years afterwards - the danger was low enough that several of the reactors were re-started).

We should be thankful the Japanese did not overreact as badly, but in Fukushima too there is reason to believe that more people than needed were evacuated, and that this response may have caused more harm than the accident itself.
Many of these people are academics, doing it as their professional work--academics do seem to have that same kind of European giving mentality. Most of the others were paid by a company to do their work.

Stallman though I will grant you. Even with his academic 'support' he is clearly giving heart and soul without any desire for compensation.
Gravitational Wave Detectors Upgraded to Hunt for 'Extreme Cosmic Events'
There was a great 3D framework called Cocos3D that had a bunch of PowerVR tools for working with 3D mobile development.

They had an example app that was a FPS made from scratch. The HUD was there, enemies, weapons, environment.

There might be a Metal FPS base game available on GitHub, I can't remember what it was called.
ResponseIQ doesn't Respond to well
Gravitational Waves Detected 100 Years After Einstein's Prediction
Gist Arena, Entertainment and Top Songs
I really like this analysis: https://thinkgrowth.org/uber-is-going-to-0-and-benchmark-kno... :

Taxi service is not a good candidate for a global monopoly - because most rides are for local population and there is no need for a global trust. Each dispatcher needs to compete locally. This is different from for ecample AirBnb - where the customers come from away and need some global entity to trust.

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Uber also does not seem to do very well in the self-driving car competition, which could potentially save it. What is left is maybe some data play and maybe being useful for spy agencies - a global entity knowing, and also being able to manipulate, delay or maybe even deny in some cases, communication in remote states (but that probably would rely on it being a monopoly). But I am waiting for this to end bad. The SoftBank way of growing the valuation by doubling their investments seems really crazy.
You just breach someone with a lot of them.
Ask HN: Will there be any large Open Source ML companies?
I'm thinking along the lines of Elastic, Docker, or Redhat
Prior to Google I liked infind.com meta-search
Something I don't get here. The normal model of RE development is you build stuff, you rent it out or sell it, you collect the rent or sale proceeds, hopefully earn a lot, move on. The property taxes and fees go for developing public infrastructure - roads, schools, parks, etc. Now why Google would need to get part of property taxes? Are they going to build road and schools? Why?
I am not sure why there needs to be a model where private company collects taxes. They're building private light rail? Excellent, charge to ride it and recoup your costs. You're building timber factory? Excellent, factory should be financed by selling its output, not by collecting taxes. What am I missing? What is so special in this particular development that it requires Google to get part of the taxes?
(author of magic-wormhole here)

To transfer a file, both parties do need to be online at the same time. The server (which I run) does not store the file's data: it stores tiny key-exchange messages until both sides manage to make a direct connection, but then the encrypted file data is sent from sender to recipient without being stored in the middle. So it doesn't replace email or an FTP server or some other asynchronous file-transfer service.

You're absolutely right that if you already have a secure channel, you can send a full-strength symmetric key that way (e.g. send a PGP key, or one of the alternatives in gtank's post). But PAKE enables using a low-bandwidth secure channel. I can easily read a magic-wormhole code like "4-purple-sausages" to someone over the phone or to the person sitting next to me, but I'd be hard pressed to dictate an entire 256-bit secret key correctly.
http://google.github.io/tink/javadoc/tink/1.0.0/com/google/c...

Tink implements it, though it does not rely on it.
OTOOH, any and all maintenance requires return to base or abandonment at sea +/- self-destruction.
That was two levels downthread of the otherwise disingenuous and unexplained use of the term “animal cruelty” here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19165463

Either someone shared with you an out-of-context link to this subthread for brigading purposes or you’re being totally disingenuous right now.
Flying Cloud is a wonderful innovation story that connects to the larger story of Matthew Maury, who used US Navy datasets to transform how ships navigated. Gave a talk about this at the US Naval Academy a few years ago, build a bunch of visualizations since NOAA still hosts the data sets http://ondrejka.net/history/2014/02/28/maury.html
True,I can't using local AD list,it doesn't work like adp or ublock,which is not user friendly.
Windows is now an OS for amateurs and not professionals.
Organized Crime is behind 70-80% of vehicle break-ins in SF
Catastrophe! The Chinese are going to steal our pseudo-estrogen levels and our gold-medal in diabetes
The "never made it to WHO statistics" as the difference in cancer incidence rates and other problems after Chernobyl are so small that they are hard to distinguish from the background noise. A lot of work has gone into trying to document the actual effects, but the reality is that while there were initial large spikes in e.g. thyroid cancer among children, the cancers that spiked are ones with very high survival rates. The WHO estimates were initially very high, but keep being adjusted down because every year that goes is another year without a spike in deaths above expected levels.

The breakup of the Soviet Union caused much larger scale effects on life expectancy.
Back then there was also a distict possibility that there was indeed not a single web page written about a given topic.
Yes! Ian does such great work,one of my all time favorite YT channels!
The information you gave seems to contradict information from elsewhere.

You write "An explorer might last a little while on an all-meat diet".

As the Maclean's article points out, "The Arctic explorer Stefansson and a former Arctic confrère, Andersen, went on an exclusive meat diet for a year".

I think of "little bit", for a diet, as being somewhat less than one year. How long do you mean by it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilhjalmur_Stefansson#Advocacy... further points out "In the end, the one-year project stretched to four years, during which time the two men ate only the meat they could kill and the fish they could catch in the Canadian Arctic. Neither of the two men suffered any adverse after-effects from their four-year experiment."

Surely four years is enough to show that one can last a long time on an all-meat diet, yes?

You write "The Inuit for example, only avoid scurvy by getting their vitamin C from raw fish."

The Wikipedia article on Inuit cuisine, at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuit_cuisine , says instead, "Vitamin C is obtained through sources such as caribou liver, kelp, whale skin, and seal brain; because these foods are typically eaten raw or frozen, the vitamin C they contain, which would be destroyed by cooking, is instead preserved."

Note that while those meats are raw, they are not fish. The Wikipedia page cites http://discovermagazine.com/2004/oct/inuit-paradox (which in turn cites the same Stefansson described in the Maclean's article) wherein we can read:

> Native foods easily supply those 10 milligrams of scurvy prevention, especially when organ meats—preferably raw—are on the menu. For a study published with Kuhnlein in 2002, Fediuk compared the vitamin C content of 100-gram (3.55-ounce) samples of foods eaten by Inuit women living in the Canadian Arctic: Raw caribou liver supplied almost 24 milligrams, seal brain close to 15 milligrams, and raw kelp more than 28 milligrams. Still higher levels were found in whale skin and muktuk.

This makes it seem that the Inuit were not "only" dependent on fish, but also had non-fish sources for dietary vitamin C.

The underlying scientific article is at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S088915750... . It lists raw fish eggs, raw whale, caribou liver, ringed seal liver, and blueberries as the most notable sources of vitamin C in traditional foods.
I copied my bank and set up a vacation response that says this. "Message received. I'll respond when I can."

At the end, the author mentioned someone declining an invitation with, "Sorry can't attend for secret reasons." Sounds like a good template for short responses like:

Noted. Thanks. Will get back to you. I'm on it. A lil busy right now...
I suppose that is to avoid to look at a large screen too close.
That's because a lot of people rob grocery stores (and banks.) Once stealing becomes common place in museums they'll act as insurance companies will force them to.

Amazing how they have, maybe a security guard, and millions of dollars in art hanging. Granted art can be recovered and stolen one cannot be sold easily
A prospective cohort study correcting and monitoring 58 misreported trials
It worked for all the applications I use except one - a music player.

And in that music player, it mostly worked except for some dialog boxes.
A clever hack but perhaps not one to use in browsers like Chrome which do dynamic search lookups.
I'm glad you feel good, but your health hasn't really been established yet.

A few things to remember:

- 3 months is not enough time to know if a diet is good for you personally in the long term, even anecdotally

- weight loss is a poor metric for the healthiness of a diet

- anecdotes are not what you should base decisions about your one and only body on (remember that some diet pills in the 90s worked well and spread by word of mouth because people lost weight but also caused heart attacks in some)
I despise agreeing with Ann Coulter, but credit where credit is due. The only National Emergency is that our President is an idiot.
I think the Common App is awful. Many of my friends out of high school applied to a few colleges. I applied to 17. Why? The cost of a college app is ~$75. The Common App turns careful consideration of where you want to study into a monetary game. I was lucky to afford it. Most people can't.

As for TypeByte, I think it's okay. My girlfriend went through it, passed with flying colors and got many interviews. The problem is jobs like colleges differ vasty.

Perhaps a better solution for the problem is a meaningful certification. Then you can simply focus on the specifics of the role and company to see if it's a good fit. Determining qualification is a solved problem in many other fields.
Pretty cool name (cortex), but also taken by this project - https://github.com/cortexproject/cortex - "A multitenant, horizontally scalable Prometheus as a Service"
I'd recommend Svetlana's Alexievich "Chernobyl Prayer" although is more intimate (as stories told are very personal) prose than historical records: https://thephraser.com/2017/09/07/chernobyl-prayer-a-chronic...
Kerosene Lantern Becomes a Compact Bioreactor
There is amazing projects as below:

GoodWood Globes

STEMpedia: A learning kit that can help teach kids about robotics, coding, electronics https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/stempedia-young-innovator...

Peeqo: communicating entirely through animated gifs

Picoh Make your Picoh talk

Valpat Steam
TIL: DDG has an adblocker. Good to know and I hope they can improve it.
I think the best thing about this was the children understood. They acknowledged it was for the better.

I think a gift we have is not knowing when or how we are going to go.

If there is nothing I can do about it, Not sure if I would want to know the number of days my parents have, even if they are aged. Same way not sure if I would want my kids to know how much time I have.

We all are unique. Each family is unique. And it is also natural for humans to judge openly or subconsciously. But we do what we think is best for family.

I dread the day, science is going to put a number on a child as soon as it is born. I feel it would make our life miserable for everyone.
I’m not saying I’m right or better but I feel like I have the opposite problem. I don’t do much research. I do the bare minimum to confirm whatever bias I started with and then just start executing. Usually works out well enough.
Sounds like a lot of enemies. I wonder how 'the good guys' ended up being hated by so many.
Many years ago I used a forum that autogenerated usernames from a hash of responses to questions ( player name, age, city etc ) in a similar manner to those 'porn name' algorithms. Which was quite a relief in place of the usual 'invent a unique name' mindblank I often suffer.

Similarly my banks issue me my website user strings.

Why do so many website permit users to choose? Forcing the user to write-down their assigned designator might lead to better security, too, since they would seem at that point more open to writing-down a strong password.
This is the kind of misguided mindset that effectively discourages people from making games. It’s as if someone urged people to look into lumber and the papermaking en route to making their own card game.

This fellow’s mindset is a common one, and likely he’s passing it on from his own experience...Telling that engineering culture discourages the shortest routes to creativity
Well, what is better? You're the expert, why aren't you telling us outright?
Yale Grad Reveals the Future of Painting from an Infinity Pool in Malibu
Do you necessarily need a sub to kill another sub once it's detected?

Surface navy and aviation could do the job.
MIT has two main career fairs: Fall and Spring (April). Fall is best for Juniors and Spring is best for Sophomores/Freshman.
You're giving advice, and it's good advice. The article isn't advice it's a story and it's a good story.