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From [0] "If engineers ever succeed in making such quantum computers, it seems to me that the CAT is falsified; no classical theory can explain quantum mechanics." By "such quantum computers" he means computers that can run Shor's algorithm. "...but factoring a number with millions of digits into its prime factors will not be possible – unless fundamentally improved classical algorithms turn out to exist." by Gerard 't Hooft - Nobel Prize in Physics

[0] - https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.1548

EDIT: See page 79 of the referenced paper for the detailed argument.
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> I still can't fathom why the feds (eac.gov) can't just pull rank and ban them.

Article One, Section Four of the Constitution gives this power solely to the State and Federal legislatures. The Executive branch (and it'd probably the FEC, not the EAC) can't pull rank here unless Congress gives them the power to.
I guess we need to be sensible. Of course both will promote the method which gives them the best face when posing an argument. A technobureaucracy is not what we want, but we also don’t want things rules on the basis of pure democracy (populism), nor good intentions (many communists/marxists had good intentions).
Asking the European commission to impose regulations is morally worse than taking advantage of your market position and consumers' ignorance.
Since its a ban on all Canadian airspace, will this effect American flights which pass over Canada? I imagine quite a few flights cross over the southern part of Ontario.
I wonder if Google would benefit from spinning up new products and services in another brand or company. Later, they could migrate only what they plan on supporting in the long run.

The cost of deprecating products every couple months has to be expensive - if only we could measure it.

Is anyone aware of a good response to this concern?

I understand that Google would rather deprecate something that not support it well but that does not mitigate the apparent risk of adopting / deploying Google products.
It's not a problem at all, can't claim a name really can we. :)

I currently use Codemirror [0] as the online editor, but when editing online, I do miss a lot of the tools available in VScode.

Do you have an opinion of Monaco vs Codemirror? (I think codemirror is used internally for some Firefox dev tools...)

[0] https://codemirror.net/
They want to appear they aren’t the only game in town.

Microsoft did this with Apple.
This is why junk yards and small businesses are a true blessing. I can pay someone $500 to put a $1000 engine into my car and get another 100,000 miles out of it, rather than "sorry that's not allowed, please go to the dealership and buy a new car".

In some countries, said behavior is literally illegal or impractical. Killing small business would be the death of capitalism and freedom.
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then it seems finally time for humanity to buck-up and grow a thick skin :D people let others get to them. they let them... people get offended and demotivated by anything, while it's in their own hands to keep their spirits up.
Yes. URL prediction & malware blacklisting "services" send keystrokes regardless of chosen search engine.
Super cool that companies just intercept texts no big deal totally cool, must have been in the terms I signed.
Perhaps the whole point was making sure that side of the story never gets told to prevent any more reputational damage. Since Musk was personally informed that Tripp threatened to shoot people in the factory you'd expect some cooperation with the authorities. Instead the investigation was shut down when Tesla declined to make any possible witness available.

As a singular incident it wouldn't garner to much attention but Tripp's account is adding to the pile already.

Edit. Funny how all my comments received the same number of downvotes at almost the same time.
>> You're giving humans a double standard here.

There is no double standard and the matter is not philosophical. We know humans to be able to understand language- we do not need to prove it in any way, including by examining our representation of meaning in language.

We don't know that statistical language models have an understanding of language, it's a very strong assumption to make that they do, and it must be justified with equally strong evidence. Their internal structure is available for inspection, therefore if they are capable of understanding language this understanding should have a concrete reprsentation that we can identify. If we can't, then they don't have anything like "understanding".

>> Why should I trust you and hold you to a different standard than I would any other model?

Assuming that I'm not a model is a reasonable assumption with a very high probability of being true and the simplest explanation for my participation in this thread.
My read from the linked timeline is that Apple didn't block Spotify from the Apple Watch, but rather wouldn't provide the API necessary to Spotify for offline-mode.

I inferred this from the vague wording in the earlier points and the clarifications in the later points.

> When Apple launches their new Apple Watch, they dismiss our proposals and won’t work with us to develop an app for it.

Notice, they didn't say they were blocked. Also why would building an app for the watch necessitate a proposal to Apple that requires Apple to work with them directly? Wouldn't you instead build your app and submit it for approval? This is probably because the Apple Watch SDK didn't provide all the functionality Spotify wanted, and so Spotify was trying to get Apple to add new functionality to the SDK.

> We submit a new proposal for a streaming app directly on the Apple Watch. Apple declines

> With WatchOS 4, Apple continues to make it challenging for us to deliver a workable streaming solution for the Apple Watch

Again, doesn't say they were blocked, just that proposals were rejected and the provided functionality made it difficult/impossible to do what they wanted.

> With Watch OS 5, Apple allowed the Spotify team to start developing offline functionality

Was this the functionality Spotify was proposing for Apple to make possible all along? In other words, was this the missing part of the SDK that Spotify had kept proposing to Apple and having rejected (not the app itself, which they didn't want to build without this functionality)?

EDIT: I'm also not saying they didn't build the app and submit it and have it rejected. They just never actually say that in the timeline.
See, I've had the exact opposite experience here in Canada.

My family owns a range of Hyundai cars (Elentra -> Sonata, Veolster -> Kona, Santa Fe -> Palisade when it releases) and all those cars have been driven to ~100-200k each. The most we've ever paid is $200/yr for the yearly service (apart from tire cost) + $150 / 2 yrs for interior + HVAC cleaning (for that new car smell).

I've never had a bad experience at the Hyundai dealership (can't say the same for Kia, Nissan and Ford).

Every single thing else (maintenance, oil change etc.) was included when I got my car (for 8 yrs or 200k km).
Possibly. I'd say there are a lot of people who are lacking in the principles / integrity department, but I also think Musk tends to stand out among his peers. He's not normal, even for that group of people.
I'm guessing that the cited post-breakup benefits accrue from a renewed level of focus.

There are plenty examples of public companies breaking themselves up for this reason. e.g. IAC breaking off Match.com and ANGI Home Services. Service Master breaking off American Home Shield.
About time. The transport minister must've had damning evidence given the stake Canada has in 737 Max 8 continuing to operate.
@wintorez, I started using Brave browser[1] and DuckDuckGo for work and personal. It's based on Chrome but with privacy in mind.

Also, I currently use 1Password, but have been thinking about using Enpass[2] because you can sync with any cloud drive. I like the idea of syncing to a third party cloud drive in case my password service is compromised.

[1]: https://brave.com
[2]: https://www.enpass.io/
1) I use a keyboard-centric tiling window manager and am trying to avoid mouse use as much as possible. Maybe I’ll get a trackball.

2) It seems to be. I find it quite comfortable at least. I’ll keep an eye on it, thanks!
Disclaimer: @yegg, if you're reading this, I'm posting this rant with love.

I am so disappointed with DDG recently, it has adopted Google's strategy of returning searches that have nothing to do with your query if not enough results were found [0], and dialed it up to 11. If "I" "don't" "put" "each" "word" "in" "quotes," the results I get have nothing to do with my search... but if I do that (apart from the inconvenience of it all) it means (presumably?) that stemming isn't done on the search terms.

Maybe I'm old school, but I expect search results to match the search terms. Fuzzy matching (stemming, synonyms) is an added bonus, but silently dropping words which don't appear is decidedly not. Moreover, a search result returning "only" two results should be taken as a good thing for someone with confidence in their dataset (DDG naturally doesn't have that, because their coverage is far from 100% of the web) - it means the search terms were extremely precise and the results are highly relevant, with irrelevant results filtered out. Decreasing the signal-to-noise ratio by willfully ignoring my search terms may increase the quantity of search results but - and I don't know about you - for me I don't care about quantity and would choose relevance as the more appropriate metric to benchmark against.

(All that said, I still use DDG as my main search engine even if I am turning to appending !g far more than I ever used to because I firmly prefer DDG's respect for my privacy and person over Google's treatment of the same. But I'm disgruntled and, frankly, very disappointed. Sorry, @yegg!)

[0]: https://neosmart.net/blog/2016/on-the-growing-intentional-us...

Edit: actually the situation is even worse. DDG doesn't seem to even always respect "quoted" terms. Here's literally the first search I did after posting this [1]. The quoted term "CFF2" doesn't even appear in the majority of the results DDG pulls in - not just not in the page summary displayed, but literally not on the result page at all. For comparison, here's the Google equivalent:

[1]: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=windows+10+%22cff2%22&t=ffab&ia=we...
[2]: https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=windows%2010%20%22cff2...
It's not just US/Canada relations. The biggest canadian aviation company has dozens of Max 8.
Quantum computing is reversible right?

Can anyone who knows this field describe what they did? I assume it's more exciting than applying a gate followed by its inverse.
> Apple using their dominant market position in the hardware/operating system markets to push anticompetitive practices for their product in a different market (Apple Music).

Allegedly anticompetitive.

Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Facebook all engage in similar behavior by giving preferential treatment of their products/features/services.
Bloomberg conveniently left out the reason why "Tripp has since changed lawyers". It's because he published on Twitter a trove of confidential internal Tesla documents. Once he did that his lawyer knew they had no case anymore. Tripp only deleted the documents after his lawyer was able to get in touch with him. This showed that he did in fact access internal Tesla systems and he did in fact exfiltrate this information. But somehow Bloomberg paints Tesla in a negative light, as they always do.

This is what's left of the fallout:

"B advised that the Tweets by Mr. Tripp yesterday were issued by him on his own accord. Mr. Tripp has clearly been impacted emotionally by what $TSLA has done to him.He is very concerned about being gagged & wants to protect the public, more than his own personal interest. ++"

https://twitter.com/StuartMeissner/status/103013836984050073...

"It is accurate that we no longer rep M.Tripp in any matter.Nor do we have a need for any connection whatsoever with his attys in his Nev civil action.There wont be further comment on this.We still rep K.Hansen with re to his SEC submission & do have confidence in his submission"

https://twitter.com/StuartMeissner/status/107295281670310297...

"Also Mr. Tripp's Twitter account WAS NOT suspended/removed by twitter this AM. He himself voluntarily terminated his twitter account on advice of myself, so that there will not b any more confusion re if he has published anything or not. There is enough confusion re $TSLA already"

https://twitter.com/StuartMeissner/status/103013943327684608...
We want to benefit from efficiencies of scale while decreasing the size of every company's "moat". That is, consumers would benefit most if it was easy to start a competitor if/when the top bank/retailer/etc tried to take advantage of its position.
Yeah, that was a big point of contention when Low Tech Magazine unveiled their new website[0]. I even did some research myself - see comment 23 underneath that article and this[1] link.

From what I understand of their response, LTM also made an aesthetic choice to make the images more striking in their old-school look. They chose the look to draw attention to the images themselves. While I think that's fine for Low Tech Magazine, I'm not sure if I agree with that becoming the most generalized result.

[0] https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/about.html

[1] https://blindedcyclops.neocities.org/low-tech-image-tests/ga...
Or from the Google router. Or their DNS service. Or ....
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I think that depends on how you explain it. It's hard for people to understand problems in environments they're unused to.

For example, ask someone the following question. You have cards with letters on one side and numbers on the other. Cards with vowels must have odd numbers on the reverse. If you have cards [A B C 1 2 3], which cards do you need to turn over to check that the rule is followed?

It's easier for people to understand when you rephrase the question as: we're serving sodas and beers to restaurant patrons of various ages. If I have [Beer Soda Water age40 age10 age30], which patrons/drinks do I need to check? People will have a much easier time answering [Beer age10] than [A 2].

I would try explaining it to people with a real world analogy: did the mail-bombs [0] to Soros, Obama, Clinton, and CNN come from Debbie Wasserman Schultz? People can write anything in the return address and mail a package from a public mailbox. Email acts the same way by default. Do you think non-IT people will have trouble understanding that analogy? (or that the analogy doesn't represent the situation correctly?)

[0] https://www.wired.com/story/mail-bomb-scares-misinformation-...
No clue at all why politician was downvoted for this.

Isn't it well known that Google scoops up web history from the browser or have they stopped doing/never done this? In the latter case any pointers would be appreciated.
> US government is still taking Boeing’s side on this

It's all fun and games until a Max 8 nosedives on US soil
He's CTO at SpaceX.
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>> which wouldn't be captured regardless

They would be captured by the ISP.

Did you know that Google happens to partner up with a lot of ISPs? Hmm, I wonder what for. What could they possibly have that Google needs?

;)
Thanks, some good info.

> It is also helpful to type with a light, bouncy style, which can be helped by careful choice of keyswitches.

I use Cherry MX Brown and have a very light touch when typing now. I cringe anytime I see people hammer keyboards.
Last I checked, Docker containers are not hard to break out of unless you go to extra lengths (SELinux, AppArmor, etc--not entirely sure; I'm not an expert). Most people use Docker as a way to avoid their programs accessing the wrong version of a shared dependency or similar. I believe there may be other container runtimes with stronger guarantees or better defaults, some of which are even suitable for running untrusted code (or so they advertise).
>Just go to Blind.

Can you do that without a tesla.com email address ?
Thd FAA + NTSB need to do something. They need to investigate and review past investigations and come out with their findings, they can’t just say “we don’t believe it”. Even if they are right, the right thing to do is thoroughly review past incidents and issue a finding.
Well that was stupid. Rule number 1 for screen sharing is police your tabs (and other windows, etc.).

If it was only other developers... who cares? Even if it wasn’t, it’s not like you can put the cat back in the bag. You had clearly updated it for a reason, so if you’re worried about it I’d say just carry on down the path you were already headed.
More technically, they had to provide a version of Windows that didn't ship with IE, and iirc a version that allowed new users to pick an alternate browser.
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Does this mean we can make Pluto a planet again??
This is more like turning in a single direction to mix, moving some dye around manually, then turning in the same direction again and it un-mixes.
Where X = (e.g.) bankofamerica? Or X = mother's name? Either way, yikes.
It'll still be fun and games. It's just that the game will be "CYA".
"This safety notice restricts commercial passenger flights from any air operator, both domestic and foreign, of the Boeing 737 Max 8 and 9 aircraft from arriving, departing, or overflying Canadian airspace," Transport Minister Marc Garneau said today.
I agree with you that he's not an exception, but at the same time I got a chronic sickness from the air pollution that's caused by oil and diesel car companies, and I know that millions of other people are dying, so I still think that other car company CEOs are even more shitty.
> Guy says

Did you really just post your own thing and then refer to yourself in the 3rd person?

First of all, the claim that you're going to give someone money is clearly an empty lie because it's obvious you're going to just weasel your way out with vague handwavy logic regardless of what anyone might say.

Second, there's a generic term for what you're doing: it's called an unfalsifiable hypothesis. It basically means to make a claim that cannot be verified. It's a common theme among nutjobs to make (and fall into the trap of believing) their own pet unfalsifiable hypotheses.

Third, a theory is something that has some basis in reality, via experiments, etc. What you postulate is a called a hypothesis, and not a new one at that. The fact that it's a hypothesis that is contemplated by philosophers and not physicists (even theoretical ones) should tell you something about how probable it is that it is a viable explanation of reality.

If you're interested in informing yourself about existing material on the subject of simulated reality hypothesis, you could maybe start w/ reading Plato and Descartes and go from there, or just dive into the "See also" links here if pre-digested alternative hypotheses are your thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulated_reality

I'm not going to attempt to convince you one way or another over a well-trodden unfalsifiable hypothesis, but it would do you well to do some homework on the topic.
This is sad. What's striking is this artificial mind / body, psychological / biological way of thinking.

All psychology stems from biology. Having a condition that may benefit from a psychological intervention doesn't mean it isn't real. It's like developers saying that you're not allowed to fix software bugs, because unless it's a hardware bug you're saying it's not real. Weird and counterproductive.
Fun facts:

* DDG in 2018 has served similar amount of search queries as Google in 2000.

* DDG growth rate is accelerating

* Google search growth rate is negative

* Google's share of global search is shrinking

DDG stats: https://duckduckgo.com/traffic

Google stats: http://www.internetlivestats.com/google-search-statistics/
No:

> DuckDuckGo gets its results from over four hundred sources. These include hundreds of vertical sources delivering niche Instant Answers, DuckDuckBot (our crawler) and crowd-sourced sites (like Wikipedia, stored in our answer indexes). We also of course have more traditional links in the search results, which we also source from a variety of partners, including Oath (formerly Yahoo) and Bing.

https://duck.co/help/results/sources
I think $80 is very reasonable for a great tool like Sublime (for work) if it suits your needs.
> Somehow every internet forum had this figured out within hours

Rather like the identity of the Boston Bomber.
Another possibility is an agency problem, where the company management is doing what's best for themselves rather than best for shareholders. (Just an idea, I don't know whether that's actually the case.)
Curious, if put in practice, what is the reference group for the placebo group?
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Sounds like they implemented a theoretical architecture called uncomputing. Apparently useful for all sorts of theorized quantum algorithms.

https://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/lec10.html
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That thread has a quote from an interview, and then a bunch of random people saying he does.

I already know the mythology surrounding his engineering credentials. But I think perpetuating it does a real disservice to the real engineers doing work on these products. Do people really think that a bright, "well read" physics undergraduate can lead the practical engineering work on rockets and cars? I find it hard to believe.
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> Agree tho that schools r shit.

Clearly.
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Frankly, it hasn't even been a week. Thousands of flights happen every day, and these two accidents were 5 months apart. If it takes 2 weeks to make the decision, that actually sounds quite rushed. In the meantime every pilot on the planet is probably paying attention so they know what to do if they find themselves in the same situation, so likely the risk has already gone down slightly. I think that waiting 2 weeks until we have better facts represents a very reasonable tradeoff between safety and paranoia. It sounds to me like grounding the plane is a good idea, but I don't know exactly how the anti-stall system works, and I have no context for making the decision.
But it is about politics. Ted Cruz spoke out in favour of grounding the 737-MAX, presumably because Southwestern Airlines is a major operator of these misengineered deathtraps and is based in Dallas. If a pilot lost control of his place and there was a crash shortly after takeoff it would hurt his ambitions.
Also check your DNS config for 8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4, .... I’m not typing the IPv6.
Might have been an interview at the end of the audio book.
It's only roughly equivalent to cleaning your room, in a hand-wavey way. Is your cleaned room in an identical quantum state as it was a week ago? No? Well, then the situations aren't the same.
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I agree. There are a million of differences, but the main idea is the same. You go from an very ordered state to an state that looks unordered, but it's actually very specific state (with a weird order that is not evident).

Then in one case you reverse the mechanical part and the fluid movement is reversed and you get back to the initial state. (Well, almost the initial state because there is some diffusion and other non reversible effects.)

In the other case, you apply a transformation that reverse the "speed" of the particles (even if they are entangled, without destroying the entanglement, here a few technical details that is better to avoid), and you get back to the initial state. (Well, almost because if you are unlucky soothing can affect unexpectedly the system and you loose the control and you don't return to the initial state. Errors like this are more probable when you use more qbits.)