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> In some interpretations the wave function is "really objectively out there", but in others the wave function is "just a good way to store my beliefs about the future".

Those “beliefs about the future” may or may not be correct. If you describe a system with a wave function you claim that you know the quantum state perfectly and there is no margin for error.

How do you think QBism helps in the following scenario?

We have spins prepared in some state, say |up>. We agree that the wave function |up> gives a complete description of the quantum states. That’s our shared belief, if you will.

While you are not looking, I do perform some operations and the corresponding mental readjustments change my beliefs: now I describe the spins with the wave function |down>. You keep your original beliefs.

Now we measure the spins along that axis. I predict a negative outcome with 100% probability, you predict a positive outcome with 100% probability. I get it right every time, you get it wrong every time.

If the |down> quantum state is not "really objectively out there", how do you explain these results?
Philippines law would require students to plant 10 trees if they want to graduate
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/philippines-tr...
I'm not sure I understood your argument, very likely due to my limited knowledge in this area.

You say:

> society needs a practical way to for parents to monitor and potentially filter what type of content their children are encountering online.

I agree with you on this point. But how does Mozilla's initiative prevent parents from filtering what type of content their children are allowed to be exposed to online or asserting control over this activity?

I would first argue that this is more than anything a responsibility of the parent - unsupervised internet browsing by children should not really be happening and no technology can save people (children included) from themselves/mistakes/curiosity/etc. as efficient as education can. If the children are too young they won't care that their browsing is filtered, if they are old enough to be knowledgeable about this kind of stuff they will likely find a way to circumvent filtering.

Second, surely, Mozilla can make the DoH functionality optional and, together with other local access & filtering measures, you can probably put in place a system that works for this case. You're again correct that it’s easier to manage this at a network level, but private DNS doesn't automatically impede us to do so, albeit it forces our hands to do so differently if the user can't decide for himself when to use it.

Third, if enough demand will appear for such a feature (i.e. to allow parents to filter browsing for children), I am confident that paid or even free solutions will emerge to address it. The way I see it, users should not concede control to browser vendors, especially if they are Google, but also if they are governments. I argue that we should trust our (democratic)governments with many things, but not with the guarantee that they will always work in the public interest. We need mechanisms to ensure they're always kept in check _before_ things go south.

> If Mozilla or Google start shipping browsers that use their own DNS privacy resolvers, it’s a power play.

That's quite true and a reasonable point that I think needs addressing in a meaningful way. What we should have is more user control.
I'm working on something similiar. If anyone else is, feel free to ping me!
Ask HN: Where can I read up on all the quantum algorithms developed to date
I will like to read up on all quantum algorithms and solution to np hard problems, and also is there a quantum algorithm that solves factorial(n!) problems in polynomial time?
Can you explain what you feel playing a game that will always make you lose money no matter the strategies and anything else? Very curious
I think you completely missed my point. I'm not talking about practical ability, but liability.

Who would those bots be? wccrawford1, wccrawford2, wccrawford3? That would not pretend to be anything other than bots or clone accounts.

If on the other hand your bots would be "Brock Samson", "Joey America" and "Chip Dipsby", etc. That would clearly be non-humans pretending to be humans, regardless of you tripping the first/last domino piece.
“Nightmarish traffic jams...”

The very first line of the article makes me believe that people don’t live 150 miles away. Maybe 30-50 miles and you’re driving 10-15 miles an hour?
> I continue to use R because of RStudio and the tidyverse

Tidyverse is massively overrated if you ask me. The good parts of it (dplyr and ggplot) are nice for interactive work. And that's about it - if you're deploying the code in an application, you're best off sticking to base R as much as possible.
> I guess it's easier to pretend they fight crime when they just target the easier target they can find.

That is the story of the whole western world at the moment…
I'm sure fzf has fewer options than awk...

And it does respect Unix philosophy, as I just wrote in another comment it's easy to pipeline between source (of the stuff to find) and sink (of what to do with the fuzzy-found one).

It does one thing, and it does it well.
On call centers, I will keep pointing people at: http://www.harrowell.org.uk/blog/2012/01/21/the-politics-of-...

> Inappropriate automation and human/machine confusion bedevil call centres. If you could solve your problem by filling in a web form, you probably would have done. The fact you’re in the queue is evidence that your request is complicated, that something has gone wrong, or generally that human intervention is required.

> However, exactly this flexibility and devolution of authority is what call centres try to design out of their processes and impose on their employees. The product is not valued, therefore it is awful. The job is not valued by the employer, and therefore, it is awful. And, I would add, it is not valued by society at large and therefore, nobody cares.
I've seen advertising boards on trailers parked by the side of roads in public parking spaces. Angled to face into the traffic, so probably not parked temporarily.
By numbers, global fertility/population trends and religion are not a "muslim" one, that's a made up western "identity" problem. If anything it's catholic to evangelical sectionism, if you look at Western Africa.

Overall religion is secondary at best, but economically weak tribal/familiy social nucleus cultures vs established nation states that provide reliable social safety not just for relatives.

"It's the Economy, stupid", look at fertility rates of Saudi Arabi, Iran, UAE
Poland vs Nigeria.
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Wouldn't the solution be planting enough new trees to replace the newly-dead ones? i.e. keeping a sufficient mass of trees growing, always? That way, you'd have a continual carbon sink?
I will just keep using them for micro transactions, What you write there is just horrific. People could get a beatdown for less aggrevation.

I never got actual confirmation that paypal is really as bad as some people casually mentioned
PayPal, and the rest of the industry.
If you want to know anything about future demographics, just look at a school. Should not be that hard honestly.

So if first generation migrants have a greater fertility, it can indeed affect demographics to a large degree. Because you need exactly one generation to do so. Obviously.

And it should also be obvious that lower fertility stems from multiple factors. Birth control is one, modern work structure is the other. I am certain there are more.
So because teaching 1on1 conflict resolution has not been done at your school you prefer to have kids monitored and teach them conflicts will be resolved by pleading to a higher all seeing authority which tells you who was naughty and who was nice...mkay.
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I remember hearing about it.. but it should be news head title.

Also, by making it a socially distributed action. To make people relearn, take part, take ownership, spend more time out.. it could probably cost less.
That's quite absurd. Planting 1T trees would be extremely nice to the environment yet we fail to see the big picture. In oceans we have less than half of the phytoplankton than we used to have only a century ago[1].

""The amount of carbon that we can restore if we plant 1.2 trillion trees, or at least allow those trees to grow, would be way higher than the next best climate change solution," Crowther told CNN."

Phytoplankton actually contributes more than trees do to tackle the big construct of "climate change".[2]

In the article, all the climate change action is taken against the CO2 levels in the atmosphere - but I think we can all agree there is more to it than just CO2 (and we can go quite deep on that rabbit hole and slash apart lots of this big amorphous mass of a construct).

On top of that, there are quite some theories on what drives climate change [3] and different views on it [4]. Yet all mediums speak from the same theory which is CO2 is bad. Period.

Now, as said before on a comment by Krageon and Arbalest, it will be the comparable to a person planting 129 trees.

Don't get me wrong I love trees, forest and all that - no question that's beautiful and has more profound effects than climate change alone in our environment and society - but one gets fed up by the `simplicity` we think as a society of these problems.

I guess this is my personal opinion but I think we can do better with technology (which is why we are all in this community anyway) than that. And, again in my opinion, should be the way we lead and liaise with this problem instead of `go plant more trees`.

[1] https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/nasa-study-shows-oceani...

[2]https://novapublishers.com/shop/phytoplankton-biology-classi...

[3]http://climatica.org.uk/climate-science-information/long-ter...

[4] https://www.bettermeetsreality.com/a-history-of-earths-carbo...
So you're one of those Dutch people living in Andalusia, flying out to work in the Netherlands or other places during the week?

I can understand why someone would do that, but it is affordable only because aviation is mostly untaxed and very inexpensive compared to any other transportation modes. And it is, imo, not a very sustainable lifestyle.

Aviation should be taxed like other transportation (fuel, vat), I do not understand why it is taking forever for politics to come around to doing this. Airplane tickets need to cost at least twice what they are now, the tax income used for sustainable energy investments, that would work much better than that CO2 add-on that they try to shame you into buying at KLM.
I admit that I have done it in some non-busy places around about 2013. It is scary at first, but to be honest it's better than when I was riding in Canada. Drivers are pretty patient in the UK. I rode a fair amount in the countryside when I was there and I was really surprised at how careful drivers are when overtaking (and how patient they seemed to be). City driving is fairly low speed, though, which gives a cyclist an advantage because they have better acceleration. That allows them to get out of trouble most of the time.

Having said that, I don't want to take away from your point that a lot of people will always feel too uncomfortable to ride in city traffic and I don't blame them. It's just that I often hear people complain about the safety of cycling in London and it's actually a pretty safe city to ride in (though it can definitely get better). The previous mayor was notorious for spending money on improving cycling in London and I think the stats bear that out. I left the UK in 2015, so I don't know what the current mayor is doing.
Conversely, I'd be very annoyed if I didn't immediately get a notification from my bank about a decrease in my balance. However, I don't think either of us is qualified to speak for most people.
Yes, lactose tolerance means you have functioning enzyme. That makes it a dominant allele.
They may save on average, but that's just shifting the expense to the customer in terms of wasted time. If there is anything I've learned over 30 years of running businesses that being disrespectful towards your customers' time it is that you will end up losing those customers.
The story of Feigenbaum presented in Gleik's Chaos is the reason I chose to do physics.
‘This doesn’t look like the best economy ever’: 40% struggle to pay bills
Do you work for merchantinc.com? They seem to own and operate paypalsucks.org and have a history of advertising themselves with forum spam similar to your comment.
https://www.byrdie.com/facial-massage-technique

It's this kind of thing. It's literally a facial massage, not a translation issue.
It’s difficult to understand why people are even using this service anymore. PayPal is not your ‘pal’ and to use them safely you need insurance and leverage all the way. The only reason I can imagine is that it works most of the time. But the times where it fails are invariably a disaster.
When cleaning cars we found among other things: lots of drugs (heroine, meth, crack and supplies), stolen merchandise, weapons, a box of fake ids, etc. People would use stolen drivers licenses to sign up, stolen credit cards to pay, it happened frequently.

If someone constantly rented the car at night, didn't drive it, and was dodgy whenever they came to a lot, I guess you could say it's none of our business except that it's a $10,000 insurance liability along with a branding issue if someone is say doing hard drugs in our cars while people are walking by.

These quite rare investigations only happened after finding things. Sometimes cars would be out for 10+ rentals before arriving back for a cleaning. The frequent night renters would be on the previous renter lists multiple times after finding things so it was more to clear their name from suspicion than anything.

Honestly I don't really have a judgment on someone say, freebasing meth, that's their freedom. Just please not in our cars.
JWildfire, a Java desktop application to author "flame" fractals (a slight generalization of these IFS constructions) has a nice realtime preview and a subtly less maddening user experience.
> Honestly I just feel like the authors of these tools were just too lazy to learn grep/find/cut/tr/bash/awk/etc and decided to implement everything in their own toy program, which always

I used grep for over ten years, almost every day, before I sat down and wrote ripgrep. Hell, I still use grep. So no, I'm pretty sure you're just a bit off the mark here. You might consider that speculating on the motivation of others without the facts is pretty counter productive.

> Instead of having 1 tool with a quadrillion options

Have you looked at the man page of pretty much any GNU tool? The Unix philosophy is just a means to an end, not an end itself. ripgrep, for example, has _tons_ of options and flags. But if you went and looked at the number of flags for GNU grep, you'd find an approximately similar amount!

Besides, grep/cut/awk/find/whatever do not even remotely come close to providing the user experience of fzf, so your entire analysis here seems way off the mark to me.
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Yah! They're really nice folks.
In Amsterdam!
Totally agree with you, not sure exactly what happened he's upset about. They reversed an erroneous deposit.
Sufficiently bad conditions lead to children starving and women not surviving labor.
Those newspapers hung from the wall look to be too large to be read comfortably on those round tables.
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According to Google Maps, every train itinerary from Amsterdam to Barcelona in the morning has 2-3 transfers, with the last one being a bus. And the shortest possible duration is just over 13.5 hours, not 12 like you said.

The transfers and bus are still required if you go with a night train.
How do we know that what we perceive as randomness in quantum mechanics is "true" randomness, and not just something we say is "random" because we fail to model it?
>The problem is that what you throw together is invariably the base for the real thing.

This isn't invariable at all. More often what you throw together gets thrown away. I'd estimate this happens to more (working) code I've written over my career than not. The hardest thing to get right is often getting the contours of a tool right and ascertaining what it should do - not making it work right after it has proven itself.

>Using a "stiff" set of tools might slow down the first stages of prototyping, but it also makes the prototype easier to modify as requirements change.

This is only really the case where the prototype was fundamentally solving the right problem in the right way to begin with and the subsequent changes are incremental in nature. If the design of, say, a microcomponent is flawed from the outset or it did the wrong thing and you have to re-do it, those "stiff" tools slow you down.

Using an extremely strict set of tools in a prototyping environment also invariably means a lot of extra up front work dealing with the tools' attempts to protect you from bugs which have an extremely low probability of occurring and/or an extremely low cost when they do occur.

If F# or rust or haskell really was quicker and more effective in a prototyping environment as well as when writing production hardened code, programmers would likely eventually converge on only using them. That isn't what is happening.
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Well, by my Maths, 10^18 would require close to 7,000 trees for every square meter of dry land on the planet Earth. Even if we allow the use of Bonsai, that would be a stretch :)
PayPal survives because they keep end users happy, we (the people using PayPal to take payment or integrating it) aren't the end user.

Proof a ruthless focus in the right place can overcome almost anything.

They've been shit forever.
Scientists combine light and matter to make particles with new behaviors
With vi I mean vi, not vim. If I meant vim, I'd have written vim. I use vim if its available (with my own configuration which includes syntax highlighting), but it isn't always available.

With my Human Meatbrain syntax highlighter I have far more issues with JSON than with say YAML or any other markup language.

Consider, for example, how easy the syntax is of a Wireguard configuration file. It is basically akin to a shell script or ini configuration file. And these have a proven track record. Why is that way of configuration broken in the first place? You could do things such as variables in shell scripts as well.

I also believe that the whole Systemd drama is basically because of moving away from such a proven track record. And it might very well be true that shell scripts are slow. That is why I argue for backwards compatibility and converting to/from formats. Which is something Dhall is able to (it can convert to/from YAML and JSON).
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It's a two-sided market with one-sided dispute resolution, like eBay. Customers love it because it almost always finds in their favour. Sellers hate it because it almost always finds in favour of the customer. Neither side really wants to pay higher transaction fees in the hope of better justice from the dispute resolution.

Ultimately if you get into a bit enough dispute with Paypal you have to consider using the real courts.
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Haha, no thank you

>OOP languages for modern applications gives you a lot of troubles, because they were designed for a different purposes

For which purposes if not software development exactly?
As I see it - the land is owned by the city and city is lobbied by other landlords to keep all the crimes in a closed teritory. If you dismantle slums the people will spread all over the city and the crimes will follow.
Indeed, you need to book the flight to/from ZYR.
No, they won't. They'll just extend copyright length again. It's routine now.
And it's not a good thing.
Interesting that you are in the UK and still had trouble. Do you think that you got the money back because of the way they are regulated within Europe as a bank rather than the way that they are not regulated in the USA (which is where most of the horror stories I see seem to come from)?
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Trillion is 10^12 in both British and US English.
Once I ordered some expensive gear from UK and only option to pay was PayPal. I ordered and paid for the goods, order shipped and a few days later I get a mail from the selling company asking why I locked their account for fraud protection or some such. PayPal sent me the money back and I got the goods. Offcourse I didn't use PayPal again and sent them a normal bank transfer instead. Was also a better exchange rate than PayPal.
Nope, but I spent 2 years trying to make Paypal explain why they disabled my account, but even they didn't know.

This was about 15 years ago, and back then this was the first Google result when you searched for "Paypal complaint".
In a software engineering context, Git is my "easy" skill. It's not too complicated to understand the main concepts and best-practices, but a lot of colleagues still struggle with it. So it's a nice skill to have, since you can always help out someone and it's very universal.
In an almost 'ironic' example, community management doesn't have much of a Reddit presence. The forum administration side is still mostly present on sites like The Admin Zone instead of social media platforms, and the general community management side is more represented by blogs and sites like Feverbee.

ROM hacking is another good example here. Sites and forums about it are doing pretty well (like ROM Hacking.net and SMW Central), but there aren't any active subreddits for it at all. In fact, it seems like the younger generation involved in this hobby skipped Reddit outright, since many of them seem to have migrated to Discord instead.

Fan games in general are arguably the same way too. They've got some pretty active independent forums and Discord servers, but no real Reddit presence so to speak of.

Finally, quite a few media franchises are represented outside of Reddit too. For instance, while it's not as active as it once was, the Wario Forums site in my profile seems to be significantly more active than the Wario subreddit is, with various Discord servers being more signficant competition as a result.

So yeah, hope that helps.
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Actually, in the UK you are not legally allowed to carry a hard fruit such as for example a squash or miniature pumpkin in a plastic carry bag if you end up using it for self defence when attacked.

Yes, that's right, in UK carrying in public any object that can be or is used as a weapon (including defensively) is considered a crime. This is normally applied to knives, but if the letter of the law was to be adhered to someone who did defend themselves against an attack with a small pumpkin could be arrested for the possession of the said pumpkin... This is the madness of UK law.

I remember few years ago a situation where a dog attacked a small child and wouldn't let go, someone ran home, grabbed a kitchen knife, killed the dog and saved the child. When the police arrived they had to arrest the person who saved the child life because of the knife... Thankfully the person didn't end up being charged as no witness would testify that that person has indeed used a knife as a weapon.