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We wanted to share a paper that we wrote on quantum computing with the software engineering community here on HN. Hopefully you find this paper helpful or interesting. TY
As long as the advertisers don’t complain, their AI-based business model is perfectly viable.

On youtube, both the creators and the consumers are the product. The advertisers are the customers.
That doesn't seem to be the case, as IQ performance does not tend to get any better for an individual after extensive education.
If you are thinking about doing this, you get a lot of discouragement from the conventional wisdom.

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/why-you-may...

It's nice to see that a small-to-medium-scale mail server is still a possibility in this time of Gmail/Hotmail bans, IP blacklists, and the like.

On that note, I wonder what happens when a scam caller dumps a SIP number and a legitimate business unwittingly picks it up when they open. Now a hundred thousand people have blocked it in the phone and it's blacklisted on several apps.
For some reason I’m really curious to hear about the difference in refrigeration preferences.
Aren't Doom games available on GOG? Just buy them DRM-free.
A private blockchain hosted only by a trusted party has absolutely zero purpose, even in theory. This whole experiment is a scam.
do MOOCs or any online course go through similar regulation?
I am currently in the process of doing something similar: https://github.com/CarlMungazi/aprender-js

Once I'm done, I'm probably going to have a proper crack and either building my own tool or collating smaller libraries (and by small I mean they do one thing only and do it very well) into a toolkit I can build stuff very quickly with.

I think the knowledge gained by building your own tool (CSS library, UI framework, state management library etc) seeps into any work you do with other tools or programming in general. It also depends on your aim. You will be more productive using whatever approach you spend time learning deeply.
It's no conspiracy, we all encode our beliefs into what we do. I don't think the poster is suggesting it's on purpose. Occam's Razor would suggest it's more work to take bias out, I would think.
The one thing I actually truly care about is the financial risk of large repairs. (For example, I had an issue which unexpectedly forced me to spend $3-4K on camshaft-related major engine work.)

Maintenance itself (oil changes, minor repairs) is something I'd like to eliminate, but that's a lower priority. Electric cars score better here, but it's not my top concern.

The real, key issue (to me) is whether the drivetrain is expensive. If it's expensive to build, and if it can fail in a way that something needs to be replaced, then it's going to be expensive to repair if/when needed.

And both gas cars and electric cars have expensive drivetrains, just for different reasons. On a gas car, major engine and transmission work is expensive. On an electric car, battery pack replacement is expensive.

Maybe one is less expensive than the other, so there could still be a net win here, but I definitely don't think electric cars have completely escaped the problem.
> Wealth is super correlated. The top of the chart are exlusively industrialized democracies. The bottom are exclusively impoverished (and mostly unstable) backwaters.

Exactly... one may conclude from this one of two things:

* countries become wealthy for unrelated reasons, allowing its populace to get wealthier and achieve a higher IQ.
* people with higher IQ can generate more wealth, hence countries with higher average IQ become wealthier.

I think that the first hypothesis may be true in certain cases, e.g. oil-rich places... but it seems more likely to me that the second hypothesis is correct, after all I would expect a group of more intelligent people to achieve more than a group of less intelligent people, or is that a polemic claim?
It might be inconceivable to the HN demographic but some people truly enjoy the small town/ rural lifestyle
I also work fully-remote and the dependency on Slack (prioritized over email) makes it near impossible to communicate with my coworkers during outages because I can't just go over and talk to them.
*Fair use may apply
All dating or just online/app dating?
Except, it doesn't, because if you're scamming people out of huge sums of money you don't give a shit if you're registered with the regulators.
Having shorter weekday hours and longer weekend hours would make it perfect. I was in the process of registering for the March 2019 data science cohort, however I dropped it as I did not want to take someone else's spot. Could not commit to 3 hours a day (on a week day)
Sue your old counsel? They will probably settle.
Thanks for the reference!

> When we looked at package ecosystems without namespacing, we found that people tended to go with more creative names (like nokogiri instead of “tenderlove’s libxml2”). These creative names tend to be short and memorable, in part because of the lack of any hierarchy. They make it easier to communicate concisely and unambiguously about packages. They create exciting brands.

I will never stop admiring your ability to see the bright side of things.
I've seen that the biggest obstacle is that retired people don't want to be idle, and start bothering their partners for things to do instead of looking for a hobby that relieves their boredom.

Help if asked/needed, but seek new interests that don't involve your partner, and let them find their own. If you coincide, awesome, but don't force it.
In the book "The Elephant in the Brain", there's an interesting observation that increased lying and politicking was necessary selection pressure for increased human intelligence.

Similarly, I wonder if our increasingly low-trust, hyperconnected society will cause us to adapt (evolutionarily) in new and interesting ways. Obviously, all of this happens way faster than we evolve, and we'll need better tooling or cultural norms to deal with this stuff.
FWIW, I googled IQ Test and blindly clicked on the first link that appeared. Ran through 30 questions and when I clicked on submit - it prompted for a payment lol. Should've seen this coming!
What does manually ensuring a baseline level of quality have to do with innovation? Your comment makes a case for why regulation exists, not a case against the claim that it harms innovation.
Have you never heard of algorithmic bias?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithmic_bias

It's quite real, and it is not illegal (in the US), so asserting this is a "conspiracy theory" is silly.

Software engineers are human beings, so of course they have inherent bias.
"Network effect is real and very strong."

I'd say it's real, but weak. The value to me of the next incremental YouTube content provider isn't very large. If one of my favorite providers leaves, I won't find it hard to follow them.

What they have is the only practical advertising-based monetization platform. That's the real moat. You can use YouTube to build enough of a base to then create a backup monetization base with something like Patreon, but I don't know how to get you to that point without starting on YouTube first.
Not on the Nintendo Switch.
I really, really wish people took bad methodology criticisms more seriously. I have a degree in the social sciences, and if there is one thing that completely defines the field right now it is that you can't use their findings for absolutely anything.

A good portion of studies don't replicate, including fundamental ones (in particular see the failed replication here [1] on one on Rand et al, a study on the effects of priming). Priming is a huge topic in social psychology.

He understands statistics. I'm not sure his opponents properly understand that when you complain about methodology, the implications are not just "add a section in the paper acknowledging the potential for error", it's "your whole study might be fatally flawed in a way that invalidates all your conclusions".

[1]: https://authors.library.caltech.edu/91063/2/41562_2018_399_M...
“The Great War” refers to World War I. Turing broke the Enigma cipher during World War II.
1 is not necessary for voting to matter (cf. the Electoral College). Also, gerrymandering is done specifically to avoid 1, yet it wouldn't be necessary if voting didn't matter.
Generate enough outrage and laws can change. While current law recognizes the difference between a publisher and a platform, recent activities could very well cause pressure for publisher-like liability when these platforms begin exercising a high degree of editorial control.

The social media giants' problem is that they want to have their cake and eat it too. They want the editorial control, and they want to be absolved of any liability when they host terrorist propaganda (think ISIL), pedo bait, and other garbage.

There's also the recent court decisions regarding politicians' usage of blocking. That ruling creeps right up to the line of recognizing "private" social media providers as a public square of sorts. The situation we're in is not tenable for much longer.
tl;dr (and I don't think it's even mentioned in the article)

You can cheat a polygraph by flexing your anal sphincter.

More: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsoI92BfmqY
> Chuck Moore's supposedly astonishing productivity notwithstanding, I notice that all of the software I actually use is a heavily layered tower of abstraction (and, curiously, none of it is written by Chuck Moore)

Perhaps you never saw the images from the Philae space probe? Because that's an RTX2010 that powers it, one of Chuck Moore's designs.

Maybe you don't use Moore's software directly, but you never know when it has been used for you [1].

[1] https://wiki.forth-ev.de/doku.php/events:ef2018:forth-in-tha...
This move has little to do with the current political climate and is more so associated with risk reduction from Microsoft as technology and regulations regarding technology (see Facebook) are coming into focus.

All companies that do business with the US are required to abide by the Export Administration Regulations (EAR)[1] which prohibits exports (unless explicitly exempt) to sanctioned countries. The US has had sanctions on Iran since 1987[2].

This move would have likely happened regardless of who is in the White House.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_Administration_Regulati...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_sanctions
'China, which buys most of the world’s garbage, and the U.S., which sells the most. Last year, China dramatically cut the amount of garbage it buys'

When the trade war first shots were being fired, China stopped being the USA's garbage disposal service. The 'buying' and 'selling' is a little disingenuous here IMO

China's Waste Ban Is Causing A Trash Crisis In The U.S. (HBO)
https://youtu.be/NK20t11He14
It's clear that cash is going to disappear, it's only saved by 50+ year old people that refuse, on average, to stop using it, which means we have at best 30 years left of shrinking financial freedom.
Cashless society with perfect surveillance is going to mean confiscatory taxes and behavior control on a level never thought possible in the Western world.
Some countries like Italy already have a much smaller limit in place - €1000 max [1]

It's going to mean currently "absurd" and "extreme left" ideas like maximum wealth cap. The idea that "no person should have more than $10M" would be easy to sell even today in most countries, the only reason it doesn't happen is because it's impossible to enforce - such a country today would only see an enormous capital outflow and rise in cash deals.
With nearly perfect global surveillance, which is already in an advanced stage of construction - FATCA, CRS/AEOI, ban on bearer shares - escaping with capital would be impossible.
Either the next or the previous stage would be of course maximum income - eg. "no person deserves to earn more than $150k a year".

After that, individual limits on "productive" and "not productive" spending are going to appear, amounting to another form of taxes - an individual annual limit of eg. $1000 per year on video games, $1000 for "unhealthy" soda drinks. An illegal barter market would emerge, fought in the same way drug trading is fought now.

The inevitable end of this system is a tiny global elite class of bureaucrats, not "legally" owning any significant wealth but controlling enormous amounts of it (Putin and Chinese Party style), and billions of serfs for whom it's illegal to even try to get wealthy. A return of aristocracy in all but name - with serfs better fed and healthier, but with less personal freedom than even Russian peasants under tsar.

Cryptocurrencies with anonymity, getting too big to squash before that happens, are the only hope left.

[1] https://www.italy-uk-law.com/new-restrictions-on-the-use-of-...
Indeed. I looked through the Debian packages and didn't see left-pad anywhere.
The costs of China’s rare-earth trade
30% in 5 years = rather 'decent' than 'rapid'
That doesn't refute my point. A razor is a tool for working with limited evidence, which is exactly what I'm doing.
Question about the algorithm:

Is the algorithm run from scratch each time a seam is removed? I.e. energy function computed again on the resized image, all seams recomputed, then only the lowest energy seam is removed.. and repeat.

Or are all the seams from the first calculation used for resizing?
I don't know where you live but all of the polling places around me are very clear about not allowing photography. Similarly, someone who has pressure to vote a different way has the option of taking that picture to show to their boss and then getting a new ballot after voiding the old one.
Microsoft Acquires Privacy and Governance Service BlueTalon
> Bureaucratic usefulness, rather than any scientific validity, goes a long way toward explaining why the polygraph became a standard instrument of the American national security state.

In other words, it's pseudo-scientific bullshit.
On the note of expecting children - I suspect there's also a broader idea that the current state of affairs isn't permanent.

A lot of the petty frustrations of living together are transient. They change when you change towns, change jobs, have a baby, have that baby grow up into a kid, have your kid move out, and retire. But after all that, there's a long stretch where people's schedules and lives don't necessarily change very much beyond needing more support. That's not universal, people can make all kinds of big changes well past retirement, but it's common enough that people start asking "do I want to deal with this for the rest of my life?"

And that doesn't just mean younger people are putting up with bad relationships out of hope for the future. They could potentially be very compatible, making sound decisions like "your sleep schedule clashes with mine, but I'll deal with it for now and it'll be a positive down the line when we have to take care of kids at all hours of the day". It's just that the standard for a 'good' concession to make is different when you're weighing future circumstances against the present than it is when you're going to keep doing the same thing indefinitely.
Google’s ‘field research’ offered people $5 to scan their faces for the Pixel 4
The bulk of the tiger population is in the Sundarbans (marshlands at the bottom of the Ganga-Brahmaputra delta). Anecdotally, many of the Sundarban tigers are man-eaters and there is a tacit policy to not go after the ones that happen to kill humans. This keeps the poachers and encroachers away, but also makes any census nearly impossible to conduct. I would not put too much faith in these reported numbers.
Building a kid-controllable Minecraft server on GCP
The project have multiple subprojects, and one of these is the parser. Any developer can compile or extend it without more effort and create a library. Just know to code in Kotlin / Java.

The aim of this project is only check if a given web resource can be crawled by a user-agent, but using a API
I was replying to the part about annual car deaths exceeding cumulative gun deaths. The parent comment has since been edited. It now says (inaccurately) that motor deaths are an order of magnitude more common, which is untrue in the US. Perhaps in the whole world, because gun deaths are relatively infrequent outside the US, Latin America, and war zones.
I'm talking about wealth at a societal level.

You seem to be talking about the fact that in many societies, inheritance and an ossified hierarchy exist. This is obviously true, but not really a trivial disproof of the above.

The wealth of the family had to be generated from somewhere. Are you saying that the progenitor of this wealth was just as likely to be unintelligent as intelligent?
Author of linked piece speaking. Seems like many readers continue to miss the essential point, just as they did in 2011:

Hypercard wasn't a gem of graphic design (1-bit colour, plain line graphics) or of programming language design (one of the many laughable attempts at "natural language programming") or of high-performance number crunching... but it was simple. I.e., the entire system was fully covered by ~100 pages of printed manual. It fit in one's head. (And did not take 20 years to fit-in-head, either, an intelligent child could become "master of all he surveys" in a week or two.)

Where is the printed manual for the current MS VB, or the WWW's HTML/JS/CSS/etc stack (yes including all browser warts), or for any of the other proposed "replacements" ? How many trees would have to be killed to print such a manual, and would it fit in your house? Could you read it cover to cover, or would die of old age first?
If saying slack sucks "trigger[s] a combative emotional response in reaaders," I don't think it's the speaker that needs to re-evaluate their choices in life.
You misunderstand what fascism is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism
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The Democrats are willing to make slight changes, but at the end of the day, Americans are pumping 15-20 gigs tons per year of CO2 into the atmosphere and that number wouldn’t change under either Democrat or Republican policies. (Indeed, its not clear that when you account for Democrats’ opposition to nuclear power, which set of policies would’ve led to lower CO2 output in a counterfactual scenario.) And to keep warming to 1.5C, that number needs to go to zero this decade, then negative shortly after that. Also, this needs to happen in china and India, not just the US.

Note that measures to actually address climate change are unpopular even among Democrats. Sure, they like it when it’s articulated as a jobs program (“green new deal”) but they still oppose things like carbon taxes, which experts have offered forth as the solution. State level measures along those lines got strong push back in very blue and very environmentally conscious Oregon and Washington
> Most landfills aren't well run. They're in third world countries, or places with business-favouring politics, or corrupt.

We can regulate our own landfills and we can regulate which countries we export to. This is a far more realistic prospect than just banning most plastic products outright, as you suggest.

> Plastic waste needs to be managed indefinitely if it isn't going to be incinerated, because plastic becomes more dangerous, not less, as it becomes finer particles.

Yes, waste needs to be managed indefinitely, and we will always have to manage waste. We can do that.
I'll also say it's hard to put a finger on all the details why, but it's a really easy language to refactor in

I'd be interested in some data on exactly what refactoring operations are most common in your practice. Back in the Smalltalk Refactoring Browser heyday, "Extract Method" was by far the most common operation. I'm not so sure that's going to be the case for golang. My situation might be idiosyncratic, but I find myself thinking, I did this with a struct, but this really should have been an Interface!
> pumped hydro is still quite economical. For the time being I believe it's the cheapest from of utility-scale energy storage.

Where it's cheap/possible to build, you mean. It's very uneconomical if you don't have any appropriate geological formations nearby.

> The whole "baseload" thing is largely a myth pushed by the coal and nuclear lobbies.

Ok, fine. "This term is used by evil people" doesn't change the problem of "we need cheap storage to completely switch away from carbon fuels, and we don't have cheap storage" or even "we need power on calm nights". And even the article linked still suggests keeping around natural gas.

> multiple "overlapping" dispatchable sources along with storage.

Pretty sure that "dispatchable" means "not wind or solar" [0] and generally simplifies to "carbon, nuclear or hydro".

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispatchable_generation
Qt's codebase is very clean
unified is a proper term perhaps but at the time the gaelic speaking peoples would have probably used conquered or maybe colonized.
You hold UI Development in too high esteem. It is not a graceful and delicate art, narrated by a smooth voice as the hints of a beautiful interface coming together are seen as reflections on a developer’s glasses, contemplating the placement of pixels quietly and softly in a dimly lit room on well calibrated monitors, thinking of the people who will consume the content.

It is loud boiler room sweatshop where a low wage Javascript assemblyman slumped in his chair looks away from his laptop to eye the clock while his manager stands over his shoulder with arms crossed nodding his head and suggesting to give the page some more pizazz.
Yes, and wouldn't it be weird if the effects of early education didn't fade? At the end of high school, we would expect a larger effect from what a student learned in high school than what they learned in kindergarten. Since kids are still learning, many deficiencies in kindergarten can be made up later, and it wouldn't it be strange if they couldn't?

I would expect this to be true of all environmental effects, unless they do permanent damage, or there is some critical window for learning.

Stability over a person's lifetime, regardless of experience, is what you'd expect of a genetic effect. Environment varies. Genetics doesn't.
Six Times More Plastic Waste is Burned in U.S. than is Recycled

https://www.plasticpollutioncoalition.org/pft/2019/4/29/six-...
> IQ tests turned out to be pretty useful when investigating the effects of Lead in paint/gas/industry/other. See Herbert Needleman's research from the early 80's.

Taleb argues precisely that IQ is only a good measure of unintelligence, not intelligence, and that this prevent IQ from being meaningful. He showed that if you IQ test 10K people, 2K are dead (0 IQ) and then test their performance on something, you'll still end up with correlations that'll get you published in prestigious journals, and peddle nonsense conclusions. https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1115193783145123840

(the point being that in that scenario, 0 IQ perfectly correlated with 0 performance, can make the population correlation look significant even when "alive" IQ is completely uncorrelated with performance, which, in that example, it is)