skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Little if any empirical research has been done into the quality of entropy associated with repeatedly observing a quantum state. Pretty easily accomplished using an RTOS (RT_PREEMPT or Xenomai) with GPIO sampling, and with n-dimensional phase space analysis of that dataset to determine if any patterns emerge. There are plenty of tools from the field of chaos theory and nonlinear dynamical systems analysis to prove or disprove the fundamental nature of quantum randomness with.
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Submitter submits more than comments, so I wonder where their heart lies.
> The guy who doesn't have enough money for rent? He's not buying the expensive free range eggs.

I suppose you were just providing a random example, but if you're curious the production of free-range eggs almost certainly pollutes more carbon than caged eggs [1] while being less ethically sound (assuming that was the consideration for cage-free), environmentally responsible, and typically more expensive than plant alternatives.

[1] https://www.smh.com.au/national/free-range-hens-boost-carbon...
The equations of quantum mechanics aren't random, only its interpretation, in the form of born's law.

Unitary evolution means there's neither information loss nor gain, and if there was anything random you would at the very least expect to see information gain (as new bits of information are created from the "random" result of an observation).

Randomness in quantum mechanics isn't even a hypothesis, it's an interpretation.
I wonder how often this happens in Psychology studies.

Psychology, currently, isn't in a good position regarding repeatability for most of its studies.
Please do not cross into nationalistic flamewar in HN threads.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It looks like a pen and paper algorithm adapted to computing. Though even then it sucks. Mod 2, mod 5, mod 3 would eliminate more non primes and require less steps in pen and paper.
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Binance launching US exchange to compete with Coinbase, others
Any reason there seem to be two domains? One is quirkapp or something. Then there’s the one you listed.
> I think this is where your disconnect is. In 2019, 10ks of concurrent users is not special. It's ordinary. Even 100ks or 1Ms are not that unusual.

Really? So which services have 1M concurrent users, outside of the top 10?

At 100M daily users a service would get 1.1k users per sec (on average). And those have quite large deployment and plenty of engineers.
Expired in 2012, buddy.
How will they do it without an ATS license, is what I want to know!

I understand CoinBase trading BTC and ETH etc. But if Binance will be trading altcoins which may be considered securities by the SEC... how does that work? Won't they need a full exchange license, nevermind ATS?
They key concept here is Liberty. America was founded with the principles of Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

Rules on how American's should be able to hire people, or humiliating and excruciating bureaucratic processes goes against the very fabric of what America was supposed to be about.

The way America treats is foreigners is world renowned for abusive, expensive and unpredictable. It shames everyone who appreciates freedom of association.
For all the rest, the petty happiness of the mediocre.
Computer Science expands, still lacks resources
See the links in my other comment in the thread for all the gory details.

> But would you expect that program to itself be useful for anything else?

That exact program, no, but the process of creating that program would be educational, both the compressor that makes it and the process of making the compressor.

Another way of putting it is in terms of the "Twenty Questions" game. Which pre-selected twenty questions allows you to "cover" the most of the Universe of phenomenon? If one set of 20 allows you to distinguish more of the Universe than some other set, then the first set is somehow a better model of the Universe. Does that help?
haha I'm ashamed to admit it but Camino. Also Opera and OmniWeb as alternates. Life with os x 10.4!
Even more so, randomness as people usually use it exists independently of "true physical randomness." If I flip a typical coin in a typical manner, then regardless of whether quantum mechanics is truly random, a sufficiently detailed measurement fed into a sufficiently powerful computer can predict it essentially perfectly. It's a long way of saying a coin flip is close enough to deterministic in practice.

But there's something going on there that I can't predict, and we need a language to talk about it. That language is the same whether "true physical randomness" exists or not. Calling a coin flip "50-50" is just as valid in a deterministic universe as it is in a random one. Probability is a language more than a theory.

Too many people get hung up on "true" randomness, when that's probably not relevant to the the situation they're describing.
I think they are still alive, there are some talks like this one that are not listed on their website:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0milqmt4ao

Personally I think they need someone with the time to engage with/build a community. At the moment they only seem to have people actually building things, nobody is acting as an evangelist.
But not at cruise, which op was alluding to
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Have you investigated dynamat for noise attenuation?
I've been on H1B numerous times at big and small companies. Each time they used my immigration status as leverage to pressure me to take increasingly bad deals and are somehow surprised when I quit.

I would consider the bulk of H1B to be about suppression of worker rights (and salary)

I now remote consult from my home country. I still get employers who figure they should pay me less since I live in a cheap country but it's much easier to negotiate when they can't kick me out of the country.
Citation? My understanding is that the situation you're describing is covered by the O-1, not the H-1B.
Long time fan of Dr Burns (Feeling Good, and his other books), but his mentioning of thoughts as voices reminded me of something I just started learning about: ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, another therapy which is newer) in which you are mindful of thoughts, images, and sensations, but instead of trying to get them to stop you use some mindfulness techniques such as taking the thought X and making it “I am having the thought X” in order to separate your observing mind vs your thinking mind, and other techniques like that. You then connect with your values and take effective action towards those goals despite what you were feeling or thinking, rather than struggling against them which causes more problems. Of course I can’t explain it in a paragraph either but I found a good video yesterday[1] or the self help book that’s good for that is “The Happiness Trap” by Russ Harris.

[1] https://youtu.be/Qv_etBsR_Ew
> [...]it seems to me that a lot of people who use [E-bikes] hardly pedal at all; depending on battery power for what seems like the biggest part of the load.

As an immigrant to The Netherlands it seems to me the Dutch hardly pedal at all; depending on the flatness of the terrain to most of the work for them :)

That's a bit snarky, but I think there's a lot of truth to it. One reason the Netherlands and Denmark are so disproportionately bicycle friendly is their natural terrain and climate.

E-Bikes serve as an equalizer in that regard and encourage bicycle use. More people can now bike on days where it would otherwise be too hot or rainy (arrive soaked in sweat), too windy (ditto), or where the destination is too far away to arrive in a reasonable time on a non-assisted bicycle. Those people would otherwise have used some motorized form of transport.
Put your dot files in a git repo and then stop.

Automating this sort of thing doesn't make any sense unless you're switching laptops on a much more regular basis than every other year. You're going to spend more time vetting the ideas in these comments than you'd spend configuring your new laptops for the next 4 years.

See also: https://xkcd.com/1205/
The trending frameworks might be because we usually get tired of working with the same technology over and over again. The moment of learning something new is always exciting and once it wears out I guess that starting with "the new thing" recreates that feeling momentarily so we start rationalizing about it. There is also in my opinion the big problem of being able to do the same thing with many different tools, it always generates this kind of conflicts of which one is better, but at the end of the day, any tool can be "the best one" depending on the team.
Of course people post "unsupported views". We don't ban users for being wrong—who would be left if we did?—and we don't have a truth machine.

When people argue like this, in my experience, what they mostly want is for us to ban the views they disagree with. We can't do that. Running a complex community like HN is nowhere near that simple.
Touch screens have a cheaper cost per command input and more easily changed. Further, you can reconfigure the controls on the screen based on use to achieve way more controls than would fit in a similar amount of space.

As pointed out in the article, this is not good human factors process when the key set of command options are fixed and unlikely to change. And that hard controls for similar functions across equipment gives better cost savings in human training time than the "soft" controls give at acquisition time.

I do think military acquisition folks can "fall in love" with "sci fi" interfaces but there has been a ton of excellent research at NASA Ames which disputes the utility of such interfaces.
I think you have to follow the money. When people have invested a lot of money into something, and loan payments are due every month, people tend to "make decisions" like "we are going with xyz framework" or "we've always used java so why migrate".

Once this decision is made at the top, the middle managers and aspirational employees believe in the upper echelon's dogma because their jobs depend on it, and going against the organization might = getting fired.

Conversely, when you look at self organized teams that are just making a hobby project, they tend to go with "we will do whatever we want to do given the reality of the tech landscape".
Now I'm vacuum cleaning. This is the most boring simulation ever.
Until there is a draft available, there's no story.

If they claim a draft is available and it isn't, there IS a story, and it's that they are deceitful.

IF CNN and Politico can both claim to have seen it yet neither sees fit to make full and original text available... while telling us there is serious evil afoot...

...then I just shrug it off with an eye-roll and conclude they are "The Enemy Of The People".

And of course I'm using Trump's rhetoric just to annoy them and save a lot of breath trying to explain it further. Oh the time it saves!
Yes as long as it can guarantee that it won't be abused by entities like insurance companies etc to track things and make it worse for an absolute horrendous healthcare system at least in the USA. If the info remains only between the patient and may be their doc, then yes.
GDPR is an identity thief's dream ticket to Europeans' data
I am always surprised again when no one mentions Buddhist principles in connection with policy toward "Muslims in Rakhine" or any other government activity. Have Burmese people drifted so far from those principles they no longer have any practical meaning to the people? Is "Buddhist" just an in-group?

This would not, of course, be at all unusual, given the example of the behavior of nominally Christian people the world over, in this and the prior millennium. In subway stations I see, every day, Christian evangelists standing right next to disabled people reduced to begging.
This is really cool! Looking forward to the next edition of this.

If anyone could point me to something similar, that'd be great (I know of 2600 and Phrack). I'm aware that Lainchan produces their own community magazine, but progress has been slow.
How did they realize it’s this rather than, say, cellphone signals scrambling the insects’ navigation?
This reminds me of a question that comes up in roleplaying games: How to play a character with a higher intelligence/wisdom than your own? I.e., If I had 180 IQ, what would I do?

(The answer probably being: Not wander around in unexplored cave systems full of dangerous monsters.)
Apparently bars do that to boost the ammount of time spent drinking vs having conservations as one makes them more money. Needless to say it isn't without side effects like people discounting bars as a social hangout altogether.
Amusingly, the alien and astronaut would be referring to the same thing when they say 'Base 3'
In a zero-sum situation, it is important to have an equitable distribution of pain.

Of course the cap should be abolished altogether, but while it exists the system is deeply unjust.
I strictly use my iPhone to tether. I keep it updated with the latest updates but I still worry about it being remotely exploitable but I feel a lot more safe with it than these other devices.
I use Ansible, and it pulls in everything I need, including my dotfiles, which are managed in a separate repo:

https://github.com/geerlingguy/mac-dev-playbook
What I had in mind would cost closer to $0.99 than $99.00, though. (Well, OK, $9.99.) The Surface Dial was a relatively complex Bluetooth device; it didn't work through the touchscreen itself, except to the extent that the touchscreen somehow knew that a Surface Dial was resting on it.
Strong opinions exist in any industry. However, few industries have as many things going on (and actively vyying for your attention, whether for $$ or mindshare or otherwise) as software.
Not really a language feature since it's compiler specific but you can relatively easily write static checks using clang-tidy which is a code analysis tool for C++.

http://blog.audio-tk.com/2018/03/20/writing-custom-checks-fo...
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What's all this nationalist nonsense? H1Bs are great for the immigrants and that is the only thing that matters.
Umm, how else would you propose to authorize air-gapped gear?
> The US is a downgrade from Canada in most metrics.

As a Canadian who worked in the US for 4.5 years I'd say it's exactly the opposite. The only disadvantage I found working in the US compared to Canada was the absurd process for getting a green card whilst on an H1-B, which is why I now live in Australia.

Otherwise the US was better in every way to Canada:
- weather (SoCal)
- salary
- job opportunities
- cost of living
- health care (granted provided as part of the package by my employers)

There's a reason most of the top CS graduates in Canada end up in the US.
Pretty embarrassing TBH. Both of those detection methods immediately come to mind when reading about their in-memory solution to the storage API problem. I can only imagine Google phoned it in on this one.
Time and discipline.
Consider what happens when you've just turned the thing on and it has just barely expelled its first proton through the negative grid. As long as the proton is close to the grid, it may as well be on the grid: it cancels out the contribution of one electron to the field between the plates, which means the voltage across the gap is incrementally reduced. This reduction in voltage allows one electron to flow out of the generator into the grid.

Of course, as the proton moves away, its contribution to the field between the plates diminishes at a rate depending on the ratio of its velocity to the radius of the grids. (This is why the infinite-grid case is easier to think about: the contribution doesn't diminish at all.) Eventually — and depending on the proton velocity and grid size, "eventually" might mean milliseconds — its contribution becomes negligible. At that point a steady state will have been reached, and (as you intuit) it won't be possible for the generator to push any more charge onto the grids without increasing its output voltage.
I wish there was some kind of browser extension and wiki-esque community by which I could underline checkable facts online like the editor did in this piece. Like a "[citation needed]" tag on wikipedia, but everywhere.
And I can't. Expanding labor pool means that companies can afford to open lines of businesses that were previously deemed unsustainable, and eventually hire locals for e.g. administrative support.

Most businesses are at equilibrium. There is no choice of "hire locally and pay them well or hire globally and pocket the difference". The choice is "hire globally and expand" (and eventually hire more locals), or "hire locally and stay small, or even get out of business".
Look at the rest of his Twitter posts - to say he's single-minded would be an understatement. And every one, no matter what it's about, contains "$TSLA $TSLAQ".
Yet at the same time, expanding their own use.

I doubt very much the first deployment of Gmail looked anything like its footprint today.

More regions doesn't necessarily stem solely from customer demand.

I expect the vast majority does, but without numbers, that's just a guess.
It has been verified out to several kilometers. See the Geneva experiments at https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_test_experiments?wprov=...
> [...]$600 premium for electrification. But most people like mid-drives (torque-sense pedal assist), so it's more like $800[...]

I don't know about the US, but in the EU that "like" is a must-have, your bicycle isn't street-legal as a bicycle unless it's a pedal assist (pedelec). The cheap option of pressing a button to get power makes the bicycle an electric motorcycle or scooter, needing a license, helmet etc.

So part of why they're expensive in the EU & other markets is regulatory, a drive train that can smoothly mix motor and pedal input without being clunky is more expensive to make than an electric scooter.
I guess that's a reason you need a 5G hotspot
It seems strange to me that something becoming popular is what means it suddenly should be regulated. Pens are very popular yet they are not regulated. And sure there are many to choose from but really Bic has a pretty extensive hold on the market. Should we regulate what people can and can not write with Bic pens? Twitter is Bic here. If Trump and his followers don’t like using Twitter then they are free to go use Mastodon.
So these were basically Edo Japan fanny packs?
Though it may sound superficially plausible that any particular such random outcome is actually the deterministic output of a hidden pseudorandom number generator, that hypothesis is ruled out by Bell's theorem.

As far as I understand Bell's theorem only rules out the hypothesis that the random outcomes are the deterministic output of a hidden pseudorandom number generator that obeys locality. There could be a deterministic, non local process that generates the "quantum randomness", and this could be detectable if it exists.
Since you are pointing the finger at me specifically, I will point out that nothing I've said so far is at all "unsubstantiated." Even if a thorough medical examination shows that Epstein did indeed kill himself without any outside assistance, the facts in this case are:

a.) Epstein's trial held the possibility of releasing extraordinarily incriminating details about dozens or even hundreds of wealthy & powerful figures,

b.) Given a.), huge swathes of people correctly predicted ahead of time that there was a risk Epstein would die before seeing the inside of a courtroom (this was widely dismissed as "conspiracy theories" at the time),

c.) Epstein had already been found grievously injured and placed on suicide watch,

d.) Given b.) and c.), to not have Epstein under constant, redundant surveillance is "incompetence" of such a staggering extent that it suggests willful negligence,

e.) Given that Epstein's death probably marks a convenient clean break for many of the people mentioned in a.), it is entirely reasonable to raise the possibility that one or more of them with the power & influence to do so helped bring d.) about.

At this point, the processes which were at place in MCC and the decision-making which led to the lax monitoring of Epstein are far more important than any medical details surrounding his actual death.
It is all about haptic feedback, and low latency between action and outcome.

You can twist virtually with good precision. But, what is much harder is the feel, state of the knob, particularly when it is released and then gripped again.

Mechanically, the structure of the knob can take some energy input, and it serves as a mechanical pivot, or fulcrum, depending on how people use a knob.

Without all those physical things, people lack the complex frames of reference needed for fine, "thought is action" type control.
Seen https://www.alchemistowl.org/pocorgtfo/ ?

Edit: I just bought the 2nd print version after seeing that ad :)
That's a good point. I'd get behind this amendment.
I think different fonts can work well sometimes, it can help give each article its own tone and flavour
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Configurable displays that you can quickly glance are great.

OTOH controls that you normally, and especially in a critical situation, reach and operate without looking, is a different thing. They should be stationary, and provide good tactile feedback.
This was the prison that kept El Chapo alive and in custody through his whole trial. Was the Keystone Kops shift away on vacation while he was there?
People really need to adjust to Forbes being nothing more than a content mill nowadays. They'll publish almost anything.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/21/business/media/jeffrey-ep...
Reminds me of phone charms and key chains (some Japanese key chains are fashionable and bulky extending from the pocket). Obviously, given there are pockets now they serve a slightly different purpose, but it's a similar niche. I wonder if there's a lineage there.
Supply and demand? I don’t think are many people that think who should immigrate to the US should happen the same way people buy cars or other consumer goods.
Oh, you want the homoiconicity to serve a purpose. I guess that's reasonable. :) Although, I'd say that a dialect of Lisp with no runtime eval, but with compile time macros would still count as homoiconic and your suggested (3) doesn't seem to allow it.
Score another for Sci-hub.

This article is more interesting for the glimpse into the world of the nascent personal computer movement (hijacked for three decades by MS) than for its conclusions about Unix's "trans"-portability.

The deft accommodation of endianness mismatch was eye opening. The world has settled firmly on little-endianess, but there are other similar incompatibilities always lurking, and always needing similar pragmatism.

Perhaps most surprising to me was that they did not lease access to a PDP-11 for long enough to do the port, instead of buying one. I have to guess that they actually really wanted one, anyway.
If it proves successful I guess they may ban those pesticides across Europe.
There's a huge difference. If I ask "why is this model applicable to this situation?" or even "is this model applicable to this situation?" then I want the practitioner to have the ability to provide and understand the answer. Yes, data science as an industry, but that's because wrong answers are largely undetectable.

If I roll out the treatment cell of an experiment but shouldn't have, because I didn't account for within-client correlation, the world marches on and the business thinks they are making data driven decisions. They'll never know they left millions on the table. Or maybe I'm right for the wrong reasons and I was merely more confident than I should have been and the world still marches on oblivious because there are very very few correction mechanisms.
If nobody can profit from it, it doesn't exist. Even in europe.