skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A society’s mind is its marketplace of ideas, and the freer, more open, and more active that marketplace is, the sharper and clearer the giant mind is and the faster the pace of societal growth.

This is a good takeaway; even though the fringes of any discussion are generally filled with bad ideas, enabling people to have the discussion is paramount in finding the ideas that turn out to be "diamonds". It also permits us to gauge the quality of ideas that are not good allows us to consider why they are not. Sunlight is the best disinfectant.
Quantum computers are not generically good at all parallel problems. They have better asymptotic runtime for “brute force search” type problems, where you know there is some answer but you have to guess-and-check repeatedly. Roughly they change a 2^n brute force algorithm to a 2^(n/2) algorithm in that case. The main area these problems are important is cryptography.
Thank you! Do you have any resources that help understand what Google (FANG companies in general) mean when they ask candidates about their ability to "deal with ambiguity"?
I don't really understand quantum computing, and hopefully someone would shed light and let me know if my understanding is wrong. Isn't a qubit similar to a transistor that can hold more than 2 states and the implication is that it'll be faster than current SIMD operations?
To add some context: every Jepsen test involves table creation. YugaByte DB's table-creation process was exceptionally fragile, which is what prompted tests specifically pushing on that behavior.
The premise of this article reminds me of this essay:

"If Materialism Is True, the United States Is Probably Conscious"

https://faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/SchwitzPapers/USAconscious...
You mean like the pirate bay?
Without a doubt, Shopify is an incredible platform for other's to build upon. It has generated commerce and contributed to Global GDP in so many ways

1) It is an E-comm platform for selling Goods & Services

2) It is an app development platform that allows other businesses to be built on top of it with sites and apps (ie- the apps are integrated to manage distribution, inventory, warehousing, invoicing, marketing, CRM, etc)

As an example, Bold Commerce has become a significant company because of the Shopify platform. They are the largest developer of custom Shopify apps and sites in the world – they recently raised $16.5M (USD) to scale further

Overall, Shopify processes a huge amount of GMV through the platform and, of that, its Net Revenue is still in the Billions each quarter. The article may be misleading to some, given the headline, but Shopify has a significant impact on the economy globally.
Well I've no statistics about tinkerpop vs neo4j and other usage, I may be wrong.
But I know for sure that far more graph databases supports gremlin than supports opencypher.
E.g the latest graph database from Microsoft https://docs.microsoft.com/fr-fr/azure/cosmos-db/graph-intro...
Also, Cypher has performance and expressivity issues.
That's not how it works. Bandwidth is a shared resource and most people aren't using 1gpbs every second of the day. Profit for telecom providers isn't on a variable basis and therefore unit economics make much less sense.
thats correct. its now $70 for new customers.
Lyft Allegedly Kept a Driver on the Platform Who Held a Passenger at Gunpoint
> Yes. I assure you that when bad guys with your username and password log in and steal all your money the bank _won't_ say: "Doh, our sophisticated environment, behavioural and heuristic patterns used to establish legitimacy let you down this time. We'll pay for this" No, they'll say it is your fault because the bad guys had your username and password.

If your bank treats you this way, you should contact the relevant government authorities.

In the US that's the FDIC: https://www.fdic.gov/consumers/questions/consumer/complaint....

In the UK that's the FOS: https://www.financial-ombudsman.org.uk/contact/index.html

My own experience is that the bank fixes the account balance while I'm still on the phone with them so I'm not inconvenienced, does an investigation, and then decides whether it was actually me that did the transfer over the next few weeks.
To distill this down to a memorable heuristic, the cost of building out a municipal network of any kind is proportional to the mean linear distance of the street frontage.

This has interesting implications for civic planning. It is very much cheaper to put dwellings right on the frontage line, with zero-setbacks to adjacent properties, and then have huge backyards, than it is to center each building on its lot. That relatively small distance between the street/conduit/pole/pipe and one building is multiplied thousands of times across a municipality. An extra meter of frontage on a property at the root-end of a street is counted multiple times when calculating distances to properties closer to the leaf-end of the street.

Things that seem relatively minor for individual properties, like residential street widths, setbacks, minimum lot sizes, and maximum building heights, these have a huge impact on the cost of building municipal service networks. Those zoning rules established for aesthetic reasons literally create millions of dollars of economic impact. You just can't have cheap fiber to the premises if your premises can't be closer than 20' to the property line.
That's true but don't forget that downloading stuff isn't sequentially related to what you can do in real life.

Your body won't be blocked for 1 hour and 45 minutes. You could choose to download a huge file before you goto sleep / work / etc. and by the time you're back it's go time.
A dire scarcity of drugs is worsening, in part, because they are so cheap
This is an interesting comment to me because the Agile process wasn't originally developed for software.

https://hbr.org/2016/04/the-secret-history-of-agile-innovati...

On a different note, it is also interesting that stand-up meetings seem to be popular in many companies again, after going through a period where snippets tried to fill role of stand up meetings.

http://teche.ltc.mq.edu.au/human-science/getting-s-done-goog...
A lightweight cryptocurrency portfolio tracker
Is anybody getting 10Gbps already?
Is there a generally accepted crossover point where quantum computers will start outperforming classical computers on the same tasks? I was under the impression it was somewhere around 100 qubits, but I'm sure there are caveats around noise and stability as well, not just number of qubits.
Here's the classic and humorous letter critical of relational databases (RDBMS) penned in 1991 by Henry Baker and published in the Communications of the ACM:

http://home.pipeline.com/~hbaker1/letters/CACM-RelationalDat...

Almost an "RDBMS Considered Harmful" screed, Baker's letter may seem humorous in today's environment and even ludicrous to those who did not live through the transition from older file-systems/DBMS to RDBMS. To those of us who did experience that transition, Baker was painfully on-point and his letter served as a scourge to improve systems performance for more than a decade beyond that period.

More recently the major RDBMS vendors have complemented SQL with directives that address the storage and handling of hierarchical data, e.g., in POSTGRESQL:

https://www.technobytz.com/closure_table_store_hierarchical_...

Baker was no prophet: his letter showed high hopes for object-oriented databases, another technology that noisily rose and quietly fell in popularity.
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op here, i was sarcastic. the whole of science is based on best hypothesis is accepted as the ruling one. not as a fact of nature or reality ,but the best hypothesis. people take it often as fact though ,which led me to post a sarcastic comment just to point that out. sorry if it confused or offended someone :')
I'm not sure if you're trying to be sarcastic, but yes, rent seeking is different from selling a product. In this case, the copyright holders would rather you pay for _temporary access_ to their libraries, rather than actual ownership -- a tradeoff that is (somewhat sadly) acceptable to many when it's a single, cheap subscription, no fuzz, and critically, no ads.
Andrew Mason’s Descript raises $15M and acquires Lyrebird
How much do you think this increases the candidate's odds?
Unlikely, but if the ISP gets to terminate the fiber at the head end --- one ISP may be willing to run 10G and others only 1G.

More likely, the last mile provider does termination, so line speed isn't negotiable by provider. Instead you're competing based on peering and transit connections, oversubscription ratios, availability of static ips, other policies, customer service, etc.
There are also other problems than the name of the classes: the same person can be classified in very different ways if you provide photos where that person has different poses.
> if an algorithm is a good candidate to run on, say, a Spark cluster, a quantum computer would be much better at it.

This is not true. Some parallelizable tasks will benefit from massive speed ups but most won't.
Can you picture things in your head? Well, this guy can't
Such a city is still under two higher levels of government; it's hard to call that "self-rule".

Also, this kind of administrative definition of "city" causes weird conflicts. It's easy for a city, such as Los Angeles, to be much larger than the county it's nominally located in, such as Los Angeles county. Conceptually, it's also easy for a city to be its own county, which is a different status than "not contained in any county" -- but in practice where this is supposedly the case, the city will not actually match the county boundaries, instead being noticeably bigger or smaller.

I conclude that, in order to make the claim that cities usually have self-rule, the people who would like to make this claim adjust their definition of self-rule so that it covers the things they're already sure are cities, rather than having a definition of self-rule in mind and observing that, by apparent coincidence, most "cities" turn out to have it.
I just ran across Real Engine looking for Architectural Visualization software (note that Twinmotion is free until Nov!) This is an amazing space which I imagine will explode in variety of application, especially once VR goes mainstream.

Are there any open source alternatives which even come close?

I wonder if I would attract attention if I were to upload a rendering of Saudi oil infrastructure for drone simulation. ;)

Can we use this thing as a simulation for shooting drones out of the sky? This could be an interesting massively multiplayer research project creating an arms race between attackers and defenders.
You Gotta Confront Who You Are
Gatwick Airport commits to facial recognition tech at boarding
It's valid to decide how many buttons the user is going to need, before having any idea what the users might actually want those buttons to do?
EU warns climate change could wipe out crop production in Europe
No - we had this in the past - it was a thing called 'television'.

What we need is a universal platform for all of these streaming services, one app that streams Netflix, Hulu, et cetera - and, ideally - the ability to 'rent' movies or shows from the services without having to pay for a whole month.
Did Snowden go through any of the whistleblowing channels? No. I can see why he didn't, but fact is that he didn't.

Snowden didn't read all of the documents he stole, instead he relied on journalists to responsible when redacting things. So that alone means he would have no way of knowing how much natsec damage he did. Not to mention the fact that often times classified leaks help adversaries figure out other classified information by filling in the picture.

As far as damage to national security, it's always going to be difficult to assess, but there's no way the Guardian or any media outlet can definitively claim there wasn't damage because they don't have the whole picture. In the case of SIGINT, if your adversaries learn your offensive capabilities they are going to develop countermeasures. If they learn that you've detected their spying activities, they are going to move to new ground. If they learn key things about your communications security, they will be better equipped to exploit them.

Just this week a story came out about how Russian intelligence services penetrated FBI communication systems and were able to eavesdrop on FBI counterintelligence efforts. These are the types of things that get compromised with leaks.

Ultimately it would be very difficult for Snowden to mount an effective whistleblower defense based on his actions. I can understand why he didn't try to report through oversight channels (see William Binney and Thomas Drake) but the fact that he didn't drastically weakens his case on that front. Then the fact that he stole and divulged materials which he had not even read means it would be harder claim that his leak was solely related to illegal spying.
Doesn't infrastructure have users too? Why wouldn't 'user story' mean something to them?

All else equal, smaller or shorter feedback loops are better. And often shortening a feedback loop is worth considerable tradeoffs elsewhere.

It's certainly the case that being able to iterate fast may not be currently possible, but being able to do so, or even just being able to iterate faster should probably always be a priority (even if not the top one).

This all applies even to physical real-world infrastructure. I remember a story about a city somewhere (South America?) where the mayor (?) was able to shorten the feedback loop whereby roads were built or repaired. That seems like a good, even great, thing, even at somewhat considerable cost.

What kind of big infrastructure projects were you thinking of specifically?
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Can we build AI without losing control over it? – Sam Harris
Me too (well, John Heder)
The article isn't very clear in explaining whether computer+human is ever any better than computer alone.

I guess this line

> A computer engine (Zor) ends first in the freestyle Ultimate Challenge tournament (2017)

implies that in the most recent tournament a computer-alone placed first.

In which case, what is the point of the human? Or, rather, if you are playing as a computer+human, why would you ever not pick its first choice?

(And this seems even more true now that Google's AlphaZero chess engine is out, which appears to be blowing the other engines out of the water, which were themselves beating humans trivially.)
.aq perhaps?

“AQ domain names are available to government organisations who are signatories to the Antarctic Treaty and to other registrants who have a
physical presence in Antarctica.“
And then there's the only available bathroom that is filled 3 ft deep with tp and shit and you must cut paths through to make brown. That is where the magic thinking happens.
I stopped using TripAdvisor because I found that it has a very strong tourist bias. It seems most of the people who post reviews are tourists, and this ends up being beneficial to places that aren't necessarily the best in their categories, but offer the most tourist-friendly experiences. When I'm looking for a restaurant abroad I'm not looking for the places that have English-speaking service, translated menus, and memorable decoration. I'm looking for the places that have the most genuine and best tasting food, places that locals would like to visit. It's hard to find those places on TripAdvisor.
> My understanding here is, it depends on who initiates that sale. Amazon initiates, you get it on full. Publisher initiates, you get on the publisher’s choice of price.
Oh, you're right, of course. Brain fart.
So I guess we should "transpile" static objects into strings that we call with JSON.parse?

Not sure if I should end this comment with a /s or not.
No matter how good the translation of Lord of the Rings, it's never gonna be the same as reading the original English. The text is inextricably linked to the English language, the English countryside, a certain feel that cannot be entirely preserved in translation. It's probably not gonna be so bad in German, but in Italian? Forget it.

100 Years of Solitude is an absolute masterpiece. It's very difficult to put a finger on exactly why, but all agree there is a tone to it and to the way he tells the story, which usually people call "magical realism". The way it's so inexorably connected to a South American place and time, it's gonna be a different thing if you read it in English (credit though to the translators who do this incredibly difficult job in a stunning manner). The musicality and mood of the speech, for lack of a better description, cannot be accurately rendered in English.

In short, it's more nuanced than "what's a sentence I can say in English that I can't say in German".
What's odd to me about this post and all of the responses in this thread so far is that everyone is only thinking about password length as a way to defend against online bruting attempts when in reality long passwords mostly serve to protect against offline bruting attempts. The reason you don't want 6 or 8 character passwords is that when your password hashes get dumped it's a lot easier to crack them.
In what jurisdiction is ascertaining someone’s identity from their public posts criminal stalking? Certainly not mine (California).
It also reduces the capital requirements for any single contractor.
OK. I don't know if everyone would agree with your somewhat reductive view on Disney, how is it fair to compare an entire company and enterprise to a single man. This feels like you are looking at two wildly different things and connecting them with very thin lines.
this is why poetry and writing in general is an art form. you have to struggle within the limitations of the materials to evoke something in audience
Sorry. It is a Back To The Future movie reference. The time travel machine uses exactly 1.21 Gigawatt.
For some context, Thomas Bushnell was the chief architect of the HURD from its founding in 1990 until 2003. He understands the FSF and Richard Stallman as well as anyone does.
Yes but the experience for this is very poor. Now you need to browse a different site on a very regular basis to remember exactly what's coming and going.

If you can barely remember what you ate for dinner 6 nights ago, how are you going to remember the ~50 titles they are removing at varying days in September?

Plus, sites and patterns like this just further fuel the "better watch what Netflix says to watch" motto. Your viewing selections are shaped by what's coming and going instead of what you want to watch.
I find marketing such a strange idea.

I believe the Ancient Greeks hated these mind control techniques. But in modern society, we are told it's a good thing.

I'm not sure what is good about being tricked to buy average products at expensive prices. Samsung/Apple are my two examples in the tech world.
What does it take to be a successful Tech Lead?
German Artist Tried to Use His Work to Warn About Hitler
What advantage does presenting this in video form have over a blog post?
This threshold is commonly referred to as quantum supremacy. It could be that IBM just passed that threshold, but I'm by no means an expert on this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_supremacy
Exactly this. I work at a research and education network (a regional ISP), and we are asked to perform upgrades and new deployments constantly. If it is just residential use, the upgrade path will be more predictable. However, business and municipal users can scale quite unpredictably and the 10GE links allocated in 2019 might need to be 100GE in 2025.
I've been trying to avoid it but the current streaming landscape is making it pretty hard to stay legit without spending a large sum of money
It hard to know if that theory is going to translate into reality. The machinery required for isolating the qubits, configuring the qubits for a computation, and reading out the qubits at the end may prevent very much scaling.

Science fiction has hypothesized about quantum computing that involves macroscopically-sized bits of carefully constructed matter running a number of qubits best described with scientific notation, but it's not clear how one would set up problems or read anything out of such a thing.
For contrast: My rural hometown of around 15,000 (not tiny but still 10 times smaller than Ft. Collins) built its own fiber network in the mid-90s. It still runs today and has expanded to include many of our smaller neighboring communities of 400-10k people. Now that the city has grown to about 20k we have larger ISPs moving in. They lease the city's infrastructure so we have a municipal fiber network with multiple competing private options. You get fancier hardware and more channels with the private companies but I find the local ISP more reliable and I have one bill for internet, power, gas, water, and waste.

Way better setup than when I was in I was in ATL and forced to use Comcast. Plus there aren't any data caps.
Ars overstates it.

If the intensity of a light beam is strong enough, the electric field gets strong enough to spark the vacuum. That is, you get electron/positron pairs just like you get electron/ion pairs if you spark the air.

One way to think about it is that there are always "virtual particles" in the vacuum but normally they have a subtle effect because they come into existence and then disappear. If the electric field is strong you can separate them entirely from each other before they recombine, and in doing so pay the energy debt to make the particles "real".

This does not affect the "fabric" of space time in the sense of changing the metric or connectivity, or doing anything interesting with gravity.

It does recreate conditions at the point where the temperature was about 1 MeV in the big bang though.

It is different from this sort of thing though:

http://cms.web.cern.ch/news/lhc-photon-collider

in that the photons in the light beam are not high energy photons, but instead are low energy photons, just a whole lot of them. Thus it is probing strongly nonlinear conditions (e.g. they are breaking the "electromagnetic field" so to speak)

It is very interesting physics but unlikely to change how we see the world.
> Isn't a qubit similar to a transistor that can hold more than 2 states ...

Not really. From an information theory perspective, holding two states is the most efficient way of computing. Or at least, there is no speed-up gained from doing computations in any other base than 2.

Quantum computers can be in both states at the same time (as far as that interpretation of quantum mechanics goes). So, if you keep the qubits all in this superposition state, you can calculate multiple things at the same time.
I have no idea where the myth started that people think English is a tough language for people. The only struggles non native speakers typically have is pronouncing th, usage of she/her, some oddball spellings, over use of same sounding words and if they come from non article languages, articles. That's a crazy short and easy to overcome list in comparison to, oh I dont know, all the goddamn irregular verbs of romance languages. Male/female articles or conjugation orgy fest most languages have. The tone and writing nature of most Asian languages.

Most people I know that do t speak english natively, picked it up pretty damn quick and easy.