skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Correct, I do not want the government to be a moral guide.

I want the government to promote what is true, not what is right.
Scott's posted a FAQ on the quantum supremacy claim .. and includes broader notes on the term.

https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=4317
For higher level math classes that means that the students have to spend more time doing mundane things like arithmetic and graphing rather than using the higher level skills they are being tested on.
Because 'demanding answers', instead of leading by example or agreement, will only create conflict, and those countries will refuse to lower carbon emissions out of spite/to not appear weak/score points with voters. According to most climate models, that's not something we can afford, regardless of how fair or not it may be.
If you are trying to quit, which it sounds like you are not, you have to unlearn this aspect of smoking. Obviously as a smoker, I loved doing that!

It's just not good for your health or happiness. I was especially worried whenever I was going back to the bar/restaurant/office wondering if I smell too much like cigarettes
> I usually just fire up bc

Those who prefer RPN should check out dc! It's my preferred calculator for simple calculations.
IKEA will produce more energy than it consumes by 2020
I'm not really seeing this in the article unless I missed it. The plan calls for 3.5 million new homes. The problem is that the Bay Area alone will probably need approximately 2 million more homes in the coming decades. That doesn't include LA and other regions.

Also, it's not just physical space that's a resource limit: there's also time (how fast can you build it?) and money (do builders have enough financing). This is with the optimistic assumption that NIMBY legislation doesn't get in the way, which is why I still feel that remote work is still the most ideal solution, since the only roadblock it has is company culture.

I guess another solution is the route Palo Alto is taking: hinder or destroy the local economy to limit demand of physical space. I don't agree with this since only wealthy people can afford to deal with it.
That's a pretty dishonest take on the progressive view of criminal justice.

Rehabilitation is just as important, if not more so, than punishment. Simply locking someone in a cage for a few years does nothing to prevent recidivism. It often makes it worse, as once someone comes out of prison, it can be extremely difficult to find work (since employers discriminate against felons), causing them to turn back to a life of crime in order to survive.
I kind of agree with you. More specifically, to your example, would Snapchat, Whatsapp, etc, have been served well in this case by specifically patenting their implementations of specific features?

Like Facebook just totally ripped off Tinder with their new Dating feature -- could Match have just patented the profile with heart/pass buttons and then have grounds to sue?
FWIW if anyone doesn't feel like they already know what "Plan A" is, its fairly well infographic'd in the IPCC's Special Report on 1.5C. Study the charts and graphs here:
https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/graphics/#cid_6333
Australian, but my immediate family and mother in law were in a taxi on a highway in China a few weeks ago and were rammed by a truck from behind. The driver was on her phone. Two broken ribs, neck injury, cuts and bruises, missed flight, missed work. To date, zero insurance payout.
I segment my private keys into two broad groups -- ones I use for certs and long-term crypto, and ones I use for encrypted communications. The cert/long-terms keys are kept on a flash drive (plus a backup drive kept elsewhere) that is under physical lock and key when not actively needed.

The comms crypto keys are kept on a different flash drive that I'm less rigorous about, as I need to have it handy in order engage in the communications. I mitigate this loss of rigor by replacing them reasonably frequently.

All the flash drives involved are encrypted themselves, as well.
This kind of paranoia about exposure goes way too far beyond trying to prevent actual negative consequences to a fanatical obsession with one irritant out of a million which is way below the noise floor.

If you want to live in a HEPA bubble, live in a HEPA bubble. Outside isn't that.
Thanks Google for spreading malware
How to check if Yahoo owes you $358
> Please update your Crystal and report any issues. We will keep moving forward and start the development focusing on 0.32.

There is potential in Crystal but the most terrifying thing about using it right now is the breaking changes.

How often is it that Crystal has to continue to keep doing breaking changes on every release? Everytime I read a new changelog, I am put off of updating due to the number of changes required to compile with a new version. There are 8 breaking changes in this release which is enough to put some people off of learning the language. It is now equivalent to Swift 3 at this point: No source-compatibility, some initial Windows support and experimental multi-threading.

Other than this, in terms of its speed and Ruby-like syntax, Crystal completely blows all other languages out of the ocean. And it is on par with C/C++/Rust and Zig.
Let God sort them out.
Yup. One clue you were going off course on a test in a high level math class was when all your numbers were getting rather crazy and unwieldy...

Usually the same rule applied in physics exams too...
Scientists Can't Agree on Whether GMO Mosquito Experiment Went Horribly Wrong
Those of us who don't smoke still find ways to socialize and meet people. Usually around a totally different drug (alcohol).
>good evidence that it can be harmful, even permanently, for some conditions (e.g. CFS).

No, there is certainly no evidence that exercise can be permanently harmful for CFS. In fact, all the studies show that graded exercise is beneficial.

It's certainly true that exercising too hard for too long can be detrimental and can cause a crash, and patients do need to be careful. Exercise certainly isn't a cure for CFS, and I wouldn't recommend graded exercise myself, but it's untrue to say that there is evidence that it makes patients permanently worse.
You are the one talking about subsidies and you keep changing your argument.

The fact is that wind and solar can't be the base of any countries energy as it's intermittency and low capacity factor makes it dependent on oil, gas, coal and nuclear.

We don't need wind and solar, we couldnt' do without the others.

Denmark is amazing for wind. That doesn't help since electricity is only 20% of the energy distribution.
Because you have to eat, and eating a Big Mac isn't unhealthy. Eating a Big Mac several times a week is.

You don't have to intake nicotine, at all.
> A qubit has the storage capacity of 2 complex numbers, which corresponds to 4 floats, which is at least 16*8 bits of information if we are conservative about our assumptions.

The fourth float would seem to be almost totally determined by the first three. If I'm visualizing correctly, there are at most 2 values it could possibly be.
"For a time... continued to decline modestly..."

Compare that with, if I understand correctly, every single country that signed the Paris deal, who did not decline modestly, even for a time. The US might well be considered to be "doing something about it".
This seems like a really big deal. How is it not a really big deal?

I get that they are supplying arginine and using a simple reaction that yields ATP. I get that the world doesn't supply us unlimited arginine. But molecular-scale closed-loop control and homeostasis!
You don't need to. The reason fingerprints are problematic are because you can't get rid of them. They link all of your activity together into a single profile that you can't turn off.

Take a step back for a second -- why is it problematic to be able to link information to someone's real-world identity? Because who I am -- my address, my name, my face, and so on, is very difficult to change. It's a problem because once you've linked an activity to me in the real world, it's now permanently pinned to my identity.

So with that in mind, what is the difference between tracking where I live and stalking me in the real world, and tracking what devices I live in and where I go online? In both cases, you're taking away my Right to Hide, and forcing me to use a single profile that I can't walk away from or operate outside of.

Certainly, the difference isn't that the real world is harmful and the digital world isn't. You can abuse, stalk, price-gouge, censor, and deny service online just as easily as you can do it offline.

If you have a persistent identifier for me, that links only to me, that allows you to recognize me on every website I visit, and if I can't escape that identifier, then you have already traced that information back to me as a person. Knowing my name or my address doesn't matter, those are just facts about me. 'I' as a person am the persistent identifiers that point at me.
In Canada people fight so much over a pipeline, while the neighbors of the north, Russia, are like,, enghhh f* that, investing 180 Billion dollars to dominate oil production there [1]. Like other comments have mentioned here , you can't 'force' other nations to agree to do the same as you. Unfair but you will have to lead the way.

[1]: https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/putin-arctic
Facebook buys startup working on technology to control computers with your mind
(*Half the carbon emissions of china), but yes, per capita we are much higher. In addition, the amount of emissions in China is at least partly related to the huge amount of manufacturing we import from China.

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/all-the-worlds-carbon-emiss...

US is #2 in the world, with more than double the emissions of the next country down the list.
Yes, let's go after poor people in poor countries and tell them what they are and aren't allowed to do. Even if we did the same things to pull ourselves out of poverty.
The feared downside is that FAANG quintopoly will forever own the Internet, which will stagnate and how we currently experience the Internet is how it will always be. That's a bit paranoid, to be sure, but in the face of anti-competitive behavior, it's not hard to believe in that possibility.

Microsoft was convicted of anti-competitive behavior, but by then it was too late, and Windows reigned supreme until it lost smartphones.
It's no one thing, but a combination of factors that allow the immune system to identify and attack foreign cells that have entered the system. Think of it like one of those incredibly stupid algorithms that pass for AI today. Except this algorithm is "trained" over millions of years by the host organism dying when it fails to properly classify hostile foreign biomass. Over that long a time it gets to be pretty good, but not 100% flawless: autoimmune disorders like multiple sclerosis result when the immune system incorrectly attacks the body's own tissues, and allergies result when the immune system overreacts to foreign material, such as food or pollen, entering the body.
I've been intermittently working on my own language ("transpiled" to C) for more than three years before seriously checking out Nim in 2015, at which point I just threw my code away. It already had very nearly everything I thought I could bring to the table, and then some stuff I had never even contemplated. Go, go, Nim!
I would have passed on buying Twitter as well, for the exact same reason.
It’s not any more “operationally complex”. The fact that Docker containers include the OS doesn’t make it more complex to run.

My Docker file that I used to convert my Node/Express API that was running in lambda consisted of...

- setting environment variables (I had to do the same thing in my CF template for lambda)

- retrieving the Node Docker image (one line of code - I had to specify one line of code in my CF template with lambda to specify that is was using the Node runtime)

- copying the files from the directory to the container (as opposed to specifying the locsl path of the source code in the CF Template)

- Specifying the Docker Run command (as opposed to specifying the lambda handler).

- running “Docker build” as opposed to “CloudFormation package”.

How it does it is an implementation detail.

In fact, if you use lambda layers, it’s almost equivalent to building Docker images.
I think you’re partly right. However comparing nicotine to caffeine is like comparing apples to oranges. They are similar, but nicotine affects the brain in a much more different (and arguably more addictive) way than caffeine does.
> I would expect HN audience to understand the differences between the two without being prompted.

I would expect you to not be so condescending. The comment I replied to didn't make any sort of actual argument; it's just a statement. Therefore, I don't understand how they reached their conclusion.

> One of them will record the observation, store it potentially indefinitely, and enable unfathomable correlations for unfathomable purposes.

Right, and the other will not record the observation, potentially beat you or shoot you, and if you take it to court, have their word trusted against yours almost universally by a jury, leaving you absolutely no recourse when you lose the case because the police officer may or may not have lied in their report.

> just that it shouldn't take much effort to have a basic understanding about other perspectives

Sorry I'm so dumb, I guess?
I personally dislike it. Sure, its powerful and is maybe an improvement over what we had before, but maaaan its so complex compared to desktop UI libraries I've used, especially QML with columns, rows, grids and anchors.

Simple example, in the Grid Garden, on Level 3: grid-column-start is the grid cell it starts on, but grid-column-end is the cell after the one it ends on (half-open range), but on Level 4 when start is 5 and end is 2 its the opposite: the end column is included but the start one is not. Also, why would you do it in reverse like this even? And in Level 6, why -3 and not -2?

Honestly, I'm more confused now than I was before. At least placing the top-left corner and using span makes sense to me. I guess its better than making grids in other ways, but why did it have to be so weird?
The need for ICE has to do with jurisdiction. Immigration and customs (ivory and stuff like that) are federal matters. A lot of federal stuff gets handled by federal police agencies, like the DEA and the ATF. The Secret Services investigates and disrupts counterfeiting and money laundering. The IRS has a small number of armed officers that perform arrests for very specific crimes.

The reason for this separation has to do with consistency and scope: legality of immigration, and illegality of counterfeiting, should be consistently the same from state to state. Cases involving these issues could happen in any state and are likely to involve more than one state at a time, whereas most police work usually involves only a small area. They also are not areas where the states have authority to set policy, so it could create difficult situation for police if there were a disagreement between their state and the federal government over an issue like income tax. These factors together seem to explain why we have so many federal police forces.

How would things be better if local police had authority to detain and deport people, or to investigate customs matters?
I always generated new keys on new devices. I never moved a private key off the device where it was generated. It just felt like doing so creates all sorts of opportunities for mistakes and loss. While it's more work to add or rotate public keys than it is to move private keys, IMO it's also safer.

When I had to manage keys for a bunch of servers and services, at first I segmented them by scope of potential compromise. For example, I had one key pair for my hosting environment, and a separate one for Github, since I had access to more repos than just the apps I was hosting.

But eventually I stopped doing that because the weak point was the device; if my device was stolen, so were all the private keys, no matter how many there were. So, might as well just have one key per device.

I always set passwords on my private keys, and stored the password in an encrypted file: either KeePass, or Keychain on my Mac.

I managed all my SSH hosts a .ssh/config file, so I could connect on the command line with just a nickname.

Edit: this was all to manage an infrastructure for developing and hosting a few dozen websites.
Yes, the constraints reduce the capacity from the ideal limit of 4 real numbers.

(a + bi) type of complex numbers are indistinguishable from (b + ai) ones. Deciding the value of b immediately reduces the number of possible values for a to 2, which is a and -a respectively. Luckily, the real number line is continuous. We can accept such sacrifices without too much precision loss.

Also I should note that my calculations assumed a pair of maximally entangled particles per quantum circuit element since that's the most straightforward way to harvest quantum information with minimum number of objects.
EU28 has been declining at a similar rate to the US.
>This is an extremely harmful answer. Do not listen to this person.

They just want to help, and for all anyone knows, they are helping. Saying it's an extremely harmful answer is not only untrue, it's harmful to discourage conversation that can lead to progress.

However, it is helpful to let people know what options they have and who and what they can go to for help. GPs should be doing this, but you'd be surprised how little they know about chronic pain. I've yet to bump into a GP who forwards people with chronic pain in the right direction.

>If you have chronic pain, see a pain management specialist

This is so important. Few know there are chronic pain centers people can go to that literally specialize in just chronic pain. They can help. They usually consist of three doctors and a physical therapist. For people with years of chronic pain a combination of things needs to be done at once to help them get out of it.

Also, optimism is helpful because it can prevent learned helplessness. Imagine living a life in chronic pain that could be cured, but instead every hypothetical was shot down, so not enough attempts towards a solution was made.
When I was in law school this was called ExamSoft. Inevitably it would screw up someone’s computer before the exam, holding everything up. In my last semester the school stopper using it. We could type exams in Word and we were told simply that under the honor code we couldn’t cheat.

Reminds me of a “Leave It to Beaver” when Wally cheated (or tried to) by going to the bathroom and getting paper towels with the answers. It’s ridiculous to spend resources to lock down computers when there are much simpler ways to cheat.
Ask HN: Employees of WeWork: How are you doing?
I'm curious if the recent pile on remotely matches the sentiment among employees right now. Are you paying attention to the recent news or is it business as usual? Are you concerned about the value of your equity? Has your opinion changed on Neumann or were his quirks fairly well established internally?
Or maybe, while they certainly can and should think and talk about ethical implications of their work, just like everyone else, we as the public should pay far less attention to it. Because really, being able to "invert a binary tree on a whiteboard", which is the selection criteria for companies that have them working on the most "impactful" projects does NOT by itself make one's opinion on any ethical (or any other, really) matter more valid or important than that of a guy flipping your burger or bagging your groceries.

Especially when most of that moral posturing comes not to even leaving your company to work (at still a very comfortable salary, mind you!) somewhere else, but to protesting mostly minor and inconsequential (and to most of the country, if we're talking about SV and US, quite unobjectionable) things while happily working on projects that actually do have some pretty damning ethical implications (viz. pretty much any Google protest).
> “The upshot is that the total cumulative carbon allocation for humanity compatible with a 50–50 chance of keeping global warming under 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) is, in round numbers, a trillion tonnes.

That’s it.

Forever.

And of that trillion tonnes, we have already used up over 630 billion tonnes, leaving just 370 billion tonnes to go.

That might seem like a lot of tonnes, but at current emissions rate, we’d get there in just 37 years, or 2057.”

This makes me sincerely feel that it’s likely not worth it to pursue reducing carbon emissions except where it’s super easy and unobstructed.

Instead, it would be better to create technology and plans for how best to live in a rapidly warming world.

I do not believe we can solve political coordination fast enough so that the long tail of consumer demands, from floss to x-ray machines to smart phones, can be manufactured without accumulating much more carbon emission than this limit.

Meanwhile, suggesting we live without these things, especially when they dramatically improve, even save, lives, is equally unrealistic.

(It reminds me of the David Deutsch anecdote in The Beginning of Infinity where people were criticising color TVs in the 60s, as a ludicrous consumer indulgence, totally ignorant to the possibility that they would be vital for saving lives (surgical imaging, among other uses) decades later.)
I can’t get behind this argument when we live in an economy driven by a massive industry of personalized marketing and advertising. You espouse free will as if it’s some absolute, but studies show that human behavior is primarily the product of environment and is, to an extent, easy to predict the likelihood of someone becoming a smoker based on their age, race, income and zip code. How can we justify giving mega corporations carte blanche to market poisonous and addictive substance to our own friends, family and neighbors without asking that the government step in to prevent it?
If you want a more batteries-included less-glue-requiring IoC container, can't recommend Autofac enough. Always up-to-date, responsive developers, thorough documentation. I chose it over ten years ago after reading https://www.manning.com/books/dependency-injection-in-dot-ne...? and have never looked back.
BTW, where you you get this information? Do you even bother checking to see if it's accurate before parroting it? Here's Germany:

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/sites/default/files/styles/g...
The privacy noted here appears to essentially boil down to “from Cloudflare” right now, and comes at the risk of leaking DNS queries to other third-parties who are often more inclined to act maliciously towards your privacy and are not committed against doing so.

Be sure that you trust your “over the wire” connection to not sniff and uniquely tag all of your DNS requests with your specific identifying information, such as Verizon and many other service provides often do.
Pro tip: guided access is what you use when you want to lock little kids into using the right app. Without it they’ll hit some random button, break out of the program and the next thing you know they are randomly deleting text messages or something..
I am glad you found a diagnosis and treatment. It is good to research and seek diagnosis and treatment.

But that's not what GP is saying. GP is saying that associating diagnosis with resolution is a recipe for disappointment and wasted effort. Given our current abilities and the state of the art, finding a cause is not possible for many people, period. It is great that some people find a cause. It is also great that some people turn hard work into millions of dollars. That does not mean that it is a reasonable expectation for others--in fact, it is a harmful one, that obviates or distracts from more constructive alternatives, which GP suggested.