skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yea... I’m not suggesting of course that Scott is wrong about this being an illustration of “quantum supremacy”... (Did you think I was...?)

But comparing it to manned flight or the first nuclear reactor... In those two cases there was a clear path to something very useful. I’m my mind this experiment changes very little as to how probable it is that we will soon have useful quantum computers, or even that we will ever have them. I guess that’s another question for Scott’s list:

Q: If what we care about is computing solutions to difficult real world problems, in what way is this a meaningful milestone?
ICE definitely doesn't only enforce just one type of misdemeanor. Some recent cases:

- https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/police-officer-arrested-child-pornography-charges
- https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/arms-trafficker-convicted-anti-aircraft-missiles-scheme-and-other-arms-offenses
- https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/rwandan-man-sentenced-immigration-fraud-and-perjury-connection-1994-genocide
- https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/operation-cookout-indictment-charges-39-defendants-heroin-and-fentanyl-trafficking
- https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/former-fresno-resident-charged-illegally-brokering-sale-military-arms-foreign
- https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-hsi-investigation-leads-federal-indictment-alleging-scheme-avoid-payment-18

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Great work with the tutorial. One question though, aren't flexbox and grid supposed to be complementary systems? The history part seems to suggest that css grid is the next step in the evolution, or an improvement over flex.
I thought that regardless of dns provider, you can't stop the ip destination. No doubt there's real-time recording of what domain points to what ip. It's harder for your local syaadmin probably, but not much further.
Will they produce more energy than the Chinese manufacturers that it outsources to consume?
Paul Vixie has been one of the Internet's most dedicated proponents of DNSSEC, a technology that essentially escrows keys with governments. If DNSSEC and DANE had progressed according to Vixie's preferred schedule, Muammar Gaddafi would have owned BIT.LY's CA. Vixie operates a company that relies on passive DNS observation to generate telemetry for corporations. Smart dude. Would not weight his privacy opinions heavily.
I can 100% guarantee you that if you find yourself at a company that has a dining room available for lunch, business planning will happen there, one way or another. It is human nature to discuss things while breaking bread.
You check your work with the calculator in the extra time after you're done with the test.
> Is this sort of a "if you don't make us pay tarrifs on component X, we'll build component Y in the USA?"

According to GamersNexus on Youtube; power supplies and cases (imported steel) were hit very hard by tariffs.

Caselabs, a maker of cases in the US, went out of business partially due to tariffs on imported steel driving up prices.

PCBs such as motherboards and graphics cards just moved to Taiwan.

Even cheap power supplies went up by $20 at least on average based on my anecdotal price browsing on PCPartPicker.
This is part of the trend of hipster antitrust zealots who view antitrust law as a solution to much bigger problems of governance.

The dominant relationship between US tech firms and government is that they cooperate fully on surveillance of the American people.
That they marketed the investment to a 19 year old kid says nothing about whether they marketed anything to those under 18. It isn’t a lead that they FTC could use in any kind of reasonable investigation.

High schoolers during my day smoked a lot, and did a lot of pot. They didn’t need to be marketed to, they will find the bad stuff on their own. Marketing to them directly would actually have the opposite effect (eg nothing promoted drug use more effectively than DARE). I feel like we’ve all become old fogeys that remember nothing about what it was like to be teenagers.
I am not very familiar with Scott Aaronson and am just making a general observation about the subject of QC, I have no idea what his motivations or intentions are. If Scott believes QC will day be practical and I don't, only time can tell who is right and who is wrong. I have seen this kind of goal post moving in string theory, and its been going on for 20 years with QC in a strikingly similar way imo.

There is no way to argue against this kind of goal post moving style of debate because even if another 20 years go by and QC still don't exist on a practical level, the goal posts will just keep getting moved.

I am extremely confident that this will continue until the public gets bored of hearing about it.
In my experience, just avoiding the things listed as distractions doesn't have the desired outcome (which I read as the ability to really lose yourself in the experiences of being wherever you are).

Even if it's only used for utilitarian purposes, the care and feeding necessary if you land in a different country with a mobile phone is pretty high:

- find a SIM card shop

- research which card/plan meets your needs

- pay, screw around with it until you understand how to
activate it

- in countries with weak infrastructure, spend lots of unplanned time finding a signal and waiting on slow data

- a quick internet search for bus routes or whatever often turns into standing on the corner for 45 minutes oblivious to everything around you.

- making sure to keep it charged, bring a backup power bank, etc.

- deal with reloading it with more money once the data runs out, which can often sink a few hours or more in remote places.

All that said, I'm still not giving up my phone the next time I travel but I do often resent the amount of time it takes to deal with one.
I think I view it as these companies simply all being very untrustworthy but in very different ways. I don't trust Google or Facebook with private data. I don't trust Comcast or Verizon to have transparent billing that doesn't run up against the edge of fraud. That sort of thing.
There's actually a lot easier ways of cheating on tests than that even. Teachers still have to watch their students, the solution is just designed to reduce the temptation for the average student to cheat.
Animals are raised to be harvested for what they are, there is no moral component, provided we make some effort to limit the suffering.

If cattle benefitted from domesticating humans and could pull it off, they would do so with pride.
Fortunately, that isn't the case.

For the SAT, you may use "All scientific calculators" and "All four-function calculators (not recommended)".
Most stereotypes are lagging indicators that do not tell us about the future, as the history of Fenty Beauty makes clear.
It's legacy. This dates back to April 2015 when there were still some reasons to use prefixed properties. Rather than list all of them in css - which would have been ugly - I choose the one useful to your browser.
The loathsome, lethal mosquito(2013)[video]
This depends on your definition of "trivial". But if we restrict it to factoring, no, there is no known path to QC factoring at the moment, none at all.
I think you're reading into my comment things that aren't there. Pointing out that even apparently simple things contain hidden depths is not an example of nihilism, tactical or otherwise. Likewise, it's not a denial of research - it's an acknowledgement of the research that uncovered those hidden depths.

Your point about how a specialist can connect their knowledge to what they see is true, but not relevant to the point at hand. If I was your therapist, and had studied and understood you thoroughly, I might be able to assess your mental state at a glance in most scenarios. That doesn't deny you have a detailed inner life anymore than that an arborist might generally understand a tree does not deny the complex life of the tree.
Performance Engineering of Software Systems (MIT 6.172 2018)
Or playing cards! https://www.schneier.com/academic/solitaire/
I've said it before, but really, assault rifles and bump stocks and what not are the complete wrong thing to focus on. Long guns kill practically _nobody_ compared to handguns.

It's the best compromise ever: ban handguns, keep long guns fully legal. 2nd amendment supporters wanting to "prevent tyranny" and hunters still have their long guns, homicides and suicides (which comprise the overwhelming majority of gun deaths and are committed overwhelmingly with handguns) drop significantly.
The open tools also work on ECP5, which goes quite a bit bigger than the Cyclone 10 chip on the Arduino and is also pretty cost effective. In fact it's big enough that you can usually dispense with the separate microcontroller - I built a ulx3s which can boot Linux on the ECP5-85.
My prediction is that this initiative will kill people by encouraging phone apps to build in complex voice interaction features that are almost as dangerous but undetectable and therefore will be used indiscriminately by drivers. To those arguing this is a good thing in a black and white manner, please have a think about whether the convenience of that simplistic approach is worth the lives of the people who may die through unintended consequences.
Do you use any JS libraries in the front end?
Instagram was way before Onavo acquisition. WhatsApp was officially announced as an acquisition 4 months after Onavo purchase. The article does say insiders say they used Onavo for WhatsApp purchase decision.

However I’m assuming you don’t do a $19B acquisition (and 10% of your market cap) in a month. Wouldn’t Facebook have already been close to or starting the process of trying to buy WhatsApp before the end of 2013? Onavo was announced as a purchase in mid Oct 2013.
That's not very arbitrary. If you're hiring someone, you're always in a position of power. If you're dating someone, there's no power differential (or if there is, that's a problem all by itself).
Do you have examples? One I can think of is the Ralph Kramden NYC accent -- that's very rare now.
It seems that some tasks are just inherently racist (and sexist, etc.), and we should be able to identify them before someone inflicts it on society.

Trying to identify potential for criminality based on looks may well work, identifying and using the underlying racial biases. And if those systems are used, where people identified by these systems are more likely to be identified as criminals and investigated, we end up with a feedback loop and, over time, the racial biases in a society that uses the systems will get worse. More black criminals will be caught, as they are more likely to be suspected as criminal, making the racial biases worse for blacks. While the opposite happening for white faces.

Similar social evolution would happen if you pre-screened job candidates, over time magnifying existing gender and racial biases. I've seen in some cultures it is required to add photographs to job applications, but I think it a good thing that this practice is discouraged in western countries.
> EDIT: actually, Go's generics proposal probably doesn't have that issue, since the contracts are restricted enough to derive type declarations from them.

Just wanted to add that my initial memory was apparently of the earlier proposal for generics in Go, as reflected here: https://dev.to/deanveloper/go-2-draft-generics-3333 (in this earlier proposal, contracts simply specify code that is expected to compile, in such a way that it would be difficult/impossible to derive types for symbols introduced by the contract).

I guess the golang people figured out why that was not an optimal system and changed it ... wonder if the same will be true of Nim.
You can still buy Spartan 3 and 6 devices - last I checked they're even still being manufactured.
It's a very American view of addiction.
Your point is extremely valid. Misinformation spread online and repeat in echo chambers seems to be the political climate for the USA.

Personally, I consider myself to be a Republican, but it seems fear and hatred has tainted my party. A great example would be to look at all the Republican presidential candidates for 2016 and watch how many opposed the current administration.

However, once they saw the voters following they were forced to do the same rather than demonstrate what a backbone is for.
What? How do you even get from this HN post to the WaPost article? It's not like anything on this list is news, the Washington Post didn't cause this to happen to Apple or anyone else. These issues have been covered by plenty of media outlets. The only novel thing about this whole post is simply that it's aggregating them all into a single place.
The idea is that resolvers just know it's coming from the EC2 instance/etc rather than knowing your personal IP.
What a terribly written and overly editorialized article.

A bit concerning to see infrastructure companies getting involved with politics tho.
Good to hear, never give up. PT is the first way to go, and it’s worth trying different forms like Yoga, anything that can work the painful part gently, and retrying it periodically if it doesn’t work. If you’re missing opioids, I’d definitely request the Butrans patch. Sorry, I’m an enthusiast:) For me it’s side effect free, maybe a very, very slight sedation, but I’m not even sure it is so mild.
I'd love to be able to add user defined tags to a book I have added. A nice simple feature that lets your users do all sorts of more complicated things if they want. I would use it to track if I have specific books in audio, digital, and/or paper format.
Indeed, that and SNI[1] make this whole DoH thing pretty pointless for privacy IMHO --- if you are seriously concerned about your ISP monitoring your traffic, tunnel everything through a VPN that exits into the Internet somewhere else. It seems more like an effort to frustrate host-based adblocking more than anything.

[1] Looking at SNI is even more accurate, since DNS lookups don't necessarily (but often) mean a connection to that host will be made; a TLS handshake, on the other hand, means a connection is being made.
There are a lot of research teams working on this in China/Europe/North America/Australia (present at most big conferences in the field). Not much in Russia from what I have seen (not counting well known Russian scientists that work in other countries).
See my tweet on the subject:

https://twitter.com/startupjfox/status/1176306514577043458
We can all make a difference if we act. Respect to the developers that did the right thing, knowing they will receive all sorts of backlash. Thank you.
Clearly you've never had to attend meetings in most of corporate America
Tech Lead from YouTube just published this about the FB employee suicide last week: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbEQriZEfoI

Posting because, if allegations are true, it only reinforces my belief that our white collar workplaces have become highly mentally taxing and employees need judgement-free resources provided by employers to deal with them.
Link to the NSW legslation:
https://roadsafety.transport.nsw.gov.au/stayingsafe/mobileph...

The relevant info is in the first table.

I've just noticed the rules about making and answering calls and audio playing uses the term EITHER, as in Either in a cradle OR can be operated without touching. So it appears that drivers can touch the phone when making calls or playing audio when the phone is in a cradle or mount. If the device is used for GPS or speed monitoring then it can be hand-held.
The "more effort" part was what I was going for -- no nation state or warrant-holding organization is going to be stymied by this, but as a personal/home user, I'd rather DoH resolvers not be able to tie my lookups to my personal IP which is doubtless held in many other cross-referencable locations (in my case, home-network wide proxying or Tor isn't feasible).
brew install python
pip install pyenv
pyenv install <version>
pip install virtualenv-wrapper
mkvirtualenv —python=/path/to/python/bin foo
Repeat the last step for each project
This is has worked for me:

- brew python for my global environment.

- Create a virtual enviroment for each project (python -m venv).

- Use pip install after activating it (source venv/bin/activate)

If you need to work with different versions of python replace brew python with pyenv.
I have had the opposite experience. Pipenv chose to ignore the use case of developing a package. In the docs, they state they only care about projects that are directly deployed, not installed and used by some other project. Conda helps with both types of projects and handles non-Python dependencies.

It takes way too long to make a Pipenv.lock file, and I need to be in the project folder to activate the env?! Terrible user experience.
Story Time!

So a few weeks ago I was in a bar with a manager/team lead at Comcast and he was telling me one of the fun "don't tell anyone" projects he was working on after I drank him under the table. Basically Comcast had teamed up with a bunch of cell phone companies so that they can cross reference your cell phone data with your television data.

So for example, say you have the NFL game on. They can tell, using GPS how many people are in the room (by the cell phone GPS of you and all your buddies) and then use all the adware/spyware on your phones (this guy is into fly fishing, this guy buys diapers and watches MMA etc) to sell advertising to the group as opposed to the individual. Apparently it's about 70-80% accurate which is enough to charge advertisers based on impressions.

Evil as it gets.
An uncle of mine blew his brains out a couple of years ago after a decade of struggling with mental health issues. I used to get so enraged at him for abandoning his family in that way.

For some reason, your post really brought home to me that maybe what he was seeking was a way out, that he couldn't live with what the person he had become was putting his family through and that maybe he did it because to him that was better for them than sticking around.

Helping me understand that event probably wasn't your intent, but thank you for sharing this, because I think you succeeded.
Threads from

2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9711346

2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7435720

2011: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2239288
A Decade Later, the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Has Left an Abyssal Wasteland
I tried seeing where it stated that. I don’t see it. Instagram was a relatively tiny iPhone app back in 2012. Two years old and 30M users.
Question for experts in the field: are there any reasonable FPGA options capable of hosting a small (~2MiB) quantized deep learning model for which there's any sort of a viable, open toolchain?

I've looked into some of Lattice's stuff, and some of their chips seem pretty capable for this, but as with all the other FPGA manufacturers, the toolchain is crazy proprietary. I'm not a huge fan of sinking my time into tooling I have no control over.
You are correct WCF will not be an officially supported part of .net core. I believe an open source port has been started though. gRPC is meant to replace it.
https://www.ben-morris.com/why-isnt-wcf-supported-in-net-cor...
Ah ok so you're 100% serverless so functions are saving you all the headaches of running your own infra? That makes sense. It sounded like the time to add an endpoint was your main criteria and just seemed strange.
Honestly, if all third party scripts are blocked, the ad networks will just start making their participant sites serve the javascript direct and/or run local applications to proxy the data back to them. And unfortunately most management will force the changes through, because they want in on that ad revenue gravy train.
+1 for pipenv

I develop using pipenv and then deploy installing the dependencies directly in the folder. It works for AWS lambda and containers, although lambda layers are a little more tricky to release:

`pipenv lock -r > requirements.txt`

`pipenv run pip install -r requirements.txt -t .`
> There would have to be a tectonic shift in understanding to get me interested in reading another book.

Maybe I misunderstood this. I thought you meant that you would need a mindset change before you would be willing to consider reading another book. In that case, suggesting that you may never get that shift without reading is a bit of irony (a Catch-22 if you will).

However, if you meant that you wouldn't read a book unless you knew there were some kind of major insight on it for you, then:
1) my statement probably did come off as trite to the point of deserving sarcasm, and
2) I feel bad that your mind is so closed to considering new opportunities.
The astonishing nature of this revelation cannot be overstated. How did people in Turkey and Palestine, at the time the Great Pyramid was being built in Egypt 4500 years ago, know there was tin ore in England? How did people in England know anybody wanted it, a thousand miles away? There were no cities in between, no open-ocean sailing vessels. How did it even get across the Channel?

There was clearly a hell of a lot going on all over Europe and Asia that didn't need cities or books.

I don't know if finding cloves from the Moluccas in a middle-class house in Syria in 2000 BCE is more, or less astonishing.
I have been using screen for almost 10 years now, is it worth switching? I know it's not much learning but why switching when screen is not broken? It feels like there's more important stuff I can learn.
*over a certain time period.

That's why diversification is important
> I think the key with vaping (not necessarily with Juul though due to market availability) is that it's very easy to decrease the dosage of nicotine without reducing the fixation amount.

There's some truth to this. I used to believe it wholly. You can go through my comment history and see that I've mentioned it before on Juul-related threads.

My more recently-developed stance is that it doesn't work as well as you'd think it does. It may work for some people, in some situations, but the reality is that your body can become surprisingly good at figuring out that its not getting the nicotine it wants, so you may just end up vaping the lower stuff more often. The double-blind thing honestly wouldn't work for real addicts; it may even be subconscious, but the body knows. You can't trick yourself out of a nicotine addiction.

The ritual is a big part of the addiction, and if you're not careful in regulating the number of pulls you're just going to make the ritual worse, without changing the amount of nicotine you pull in.

If you can combine it with some kind of regimen, like you don't pull more often than once every ten minutes, then sure, that could work. That's why it works for some people; not the strict reduction in potency.
The majority of large employers provide Employee Assistance Programs where employees (and family members) can talk to a judgment-free therapist for at least a few sessions. Those therapists are trained in suicide risk, and will report to the authorities if a patient seems likely to attempt suicide soon.
Without going into a lot of detail. WCF and SOAP were good for http 1 and gRPC is optimized for 2.

Edit: spelling
Just use pyenv. Works everywhere.
If they were our size, they'd be velociraptors.
It would be nice if there was a dead-simple Firebase-like tool you could self-host. ie just a single instance that you could point all your toy apps at to give them a little real-time persistence.
About time. I'm not worried about terrorists, not worried about mass shootings, I'm not worried about meteors or sharks. I'm worried about other drivers using their phone while driving -- that's the existential threat right now by far, and they're everywhere!
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21055034
I install the macOS distribution from python.org/downloads/. I use that for general Python 3 projects and it's been working great.

Separately I also use anaconda if I need all the scientific packages + Jupyter etc.
I don't buy it. At 50k requests per second, you're servicing a lot of users. Cost of customer acquisition dominates cost of serving the marginal 1000 HTTP requests. UDP doesn't make that business any more viable.