skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Literally people on HN have been asking many of these questions for years whenever QC is discussed.
I'd think the opposite. I would imagine they have orders of magnitude more to spend on crypto research than a private search engine company (which is why I asked the question originally). But really I have no idea. (If they did then why aren't there job ads etc). And you're right, probably nobody who does have an idea would be able to say.
Seems bizarre to me that there wouldn't be enough value in the Kik app to spin it off or at least sell it. It must be losing a lot of money to need to be dumped like this.
I agree on your other points and trust that you are more qualified to judge what the biggest obstacles are.

Do you have a paper I can look into that goes into the chip architectures in more detail (not specifically for this new device)? Otherwise I'll await the science / nature paper of this demonstration.

The classical circuit is mostly outside the cryo I assume since it's GHz's and LNAs are available. Do you know if the microwave readout signal is frequency multiplexed to reduce cables?
Isn't that what we're doing now with all the tariffs? ISTM Xi DGAF. I will definitely check out that documentary, thanks for the recommendation.
That was the first thing my tutor taught me in Grade 11, in preparation for Maths C (via distance education, that was fun). Still use that ability today, along with a fair bit of algebra and simple regressions
For me, you missed the most interesting parts of the article which were the TI's lobbying efforts.
Maybe not all, but some did. Having matrix operations on my HP-15C certainly helped in my circuits exams for solving the simultaneous equations that resulted. And as far as the professors were concerned, solving the simultaneous equations was not the purpose of the exams, so they didn't care /how/ one solved them. The exam was on being able to setup the right simultaneous equations to arrive at the ultimate solution, not on the actual algebra of solving simultaneous equations.
Linux Compatible Printers
At that rate, why not just install the toolchain and compile from source?
1971 Bangladesh Genocide –| Liberation War Martyr's
There is an open source syntheses and bitstream generation for some lattice devices.

It has inferior QoR compared to the closed toolchain.
Sort of tangentially related, Gamers Nexus is one of my favourite PC hardware news outlets, they usually publish articles on their own website [1] with sources backing up what they say in their videos or just expanding with more info[2] (on their Youtube channel, you can often find links to related articles in the video descriptions).

[1] https://www.gamersnexus.net/

[2] For example you can find more info on tariffs here https://www.gamersnexus.net/industry/3368-manufacturers-on-t... and specifically about Caselabs here https://www.gamersnexus.net/hwreviews/3455-caselabs-magnum-s...
If rotisserie velociraptor is as good as chicken, I think I could endorse the risks involved with a revival of the species.
There are many mentions and discussions of fluoroquinolones on YC News, including my own recommendation [1] to be very careful with them, based on personal experience. Also, the spelling is fluoroquinolone, not flouroquinolone. (That is, flUOro, not flOUro.). I'm not being picky; I just want people to be able to successfully search for the term.

The discussion surrounding my comment is quite interesting, too, and worth reading.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13275535
Miniconda.
LPs don’t invest in funds to beat the market. By the time they are investing in VC they have already have millions in traditional investments like index funds, real estate, etc. VC investments are a high-risk, high-reward play.
Do you think there could be a reasonable way to fix that issue?

Maybe a compromise between voters picking where their taxes go and a minimum for what tax payers have to pay for a certain area?
Looks like they are included because their name starts with an I.
This is my setup too and if you're using VS Code, their virtual env support makes it pretty seamless[1].

[1]https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/python/environments
Hello,

I am an enthusiastic customer, and in case you missed my comments to you elsewhere, if you do shift sales in another direction, please consider continuing to sell to the hardcore old customers willing to do their own work on this hardware whatever it takes. This project is too crucial to let randos with just a light PR attack choke off the supply of this kind of hardware to people to whom it is so utterly critical.

-mm
> I've hacked a few lambdas together but never dug deep

Then why comment? You clearly don't understand the use-case that AWS fits.

I've had jobs that took 18 hours to run on single machine finish in 12 minutes on Lambda. I could run that process 4 times a month and still stay within AWS's free tier limits.

For the right workloads it is 100% worth realigning your code to fit the stack.
> But comparing it to manned flight or the first nuclear reactor (...) 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.

Not a lot of people directly own & operate their own airplane, let alone a nuclear reactor, and yet both have had a significant impact on modern life. As for this experiment & QC, only time will tell of course.
Most suicides are impulsive acts rather than the conclusion of irreconcilable problems.
It's ironic that Trump adopted Bernie Sanders' trade policy, which is opposed by 99% of professional economists, and HN can't praise it enough.

Trade protectionism is the anti-vax movement of economic policy. It goes against all the science, all the research, and all the empirical studies.
Can confirm, a partner of mine has a kitty with a lil bit of face-eating in her past.
And yet from the point of view of the one who everyone is discriminating against, the feeling is pretty similar: Everyone rejects me and there's nothing I can do about it.
Pip doesn't always give the most optimal build. But if you care about that, you wouldn't be asking this question :-)
satire and educational

this has been the best thing I've seen so far
I don't buy it. Those stats must be including things assembled or repackaged in the US. Almost everything I own is made overseas. Computers, appliances, furniture, clothing.

It's also not clear if these statistics are subject to the same types of laws as claiming something is 'made in America'. If I buy a box of parts from offshore and assemble and end product out of those parts, is that made in the US according to those stats?
I just posted a podcast episode, 222: Why Eat Insects http://joshuaspodek.com/guests/rants-raves-and-monologues-vo..., on why we're seeing all these clever new ways to create food: bugs, vertical farming, fake meat, in-vitro meat, etc.

Why didn't we think of them before?

Not because now we're more clever. Because we had better options. We're scraping the bottom of the barrel.

Few meat eaters choose crickets over steaks and hamburgers, but we've squandered what was once plenty. We've become more efficient, but we've lost abundance.

With a lower population we could keep abundance.
I made no claim at all, I just stated an assumption that motivated my question. But you also misrepresent my assumption. My assumption was that the D-wave could sample from the solutions to “ising model-like problems” much more efficiently than a classical computer. A quick glance at your references gave me the impression they where about finding a single ground state / global minima of the hamiltonian. That’s a very different problem.
Where do you buy yours? And what brand/maker can u recommend? I’ve tried amazon, and the one I found that was actually Aleppo soap seems to have gone out of business since, and in true amazon fashion, the bar I got from them was manufactured 2 years before I got it...
Our current world mostly doesn't have effective solutions for mental health issues. Given that fact, it's easy to feel like death is the only possible escape.

I know a few things that can be helpful, though it's still a hard row to hoe. But saying I know anything useful often just gets me called crazy by internet strangers -- just more evidence that our own personal hells are all too often compounded by other people.

I hope you can make your peace.
If I sold a competing product, I'd beat them to death with this.

Where does it end? Maybe next year Chef decides they don't like DEA. Or ATF. Or something else.

It is not noble to deny work with the US Government. It's inefficient, bureaucratic, and deeply flawed. But it does a powerful lot of good.
I think I was the only one who thought about pseudo RNG and some distributed seeds to use.
Over the long-term it's hard to beat mr market. That's why buffet made a bet with the hedge fund manager.
Yeah so if I want to give up a lot of personal information, then give up my time appearing in court, and have the guilty party know who I am, then yes, there is a way to report it. But if I don't want that massive impact on my life just to share my clear video and photo evidence, then I can't do anything. But you can report littering easily. No reason I shouldn't be able to do the same for people on their phone. They've made it prohibitively difficult to share my evidence, so I think I'm fine saying there's no way for me to just turn in my footage.
These are things I try not to think about. And not just with animals: plants have grown from and frequently come in direct contact with poo, and that's not a great thought either. Maybe it will be easier when vat grown meat scales up.
Revisit: Andrew Chen's Law of Shitty Click Throughs
Encrypted SNI exists.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/encrypted-sni/

I doubt DoH is a ploy to break adblocking; if you don’t control the device making the requests they could already do plenty of things to break crude adblocking techniques like that. (Nevermind the fact that one of its biggest supporters is Mozilla.)

Stating that this is pointless for privacy seems like an exaggeration. Sure its not a panacea, but for probably 80% of sites, the destination IP tells you you are headed to Amazon or Cloudflare. Besides that, why reveal more information than less, and why not remove unencrypted, easily manipulated network traffic? Personally, I aim to eliminate unencrypted traffic on my networks.
Noted, and thank you for the PR! The instructions have been updated
Same here. My son's first one got lost / stolen, so we just got a used one from eBay.
I did about three years of remote work, I have mixed feelings about it, really depends a lot of the environment.
I tried it for awhile, was puzzled by their choices of defaults, and ended up switching back to screen.
Well I don't want to answer for him but you could make the same point with the airplane:

The first flight was 2 people in a plane that lasted very short. I could have ridden my horse more quickly over that distance! How is this a meaningful milestone?!

Well.. it demonstrates something that cannot be done on a horse (classical computer) but that can be done with a plane (quantum computer).

Is the application useful today? Probably not. But that shouldn't discourage anyone.
https://sdnotes.com/index

damn beat me to it
I like how you put "prevent tyranny" in quotes, like it's not believable.
Perhaps, but we don't really know how much risk many of those VC funds are actually taking. With liquid, publicly-traded stocks we can sort of use variability of returns as a proxy for risk. But there's no equivalent good way to really quantify VC fund risk. Sure you can do risk modeling but it's just an educated guess.
True, but INS, Customs Service, and others that were enforcing laws prior to 2003 were disbanded by the Homeland Security Act that created CBP/ICE.
I love NPR since I was a little kid. High quality information, also and especially on financial topics.

[GERMAN]
I also love listening to the German counterpart of NPR/ SeekingAlpha > AlleAktien.de ( https://www.alleaktien.de )
What kind of slip did they return?
That's what makes me so furious at the morons who deplatformed RMS over some silly devil's advocate defense of Minsky on an internal mailing list. The guy has an important idea that he put most of his life into developing. In the process, he made programming much more inclusive than anyone could dream about in the days of proprietary operating system with compilers that sold for thousands of dollars. So even if having to deal with a difficult old man makes you feel a little less inclusive, it's not too crazy to give him some breaks. The kids who ran him out of town only know how to destroy, not how to create anything comparable to what he did.
You seriously think a bunch of citizens with long guns is going to be able to prevent tyranny by the greatest military force the world has ever known?
“Produce: bring forth, yield; to bring into existence; give rise to; to make something“

So “FYI” yes they do.
Exactly; this isn't suitable for people evading nation-states but I use it for my home network as another layer in privacy where total traffic proxying or all-over-Tor isn't realistic.
Exactly. Global banks, if they could all act in unison, (and if fairies flew out my butt), could halt carbon output overnight.

This problem is a problem caused by human behavior.

Which we apparently can't change.
Compare that to the returns from the top-performing funds from 2007-2015: https://mobile.twitter.com/zavaindar/status/1159660549615116...

Note that this data is from preqin and doesn't include all funds, just those that self report or have LPs who publish returns of funds they invested in
The HN hivemind leans very pro-regulation these days.
I think you misinterpreted "we will ever have them" part. bjornsing is not talking about whether there will be personal quantum computers. It is about whether there will be useful quantum computers at all. That is still open, for example because of issues related to quantum error correction.
This, to explicitly choose which packages to install per environment.

And, beyond numpy/scipy (where the conda versions might be better optimize), often pip-install packages from PyPI into those conda environments.
There's no hivemind here.
It's not. The idea that a rag-tag group of citizens with a stockpile of AR-15s could challenge "tyranny" by fighting a modern US military is laughable.
I use https://wakatime.com to boost my productivity with project goals.
Could you elaborate on the "it" you refer to?

ICE has jurisdiction over a large number of federal laws involving immigration as well as laws involving transporting illegal goods across national boundaries (narcotics, weapons, money laundering, child pornography, etc...). Some of these crimes certainly are felonies, whereas others are misdemeanors.
You were paying extra for the build quality. Not too many manufacturers mill their laptops out of a block of aluminium.

Now the build quality sucks but the price increased.
Ah, now I understand the 8 year degree.
I prefer tmux to screen but the default key mappings took some getting used to. I've used it long enough that Ctrl-B and " / % for the screen splitting are natural to me now, but initially it was ... rough.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Ghetto_Uprising

There are sparse (sparse because guns in history are rarely found among civilians) instances of people using arms to defend themselves against overwhelming state adversaries. Dictators may be cruel but they're not exactly trying to rack up police casualties.
Repo: https://github.com/danyangz/slim
Has Poland’s Government Become a Threat to Business?
(Or you can and you get the Python 3 debacle for a decade.)
How are you "always in a position of power" when hiring someone? That's only true when there's more supply than demand, and it's the opposite in markets where the candidates get multiple high-quality offers to choose from.
Does screen offer splits? Those are game changing for me. I can't go back to screen without then.
I don’t think that’s fair to those who had a problem with RMS. Him arguing about peodophilia on a mailing list does nothing at all to help his ideas spread. It takes quite a lot away in fact. What was the purpose of his argument? To defend his friend Minsky? Again, that does nothing to promote free software, it only adds unneeded and negative baggage. That’s bad leadership and bad for RMS’ message.

Yes he had great ideas. They were so great that they exist beyond the man who created them and now benefit from him not being involved.
OSS predates Stallman, and will outlast him. His contributions are overstated, as is the benefit of Free Software, generally, as compared to more permissive licenses.
pyenv for python versions. and then venvs for each project to contain its packages from other projects. But to this day i struggle with polluted python/3 and pip/3 on my bash thanks to native mac install, brew and pyenv versions.
Why not just ONE back and forth shipping? And hold debugging until the user reports if the replacement fixed it...
I also use VSCode for some projects. I am not completely sold, but it is better than the alternatives IMO.
“ Instead, the new firm would begin testing fully driverless systems in 2020 and have a production-ready autonomous driving platform available for robotaxi providers, fleet operators and automakers in 2022.”

I’ll eat my hat if this is ready for level 5 in 2022.
and more training for doctors on how to read those stats. Amazing the stories some companies can tell that are completely misleading.
Eat out a lot before you have a kid. I cherish the memories of quiet romantic dinners with my wife.
> when there is known way (even with some handwaving and future-tech plans) to compute a non-trivial result for a reasonable sum, such as "crack someone's private RSA key for under $10M of compute cost"

If you're willing to admit handwaving and future-tech plans, then you can be excited now. It's estimated that a few million physical qubits (corresponding to few thousand logical qubits) will be necessary to crack an RSA key. It's at least a decade away, maybe several, but few experts believe there are hard barriers to number of qubits or minimal cost.
> 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 completely agree with this statement. This is mainly about Extended Church-Turing Thesis.
I found that with vaping I just bought more Juul pods. Cheap, easy, minimal immediate side effects.

Tobacco had similar issues but I just couldn't smoke tons of cigarettes all day.

Both bad, I think stepping down nicotine works for some but not for me. You gotta do what you can to quit :)
Vietnam beat the US. The Taliban is beating the US. The US was founded when farmers used guerrilla warfare tactics against the current world superpower. South America guerrillas are unbeatable.

It's really your position that is untenable.
It wasn't just this incident. RMS alienated so many women from open source and free software over the last 30 years, and we've lost all of those potential contributions. He's been getting breaks for 30 years.

That he has also done some very good things isn't a good argument for continuing to tolerate his harmful behaviour after he's been asked to fix it for literally decades, and hasn't.
I was too.

But at least all their scuzzy business practices were put to light, and they weren't able to behave that way anymore.
One of my favorites is searching google images for "immigrant" versus "expat". Guess which one is whiter!
Tried tmux, then went back to screen. Tmux is for hipsters.
Listening to NPR with my dad on the weekends growing up in Tulsa was my favorite thing on the planet and basically the reason I wanted to become a journalist.

But like everything else in digital disruption that seeks to “make the world a better place,” there are unintended consequences.

NPR’s immense success with podcasting could come at the expense of local public radio affiliates around the country. They pay great sums of your donated dollars to NPR (and American Public Media and Public Radio International and BBC, etc — NPR is sort of the Kleenex of public radio in the United States) for the rights to shows a whole lot of Americans still listen to the ol’ fashioned way in their cars or at work over the air.

Eventually we’ll listen to only streamed or internet-based content, I’m assuming. So the question is what happens to the affiliates most people are far less familiar with than the NPR brand?

(“I heard it on NPR.” You technically heard it on KQED, or KUT, or WGBH, or whatever.)

One suggestion for their future is to take advantage of the strong community trust and ties many of them enjoy and beef up local coverage where newspapers are fading away. Stream the content and broadcast it over the air.

Share resources between stations like several have done in Texas for the morning program Texas Standard. There are numerous stations in other states doing this or attempting to do it. And of course, be savvy with social, and even consider experimenting with targeted ads and paid (or donated) search.

Support these efforts, or better yet, join them. Digital affords an enormous amount of local potential with a relatively small team and budget where newspapers traditionally faced gargantuan printing and operational costs.
Are you sure about that, if the speed is moving greater than the posted limit? Waze displays your current speed as a green/red value compared against the posted speed.

I can’t imagine they’d use absolute herd speed as the baseline against the projected speeds of the herd’s speed was a greater value.
Extremely simplified:

>> in an electronic circuit, what is a qubit?

It's not an electronic circuit, it literally is an electron or a photon. And it's using that particle's properties to do "superposition and all that jazz".

You can't put too many next to each others because they start interacting together because that's what electrons do when they get close.
I don't understand. Factoring composite numbers into their primes is definitely a predicted use for QC in the future. Are you just saying the architecture of the machine powerful enough to do that is still uncertain?
EDIT: looks like I missed my editing window. Apologies for the typos and grammatical issues, wrote out the above pretty quickly.
This weirdly reminds me of public private key authentication
In the years to come, I believe free software will be recognised as one of the paradigmatic changes in how science itself is done. Now chemists and biologists have started talking about making data openly available and so forth. It's a shame that RMS has to spout forth on every issue, and in the current climate of outrage, science may have lost an important transformational voice.

I think as a society, we need to calm down a bit. We should not blacklist people merely based on opinions. We are one step away from thoughtcrime, and need to step back.
I strenuously object to the idea that the government should be able to stop the spreading of publicly available truths in the name of public safety, especially over a justification as flimsy as "encourages reckless driving". I would be willing to revisit this debate when somebody figures out how to build nuclear weapons in their garage, not so much before that.
I was surprised at how well it worked when I tried it again recently after a hiatus. Now I just wish they would get Docker-based environments working.