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Preface: I know nothing about quantum computing.

What exactly is a qubit? I'm not asking what does it mean, because I know there's superpositions and all that jazz, but as in...like, in an electronic circuit, what is a qubit? Is it made out of logic gates? Which ones?

If we can make one qubit, can't we just make a bunch of them by copy and pasting circuits similar to how we used vacuum tubes in the 60s and 70s? How come our current limit is only around 54 or so?

Are qubits, and quantum computers by extension, not even electronic circuits? If so...what the hell are they?
You are probably right. I was going to use Venusian, but it sounds terribly wrong to me, I can't explain why.
Even with automation, it takes a lot more than five people to run an electronics manufacturing operation. I know first-hand; I supported one earlier in my career.
What are you using "pb" here to mean, in your sentence "What if the pb isn't ..."?
My comment was not intended to be a ding on Imagenet. Data comes from somewhere, and no source is without bias because no human is without bias.
I've been waiting for Scott Aaronson to put all of this into perspective since the first leaks about Google's quantum supremacy started appearing in popular media.

He has exceeded my expectations with this post, which cuts through all the hype to communicate exactly what the results of this experiment mean for the field. It's worth reading and sharing.
Wrong.

Companies pay tax depending on certain market characteristics. Additionally, people paying taxes rebalances their consumption behaviour and can realign incentives across the marketplace.

I cannot move myself to a low tax jurisdiction very easily, but a large corporation or wealthy individual can - if we had international agreements in place, the corporation would be forced to pay a tax and would be unable to avoid it - just like me.
For arthritis, take a look at Sulforaphane. It is being tested on humans and dogs for arthritis with good results. Sorry I dont have links handy, but you can find them on nih.gov. Sulforaphane is also being used to reverse autism.
>it seems to defer type checking of generic code until it is instantiated (this is what happens in C++) ... and you don't get some error pointing to code internal to the function when the user applies types that don't work.

Worth noting that C++ is going the opposite way with concepts. The compiler still won't enforce that `template<typename T> void foo(T t) { t++; }` needs a `requires Incrementable T` (like Rust would require with trait bounds). But if `foo` does use the concept `template<Incrementable T>`, then a call like `foo(S{})` will raise an error at the callsite, not at the `t++` line.
Don't forget it requires HyperV as well
Spot on. The amusing thing about farming is that the only thing that is hard is to do it at scale. You can make just about anything work at lab scale but as soon as you really end up having to feed a sizeable population of your product that's when all the nitty gritty little details start adding up to 'can't do'.
To be productive in math you do in fact need to be able to differentiate 1/x and x^2 without a table.
> It's a false dichomity to say it's impossible to 'love' some animals while eating others

It might not be impossible but it's a strange double standard that e.g. people would be against any form of cruelty at all to dogs but are fine with factory farmed cows and pigs. I don't find the argument that dogs have been brought up to be companions for 1000s of years a compelling justification. Most people couldn't even watch videos of how cows and pigs are slaughtered let alone do it themselves which to me is telling that they're aware of the suffering caused but choose to ignore it.
The point is that Apple tried to build a Mac in Texas, but would have to pay a tariff on some component X. So Apple said maybe it's better to build a the whole thing in China since we're paying tariff anyway. And the administration said OK, you can import X without tariff to enable the assembly in TX. It's not Apple's that the tariff pricing structure had perverse incentives.
If it goes well, the history of quantum computing will be divided up in to three eras: the era of twisty philosophical arguments that it's working ("the molecule is simulating itself"), the era of academic arguments that it's working ("we can solve this one carefully constructed problem") and the era of practical arguments ("Amazon is selling QC time for $20/kilogate-bit, what do you mean it's not possible?"). Quantum supremacy marks the transition from the first era to the second.
A tainted, unregulated THC product killed people.

That is bad. That does not mean we should immediately ban all vaping devices. There should be long term studies done on devices and juices in order to determine health effects, and there should be audits on vape juice manufacturers to make sure they aren’t putting really bad stuff in them.

I don’t understand the moral panic. Marketing nicotine products to kids may be reprehensible, but marketing in general is largely reprehensible. It’s a matter of degree. Why do we decide marketing devices that have not killed people, but have just been vessels for unregulated product that have done the damage, is worse than marketing soda and sugary foods, which kill thousands, or addictive apps and social media, which damages mental health significantly, or overpriced unnecessary college educations, which cause people to go into debt for decades, or cars, which both increase debt and are a leading cause of teenage death? Most of those things are unnecessary for the majority of the population. Healthy foods, real life interactions, apprenticeships/job training programs, and public transportation are all generally better than the alternatives for the safety and financial future of young people.

The moral panic happening RE vaping is how the war on drugs started. People saw something that affected the youth and tried to smash it with a big stick rather than attack it with sophistication and respect for the free decisions of the population. It didn’t work.

If vaping is bad, let’s find out why/what specifically is bad, and let’s ban the stuff that killed the people that just died. Banning all of it is draconian. There is no good reason to drive well tested products that people enjoy out of the market, even if they aren’t 100% healthy. I don’t want to live in the Demolition Man future. Plus people who want to vape if products become very expensive and hard to get due to taxes, bans and overregulation will be tempted to buy the crap that isn’t tested that will actually kill them.
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Just like a bit, a qubit is an abstract representation of information, which can be physically instantiated in different ways.
I picked up a TI-83 for 10 euros a couple of years ago. I understand that some courses require the newer model, though.
Baseless speculation. Especially silly since Apple does not compete on price at all.
In this case, the fault assignment correctly identifies as unsafe that driver who started moving and rammed a stopped vehicle immediately in front.
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The fda knew aboutthis for years ; but it’s insanely hard to prove . Take Levothyroxine , a synthetic thyroid hormone brand names is Synthroid. Analogs ( generics ) sort of work but unless you abuse it it’s hard to tell if it working . Most of the time generic synthroid is as good as blue chalk . Then take insulin , no generic maker will attempt to make it; two reasons , if you fuckup insulin diabetics die . Secondly diabetics can rapidly tell if their insulin is good or not . It either lowers their blood sugar or it’s useless .
Please delete this misinformation.
if the leaked files prove the very same wrongdoing, ... then it has everything to do with this wrongdoing
Nitpick, but it actually compiles down to C. Nim works at a higher abstraction and the compilation is a one-way street. But what is more important is that it generates efficient C code, it looks ugly, and it's not something you would ever dream of writing yourself, but it's been optimised to give fast run-times. Often times in benchmarks the Nim code with optimisations comes out as fast as the C code with optimisations, even in some cases beating it.
I learned about this in math class. Discrete vs. discreet, not vaping in the back of math class.
"Anti-Goodreads" isn't a good thing. That site is fantastic and has lots of functionality. This project looks like the typical misdirected form-over-function appeal.

Just because it looks nicer doesn't make it better. And in this case it's broken on mobile.
Yeah, your suggestion sounds good.

But remember: What tor is doing is hard. They are doing complex crypto, networking, security.... The hard stuff. The real stuff. Torproject is a nonprofit organization with limited capabilities. They are doing their best. It took 3 years to design and implement dos mitigation techniques, for example.

Your proposed plan could take over 10 years, even for a well funded corporation. It might take time and fail. It might create huge vulnerability due to code complexity. Afaik, tor can’t risk that.
Sometime people troll by sealioning:
http://wondermark.com/c/2014-09-19-1062sea.png

(I'm not accusing the granparent post)
Untitled Goose Game adapted Debussy for its dynamic soundtrack
Or everyone could just stop being a little bitch about everything 24/7.
I'm not sure why I see this popping up throughout the comments. Nicotine BY ITSELF is extremely addictive.
This insinuation is simply false. Anyone building any product can apply for a waiver under the same general rules. The waivers only apply to the specific products that apply.
True story:

I have two very close younger friends who are practically my little brothers. They come from an established family in Hollywood, and have a very famous actor-dad. The younger brother is about 20 now, and is friends with half of the teen “influencers” on Instagram/YouTube; the older brother is about 22, and hangs with a group of LA kids who are obsessed with the movie American Psycho and dress/look the part — ironic given that their lives are a 2010s version of that book’s author’s other classic, Less Than Zero.

About two years ago, I’m at a club in Hollywood when these two hand me a thick pile of paper, which looks like a legal document. I’m really confused — is someone getting sued? Is this a screenplay? Am I being asked to sign an NDA?

The older brother, in his American Psycho-inspired suit, takes a puff of his vape and then whispers in my ear, “this is the funding prospectus for Juul. Our friends have been invited to invest.”

I looked at the thing. It was crazy. The valuation was well over $1 billion. The growth rate was off the charts. And, looking around at that club in Hollywood, filled with kids vaping in the outdoor area, I realized the numbers made sense. But the fact that a 19 year old Hollywood kid was handing me the funding documents for this company and telling me that his friends had been invited to invest told me that there was something very, very wrong about how Juul got into the hands of all of these young people — it clearly wasn’t an accident.
> I'm feeling more and more uneasy allowing CF decide which is which.

Don't worry, their proprietary AI will figure it all out.
I think if you read it with more charitable glasses on, it's nicer.

There are many people who will respond to this, and think, "wow, yeah, I do spend a lot of time on my phone when I travel, instead of enjoying a new place", and might (at least) resolve to waste less time on their phone. There are others who will think, "that sounds like a cool idea; I'm going to try leaving my phone at the hotel on my next trip and see what happens", and then maybe have a cool experience.

If you don't want to do this, or already have a good handle on your phone use (so that you aren't using it to distract yourself from life), then maybe this post just isn't for you. There's no need to dump on it, or the author, for presenting a different way of doing things.
Could you rephrase that in a way that isn't so insulting that it makes me just want to ignore you?
And that service only exists as leadgen.
You could use the Matrix operations common on standard graphing calculator to cheat through a first semester circuits course, and with a little basic programming make a command line prompt that any idiot could fill in to get the right answers. I don't know if most eng. students realize this at the time they take linear circuits, though.
Thanks for the correction! It seems I didn't understand what I was reading.
HR as an organization is not your friend. However, the individual you encounter in HR may be more or less favorably inclined towards you. As an example, I suffered a serious health issue and it just so happened that the HR person assigned to my case had gone through the exact same thing. That person was extremely helpful advising me of my rights and how to exercise them.

Organizations are prone to various pathological behaviors, but the individuals in them are still thinking breathing feeling human beings and sometimes they choose to act decently. Be willing to give them that chance.
Yes!!

Commando was also part of A/UX. Here's a screenshot of Commando for the "ls" command: http://toastytech.com/guis/auxcmdo-ls.png
Here's data that shows vaping has wiped out almost 20 years of reductions in teen smoking.

https://www.motherjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/blog_...
The fact that the woman did something wrong does not change, but the law make distinctions and things like mitigating or even eliminating the punishment around some situations like you state.

That is there are some new facts that could mitigate or even justify another fact or actions.

For example, if you enter a private property in the US with a gun(in order to steal, or kidnap or kill) the property owner can kill you. Which is a bad thing, but is justified by the fact that someone entered your property armed without your permission.

In some counties in Europe, if you use the force against someone that carries a weapon in your own property, and you kill this person, you go to jail!! And have to indemnify the robber!!

Yes, you do something that is very bad, but you were forced to do it by someone who wanted to profit doing something bad to you. It would be worse doing nothing.

The same happens in wars. Americans invaded Europe and killed (and raped) thousands of thousands of Europeans. That was terrible and wrong. But it was done because someone (Hitler) did it first to other countries in Europe, like Poland and France.(It would have been worse not doing something)

No soldier went to jail for killing enemies(or raping their daughters and wifes).

Another example is police men. They carry weapons(that kill) and they have to use them if necessary, even if it is wrong.

The narrative that you imply is actually creating stories(and facts) that justify your behavior that are actually false.

You know Hitler used german soldiers disguised as Polish in order to justify invading Poland?

He used the fire in the Reichstag fire as Narrative for taking absolute power.

That was stated already by Napoleon, who believed before invading a country you needed a pretext(A narrative) something he learnned from his favorite book, The Prince of Macciavelo.

Today of course those narratives continue existing. Most Americans agreed on Invading Iraq because 9-11. The invasion was planned in words of the secretary of State Defense years before the 9-11 attack. The fact that the country is 2000 miles away from where the terrorist came from (an US allied country) and that they are populated mostly by another faction of Islam didn't matter the least.

But narratives are not bad, if they are true. It is only when they are fabricated when they are terrible wrong.
I didn't mean to ignore this, I just wasn't following the thread, and perhaps you won't see this reply.

I'm not maintaining that the current status quo is optimal, just that it's more complex than what people traditionally think of as price fixing, which e.g. would be all the gas stations in your area deciding to charge you the same for gas via explicit collusion.

Speaking more generally, the travel industry as a whole has always and probably always will spend a relatively large amount of advertising of some sort. Most of the industry is hoping to lure travelers with no local knowledge to their properties or services, and they're competing with other local properties.

Before OTAs hotels might expect to pay this advertising fee to travel agencies, or to pay to be part of a hotel chain as a guaranteed source of customers.

The unstated desire of people opposed to rate parity is to somehow have their cake and eat it too.

After all, if almost nobody looked at these OTA websites why care about it? It's not going to have much of a financial impact.

But they do care, because OTA's are a major source of revenue. And why is that? Because people get a lot of value from those sorts of market intermediaries, not just in the accommodation business, but in the form of major chain stores, Amazon, eBay etc. It's easier to compare products when you have a standardized comparison run by an intermediary.

As far as I can tell the scenario hotels hoping for the end of rate parity want is one where consumers might browse OTA websites, but be savvy enough to just visit the hotel's website directly to make a booking.

I don't see how that's going to be sustainable, you'd essentially have advertising with a free rider problem. Ending it wouldn't be the end of the world, but I don't see how we wouldn't just end up in some new equilibrium where accommodations wouldn't just pay a similar amount of money for advertising via some other means.

It's not like browsing organic Google results for hotels is some arcane wizardry, or visiting a town's listing of hotels (which the hotels generally don't pay for or get at really good rates) isn't known to people.
I used one for a month and some change during a long road trip. It helped me avoid smoking around the campfire, something my friend and I would do for 'old time's sake'.

I'm glad I didn't use it for a long time. I had a feeling this was just as bad as smoking. I tried to tell some kids I know who are always vaping but they laughed at me with a statement like 'science bitch!'. Well, here you go.
Since you specifically asked for it:
What really stands between the USD and the Zimbabwean Dollar is printing press funded spending.

The Fed is doing something similar with quantitative easing, but at a by far smaller scale, and the money mostly goes to banks anyway.
It's injecting printed money into the real economy that spells trouble, and that is currently not happening in the US.

Also, while the military is definitely a boon to the US economy, most of that is indirect via guaranteed jobs and income, not via projected force.

Plus, in case of a hyperinflation, the military would become unmaintainable very quickly, exactly because of it's size.

All that said, your comment had basically nothing to do with the topic (debt), so there is where the downvotes come from.
This is misinformation. The exclusive is equally available to anyone making a similar product.
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I once helped a girlfriend move and while going through her stuff to organize it, found 3 different scientific calculators that all cost over $100 that she had no intention of keeping. She wasn't an idiot, she acquired them over years of post secondary education and has several degrees - I think people just don't give a damn about them once they're done with them. They disappear into drawers, then another is needed for another course, so they go get another. Then one day they move, realize they have 3, and promptly forget an hour later after stuffing them into an odds and ends box that'll sit in a closet for another 5 or 10 years.
Your point about assuming competence in one field presumes competence in another is a good one. One should be very careful about what one uses their pulpit for.
Finally, very happy for Nim and the team!

version 1.0, stability, RFC process -- all are signs of maturing language and the ecosystem.

Here is a curated list of frameworks for Nim

https://github.com/VPashkov/awesome-nim

For me, personally, the interest, is its javascript-as-target capabilities.
Keeping all of your feedback to yourself sounds like a great way to maintain a bias.
> rising social inequality and corrupt politics doing nothing about it.

People keep saying inequality but I'm still searching for a convincing argument as to why my neighbour's life getting better should make me unhappy. I really don't see it.

The problem is more likely to be that employee productivity has been completely delinked from compensation. That means that a lot of economic measurements showing good times are irrelevant. Eg, to a typical worker productivity growth prior to ~1971 meant better living conditions. Productivity growth after 1971 means nothing. Recipe for political disaster, because now the workforce has no particular incentive to make things better. Technological improvements just mean layoffs or expenses reeducating.

I can easily see why I should be unhappy about that. If I go from being responsible for 1% of a companies output to 2%, why isn't there a mechanism for me to get more money? I dream for a world where workers automatically own a significant share of the company.

> You could argue then why hasn't democracy acted?

Everyone agrees on symptoms, there is plausible deniability about the problems because there is just enough disagreement on the root cause.
An AI crawler.
> coupled with that terminal's excellent preference UI

I love iTerm and use it daily, but I would never call their checkbox soup "excellent".
Older Americans Are Starting More Businesses Than Ever
I’ve only had one professor that cleared my memory, that and AP exams. But even then, I would archive my programs so that they wouldn’t get deleted during the memory clear.

I’ve never seen a professor that knew about archived programs.
Would pay subscription if paired w phone and web app. Needs good image support too.

Use google drive for storage in case startup dies.

Big apple notes fan, but the markdown sucks and they will never improve the app. Need multi-line indent.
Great! Let's add it to the list of obstacles to accessing content for us savages in small, poor, out-of-sight-out-of-mind countries:

- Harrassment with an extra verification step every god damn time you log in into a website you've been a paying customer at for years because some rando risk model thinks you're a bad guy

- Harrassment by reCAPTCHA to respond to US-centric image challenges when it decides it's up for some sadistic fun (Mark all images with a store front or street light? Sure, let me just Google how they are "supposed" to look, because I sure as hell ain't seeing any I'm familiar with here.)

- Blanket IP range bans which serve you a default 503 error page and call it a day, with ripple effects throghout tons of unrelated websites. I always know when my ISP's IP range is added to some new blacklist.

- Harrassment by Cloudflare "verifying my browser", presumably burning my CPU cycles so they can be sure that my browser, which has been hitting their IP ranges for years with not as much as a cookie wipe, has not suddenly turned into a bot

- "Your name is invalid": no, your regex is

- "Our fetishism for credit prevents us from accepting your debit card payment unless you submit a scan of your passport signed in blood"

- (NEW) CloudFlare's anti-bot measures which will surely not misfire because no one thought to test their shiny new model on the traffic patterns of some culture with < 50 million Internet users

Apologize for the off-topic rant, but you wouldn't believe how using the Internet for basic things has gotten difficult in the past few years over here (and from what I hear, in many other "forgotten" geographies). No one cares. Long live colonialism!
Rendering in mobile Safari is pretty brutal.