skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Physicists here. In practice, a qubit is a two-level physical system. It can be spin state of an electron, polarization of a photon, lowest two energy states of an atom or an electron in quantum dot/well trap potential, the charge state (called charge qubit) -- whether you have 0 or 1 electrons in it, etc etc (if you have 3 levels, it's called qutrit, and for d levels qudit). This experiment uses charge qubits (a special variant which has some robustness against charge noise by design [by operating at a voltage level which is insensitive to 1st order fluctuations in the electric field, called "sweet spot"], called transmon).

The main problem is achieving full control of these systems, which is extremely hard, because there are certain things (some random/stochastic) that you can't control at all and you have to fight+race against their influence:

- qubits are tiny, and the energy splitting between these two states are typically minuscule: this means even a small vibration from a sneeze miles away can make the qubit flip.

- qubits do not live in vacuum, they are typically hosted in solid-state systems and the qubits are coupled to their hosting environment, which have their own moving parts (two-level fluctuators which lead to charge noise, phonons which also couple to electrons typically via spin-orbit coupling, spinful defects in the material which have their own dynamics, etc etc) that you can't really control. it's extremely difficult to achieve full control of a qubit in the presence of things that you can't control and random in nature.

- if the qubit is the lowest two-levels of a system with higher energy levels, one also needs to worry leakage errors to those higher states

- there are ways of suppressing the influence of such unwanted interactions (dynamically corrected gates + quantum error correction codes) given that their strength is below certain thresholds. going below those thresholds is again an enormous engineering/material science problem (extremely low temperatures, isolation from vibrations, low/high-pass filters for the classical circuitry which is used to control/drive the qubits via electric/magnetic fields, design of the device itself which typically hosts two-level fluctuators, etc etc). this problem becomes harder in general as you increase the number of qubits though.

- to do anything non-trivial, you need to have more than one-qubit and have controllable couplings between those (so you can't put them apart too far which makes it impossible to couple them). this doesn't work perfectly in practice, you can't completely control or turn off their couplings (a problem called cross-talk) which again leads to errors. so it doesn't work quite like modular classical circuit elements which you can "copy & paste" because the abstractions from the low-level, nitty-gritty physics of the underlying material fail for all these qubits.
See also Stucchio's impossibility theorem: it is impossible for a given algorithm to be procedurally fair, representationally fair, and utilitarian at the same time:

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zn7oWIhFffs

Slides: https://www.chrisstucchio.com/pubs/slides/crunchconf_2018/sl...
> The majority of Microsoft and Amazon's revenue doesn't come from advertising.

I was talking about surveillance, not advertising specifically. Surveillance is embedded deeply into both company's business models even if we ignore the advertising side of their businesses.

Advertising and surveillance are two different things, and each can exist without the other.
Why does the Reddit page get bigger with uBlock Origin? From 2.73 MB on Chrome to 8.48 with uBlock Origin.

https://webtest.app/?url=https://reddit.com
Most? Sounds like your own experience, but that is not the norm
I thought this was someone else providing an anonymized dns proxy at first, but it's just how to set up your own proxy. Not sure this saves anything over just using DoH to one of the listed providers directly (the requests still come from something you own and can technically be traced back to you, albeit with more effort?)

edit: I'm wondering what the ideal setup actually is. Would the root servers need to provide DoH endpoints?
Why does this scientific publication read like an op-ed? Absolutist language strikes me as exceptionally unscientific.

"it’s time to panic."
"We are in deep trouble."
"That’s it. Forever."
"Forever. Think of what that word means."

Disregarding that, the paper seems to address the idea that stratospheric albedo modifications cannot counteract atmospheric carbon buildup since they operate on timescales of decades versus millenia. Specifically they state that:

"Deployment of albedo hacking does not in any way “buy time” to get carbon dioxide emissions under control, since once emitted, carbon dioxide cannot to any significant extent be unemitted with known economically feasible technology"

Which seems to rest on the absolutist premise that we will never know an economically feasible way to go negative carbon. Otherwise, buying time should absolutely be a reasonable thing to consider.

The author closes with a sentence along the lines of:

"To decarbonize, however, requires building a political movement that regards the climate crisis as a top priority."

Which strikes me as... not exactly impartial (Why would not an economic reason work? Or a grassroots social reason?). Which is obnoxious when the author makes specific appeals to the authority of their profession which has authority by the very virtue of being impartial:

"As a scientist, I viscerally dislike repeating myself; I like to think that once the truth is out there, it will somehow win out and it is not necessary to belabor the point."

This "article" rubs me wrong.
How to start a biotech company, in the words of the founding CEO of Genentech
Not me. I'll build a more powerful machine that is also easily upgradable and future-proof. For a fraction of the price.
Why anyone invests in any VC fund, when you can do better in the stock market with an index fund, at much less risk, is beyond me...
I live in a mountainous area. Fifteen minutes from my house, there is no cell coverage. There are lots of hikers and climbers around. Why aren't there dead bodies everywhere?
Facebook to Buy Startup for Controlling Computers with Your Mind
> every single country that signed the Paris deal, who did not decline modestly, even for a time.

Completely false.

For example: the UK has been emitting less and less at least since 1990.

Source: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/provisional-uk-gree...
> On the SAT you can use programs and notes

That is definitely a new thing. I wasn't allowed to use a calculator at all when I took the test 4 years ago.
Interesting! What are the semantic search components of this? Why don't you offer free demo on the site?
YouTube sends more requests with uBlock Origin enabled? [1][2]

My theory is, without the ads, there is more space in the webview to load video thumbnails, each item representing a video in the HTML document probably requires a handful of HTTP requests to load and pre-fetch their corresponding metadata. I would not be surprised if other websites react in the same way. I hope this is the case, but I am suspicious enough that I will investigate further how the ad-blocker affects these websites.

[1] https://webtest.app/?url=https://www.youtube.com

[2] https://i.imgur.com/HBB4TkK.png
> Barring technological breakthroughs allowing for the active removal of massive amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere,

Hey, this sounds like a good plan B: https://projectvesta.org
Thing is, the fact that you can reduce the nicotine dosage does not necessarily mean that people will; unlike cigarettes, it's trivial to also increase the nicotine dosage many times.
Arrests in a String of High-Profile Old Master Forgeries
N.B. unlike the other problems you listed, Go's "intrusive bad default GOPATH" is a development-time choice; presuming the developer used Go modules, the compiling-from-source user won't have to think about GOPATH.
I like pragmatic definition of FP by Eric Normand: We recognize separation between data, calculations (pure functions) and actions (impure stuff) while using always simplest category.

To me it seems like especially juniors would get benefit from this separations. So is it more like: "this language makes you do the thing that experienced programmers do once a while and juniors avoid [purity] at all costs". It would be interesting to see how juniors would work with functional(-first) language. Would they be able to craft same not-even-god-knows-what-it-does piece of art? What I have seen so far lot of side effects is typically required.
You could never let out anyone who has willfully killed a person, and you wouldn’t have the recidivism problem.
Are you recommending we don't work this avenue out of a sense of fairness?
Honestly, learning new skills is what I do to relax.

1. Find something that sparks your interest; could be anything at all. For example, I constantly read HN, hackaday, etc. when I'm bored.

2. Duplicate it and perfect it. That LED cube you saw on hackaday, that X11 tutorial, that Arduino controlled coffeepot, whatever. These examples belie my interests, but you get the idea. Tip: start with something simple; it's always harder than it looks and in surprising ways.

3. Then wait for the magic. Inexplicably, that new skill you are growing will become surprisingly useful for some completely unpredictable, unconnected activity. Ah, you don't really need an LED cube, but maybe now you know how to make a better baby monitor with that Arduino.

4. Repeat, until you don't have time to be anxious or bored. Eventually, it can grow into a career or a lifelong interest.

Doing something concrete with your hands relieves stress. Learning relieves stress. Having kids puts everything in perspective. These are all positive, constructive things.

Watching TV and gaming, not so much. When I do too much of these, it makes me feel very much as the OP seems to feel.'

Don't learn new skills to progress in your career. Learn them to relax and to grow. Learn to measure yourself by your progress on these self-imposed challenges. And the career will take care of itself.
There is an entire industry devoted into turning small regular maintenance tasks into big paydays based entirely on lies to people who don't know anything.

I don't think your existential proof is a good one. It's like proving Cigarettes are OK by noting that billions use and only millions die.
Facebook's Latest Purchase Gets Inside Users' Heads – Literally
It's legal in NSW Australia so long as traffic is not moving.
For $100, you can buy a Pinebook with an 11" or 14" screen, a multitouch trackpad, gigabytes of storage, WiFi, a keyboard without a numpad, and an ARM processor.

On this machine, you can create reproducible analyses with JupyterLab; do arithmetic with Python; work with multidimensional arrays with NumPy, SciPy, Pandas, xarray, Dask; do machine learning with Statsmodels, Scikit-learn, Dask-ML, TPOT; create books of these notebooks (containing code and notes (in Markdown, which easily transformed to HTML) and LaTeX equations) with jupyter-book, nbsphinx, git + BinderHub; store the revision history of your discoveries; publish what you've discovered and learned to public or private git repositories; and complete graded exercises with nbgrader.

But the task is to prepare for a world of mental arithmetic, no validation, no tests, no reference materials, and no search engines; and CAS (Computer Algebra Systems) systems like SymPy and Sage are not allowed.

On this machine, you can run write code, write papers, build spreadsheets and/or Jupyter notebooks, run physical simulations, explore the stars, and play games and watch videos. Videos like: Khan Academy videos and exercises that you can watch and do, with validation, until you've achieved mastery and move on to the next task on your todo.txt list.

But the task is to preserve your creativity and natural curiosity despite the compulsory education system's demands for quality control and allocative efficiency; in an environment where drama and popularity are the solutions to relatedness and acceptance needs.

I have three of these $100 calculators in my toolbox. It's been so long since I've powered them on that I'm concerned that the rechargeable AAA batteries are leaking battery acid.

For $100, you can buy an ARM notebook and install conda and conda-forge packages and build sweet visualizations to collaborate with colleagues on (with Seaborn (matplotlib), HoloViews, Altair, Plotly)

"You must buy a $100 calculator that only runs BASIC and ASM, and only use it for arithmetic so that we can measure you."

Hand tools are fun, but please don't waste any more of my compulsory time.
As other comments point out, it doesn’t mean this new demo site addressed those issues
Colbert was hilarious when he played a blowhard obnoxious conservative. Now that plays a blowhard obnoxious liberal it's not nearly as funny, like he's not putting the same effort into this persona.
Not the fear monger, but if Trump is allowed to finish his plan on maximum deregulation, USA will become #1 by emissions in less than 10 years. This does not frighten me on its own - each new President deregulate more here, while put new regulations there, depending on (frankly) who has access to put money (indirectly) to his pocket; what does concern me is that the voters seems to be fine with that. And why wouldn't they?? With so much automatization on the horizon, its silly to believe average Joe will chose clean air, clean water and healthy food, over a job security. This seems to be a new norm, I am afraid.
Until recharging times (around 5 minutes) and range (around 500miles/800km) can match those of chemical-fueled cars, there will be buyer resistance.

There is a reason that the battery car of the early 1900s and the Stanley Steamer disappeared. They just couldn't match the day-in day-out utility and convenience of the petroleum-energy vehicles.
Interesting and important. There are probably many more intervention spots when causes of despair are considered.

Other perhaps obvious indicators of risk would be likely be lay offs, prolonged unemployment, significant job or status loss, loss of assets, foreclosure / eviction, divorce, death of spouse and/or family, severe illness or diagnosis, chronic pain, chronic health conditions, isolation, loss of social standing, drug/alcohol abuse, etc.
It's not just chronic pain. There are multiple kinds of depression, multiple kinds of anxiety, multiple kinds of autism, adhd, and so on.

As long as the medical industry, especially the psychological industry, continues to name diagnoses off of their symptoms instead of naming them what they actually are, it becomes difficult to create procedures and medicine that work for all people.
https://news.ycombinator.com takes a second longer with uBlock
Same thing happened to me as a teenager. I was told I had a cavity, dentist started drilling, there was an 'oops oh wait there's nothing here', he stopped then filled the hole he'd made. It's the only tooth I have that causes me problems. It's sensitive to hot and cold and I'm pretty sure the filling came out a long time ago. It's made me distrust dentists ever since.
Without any knowledge of the industry, it seems obvious to me that you can have one ad that goes to 99% people who don't want a product, and another ad that goes to 90%, and the latter is ten times as effective, even if it's annoying most people who see it.
Everyone wants to drive through other people's streets and wants no one to drive on theirs. Waze made it so this was evenly distributed. Of course the erstwhile privileged fear loss of privilege.
It's hard to imagine Apple selling many of these at their ultra high price points, but perhaps it's only by selling a $10,000 Mac that Apple can make them in the USA and maintain their desired margins?
I stand corrected.

Interesting that Germany has been declining since 1980, well before Paris or even Kyoto.
Big releases - weekends only, usually Saturday morning. The least impact on customers in case something goes wrong and you still have entire weekend to roll back or fix, while not many may even notice.
I'm pretty hard against vaping, but this is just plain wrong. First, the statistics are bad.

Since 2011 when vaping really started taking off, there are roughly 220,000,000 vaping years: total cumulative # of years folks have vaped. And 8 deaths, or 0.000000003 deaths per vaping year. Compare to smoking, which has had about 8,000,000,000 smoker years and 28,000,000 deaths, or 0.007 deaths per smoker year. We don't know the really long term effects of vaping, so all of this is subject to change, but the idea that vaping kills more is completely unsupported by even the most basic (see above) accounting.

And that's leaving off the fact that you're ignoring the cause of death for these 8: which, while unknown, has strong indications it's not linked to mainstream vaping devices.
> The production process used by the original manufacturer is effectively a black box

Don't they patent that, too? Isn't that what the parent commentor is referring to when saying "it's been 123 years since Cornflakes were patented"—that the original manufacturer's exact factory design should be in the public domain by now?
Are you claiming that people develop physiological dependence to non-nicotine pods? Nicotine is very addictive, but that's why the parent poster said "if there’s no nicotine, then who cares?" People may get all kinds of strong weird habits with oral fixation e.g. biting nails and such, but that's generally not considered as physiological dependence.
It's still in the 0th major version, such changes are expected until 1.0. I indeed wouldn't recommend using Crystal for anything serious until the language stabilizes.

I think this is a good strategy if you want to end up with a good core language with a lot of polish.
Per capita does not really matter in this particular case; it's an absolute numbers thing. CO2 emissions go into one same atmosphere.
- I use the brew python. Mostly for web dev, other times for pandas/numpy

- pip + requirements.txt I find is more than acceptable

- wheels > source when it comes to installing / distributing packages
From IMDB:

"The computer name WOPR used in the movie was a joke based on a real computer once used to predict war strategies at NORAD which was called "BRGR". The Burger King "Whopper" is a "Burger"."
edit: I conflated ImageNet with the art exhibitors; it is the former who are culling the images as a result of public reaction, not the latter.

This is a really bizarre project. I had seen some really offensive race-based labels, but I thought revealing the ugliness of the system was part of the point of this project?

But besides that, the results just seemed completely scattershot; I half expect the artists/exhibitors to reveal that x% of the results were randomized. Last week, I tried it myself after seeing another Asian user display results that were entirely Asian slurs (e.g. gook, slant-eyed). I uploaded my own very Asian-looking photo and got "prophetess", along with very vague labels, such as "person" and "individual".

Maybe the exhibitors cleaned the data/results by the time I tried it, but I used it just a few hours after seeing the other Asian user's results, so I'm doubtful that her tweet/complaints were enough on their own to change up the dataset that same day.
Uh, no [1].

Why do HN folks find this so difficult? It's like putting your shoes on the wrong way around. After you've done it, it's clearly uncomfortable. So don't do it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disclaimer
> It's disingenuous to call this a misdemeanor when it's in regard to people who have no legal right to be in the United States.

Why? It is a misdemeanor.

You've got no legal right to park in a handicapped spot, either, but that doesn't make it a felony.
Approved calculators on the SAT[1] include the TI-Nspire CAS, which can do symbolic integration, among other things.

https://collegereadiness.collegeboard.org/sat/taking-the-tes...
If we say the dataset is flawed, it is important that we pin down why and how exactly it is flawed. By what methods exactly are we going to source "not-flawed" data?
The fact that the recipe mentions "beating down" the soap leads me to believe that it is describing what people nowadays call the "hot process". You keep cooking the soap until it is fully saponified and it does not require further curing.
Using air conditioning will increase the energy usage per capita which will accelerate climate change. More realistically a lot of people will move away from the equatorial regions to the north or maybe even to Antarctica.
because if you go to china protest against it, you will be thrown in a dark cell, and the key will be thown away.
>This has created fascinating potential legal issues that may one day be litigated in lawsuits or class actions. These thousands of homeowners and renters have arguably been injured by Waze’s and Google’s successful privatization of formerly public streets.

So it's illegal to tell people that a public road might make for a faster route than the one a person is currently driving on?

It seems like the real problem here is shitty urban planning. This is clearly a huge problem plaguing Los Angeles, in many ways beyond just this one. If you want to keep people off streets, pass ordnances that say non-residents can't cut through them. Otherwise, there's not much of a case against Waze here.
This is good news only to those who devalue economic freedom. Thanks to the tariffs (taxes) imposed by the administration, Apple has had to pay millions of dollars in legal fees and undertake a buildout in Texas that is very likely not the best business decision.

In a few years, when the consequences of the suboptimal business decision have occurred, nobody will remember that it was political games and meddling that led to the wasting of (what will by that time) likely amount to billions of dollars in added costs.

In my view, if we think Donald Trump is so good at making computers and phones, we ought (as individuals) invest in his competitor to Apple and await its success.

If not, then we ought to keep him as far away from the business decision making of private sector firms as possible.

Already, government gets between $60 to $80 on every iPhone sold (sales tax). When is enough enough?
The Edward Sapirian view is that eloquent and erudite euphemisms even extend their effect to Eurozone events and thus engender experience, excepting the effervescent 'EUniversal grammar' of Eastern Europe (ex. Esperanto), and endangered Estonian.
I'm not quite sure how Netflix (and to a lesser extent Apple) registers alongside the rest as "owning the Internet". They're not even assured dominance in the streaming market alone.
These photos were taken on the Sydney Harbour Bridge, there's no traffic lights on there and there's rarely any stop and go traffic.
Someone made the point that while a future with greatly reduced carbon emissions are a certainty, every single day that's delayed means millions and even billions in additional profits for certain industries. There's enormous financial incentive to delay.
> Ford’s Cannis cites an interesting statistic: “Forty-two percent of Americans think electric vehicles still require gas to run.” That shows how little many Americans know about EVs. Or they think all EVs are basically a Toyota Prius (which is even worse).

The statistics in your link support this. The Prius shows up as an EV.

I think the term EV is becoming ambiguous, sometimes unintentionally sometimes intentionally.

Some people want to state sales are higher, so they include BEV + hybrids in EV numbers.

Some people want to be accurate and describe any car with a battery as an EV.

Some people don't think a car that uses gas is really an EV, or want to report lower numbers so use BEV numbers.
The problem is they're selling you (for a TI-83+) an outdated 6 MHz Z80 processor for $100 when a modern 48 MHz ARM Cortex M0 with more memory only costs about $1. If the market was more competitive, graphing calculators would be about $20 and would graph 10x faster (and my TI-83+ was pretty slow to graph).