skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be honest, when people ask me where I got my abilities in researching diverse subjects and tracking down obscure faults from, the only thing I can really tell them is that I never really had anyone to turn to when I was learning - I had to just find a way to make it work. Couldn't defer "the hard stuff" to someone else. I think working alone gained me quite a lot.
I think Steve Jobs said the only way to be great at what you do is to do what you love. And I would add the only way to really amp up your income is to be as great as you possibly can be at what you do, and always look to be better.

I had a couple jobs I took mainly for the money. They were soul-deadening. Maybe some people can handle that, but for me it's a recipe for burnout.

The interesting thing is I made, by far, the most money running my own company and doing work I actually enjoyed.
Show HN: Tabliner, a fast keyboard-driven tab manager for Chrome
Chrome Web Store: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tabliner/aglmjcobpaikhghnfnioeipbddcgpmad?hl=en

GitHub: https://github.com/uyhcire/tabliner

For a long time, I've struggled with having too many tabs open. I tried looking through my tabs each week, and using tab manager Chrome extensions, but I still didn't have a good way to quickly look over and close my tabs.

With all the other extensions I tried, I felt like there was too much friction when I tried to close tabs. So I wrote an extension for myself, focusing on making it really easy to open, use, and go back. The key for me has been to make all actions keyboard-driven: you can do anything you need without leaving your keyboard.

I've been using it myself for a few months and I find it far faster and easier to use than anything I've tried before. I hope you all find it as useful as I did!

A quick tutorial:

- From anywhere, jump to the list of tabs with Ctrl+. or Cmd+.
- Use the arrow keys to navigate
- Press Backspace to close tabs
- Then jump back to your original tab by selecting it and pressing Enter
Incentives say she will pass the lie detecting test. It would be a PR disaster if she said she didn't use it and the sponsor wouldn't want to pay.

It just gets more promotion than paying out $100K directly.
I always wonder if the people who go around spreading this FUD have ever used a rooted phone. Privilege elevation is a specific, clear, and targeted procedure. It's not automatic, apps don't just get access to the entire system right away bu default, and nobody who rooted their phone just answers "yes, give root to this app" for any old purpose.
I get to travel to exotic places and have been on a lot of interesting ships. Plus the tech I work on is really unique and I learn something from my colleagues almost every day.
Kinda sucks that IB started a whole new (gimped) service for this. I want my TWS and API access, why can't they let me choose whether I want to pay commissions or let them sell my order flow and do the trades for free?
This may be just the tool I need. Working with a bunch of separate spreadsheets to compile a dataset of 3,000 vendors. Thanks!
The actual bug talks about "untrusted app code execution". As in, code in any app, regardless of where it was installed from. So you're relying on review by the walled garden as protection.

And of course, "untrusted sources" is not the same as "all side-loading". I use sources to sideload from that I trust more than the average app developer.
It's because of "reports" like these I didn't feel like staying as their customer. Whomever is in charge of [limiting scope and wording of] these reports should listen to a few things in private at their HQs.
I don't disagree with you.

That last comment: "Some people are scared of money or behave irrationally with money. I've been to a few therapists that have high powered husbands or clients that illustrate just how irrational they can be. I can see the evidence for the spirit of malcontent with management but I would agree it's not something that can be half-heartedly expressed through a what is basically a meme. It needs to be articulated accurately if it is to improve."

I find it difficult to take anyone seriously when they say people with lots of money make irrational decisions. Especially when making said money is generally viewed as an achievement in our society. None of us know that situation unless we're in it. That really goes for any situation. Just like in sports a spectator yells at a player for "making a stupid decision". Think about someone who just got an ego boost making a bunch of money. They can give/lend money to friends and family when they're down, being the hero. When before the money, they were kind of a nobody. They're going to protect that ability at all costs. Even at the cost of outside people to that circle of friends and family. Why care about people who don't care about your own family? Thus, you get someone who might be harder on their employees, making sure that certain numbers are met, so they get to stay at the high income position. Is it really irrational to maintain a level of heroism among your close friends and family at any cost? Livelihood, in modern society is pretty much the difference between life or death. No real income can lead to homelessness and a great chance of never getting out of it. Essentially "death". Obviously, it's no excuse for breaking the law or detriment to the health of "strangers" (employees). But if you realize that they're not just out to "destroy the world" and have the same basic drive as everyone else, do well for their family, you approach the "problem" differently. Which, comes to where you said, it needs to be articulated accurately to improve it. I just don't like the idea of "well, they're irrational even though I've never been in their same situation".
Internet linguist Gretchen McCulloch: figuring out the comma ellipsis
So you have to trust the app not to do anything stupid or malicious? Isn’t the whole point of an operating systems permission system so you don’t have to trust the developer? All apps having access to shared storage without explicit permission is no better than computer operating systems.

If an app can trash your user data the permission system is useless.
It is not, it exists in Sweden in a way as well.
> 2) If you don't need the lecturer, then the lecturer sucks.

Meh. Some topics for some people are simply better served by a textbook.

> I can only assume they took attendance

Not the parent poster, but yes, some professors required us to attend. You don't - great for you and your students.
Teledildonics.
Another great chance to install cryptojacking malware on a huge population of rooted phones
> politics is fun to talk about but when that one guy and/or girl goes off in the office, everyone wants to change to topic or go back to their desks and code.

I don't think that experience is universal.
Yes, you are correct. I was trying to say the same thing. (English is not my native language)
A long time ago I used to moderate on stackexchange (with a diamond) so I'd like to add some important details. That meta post covers it if you know the site well, but it might not be so obvious.

Any user with sufficient reputation can vote for some moderator action to be taken on a post. For example, 5 users can vote for a question to be closed. Users can edit. Sufficiently high reputation users can vote to delete and undelete posts as well as closing and unclosing them and get special tools to review questions.

Diamond moderators are a level above this. Their votes are immediate and binding (if a diamond moderator votes for something, it happens straight away with the exception of up and down voting, which behave as normal). They are also empowered to email users and suspend them, including practically indefinitely, and can lock a question or answer so users cannot do anything to it (even very high reputation ones) and thus have a lot of responsibility.

To get such a diamond, there are two routes: be picked to do it on an early stage beta site (where SE staff select users to do the job temporarily) or run for the job in an election. It's a thankless task, which involves dealing with the very worst of SE's users. You can also be employed by stack exchange. These users also seem to have a "staff" blob on their profile now too - very early on in the site (when it was just SO) they had two diamonds, I think, but that was removed to make the distinction between staff and community not so obvious.

On sites like reddit and here, when users complain about "the moderators" they very often mean ordinary site users using the functionality that comes with their reputation and not specifically the moderators with extra power and a diamond after their name. SE's definition of "moderator" is only those users with diamonds.

"Hand in my diamond" has in an SE sense become like "hand in my badge".
That's far from true. Did you actually use pre-Google search engines? Google was a huge step forward in user experience. And I think they achieved that through significant innovation not just in algorithms, but in using commodity hardware and ops innovations to greatly increase the amount of computation they could use for a given search. And they didn't just have one clever idea; they built an organization that could keep having and applying clever ideas.

But it was also innovative in business terms. Search at the time was monetized like media properties: running a lot of ads that were at best tangential to what users were doing. They instead recognized that a lot of search wasn't great for monetization, but some of it -- where users were looking for something that could be purchased -- was very valuable. So instead of banner ads and all that nonsense, the ended up with AdWords. And instead of selling it via media sales execs, they made a self-serve bidding platform.

If Google had just had a slightly better algorithm, any of the better funded players could have taken them down. But Microsoft has been trying for years to break in and Google still has 90% of the market.
Now the Rich Want Your Pity, Too
The more directly you surface moderator action, the more people want to discuss moderator actions (you can see a miniature version of this phenomenon in any comment about downvoting). Keeping this kind of metacommentary out of threads is a site goal.
General users don't give a shit about this sort of insider drama. They will continue to use the sites without even knowing this is happening.
That is an odd statement. Corporations admit wrongdoing or mistakes all the time and not to mention there could never be any lawsuit from something like this.

It is just that they introduced a rule and still feel it is a correct one.
Profiling Native Python Extensions
The Stroop test is not new: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroop_effect

It’s commonly taught in psychology and neuroscience undergraduate classes.
Can any foods cure a hangover?
Why would they apologise? They aren't sorry they sacked this moderator. They fully stand by their decision.
You are hallucinating nationalism where there is none.

China is untrustworthy because they routinely break business deals.

They violate trade agreements:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fCAut_Gr-3E

They steal our IP: https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-china-systematically-pries-...

They are waging war against us with Fentanyl: https://www.wsj.com/articles/despite-new-safeguards-fentanyl...

Chinese Fentanyl has killed hundreds of thousands of North Americans in the Third Opium War. It’s a no-brainer to pivot away from China.
> Android has one of the best security models and sandboxing for apps. It's based around SELinux.

You mean a security model that misses the fact that the kernel cannot be updated and relies on a "sanboxing" solution that doesn't bother limiting kernel attack surface. No, I don't think they even had a security model in mind, a threat model or anything beyond random ad hoc ideas. And if they did some thinking, they would not have chosen SELinux either, as it's not a decent solution to anything, it's more like a solution to "we must to do something, this is something, we must do this".
I wonder if anyone has looked at whether it is simply the heat causing the damage. I see 200W mod kits on the web, which is a lot of heat to be inhaling. Maybe some vape pens are missing a filter which cools the vapor? Or the vapor doesn't get cooled as much if the pen is used continuously and starts to warm up? Seems like an obvious possibility.
You are right - most physicists believe that quantum supremacy is possible, and if we discover that in fact it is not, then we'll need to understand why.
I had an incredible calc 1 and 3 teacher who would start the class with a problem that we'd work on for 20ish minutes. usually it was something just out of reach with where we were topically, or something that required us to use like basic geometry (which many of us were rusty on), and then we'd talk about it, ask questions, and he'd segue into a lecture where he'd connect the dots with what we were studying. I vaguely remember one was essentially to prove herons rule which we only had the tools to do from vanilla geometry, then he showed how it could be done with calculus.

Lectures were almost Socratic. We were only graded based on exams and participation, which I think he kind of arbitrarily awarded based on how engaged he thought you were.

Brilliant guy, loved his classes. He'd studied under a couple members of the Bourbaki group and headed the math department at one of the top math schools in Latin America.

Anyway, I had a great experience with this approach and I really think it's the best way to teach math.
It's very hard to tell because we've observed NSOs using comparable vulnerabilities both very sparingly against select individual targets, and also observed exploits used in a mass fashion against whole populations such as the recent uncovering of exploits targeting Uyghur communities.
Yep.

The important thing to keep in mind when you read these toxicology reports is that it tells you what drugs the person took, but it doesn't tell you what they intended to take.

I hope people don't think that the epidemic of fentanyl deaths is due to fentanyl increasing in popularity among drug users... what increased in popularity was the tendency of immoral drug dealers to lace their heroin with fentanyl in order to increase the strength of it. When you see heroin and fentanyl in a toxicology report, there's a very good chance that the drug user didn't realize they were consuming the latter.
> The Mountain View, California-based company calls it Heaviside, after noted physicist and electrical engineer Oliver Heaviside, who advanced a variety of theories and innovations in mathematics, electronics, and communications in the early 20th century.

I like this idea of naming things after people who've contributed to the field. Mount Everest's name came from a British surveyor and geographer George Everest.

Brand names quickly take on meaning, it doesn't have to be <NounVerb>.

I also can't imagine someone starting an aircraft company without having safety being drilled down their throat a million times before they produce anything that get's off the ground.
And that's exactly why you all got the "flu". The bad part is that you also spread it due to vaccine shedding.
Use YALP [1] or Aurora [2] (both are on FDroid) to get the APK's for your banking apps. These apps This is what I do for the Swedish electronic ID app, it has worked for years and hopefully will continue to do so.

[1] https://f-droid.org/en/package/com.github.yeriomin.yalpstore...

[2] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.aurora.store/
If the points raised by the OP are nitpicks, then I guess it doesn’t matter to you that the sampled (D’) distribution is very close to some easily definable theoretical distribution (D)?

If so I can easily illustrate this “good enough quantum supremacy” in my own home and on a very limited budget. The simple reason is that it is absolutely trivial to set up a physical experiment (quantum or not) where it’s very hard for a computer to sample from the distribution of possible outcomes.
Well, the title of the post is "An Update to our Community and an Apology" so we should expect an apology in there.
I couldn't disagree with you more.

The "author" you are referring to is:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gil_Kalai

He is a multi-award winner, internationally recognized researcher with several dozen publications on mathematics and computer science.

> The author raises points in contention, but they largely just seem like nitpicks to me.

I am not sure if you and I read the same post if you think that his points of contention are merely "nitpicks".

https://gilkalai.wordpress.com/2019/08/21/the-argument-again...
https://gilkalai.files.wordpress.com/2019/09/main-pr.pdf
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.02499
https://gilkalai.files.wordpress.com/2019/09/cern.pptx

In the paper linked by this post, the author first very precisely defines how quantum supremacy is defined:

> if you can show that D’ is close enough to D before you reach the supremacy regime, and you can carry out the sampling in the supremacy regime then this gives you good reason to think that your experiments in the supremacy regime demonstrate “quantum supremacy”.

Author references an older paper running this experiment, brings up a very good point that there is no quantitative measurement provided of the similarity of D and D':

> The Google group itself ran this experiment for 9 qubits in 2017. One concern I have with this experiment is that I did not see quantitative data indicating how close D’ is to D.

First point of contention, doesn't seem like merely a "nitpick" and if you disagree I'd love to hear your reasoning.

> The twist in Google’s approach is that they try to compute D’ based mainly on the 1-qubit and 2-qubit (and readout errors) errors and then run an experiment on 53 qubits where they can neither compute D nor verify that they sample from D’. In fact they sample 10^7 samples from 0-1 strings of length 53 so this is probably much too sparse to distinguish between D and the uniform distribution

If they aren't sampling from D', then they can't compare it to D, and so this violates the basic definition of quantum supremacy via sampling of random circuits. The author's point about sample size being too sparse to compute the difference between D and the uniform distribution is also valid.

He made this caveat at the start

> A single run of the quantum computer gives you only one sample from D’ so to get a meaningful description of the target distribution you need to have many samples.

> What is needed is experiments to understand probability distributions obtained by pseudorandom circuits on 9-, 15-, 20-, 25- qubits. How close they are to the ideal distribution D and how robust they are (namely, what is the gap between experimental distributions for two samples obtained by two runs of the experiment.)

Seems like a big oversight to not do multiple runs and to compare the sampled D' distributions.
As far as QC scalability, the thing I wonder about is the cost of maintaining full entanglement of N qubits as N grows large.

The debbie-downer perspective would be that for each additional qubit you add, you effectively double the cost of isolation from the environment, quantum error correction schemes, etc.

So, while compute power for quantum algorithms grows exponentially in N, so would the cost of operating the machine.

Do people who work in QC see this as a concern? Are there scientific arguments or engineering insights that lessen or obviate this concern?

For your enjoyment and amusement, here is a QC-related show-HN!

"An elementary proof of a key lemma in Shor's quantum factoring algorithm": http://gregfjohnson.com/qft.html
> Why do people need to be rewarded money to do something like this?

Who says they need to? Plenty of people willingly give up smartphones without direct monetary reward.
Polygraphs work if you believe they work.

https://youtu.be/rN7pkFNEg5c?t=70
California’s residency requirements are quite strict, and they don’t offer foreign tax credits, so if you’re planning to go back after a few years you’re effectively being double-taxed on the state income.
You got the "flu" because of the vaccine, not in spite of.
> the definition of misgendering had been reinterpreted to include using “their” as a gender-neutral pronoun

Citation needed.
Aussie here, was bad in the south island too (Tasmania).

I was sub-par for over a month, started feeling better then down hill again over night. A lot of people at work had time off.

Also had the flu shot.
So far this further supports the argument that they are special casing and going into a lot more detail when it comes to non Android or Chrome bugs.

Will there be a large analysis how frequently this was exploited and so forth? How about a public Google blog post around this?
> If people start talking about the hard issues, but do so respectfully and by making arguments that are sound, we should have clear, rational and reasonable debate. A decision might be made we don't agree with, but as long as the discussion happens, everyone can learn from it and we can agree to disagree and move on.

Ultimately what happens is these issues don't get talked about.

People in the center would rather just have an easy life and not deal with the "cancelling", doxxing, or career consequences that come with having a strong opinion, so don't engage.

That means that the extreme voices on either side end up dominating the conversation.
What about cash though? Isn't that stuff used for black market?
US seems like a wild mix of rugged and reliable, to shooting themselves in the foot with wildly unsuccessful management and delivering overpriced and underperforming product.
www.harness.io is awesome, definitely willing to pay for that.
Also loving Azure DevOps Pipelines.
They built the thing, and fly it around 600ft in the sky. It’s not vaporware.

From what I can tell from the picture, it has 8 props, two wings, and a N-number of N221HV. Anything beyond that would be pure speculation.
Not all bugs cause crashes accidentally. Actually, with enough testing I would guess that most of them have to be triggered very explicitly.
Yea... that's a trade off, unfortunately, and I won't pick sides here. Stronger static typing has so much potential for tooling, but none of that is reality, sadly.

As for Haskell, I think, it's a combination of manpower (so popularity, really) and the fact that the compiler wasn't developed with tooling in mind.

Thanks for conversation, stranger, and have a nice day!
>Wasn't monica fired for suggesting she used gender neutral pronouns generally?

It's more nuanced from what I understand^. I gather that Monica expressed the desire to find an alternative to using singular they - such as universally using pronoun-free language. Mind you, this was all in discussing a future code of conduct change and its eventual enforcement.

The topic is just very delicate, and in my eyes there is no line that you can draw where both sides are univerally happy. Words spoken/written with the best intentions and utmost respect can still leave others feel hurt or insulted, simply because there are no objective answers to certain differences in perception.

^I am not privy to "insider" info, but I have followed the situation closely and consumed most of what has been said on the metas publicly (outside of chat rooms).
Interestingly, when you look up the N-Number it says the engine type is “Electric”. Maybe that means something else?

https://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?N...
I remember 2017 and yeah it was bad. I had the flu shot but still got the flu due to them targeting the wrong strains. :(
I currently teach high school math and have been trying a similar approach, and received push back from every experienced educator I've encountered, but have been receiving great reviews from students (especially ones that have low math confidence). This post was really encouraging to me, thanks for sharing!