skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We are within a stone's throw away from America Online or Prodigy, but almost entirely self imposed. It is very interesting how monocultures and winner take all systemics play out.
Nobody is denying that the quantum system performs the task faster. The question is whether it performs a task that can't feasibly be performed by a classical system. That is what the researchers are specifically referring to when they say "quantum supremacy."

2.5 days is feasible. 10,000 years is not feasible.
I feel the "I, Robot" film became a true
We also live in a time when the CIA and FBI has been trying to remove a duly elected POTUS for the past three years. Why? because they think they know better than the unwashed masses.
But how many people really try to do that? I’m not aware of any well known true renaissance men/women. Perhaps, perhaps Elon Musk comes close. But even then he’s far too concentrated in tech, just different tech industries. And even short of that, what percentage of people have any kind of cross-training in orthogonal disciplines? Getting an advanced degree in one field is seen as a huge accomplishment. Is society missing out on something due to this? My impression is that ‘way back when,’ everyone who was ‘educated’ had a pretty solid background in history, literature, and philosophy. It was just what you did if you were ‘educated.’ I think much of that tradition is diminished now. Not gone, but diminished.
No, I don’t have the data on hand or the time to hunt down studies that may well not exist. That shouldn’t keep people from knowing what they know. City biking regularly gets up to 15 mph. No I don’t have a citation. Falling over the handlebars is likely when coming to a sudden stop. Brain injuries are not going to be rare occurrences in such cases. No I don’t have a citation.
> They are even less useful without power.

If managers are getting things done by wielding their authority from the org chart, odds are they aren't great leaders to begin with.

In most organizations, leaders arise naturally, and they don't always match the org chart. Wise managers let those people shine, and help them succeed. Then the informal leaders help the team succeed, and the manager gets what they want because they did the cliche of hiring smart people and then letting them do what they do best.

In such a scenario, managers may ask what they are doing... because the team is doing it all without much help. But that is a good thing. The manager did their job, of building an effective team.
do you have any substance to back this claim up
Not sure it's that clear cut, as per the blog post[0] linked elsewhere in this thread[1]:

> Recall that a quantum supremacy demonstration would be an experiment where a quantum computer can compute in 100 seconds something that requires a classical computer 10 hours. (Say.)

>The Google experiment actually showed that a quantum computer running for 100 seconds PLUS a classic computer that runs 1000 hours can compute something that requires a classic computer 10 hours.

0: https://gilkalai.wordpress.com/2019/10/13/the-story-of-poinc...
1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21334403
That matches with what I remember, and I don't understand why that's a controversial thought here. Changing gender is a big deal, it can wait a few years so you're sure.
"With that being said, leakers are traitors and cowards, and we will find out who they are!" - POTUS

Obviously this doesn't apply directly to Snowden.

I would be worried about a fair trial in this type of political climate as well.

I mean, it's not the US has ever inappropriately applied the judiciary to falsely imprison a man before!
There's plenty of opportunities to buy open hardware. The benefit of a closed platform is that it enables selling the hardware at a loss (money is made on games) and it prevents cheating that is rampant on the PC.
I believe the cloud icon indicates something that is owned on your account but not downloaded.

At least on iOS the symbol is a cloud with an arrow pointing downward. Not on a Mac to check if the symbol is the same there.
More re-arranging of the deck chairs will not make it the year of the Linux Desktop. Linux Desktop evangelists have been getting this wrong for 2 decades now.
Yung Haimie killing it this week,

Just finished listening to richard dawkins earlier this week

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bN4spt3744
I asked remote teams like Doist and SafetyWing to share some tips about how to get a remote job in their companies.

While there are so many remote job candidates (can be thousands for a role!!), most of the applications are really low quality - so putting in the effort gives a lot of advatage!
I'm a software developer with a weird background: autodidactic since early childhood; always working obsessively on a personal project; freelancing since about 2005 as a last-ditch solution to financial distress.

For the past several years I've been working on a novel computing interface, and approach to software creation. I've failed to launch or even complete a satisfactory demo because without funding I just can't seem to finish anything; every road looks too long at some point, and I reboot. Or I take on some paying work, and when I come back to it my thinking or dependencies have changed, and I reboot. The result is many broken projects and no demo / MVP.

I'm obsessive and highly resistant to compromise, and I need help managing time and money. I need a strong business partner who can understand my vision and help me to stay on track, and make things happen while my head is down (or in the clouds).

I need help getting funding. I need help scoping an MVP and getting it in front of early customers.

But what is it? See the deck linked in my profile, and please ask questions. I can't seem to get people to see it without very lengthy discussion. Even then, I know they aren't seeing what I see. I can't express how frustrated I am.

I can't stop. I feel like, because I see it, it's my responsibility to the world. I imagine all the people that it will help, and know that if I fail I will have let them down.

I'm doing unrelated work now to feed myself, and making very slow progress. Please, somebody unshackle me so I can do this!
Multiple commenters have stated his stances are misinformed. Are his stances misinformed or is he simply poor at arguing for one of the many stances people can take on trans issues (issues which, if everyone is honest, are pretty complex)?

The stance that it is wrong that there should only be male and female sports leagues AND that trans people should automatically be included in whichever their identification maps to, is a completely defensible and not misinformed stance. It may be wrong, but so might the opposite stance held by trans activists (which is also likely completely defensible and not misinformed).
Wasn't this just asked yesterday?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21310030
You’re right that people outside of HN are far less likely to recognize these are clip art. Also for an alpha release, your priority should be making sure people want your app, not the landing page. Early adopters will look past stock art if you’re filling a need.
How silly of me. We should definitely organize MORE of our society around the needs of car owners. /s
In the first instance, I don't have site bookmarks on my home screen, my browser can store those just fine.

The second instance sounds like something that should be an actual app, installed from a trusted source, if it has access to storage and other device features. Particularly if it can run in the background, issue notifications etc etc.
Given the difference between income streams, and the fact that still go to their day job, I would wager their job is an interest to them.
Not throwing support either way, but what is wrong with questioning inconvenient laws? Should laws never be repealed?
By definition?

In the abstract world of algebra we are free to choose any definition (different rules will give different algebras).

But if we want our algebraic manipulations to prove the theorem about geometric objects we need to prove isomorphism between our algebra and the geometric objects and operations on them.

I doubt distributivity and other properties of operations on geometric vectors can be proven without the the Pythagorean theorem.
It's been a few years, but the school where I worked used Google Apps for Education, and when I called for support they were always pretty helpful. Has that deteriorated recently?
How do you disable it?
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Even so I think the real estate could be used much more effectively. The focus on app icons really annoys me because many app icons tell me almost nothing; a single screen shot visible by default in summary views would go a long way. They also have a lot of lists that are almost guaranteed to change rarely, like “top grossing”, which just means every time you come back you see a bunch of stuff you already know about.
>As if that weren’t enough, they also stole our primary public spaces in cities: the streets.

The irony of this feelgood narrative is that cyclists don't want pedestrians on their ways, either.
I have to be honest here, I was very disappointed with this episode. It's basically a very long monologue and feels like a marketing gig for his book and not like a podcast with Edward Snowden. For someone who's familiar with Snowden and his story, this had very little informational value.

I would've wished they talked about a bit more about other topics to see what Snowden and his opinions are like outside of the general theme of mass surveillance. At the 2 hour mark, Joe tries to switch and asks about his current day-to-day life. But they switch back to the main theme after about 10 minutes.
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The whole point of female leagues is, that females don't become overpowered by males. So the decision you are talking about is already made. If one starts to introduce biologically males back into the female league one could arguably instead remove the female league and introduce a unisex one. This would be more coherent with your reasoning in my eyes.
What good prompting the user does if the prompt says: "Would you help to make your beloved app even better?" or "Give permission to use Bluetooth?"

We as developers know the technology is not safe. We know users can't know what we know. But we still push it to users.

We are not protecting users. We are just transferring responsibility to users and we know that's know "gonna end well" but we're doing it anyway because of what? Because we can? Profit? Chromeos? Why?
Probably because it's rarely portable. Or, at least, it was that way in the past. MS products of the late 90's/early 2000's come to mind. Since then I've relied as much as possible on plain text.

Once bitten, twice shy… though I secretly dream of writing decent code with help from a something graphical.
Yes you can. You can go to the "All Mail" folder, add the "Size" column to the list view (right click the columns) and then proceed to sort every email by size.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/message-list-columns
"... when it is difficult to measure what managers do, it can be tricky to design incentives to reward them."

Why would it be difficult to measure what managers do? Measure the total output of their team. That's it.
I'm blown away that there's no import yet. How else am I going to switch from another password manager?

I also saw a comment from the dev team that they're "aware" of the need for such a feature but it's not on a road map yet.
Part of the problem in countries like France is that labor laws are very rigid, especially relative to the United States, and older workers have what amounts to a stranglehold on employers. Those employers are in turn unable to afford new workers, or unwilling to take a chance on all but the most exceptional young candidates.
Rent. Food. Utilities. $3,500-month
Server $150-month
Facebook $35/month
On the server that was heartbleed under the WebMEM spec. There needs to be a tight feedback loop between the feature people and the security people. Without it, the FP will over-run the SP. The default to ship, ship in public attitude means that all of these "features" get public exposure before the security people have looked at it deeply. Much of the worlds technical architecture needs to get inverted.
I made https://www.golfforecast.co.uk - an ML algorithm to predict golf.

After 5 years it's making enough from subscriptions for me to live off (3K gbp/mo). The algorithm is always a work in progress but it's seeing consistent returns now so I'm making money from that too :) plus it makes golf a lot more entertaining.
Technology is really reinforcing the correct behavior - if you think you don't want to talk to someone, DELETE them off your phone/social media.

I used to have the same problem until i took the plunge and just banished everyone i didn't like out of my digital life. If i don't want to interact with them, i just make their contacts poof/block them
Yeah, comrade! Everyone should provide every service for absolutely free!
How do you recognize 100,000 reports of the same bug but different manifestation ? What if it's an architectural issue (and many bugs are)? What if you are already working on a total re-write that's going to be released in 2 releases ? What do you do with bugs found internally ?

Also remember that many bugs requires much more then changing a couple of lines of code, they require cross module changes and re-testing which can lead to more bugs.
Doesn't everyone use the online version of Microsoft office now? For non-professional use, anyway.
If I understand his point correctly, it's not the calibration per se that is problematic, but whether the calibration means that it only performs for a small subspace of inputs, which raises the question how large is that subspace?
What up, Clay?
With Firefox, I'm mostly free. Alternatively, I can let Google be my feudal overlord. Nothing Firefox prohibits is permitted by Google. Easy choice
Sorry, also I was only half way through the interview.

My conclusion is that part of his reveal was clearly naive and that it doesn't have any value regarding citizens or national improvement (incompetence in big groups ? color me surprised).

He would have been more beneficial to sleep on the knowledge for a while, filter what's important and find better leverage to make a change. Something less naive.

When he talks, only very rarely I hear something relevant. At best, his good points are:

- shift toward abusing surveillance technology

- paradoxical laws regarding accountability of the government (you cannot have a fair assessment of government actions if it's illegal to look at it)

- a bad government can abuse long stored data against you

But really he's babbling for hours and very few comes out at even surprising. NSA had access to network/deep packets long before Google and even 9/11. Yes we all have smartphones.. boohoo, it's well known that these are potential privacy backdoors. People just don't care, or at best the rich enough will buy an iphone (if Apple is really that good regarding crypto and privacy).

Again, that's just an opinion right now, if someone can shed a light on what's important in his case, please do, I'll read carefully.

ps: there's also a lot of moments where he's mostly telling his life which I find disturbingly immature in tone.
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I'm thinking this breach will only draw more attention to NordVPN, ever since yesterday I can't browse Reddit without seeing somewhere something about NordVPN. Anw, I read this article and it's an interesting story, this article picked good examples from Reddit. TechCrunch article that started all this didn't even name a "security researcher" who blamed Nord for lack of security, then official Nord statement came out with an explanation how some Finish company messed up their security and kept it secret. GG, TechCrunch for showing that profits (they're owned by Verizon that also has a VPN, LOL) matter more than objective journalism.
The last straw for me was that they rejected a minor app update because they claimed my app crashed on a not-yet-released OS update. I literally could not install the OS that had the issue, they would provide me with zero additional information (not even a log), and they would not allow my minor update to get into the store. I deleted it from the store that same afternoon.
Are IoT devices with Bluetooth that don't have Wi-Fi common?
Just wanted to chime in that your site is a go-to when looking for new color variations and palettes.
Again, no.

It is a trivial fact that on a classical computer, you can simulate a quantum computer in time that grows linearly in circuit depth, in principle (as in the case of the "naive" way I mentioned above). No one in doing quantum algrothims ever claimed this was the case, and claiming otherwise is just a silly mistake.

Preskill coined the word "quantum supremacy", not Martinis. Even if someone from Martinis' lab misspoke, you can't pin it on Preskill.

Take Shor's algorithm, which has been the poster boy of quantum computing for decades. It gives exponential speed up in the number of qubits, not circuit depth.

See other examples here: https://quantumalgorithmzoo.org/ The complexity is in the number of qubits, "cirucit depth" is a non-concept in quantum algorithms.

No one cares about the circuit depth in quantum algorithms, because in principle, you can always reduce the circuit depth to 1 on a quantum computer: quantum computers aren't necessarily made of basic logic gates, you can implement any unitary in by for example smoothly pulsing the fields in a correct way in a single go.

"Depth" is a concept which usually comes into play when you try to measure the quality of the implementation of some given gate U. You repeat U many many times say M, and see how some measured quantity decays as a function of M, which gives a measure of the fidelity. But this has nothing to do with the quantum algorithm's complexity, it's just for "benchmarking" a physical implementation of the gate.
> all previous macOS updates

My experience is this is true of recent updates, but I don't think the data would support such a sweeping statement beyond that. I remember the dustup around this in 2015/2016 after comments by Marco Arment:

https://marco.org/2015/01/04/apple-lost-functional-high-grou...
https://marco.org/2015/01/05/popular-for-a-day

I haven't listened to the interview that Eddy Cue and Craig Federighi did with Gruber since it aired, but my recollection is that they said that they actually measure these things and there had been FAR fewer bugs over years (from that date) and that we've simply come to expect less buggy software as a result. Or at least that's my years-old recollection, I could be wrong. And so I think what's likely is that this version is worse than recent versions, but if you compare to, say, 10 years ago it's less buggy. Kind of like what people experience when we have increases in the crime rate -- far better than it used to be, even if people don't recognize it, but (1) still an increase, and (2) we should expect progress, not things getting worse!

https://daringfireball.net/thetalkshow/2016/02/12/ep-146
(I could be wrong and maybe it was a different interview)

Anyway, there was a ton of chatter here and everywhere else in the tech community around that time. Here's a quick example at the time (but I imagine there are dozens of others, if not hundreds):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11034071
I've been running docsapp.io, a SaaS for documentation hub. It is growing and profitable but not a lot. I work between 1-8 hours per month, mostly development and little support.
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> If you remember reading my exclusive (here) on AMD's partnership with Hygon you would remember that the one thing AMD did not design in the Hygon processor was the cryptographic layer.

The processor with china-mandated modified encryption runs much faster than their regular counterparts?
So, again, the largest complaint is that we have our own launcher.

Given what I mentioned from the parent (Valve arbitrarily pulling down all our games), how do you think I can convince the business to make ourselves more vulnerable to such behaviour?
I bootstrapped a digital publishing business to over $200K per year.

Started 8 years ago, developed and published our first website for under $250 (I code, which helps). Learned SEO via trial & error, benefiting from the post-Penguin and Panda implosions that kicked a bunch of spam sites out of our target searches. Started putting together a predictive analytics package for investing in digital content, so we have an idea of how content will pull before we create it.

After that it was scaling and project management. Which has been a real learning experience, since a lot of publishing basically sucks... many people cranking out the same stuff. Very hard to keep "that special spark" in content at scale.

Still have the day job. Digital publishing is an 11 on the hot / crazy scale in terms of revenue stability (50% swings in monthly revenue on established sites aren't uncommon), so have a reliable pay check & health insurance reduces stress substantially. Plus I enjoy the work, most of the time.

One other benefit of having a "cover" day job: it allows you to "stay off the radar" as a small business owner and fairly affluent member of your local society. You've got a socially acceptable answer ("I punch a clock at company X") and don't stand out. Most people have no clue about the true scope and intensity of my side business, which simplifies things...
And for good reason: safe travel means separating speeds. Here in NL, the average cycling speed is about 20kph. Walking is about 5kph, 3 for the elderly. It's not a very good idea to share spaces. If space is the problem, it would be better to merge car and bike traffic [1][2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_boulevard#Netherlands
[2] https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fietsstraat
> That assumes a benevolent government. Rules can change because of balance-of-power shifts, or as a result of misinformed debates.

that's true in any jurisdiction, right? Laws and regulations can always override contracts.
Since others are posting examples of who they consider master interviewers, I need to include Sean Evans from the spicy-chicken-wing-gauntlet interview show Hot Ones.

His guests routinely compliment him on his prep and the questions he ask. The show would be just as good without the hot sauce gimmick.
The article does make sense, although I agree that it is not a complete answer to the question its title poses. For example, if iOS 13 had a higher number of features (it did) that got pulled late due to schedule chicken (they did), that would explain why iOS 13 was rockier than other releases.

All the points are applicable to other releases, but that doesn't mean they don't also explain iOS 13's issues.
I run Codepip (https://codepip.com), coding games for learning web dev.

Started out making a single game as a weekend project, it got a good reception, so there was obvious demand for learning to code in this interactive way. Have since branched out to more games covering different HTML, CSS, and JS topics with more coming. It's continued as a one-person operation, for the time being.
I noticed a stream of it back in the 00s and probable 90s with the tech boom.

It seemed timed at least partially a result of the old order being upset at their heritage not being the gatekeeper it once was.

The Ivy Leagues have a long history of pssudomeritocracy in the form of moving goalposts to favor the legacies whenever an upstart group gains "too much" of a share. It is reminiscent of the Jewish quotas of old and they were indeed targetted
We did fix customers bugs, I don't know that exact investment made but it was not trivial at all- and still bugs were found and not all of them fixed.

This specific product grew to be an abomination which in part is responsible for the many complaints it gets.