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>No, the abbreviation of "gouvernement" cannot be "gov" in French because it doesn't have the same pronunciation. It can only be "gouv" as those two vowels cannot be separated for abbreviations in French. It could be "gou" although it sounds a bit weird.

There’s no general rule that an abbreviation has to keep all letters; that’s what makes it an abbreviation. Nor do such contractions need to keep the same pronunciation as the corresponding parts: even the .com TLD is pronounced differently from the (unstressed) first syllable of “commercial” which it is a contraction of, “even though” it would sound weird to pronounce it like that syllable (as “come”).

French isn’t any different about allowing abbreviations to change the pronunciation: the “el” in courriel is pronounced differently from the él in courrier électronique that it corresponds to. And the French language authority endorsed that.

Where are you getting this rule that implies gouvernement can’t contract to gov, merely because it would look like it should sound different? It seems like that constraint is entirely made up, and not even adhered to in French, so I don’t see how it’s somehow confusing from a French perspective.

The only explanation is that it’s deliberately trying to be different.

>France also uses .asso.fr instead of .org, for example.

Which is also despite French having the word organisation already.
Oh btw.

Is there a plan to change the 30 worker limit?

It seems to limit the system to small/medium projects only when you can only have 30 workers and every worker can only have 1MB scripts.

I mean, they don't even offer to pay for more. They just tall about some nebulous enterprise option on the "limits" page.
This is not the case. There are in fact many SQL capable databases which showed such results, Clustrix and MySQL Cluster (NDB) among them. Here is link to benchmark (to actually rather old version) https://www.mysql.com/why-mysql/benchmarks/mysql-cluster/
As someone described, Jobs focused heavily on the sale experience - anything after that, unless someone (or his own experience with his product) convinced him, was irrelevant.

The moment your money parted with you, your importance ended. This was visible, among other things, in gutting departments that kept Apple alive when literally everyone else had better hw & sw - people who did long-term accounts with for example government customers, specific market areas, etc.
I watched his interview with Sean Carroll the other day and they touched on this. Joe said he vastly prefers face-to-face, and only really does OTA interviews when the person can't actually come to his studio.
One awkwardness with interval arithmetic is that after twenty or thirty multiplications the error bar can get large enough to make the answer not useful.

Twenty or thirty is not a large number in many reasonable calculations, for instance with finite element calculations or Markov chanis.
Oh, I should have worded that better. I do not have terribly high thresholds for this. I pretty much mean that I'd expect China to evolve into something more akin to a typical western European democracy, rather than into what we have in Russia, which imo is only democratic in name.
There’s speculation about this. Plants absorbing green grew too well and then the population collapsed on early earth. The survivors were mutants who didn’t absorb green.
>> With enough pictures and medical histories, you could probably train an AI to make the prediction as well as the doctor.

The only way to train the AI would be to give it the same human experience - to make an artificial human to walk around and interact with people in similar situations. Even then, not everyone will make the same discoveries about hair and wellness.

The patient making a general statement about not feeling well is something that may not even come out with an AI. That kind of comment seems more likely to be made in a "real" conversation between two people.

This desire to quickly move to "train an AI" seems to miss the entire point of the article.
Thank you, Sorry I can’t tell you that for so many reasons.
But it's still pretty fuzzy. If we agree that 10,000 years on a classical system is supremacy but 2.5 years isn't, where's the cutoff? 25 years? 250? An average human lifespan?

Edit: Thanks guys for pointing out where I misread the article, leaving mistake intact so the replies make sense.
The 4QM is one of the most useful analog devices in music synthesis, where absolute precision is unnecessary. There it's called a ring modulator because it emulates the sound of a bell. It produces both the sum and the difference of the two sinewaves fed into it.

Edit: Just looked up "ring modulator" on Wikipedia. It says the name comes from the ring of diodes in the canonical circuit. I'd always heard the genesis was from the bell-like sound it made. And there are better ways to build analog multipliers than four diodes in a circle.
Omg 99 cents a month for 50GB I’m outraged
I'm actually really interested to see Google start charging for things instead of the usual cycle of spinning things up and shutting them down when the business model isn't there. I'd much rather pay 100$ a year for their services if it would guarantee their availability, and reduce the pressure to commoditize my data.
> I used to salivate over computers. News of the next most-powerful processor or RAM upgrade was irresistible for a period of my life.

I can relate to that. Of course I'd love to have an 8-way Xeon Platinum with a terabyte of RAM (so I could use Slack) to run Emacs and my terminal sessions, but I can't really justify that. To say nothing about the noise.

Or build a Cray-2 shaped box with a beefy GPU on each of its 11 lobes immersed in Novec bubbling like a real Cray 2.

Or a Connection Machines CM-2a-like box with 16 boards hosting 8 RPi-like boards each with each core/thread lighting up one of 32 LEDs on the front. Or fewer SBCs on each if I figure out how to light up LEDs based on SIMD usage in them - 128 nodes is quite a lot.

I deeply admire the art that goes into making a Rome, a POWER9, a 28-core Xeon or an IBM z15. I designed a stack-based CPU in college and I know how hard it is to get everything in place. It's just that I have no use for any of that. Quite frankly, my Xeon tower server is almost 90% idle at any given time, its memory almost completely deserted, as is my Core i3 and my Celeron laptops.
No, the classical simulation should give you the whole wavefunction, from which you can get the full probability distribution. One run should be enough.
If you're just skimming HN, the title doesn't do it justice. The "courtroom farce" part makes up the bulk of the article.

tl;dr the magistrate in charge of this court hearing was nakedly taking ongoing instructions from the US embassy, and ignoring procedural irregularities such as the CIA spying on Assange's private legal counsel. Any appearance of "procedure" here is only to lend a thin veneer of legitimacy to extra-legal bullying of Assange by the US.
This is kind of the opposite of what Michael Crichton named the "Gell-Mann amnesia effect" [1][2]. Often in the media we recognise stories in our area are wrong, but don't extend resulting distrust to all the other topics.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton#GellMannAmnes...

[2] http://larvatus.com/michael-crichton-why-speculate/
We may each have a movement “signature” that, like fingerprints, is unique to us
Connover was doing a lot of hemming and hawing as well I recall
This looks pretty interesting. Is there any good resource on this?
The main takeaway here is figure 1 in this article: they show that for an increasing circuit depth, computation time (on a classical computer) scales linearly. Google claims, on the other hand, that a classical calculation would scale exponentially. This is the basis for the graph in the Google blog [1], which seems to suggest that the Quantum computer can easily reach points (such as qbits=50, cycles=25) which the classical computer would never be able to reach. This is not true, if IBM is right. Their linearly scaling graph proves that they are not nitpicking their input, I would say.

[1]: https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/10/quantum-supremacy-using-pr...
> IBM's researchers argue that the term "supremacy" is in danger of being misunderstood by those outside the rarefied world of quantum geeks.

Supremacy means exactly what it's supposed to mean for everyone outside and inside of science. What's the next step, google can't call its pixels "Just Black and Clearly White" because people would be confused about if it is racist or not... The world truly is becoming a weirder place by the minute.
Hi,

> Your claim that steam/sony/microsoft all charge 30% no negotiations is dated if not completely inaccurate

I get the general impression that you're either in a much better bargaining position than I am, or you're not in the industry.

I still make AAA games, the latest of which came out this year[0] I can tell you concretely that we pay 30% of every purchase to the first party.

(except on PC, because we sell on uPlay and the Epic store, which has lower fees -- one of steams conditions is that you cant offer the game cheaper elsewhere, so we could never apply discounts on uplay)

> we know for a fact Valve offers a lower cut to big studios now

Valve has been openly hostile to my publisher for many years, perhaps this is the problem? Frequently unlisting our games.[1] We as a publisher do not officially respond to these things because they have better customer relations and a higher sentiment than we do, we would lose a PR battle, so we accept it and move on. This happens in negotiations too.

> I would be shocked if the Playstation or XBox business wings were unwilling to negotiate a cut down in order to land a big, million-selling title

They have almost all the power in those negotiations. The only bargaining power we have is if we have a very strongly rated title that we threaten to make exclusive. But in those cases we would lose more from _not_ selling on the platform than we would make back in the first-party cut. So it's lose-lose.

30% applies to in-game consumables too, anything processed by them as a payment provider.

What games company do you work for? :)

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Clancy%27s_The_Division_2

[1]: https://kotaku.com/ubisoft-pulls-big-games-from-steam-165567...
Do you have any sense for whether the confusion was related to ranked choice itself, or a poorly laid out ballot?

When rolling out ranked choice, I would expect to need lots of additional messaging before and during polling so nobody is surprised. And also a complete re-evaluation of the ballot's layout to ensure it's usable. I have no idea if either of those happened in CA.

Edit - looking at TimJRobinson's post below, if that's how CA cities laid out their ballots, I'm not surprised there were many errors. That sea of bubbles is hard to read and very easy to apply a pen mark in the wrong place. At minimum, the bubbles themselves should be filled with the number which they represent.
Also nevermind the nightmare of 9999-12-31.
Most cheap light fixture LEDs flicker. You can test easily using your mobile phone camera if it has a 120-240hz mode.
His logic and motives matters to me. It's true I don't know much about the effect, give me some clues about what it did change.
It's not about doing useful work it's about finding an actual workload that cannot be solved faster classically.
I'm a layman on this, but reading IBM's rebuttal, it seems that they're saying "you can't say that a conventional supercomputer would take 10'000 years because you haven't accounted for spilling to disk and other optimisations".

I understand that some of these optimisations might be on the processing logic, but doesn't this end up being like comparing apples to oranges?

I understand that there's also what seems to be technicalities around what is "quantum supremacy", but I assume that on a 'processor against processor' basis, this is still significant. Am I oversimplifying things?
They do: https://nea.is/geothermal/direct-utilization/greenhouses/
Outline has been failing on almost any site I care to read recently. It's become far rarer to find an article that Outline works with, in my experience.
> Hate - revealed to the world endless amounts of national security data that was not directly relevant to these constitutional encroachments.

He worked with journalists in order to avoid this. He gave the government a head's up before the press released anything everytime they released something new.

What more do you think he should have done?
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I'm doing this but it's painful. I am still stuck on GMail.
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Aha, yes, we do end up on a lot of random websites. For argument sake, I'm going to assume your objection is not that folks visit random websites, but that there is something dangerous about how we give random websites access to Bluetooth/USB.

Here are the ways in which "random websites" can gain access to USB/Bluetooth:

1) Prompt the user to download a native app.
2) Prompt the user to follow a link to an app store for their OS.
3) Prompt the user to allow the website access to the Web USB / Web Bluetooth APIs.

My follow up question then is how is option #3 less good than #1 and #2, and "less good" in what ways?
Actually, there's completion, and excellent debugging tools for Clojure in Emacs, both step-by-step kind, and investigative. "I don't want to use Emacs" is a completely valid stance (de gustibus...), but it should not be misinformed.
> To compare, do you go to the internet regularly and check for new things?

Isn't that what this site is?
How exactly is that measured? If you’re trying to measure the resistance between the ground rod and actual ground, how do you get the second reference point?
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> looking cooler

I don't think it's about looking cooler, it's about barrier to entry.

It's like adding a 15 character requirement to passwords on your application and rotating them weekly. Most people will give up on your application before they even give it a try.

OPs point is that cities should make it a goal for biking to be safe regardless of if you have a helmet. I daresay biking without a helmet in Copenhagen is vastly safer than biking with a helmet in any city in the states.
> instead rejected them first for a crash (sigh!)

As a user, I'm glad Apple did that.

As a developer, the one thing that I do dislike about Apple, is the dismal state of their documentation on how to actually take advantage of all their platforms' features. I have to begrudgingly admit that their nemesis Microsoft has always been way ahead in that department.
> I find it's useful to listen to those you have strong ethical disagreements with, in order to challenge your own ego and ideas.

This is possible only if those people you disagree with don't have power over you, and acceptable only if the disagreement isn't rooted in a denial of your essential humanity. Both of these conditions are privileges that not everyone enjoys.
That's really smart. I hope I would've thought of that 5 years ago.
You aren’t wrong from a recreational perspective. But from a practical one meant to alleviate traffic and pollution, long distance intercity biking is less viable in addressing those compared to public transit.
So the guy on Twitter who wanted to drink the red liquid mummy juice had the right idea...
Domestic spying in this case is referring to the United States spying on its own citizens.
That’s not shocking.
Downhill mountain biking or something similar maybe, casually cycling along a trail isn't really anymore likely to course traumatic brain injuries than jogging. Cars are the only reason cycling in a city is dangerous. Once you introduce helmets as a requirement you put cycling firmly into the category of some kind of risky sport, making it difficult for it to become a casual, normal thing that people do in everyday clothes, like driving a car. (I wear a helmet fwiw).
The future wars, I think will be more civil unrest due to income inequality. Eventually, I see us moving more towards a star-trek like society when we have full-automation. Nobody needs to work, but everyone can contribute in terms of research and scientific studies or art/etc...

Service jobs won't be needed, but we as a civilization can't just sit idle. We still need fulfillment so whether there's money or not at that point we need to encourage future fulfillment else we die out from sheer boredom.

I like to hope we move past all our petty differences, embrace the humanity that we are one single species. Then we drop the super stars, celebrity adoration, and desire to be uber wealthy and 'control' other people and we can focus more on arts and sciences. Arts for people to enjoy life, sciences for people to explore what's out there.

Imagine if the only careers were in entertainment and science/research what we could accomplish and imagine if everyone had equal footing to go into their chosen path. If we had 10x the scientists or 100x the scientists working on global problems and even intergalactic ones. We might actually make it to the stars.

But before we get there --there will be unrest and wars, just more middle class vs elites. Also potential wars for water as it becomes more scarce if we don't fix global warming soon.
> If, somehow, the will of the people were to accept spying as a cornerstone of their society, trading privacy for safety, would it still be a democracy?

It's an interesting question. For reasons like that I prefer to talk about liberties, which include privacy and the need for authority to be checked. These are of greater necessity than universal suffrage, though having representatives of the people elected for set terms certainly can help to put a check on authority, it's not always a guarantee of that! How often have tyrants been voted into power.
But from the Google blog it sounds like the “problem” they chose boils down to “emulating a quantum computer”. Which doesn’t sound like it’s exactly in the spirit of the test, since the quantum computer can obviously emulate itself—and with zero wasted operations!
Peter Robinson (of the Hoover Institution) is a good example of a master interviewer, with his Uncommon Knowledge series. Here's one of the last ones I saw:

Peter Thiel on “The Straussian Moment” (Sept 2019)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRleB034EC8
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For me the optimal experience was Ubuntu software installer. It's like Homebrew or APM with visuals, search, everything. App Store is just a walled garden.
Pretty rich by IBM to voice any criticism after its "Watson" disaster.
You save more lives by making biking enjoyable and care-free. If you make biking difficult people will not bike.

Instead they will sit in a car and die from heart disease, obesity etc.
Worked fine for me? https://outline.com/j453CJ
>"You're taking away parking space!" "All these bike lanes are slowing traffic"

Those points probably don't even matter. Each bicycling convert means one less parking space used, and one less car sitting in traffic.
Second part is a lie. Tried managing stocks on your own?
And having no leverage?

It's not even close to competitive with hired specialists dedicated to the task. You cannot compete.

It is not contributions not success that makes people live better or longer. It is ownership, diet, mental health (including low stress)
access to medical care.
Check out how many of successful people actually live shorter or painful lives. Your argument only works for have-nots.

Economy is negative sum, unless you discount externalities. It does not break physics. Mined out and used up materials do not suddenly reappear. We just move the goalposts to have the same "positive money" outlook, keep everything from deflation.
Until recently inventions (esp. energy and mining, then production efficiencies), made the economies grow. But it is not an infinite resource.
Where do you see anything like that in the article?
His standup shows on Netflix must have made him hundreds of thousands if not million I would think.
I am not too sure what to make of Joe Rogan’s podcasts. Note that I do not listen regularly, and mostly only listen to some of the ‘big name’ guests. On one hand, it is cool that he is able to attract big names from diverse fields to come onto his podcast.

On the other hand, it feels like most of the podcasts have a shallow content level if you are already familiar with the subject, and sometimes the conversation/questions tend to go into the stoner mysticism realm.
When WhatsApp get round to implementing it, will I be able to turn it off for messages?
I run & operate a VPN company.

Found a niche that at least 600 people would pay me a monthly amount for, totalling nearly $3k a month.
Costs are < $70 a month.

Everything is automated so it's probably less than an hour a week.

It was my learn how to code project that has become my basic income. All the money is funding my secondary project.
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This is such a goofy argument.

> What gasoline taxes are bikes paying to use the roads?

Bikes can't pay taxes, neither can cars. People that own them can, and most cyclists I know also own a car. So if you're attempting to stipulate that people that ride bikes don't pay taxes on the infrastructure that they use, you're wrong- at least in my experience.

In any case, bicycles cause far, far less damage - maybe even 0 damage - to the roads used by motorists. So, if a side effect of motorists paying taxes to build and maintain roads is that cyclists also get to use them for free, a sensible person would be okay with that.

> Tolls?

I can't think of a single toll road that I have ever been on in the US that was not a highway. Cyclists don't ride on highways unless absolutely necessary. In most cases this probably isn't even legal for the cyclist to ride on the toll road.

> Are they getting mandatory inspections each year?

Can you find even one example of a poorly maintained bicycle causing someone other than the rider's death/injury?

Anyway, I don't even suspect that you read the article. Instead you just came in here to rant about how anti-cycling you are, which is not a great look, but suit yourself.
> This result is the first experimental challenge against the extended Church-Turing thesis, which states that classical computers can efficiently implement any “reasonable” model of computation. With the first quantum computation that cannot reasonably be emulated on a classical computer, we have opened up a new realm of computing to be explored.

Note, that the "extended Church-Turing thesis"[1] says something very different than the actual "Church-Turing thesis" (and is also not due to either Church or Turing).

The original Church-Turing thesis is not challenged at all by these experiments. Indeed, it has been shown that quantum Turing machines are not computationally more powerful than deterministic Turing machines - as in: any program that can be computed by a quantum Turing machine can in principle also be computed by a deterministic Turing machine (it just might take a little/a lot longer).

The extended Church-Turing thesis is concerned with the performance of a computation and says something about the "efficiency" of the computation.

The original thesis is concerned with what's possible, while the extended thesis is concerned with what's feasible.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church%E2%80%93Turing_thesis#V...
I think IBM is full of shit and badly needs this PR boost that is about to be snatched away by Google.
I have instant access to something approaching the sum total of human knowledge, can navigate to anywhere in the world without a map, can be instantly connected via video to any person in the world, but nothing has changed?

Groceries come to my door. I haven't been to a store in months. I can watch a movie in my hand. I can learn things waiting in line at the grocery store that would have taken a day in the library previously.