skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another way to express that is degrees of confidence.

Nature is the authority, and we have understanding that is incomplete.
"Lets" ??

Since when is a company allowed to dictate where employees can eat?
I agree with GTP, the author's definition is vague. As GTP alludes to, temperature is defined perfectly clearly in statistical mechanics, through the sensitivity of the entropy to changes in the internal energy of a system (though there are several, equivalent ways to express it). The author really is incorrect to claim temperature is not a clearly understood concept
That is my interpretation but I need a more detailed paper because everything is quite vague. Based on what I read, the claim isn't that great (yet). Everyone is gunning to be the historical first here.

"Hey, we have a new fluid flow simulation processor that reaches CFD supremacy over classical computers... we pour water across the surface of things and the results are indistinguishable to reality compared to the days, weeks, months it would take to simulate and still wouldn't reach the same resolution of accuracy on a classical computer."
Perhaps not pertinent to HN, but deppely tragic all the same.

I was looking at the muder statistics for the UK, which seemed to be on a downward slope. However it stated there were exceptions due to mass deaths. The Manchester arena bombing, the Olympics celebration bombing, Harold Shipman, immigrants trapped by the tide, a previous lorry suffocation incident.

If you have an exceptional mass death each year, when does it no longer become exceptional, but just to be grimly expected.
Gnome Shell is far better than Windows 10 for me.

From time to time I end up needing to figure out why someone's Windows laptop won't connect to my home wifi (where Linux, Macs, BSDs, Blackberry's and everything else connects to flawlessly) and I have to dig through the vendor-specific control panels that vary from vendor to vendor, from Windows to Windows, from OEM to OEM...
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I thought the Dorsey interview (and the round table with them, the legal/moderation lady with multiple titles, and that Pool or whatever his name is guy) were pretty good.

Not a fan of Stephen Crowder (sp?), but that interview was pretty uncomfortable. Generally though, yeah, I think he does well interviewing people.
I believe that I was responding to you when you implied that sentence (among others) was without compassion. If you have a specific grievance with what I said that doesn't involve something I was quite literally responding to we can discuss that.
That's brilliant, thanks for sharing.
In these days when 32 gigs is the norm for developer laptops, I'd assume anything that can run a VM full screen is good enough.
I know a number of apps that sell both on and off the App Store and cripple the latter. Where does it say this is against the rules?
Are you asking for technique for hiring processes or employee retention?

From observation, I see very fair hiring process in companies that treat employees as replaceable cogs that get trained, used and within a few years replaced. One place that I know which operate like that has equal hiring ratios, gender ratio of almost 50/50, pays exactly the same for both women and men, and are extremely unflexible in terms of work hours, task selection/satification and pay. As a result they also have a very high churn rate.
* SpaceX will land people on Mars and establish a base.

* VR will take off and evolve into some Matrix-like form.

* Electric energy will push out oil from most sectors.

* Gene manipulation will take off big time.

* None of the above will happen because accelerating global warming will cause the 3rd world war.
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I agree with your first sentence, but not so much with your second.

He's the best out there now as he's got the pick of his guests (the result of a forward feedback loop of being a good interviewer).

But view/listen to enough of them and you'll learn to pick the gems from the drivel, like almost everything.
> We can't keep building new infrastructure (highways) at the pace we did before, because - besides being very expensive - we lack the space for it. New solutions may lie in promoting remote work, carpooling and shortening home/work commute distances.

You can build highways and rails in 3 dimensions. The bicycle simply cannot replace cars and trains in any meaningful way, despite the rise in numbers of single, childless urbanites.
Microsoft has contracts that are extremely overbearing so it is not surprising that their contracts might not comply with the law. There is of course a space (the legal department) and a profession (lawyers) that large institutions usually employ to monitor problems like these and I don't see why there needs to be another body that performs the same function.
I have been building and using an open source solution called Dnote [0] for the past two years. Maybe it could help you and others in search for a solution.

I used to write down information in note-taking apps but doing so didn't help me retain more knowledge. The reasons were: (a) no spaced repetition, because I never went back to my old notes once I wrote them. (b) environment switch due to having to launch external apps every time to write a note. Environment switch was especially painful when I was immersed in a complex coding problem.

I solved those two pain points by sending myself an automated digest of my notes every week (spaced repetition on autopilot) and building CLI, browser extensions, and IDE plug-ins to talk to my personal knowledge base so that I don't have to switch environment to put stuff in the knowledge base.

My experience is positive. It has helped me advance my foreign language skills, learn new vocabulary, and retain various technical micro-lessons that I come across during programming.

[0] - https://github.com/dnote/dnote
> the only time the site in question has ever posted to HN is to complain about Apple and/or their products.

Huh?

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=morrick.me
Thanks! I started a related newsletter a few years ago that has good reach (https://uimovement.com) and that drives some traffic. SEO is also a decent source, plus some content marketing and word of mouth.

I've recently started experimenting with ways to grow the traffic above the base level, but it's slow going tbh.
If you want to Smelvetisize other fonts, I wrote up a quick script and how-to do it with python.
https://readevalprint.com/Schmelvetica.html
Given that any competitors may also face the Brexit problem and it hasn't happened yet, why not start a subsidiary now and ship a bunch of product over before Brexit comes into effect?
That's not quantum supremacy. It's about doing something on a quantum computer that would be infeasible on a standard computer. This is because in some scenarios a single calculation by a quantum computer could be equivalent to a vast number (many trillions) of calculations made by a standard computer.
Had Elop not destroyed Symbian business, history would have taken a different path, nothing to do with iOS.

https://insights.dice.com/2013/09/25/a-timely-revision-of-el...

Symbian with Qt was already on the right path to win the hearts of many developers.
There's a joke about weather forecast: "Kräht der Hahn auf dem Mist wird es morgen schön oder nicht" (If the cock is crowing on the midden weather will be either fine tomorrow or not). In this vein, my prediction:

Humans are mostly extinct or they are on their way to paradise.
> I wonder how people survived back in 1438 without the ability to park their car right in front of the shops.

They parked their horse / carriage in front of the shops?
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You have the metaphor wrong. You're the software engineer. Your toolset is the angry (or not) construction worker. Build a toolset that yells at you when you want to do something stupid/dangerous.
As a Dutchman who's lived in a few places abroad, the cycling 'problem' is quite simple: it needs to be the norm. No helmet, because neither do you require them for pedestrians. You can cycle in all weather, just as you would walking (a hard mental one, my non-Dutch partner can't get over the idea cycling is for sunshine). Public space design must start with safe (no sharp turns, looking at you France!) and separate cycling lanes. Perhaps the fact that urban cycling infra is a much cheaper/efficient use of public land could be more emphasized. In urban areas, cycling is faster, and electric biking is expanding your reach a few times over. There are people who bike a 30km commute without breaking a sweat (see bike highways).

Sure, there will always be situations where it will be difficult, such as steep areas (electric bikes can do a lot here, as well as accepting a little sweating which is normal in NL) or heat that exceeds body temperatures which in turn makes expiration impossible (no easy solutions for this one). But that leaves most of the urban areas on this globe perfectly suitable for cycling, which would be in everybody's favor, and their own first and foremost.
Interviewing Nick Bostrom was cringe worthy. I don't know what Joe was trying to achieve - maybe forming an argument against the simulation theory? But it was so bad. The youtube comment section is amusing.

But mostly Joe gets it spot on and does a great interview. What this does to popular discourse? When a small % of the population watch these types of long form interview and get deep, thoughtful and insightful answers to complex ideas .... and some % of the population watch Fox and read tabloids to get their news.

How does society fix this huge knowledge divide?
> Wish that we in the software industry would be like those construction workers from time to time.

A cluster of burly construction workers holding spanners is probably more physically intimidating than whatever we software developers could typically muster.
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"Don't worry folks, our people are working on introducing basic income, so you'll have opportunity to develop in more important areas of your lives, instead of wasting time on such a meaningless activities." :)
I run https://picojump.com which I started this year.

It evolved to scratch my own itch: simplifying the access, management, and monitoring of a fleet of distributed Raspberry Pis (running Raspbian, on private networks) without requiring any proprietary client-side code.
Though it meets the submitter's criteria, it's not [yet] providing enough to live off.
I have yet to see an ad in the start window. Yes it is anecdotal but maybe my experience is more current.
I've yet to see a non-industrial electrician that doesn't pick up most of their stock at Home Depot.
BTW how do you make sshuttle autoreconnect?
All of that is true, but according to IBM's own definition of "quantum advantage" I think Google at least achieved that.

All in all, it seems more of a battle of semantics, and the two companies talking past each other. It's kind of how everyone seems to interpret Moore's Law to mean "any progress in computational performance whatsoever" these days, as opposed to the original definition of "transistors doubling in the same space every 18-24 months," and then using that to "prove" that "Moore's Law is still alive." (it's not, and hasn't been for a long time).

I think in the end what's important here is that it was proven that a quantum computer can do "something" (yes, even anything at all is a big milestone) significantly faster than a classical system.

Because this is what matters in the end that quantum computers can do some tasks significantly faster than classical systems. They don't have to do only tasks that are "impossible" for classical systems to be useful. It's also why we use GPUs, FPGAs, and ASICs for some tasks, instead of just using CPUs for everything.

I do agree that it was in Google's interest not to work so hard on optimizing the classical system for the simulation, to make its quantum computer look that much more impressive. But if the quantum computer is still faster, then it doesn't really matter.
> The third option you left out is that the alarm is overinflated.

I agree. I intended that to be implied as a possibility for the first option. Bad things will most likely happen, but it's unlikely that it's THAT bad.
Is there a way to delete attachments (but not the associated emails) from Gmail?
> According to IBM, "Quantum Supremacy" means accomplishing something useful to the society, that simply wouldn't be possible to do otherwise. Google's article doesn't show any sign of that, IBM claim.

I thought that the whole point was to show that what you'd done definitely wasn't just build a complex classical processor. The usefulness of the calculation is besides the point.
So why does a search of the registry with zregedit take so long?
"Anyone can be a journalist." Yes. That is what one should expect of any country with a minimum of press freedom.
It's not that the registry grows large. It's because it accumulates cruft. If your software relies on information in the registry to make decisions, it'll often make decisions based on outdated information a long uninstalled (or upgraded) program left there.

It's the wrong solution to an old problem: having your configuration in hundreds of .INI files was a problem because opening and reading files took a long time. Instead of solving the problem and making opening and reading hundreds of files fast (which would be awesome for a number of other uses of a computer) they created new file that every application would read and write to. It seemed like a great idea at the time.

Every problem has a solution that's simple, elegant, and wrong.
But clearing snow takes time and equipment and main routes have the priority.

For example my commute of about 20km has about 10km that gets cleared early in the morning if humanly possible; maybe 9km that usually gets cleared during the evening; and maybe 1km that may take 3-5 days after a big snowstorm.
Sure it has a future, that is the whole point of the MSIX move, sandboxing for Win32 and UWP, regardless of the store.

I mean re-writing from Cocoa into Windows.
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The struggle of Jayden sounds awfully familiar to my eldest son’s school struggles. Its inspiring to see that there exists an environment where he could strive and connect with others.

Edit: typos
You say that but one thing that i always dislike when i consider taking a look at Lisps is how everything seems to be either on Emacs or looks like it'd really like to be Emacs.

Personally I want a full blown IDE that takes advantage of advanced modern technologies such as displays that can draw individual pixels, have a model of the codebase that allows advanced features such as word completion and preferably fits nicely with the underlying OS. A debugger would also be nice, but i understand that sometimes i ask too much.

I wouldn't mind paying for such a tool (though i do mind DRM schemes and subscriptions - i want to be able to pay once and then be on my way). Cursive looks something i'd pay for if i was really interested into Clojure and was using macOS.
Of course "any algorithm" part can't be proved, because that is equivalent to proving P vs PSPACE. (PSPACE is as powerful as any quantum computer.) Just like everything in computational complexity, proof is under "standard assumptions".
Regardless of what they say, Quantum computer solved it in 200 seconds and IBM states that their super-computer solves it in 2.5 days (Google says 10,000 years.) Even if we take IBM's claim at face value, 200 seconds vs 2.5 DAYS is still a lot of improvement, semantics aside. Not to mention that quantum computers have just started
I'm pretty sure the GP meant that Windows would become much more attractive to current Mac users, and I agree. A lot of serious computer work is done on Macs, because the Mac client has so much in common with the Linux server. If MS put a Windows shell on top of a Linux kernel, Windows would suddenly become a better complement to Linux servers than the Mac ever was, while still enabling work tools such as Photoshop to still be used (unlike, say, an Ubuntu client). That would make Windows a serious contender for the market of people doing production work on Macs.
The OP's article has a picture that shows a rod buried horizontally, so it is possible
> it will only cost us 2-4% of GDP by end of century

The projections suggest that it's much cheaper to avert climate change than to deal with the consequences, and much less painful.

If we can afford to lose x% of GDP dealing with the problems, why can't we spend less than that to avoid the problem, and avoid a huge amount of human misery and ecological collapse in the process?
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That's an overly cynical view of school but I'll hear you out if you'd like to support that line of reasoning.
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Had a look at your site, and requested access, as I think it would be useful.

That said, I'm not super clear on what it does. The landing pages could really benefit from listing a few specific features, and listing the business outcome that results from them.

I get that it does automated page speed testing (is this different from kingdom). Other than that, the main thing I'm aware that it does it "improved google search console reports".

But what does that do? Listing some specific report types and the resulting business outcomes would really help. (e.g. saved time on task X, increased ranking on page Y, more revenue from a higher CTR on product Z, I dunno)
Above all, the problems you cite are due to kids and elders needing to move long distances. This is not needed in cities not built for cars. Kids can walk to schools, and the elderly don't need to live away from the lively zone.
And just using a Gnome shell with almost no customization AND NOT WORRYING AT ALL ABOUT THAT is a huge productivity boost.

If we haven't wasted so many hours writing the perfect WM theme, selecting the perfect colors, making the perfect icons and backgrounds, we'd be long past the Singularity and enjoying our superintelligent agents taking care of our every need.
Google is sending the computer in question and a team of their best scientists to convince you. Hang tight!
That’s great that it doesn’t bother you. Curious to know more about how your team organize around managing the flags.

There are a couple of things that bugs me about this:

1. Having a process in place to remove features already validated. It can be fast, but it’s time that could be invested in other things, like improving design, refactoring, etc.

2. Where is the ‘CONGIG’ stored? How do you change/swap them? The code piece might be easy, but changing an environment variable in production at scale? You better have gradual rollout of such config and a rollback strategy. Same things applies if you are relying on an external config server.

Any further data on how you do it will be great!
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I was curious about their numbers

> Storing 50 million of events per second

> A few numbers: our cluster stores [...], 15 trillion of events

> We provide up to 30 days of data retention to our customers. The first seven days of data were stored in the hot layer, and the rest in the warm layer.

15e12 / 50 MHz is 3.5 days.

I guess 50 MHz is the peak ingest rate.
For a great intro to grounding, check out this series of articles

https://forums.qrz.com/index.php?threads/grounding-dos-donts...

It's written from the perspective of a ham operator, but all the principles are the same no matter what.
> If you word your comment in a way that pattern-matches
> any highly-charged idea that people already have from
> elsewhere, they are sure to interpret you as meaning that

I see, thank you.
Can you elaborate? i've found the opposite to be true, but then I am usually restricted by crappy ADSL bandwidth of 6mbit or less so i could be more sensitive to different aspects of "slow".

Note that sshuttle deconstructs the TCP packets before sending them over SSH which already uses TCP, it also performs differently to `ssh -D` and manages the buffer to prevent blocking behaviour over bandwidth limited connections:

--no-latency-control
Sacrifice latency to improve bandwidth benchmarks. ssh uses re‐
ally big socket buffers, which can overload the connection if
you start doing large file transfers, thus making all your other
sessions inside the same tunnel go slowly. Normally, sshuttle
tries to avoid this problem using a “fullness check” that allows
only a certain amount of outstanding data to be buffered at a
time. But on high-bandwidth links, this can leave a lot of your
bandwidth underutilized. It also makes sshuttle seem slow in
bandwidth benchmarks (benchmarks rarely test ping latency, which
is what sshuttle is trying to control). This option disables
the latency control feature, maximizing bandwidth usage. Use at
your own risk.
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While I understand your definition, this is not what Wikipedia nor what Merriam-Webster use for it.

The separation of powers in three branches is not strictly necessary for a democracy, just a mechanism through witch it is attained. Surely, there could be examples where the powers are slpit another way that could still qualify as democracies.

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?

Anyways, sorry, for nitpitcking, but something just sounds... incomplete in your answer.
If it doesn't explicitly exclude Trotsky from the set, my interpretation is going to be that Trotsky is one of those intellectuals.
Both of you are slightly off.

Quantum Supremacy is more about where quantum computers are clearly superior to non-quantum computers to solve a problem.
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> Too ambitious?

Not nearly enough. What we need are breathing cities. Cities that are more friendly to humans and that function well.

The problem with cars is that they are dangerous. On top of that they also create air and noise pollution and take a lot of space. Is it really worth living in a hostile environment when we have better alternatives available?

The article is too focused on bikes. There are a lot of different aspects to a breathing city and bike lanes are an implementation detail.
I think the goal here is to show that the quantum computer is not just a complicated classical computer. To do this, you design a problem that should be "easy" on your quantum computer but exceptionally hard (practically impossible) on a classical computer.

Compare this to, for example, D-Wave. As far as I understand their quantum computer they could show it was faster but it was "X times faster" rather than scaling in a completely different way.
"Quantum Supremacy" is a technical term, not a colloquial one. It refers to showing that there exists a problem that a real, physical quantum computer can solve quickly that a classical computer cannot.

Reading the IBM article, they are fully aware of what "quantum supremacy" means in a technical sense, and they are urging the media not to use that term, since it will be misunderstood by the public. Their claim that Google has failed to achieve supremacy rests solely on their claim that they can simulate the circuit far faster (and scale the simulation linearly) using better classical algorithms.

That's a strong claim, and I'm interested in seeing what Google responds with.

Disclosure: I work at Google, but hahaha, no, I'm not cool enough to work on this.
Tens of thousands of people who live in SF pay way too much % of their income to stay in housing they cannot afford, and so don't save enough for the future. Common sense fail.