skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>You can't read the entire state. A quantum channel where you send n-bits lets you read n-bits, not exponential in n-bits.

An entangled state is different, Since I can read all of the bits outside of each other's light cones, they cannot causally influence each other, which is why I said as if instead. There is no such thing as "all at once", but I can properly read each qubit before all of the others, as far as that qubit is concerned and it would still obey the correlation. The reading of an entangled quantum state is indeed a single measurement.

>Under the error correction theorem, you can amplify that signal back to full strength as long as you are under a threshold temperature (but with ever-increasing resources as you approach the threshold temperature.)

2) I don't think that quantum error correction ultimately solves the problem of heat. It tries to solve the problem of single bit/sign flips from not doing your computation in a closed system. My argument assumes that the only things that exist in the entire universe are the computer and the heat.

"This is going to generate heat, and the rate at which I can dissipate that heat is bounded by the speed of light". Sure, the heat has to be transferred out of the system, which takes time that is bounded by some distance divided by the speed of light. But the qubit is on a 2D chip surrounded by a 3D refrigerator. The distance doesn't necessarily increase with increasing qubits.

3) you're misinterpreting my statement of the problem. I don't have to get each additional qubit just as cold as the original. Every qubit I add requires me to get the entire quantum state to half the temperature that I had previously. The geometry of your refrigerator here only matters in that it's finite dimensional.
I'm not advocating for mandatory helmet laws in that post, I'm just pointing out why you should wear a helmet on a bike, regardless of any laws. You, personally, will be safer with a helmet; it's a simple fact of physics. Sure, fewer cars means it's safer for cyclists, but you keep focusing on cars and ignoring other dangers with cycling: other cyclists, pedestrians, slippery/uneven roads, or just plain mistakes by the rider, all of which can result in a fall where your head contacts the ground.
Joe Rogan's booking and showrunning team(s) needs a lot more credit where it's due.

The politically and professionally diverse guests they are able to get, no doubt with the assistance of Joe himself, is absolutely incredible. You rarely see a show where you can have an extreme right wing radio host be a guest, only to have a slew of high profile left wing candidates on months later, with zero fucks given in making sure it's family-friendly.
I've never ever seen such a brutal sentence in science before:

"In summary, unlike the objections of the IBM group, so far I’ve found Gil’s objections to be utterly devoid of scientific interest or merit."

Yikes.
I was just curious to know your number - it's an interesting data point. I have experimented with pricing, but not enough, so it's something I have to do at some point.
One with fault-tolerance.
> The point is that Americans are not legally required to produce identification within American border so long as they're not driving. They're required to honestly answer authorities when asked their name, but that's it.

By your own metric, he required ID, because he drove to the border patrol station.
He worked for a company with a union, and was still fired. I still don't understand your point here. Yes, he says the layoff had benefits, but that seemed more like a "silver lining" than a "I'm glad things happened this way".

IDK, I'm either reading his statement or yours in a way someone isn't intending.

Also, people who work in non-union jobs often feel that peer complacency and bloat are problems. That's not unique to union shops. Everyone has had a job where there was "that guy" that nobody understood how he kept his job. IDK why people thing unions magically create this problem, or make it worse. Mostly because I haven't seen any studies proving it, it's just a "feeling" people have.
Process Automation / Business Rule Optimization is a nearly untouched field for large, existing software driven companies.

For goal N, where N is an amalgam of small processes, what can we do to isolate, automate, and optimize the process?

Everyone is hyper focused on generic ML solutions, but there's it has been a hell of a lot easier to hand-code solutions to problems in existing mid-to-large scale businesses that are looking to alleviate a process pain point. If you have the brains to determine some basic ROI ballparks, you can make back engineering hours fast if you can either increase the output of your business, or decrease the required people to accomplish that output.

There's some fields that touch upon this, like Dev-Ops, but this is a more strict definition of 'operations', in that I'm referring to the non-technical people.

The impact of this practice is amplified by two major factors;
1. Quantity of work
3. Difficulty of work

If you have high quantity of N, small optimizations are compounded across all the work centers.
If you have highly difficult work, reducing the time it takes to 'handle' or 'create' output can be reduced.

This idea ties in to a fantastic book, 'The Goal' by Eliyahu M. Goldratt.

Being in 'hot tech' is cool, but mastering old concepts is valuable to businesses rigid to change. As the number of established companies that leverage tech for a majority of their work grows, the need for brains that are capable of process improvement with a scalpel, rather than a chainsaw.
Just watch out for armed robbers:
https://www.insidenova.com/news/crime_police/bicycle-rider-r...
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21333245
Blood pressure drugs work far better if taken at night
Never been in that position and likely never will be. See if you can extract anything useful out of the Firing Lady skit by MadTV. If nothing, it's at least funny.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyv4VumXsWo
I wasn't arguing the facts of the system. I wasn't even stating a preference (though, yes, I'm upset at the outcome). I was responding to a thread where:

1. Person states preference that majority wins
2. Person states that majority did win
3. I demonstrate that majority did not win
4. Person #2 says majority won EC
5. I point out that it was plainly obvious that person #1 would prefer a majority of the popular vote win
Is it just me or does that seem low? How many ICE factories do they have currently? How many are they adding or renovating in these next couple years?
I'm not, you are.
There's also a separate thread discussing IBM's post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21333105.
I have never lived in an area where I would have guaranteed access to my constitutional rights, most people (65% IIRC?) are in the same boat.
Google says you might have to wait to play Stadia, even if you preorder
They don't want that. They want to be able to ping facebook and get a universally readable source of everything about you.
Textbook illustration of subtle bias:

> This time, however, when he arrived at the bridge office as instructed, carrying a handwritten note from the original customs office, the man, a U.S. citizen, was detained and searched by Customs and Border Protection, he said. His phones were seized and his car rifled through. His father and cousin, who had been waiting in the vehicle, were themselves detained, ordered into the office to answer questions about their national backgrounds.

The fact that the man is a US citizen is interposed into an otherwise chronological narrative to make the reader evaluate the reasonableness of the border agents’ actions against information the border agents do not have.
Sounds like you have a plan, good :)

> "Can you recommend me a publishing platform to publish all writings?"

Whatever works best for you. Wordpress, Ghost, whatever. It doesn't matter. I have mostly static files.

I think you need a somewhat okay design. Doesn't have to be fancy, but it should be clean and professionally-looking. I do design myself. I'm self-taught. If you can't do it, get someone who does it. You don't need a lot of images, but yeah, it should look clean and good. There are millions of themes, which are alright if you just start. Don't stress too much over the design. The message is more important.

Also: This is a bit out of scope of this discussion. There's probably a lot of discussion on the internet for designing articles or blogs :)
For practical purposes, it's even more than that. Current quantum computers are not useful for anything. Not even for breaking cryptography.
I'm enthusiastic about Anki, and use it for an hour per day for the material I'm learning.

I shared the Java portion of my deck at https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/647806244
There's a thread discussing Scott Aaronson's post here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21335907
What is CGI in this context? I’ve only heard of it in a movie special effects context.
I use now python 3.6 but got this error :

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'wikipedia'

(I installed requirements)
I agree that everything should be made in a memory safe-by-default language like Rust and I really need to see the Rust ecosystem really commit to this. Too many times will I come across a library with some very questionable uses of `unsafe`, which in my opinion has no place in things like HTTP request libraries or web frameworks.
Not if you can be detained arbitrarily, without suspicion, simply for not carrying an ID.
Haha, remember more than a decade ago when we all thought that interoperability was more profitable, and that everything would just naturally tend toward open standards? Wow. We were all just stupid?
Pretty sure that was you.
Mongo is the wrong choice for a solid 75% of the places it's used. In the vast majority of cases, it was brought in to replace a relational db because developers though it would be faster to not have a schema / constraints / relationships, etc. It usually lets you develop faster, at the cost of blowing up in your face a few months/years down the line, when you have to rebuild your app to use a real database because your devs remembered why relational dbs are useful in the first place.

Mongo is a document store, not a relational db. Mongo is a good choice if you're looking to replace ElasticSearch, not if you're looking to replace MySQL.
I've been running https://keygen.sh by myself for a little over 3 years. It currently makes $5.3k MRR. Still a side gig, but it's getting there.
If they could confirm that they were not over a populated area, would ejection be a possibility? The article calls out "both pilot and EWO suffered serious injuries due to frostbite". Did they suffer serious injury to avoid ejecting and in order to save the aircraft, or was ejection not an option?
OneDrive seems to be built into Windows 10 as far as I'm aware, but you must configure it to do much of anything. There was a proper OneDrive application at one time, but I don't know how much of a thing it has been since Windows 8 (10 it just seems part of Windows Explorer plus some hooks in 10 proper). It doesn't show as a tile for me on either my personal or work machine, but that might not be the case for everyone. If I click on it in the applications list on the left, it opens Windows Explorer to the OneDrive "folder".

Office 365 that is interesting because on a clean install, I still had to go to office.com to install it. I didn't have icons for Word, Excel, Powerpoint, etc. and certainly not the GBs of data already consumed by it. I'm looking at my work machine at the moment and it has an "Office" tile that I can sign in and use the web versions, but it doesn't appear to be a full Office install.
Every instrument on the cockpit of the small sport plane I am flying costs about $2k, some go to double or triple that, a single headset (Bose A20) is $1k, so that 4K smartwatch in a plane worth tens of millions seems like a good investment.
This is good news, but VW is ultimately motivated by the threat of Dieselgate litigation and fines.

Let's hope this isn't some flash in the pan, Tesla has shown the feasibility, but an EV future really needs one of the big conglomerates onboard as well.

Multiple companies competing will drive batteries well under ICE drivetrains economically in short order.
Crowder was harangued by Maza for years, Crowder responding by doing a mocking impression of the self-referential non sequiturs that Maza would proclaim amidst his criticisms seems like fair game and not homophobic.

I don't see how it is any worse than when Crowder mocks Trump's braggadocios by imitating his common catchphrases. Such material is low comedy, for sure, but not cancel-worthy.
Given there are no overlapping subproblems, I think greedy is optimal[1]. The point was to show primal I(L)P with dual decomposition.

1. You're right, a counter example for greedy (with 2 appox) looks something like: c1=.5+eps, v1=1, c2=.5, v2=.5+eps, B=2.
Not everyone has a hobby or passion and that's totally fine.
He's not wrong about either of those.
I agree, that part of the article is particularly poorly written - but it doesn't change the fact that there shouldn't have been such unreasonable suspicion to begin with.
One app to replace them all: Tasks, docs, chat, goals, timelines, reminders
Zulu time where I mostly fly is 8 hours off local time. If the watch is a regular 12 hour watch you have to do a mental calculation for time and as a pilot you learn that the less mental calculations the better, when a lot of things are happening in the cockpit.

It is true that the 24 hour display is cramped. But I got used to it after 15 years with this watch.

I cannot find the exact version that I have online, but this one is the closest:

https://www.jomashop.com/media/catalog/product/g/l/glycine-a...

I have mine on a nato strap.
It is, if the Garmins are connected to public Garmin profiles or to third-party apps like Strava.

Otherwise, they function as GPS-signal receivers and only record data to the watch. (If connected to a phone or computer via the Garmin app/program, then Garmin watches will sync the watch data to the phone/computer.)
Mountain Lion, El Capitan, and High Sierra were all essentially 'Snow Leopards'

Snow Leopard also introduced major new features, like Quicktime X and the App Store. It wasn't quite what people seem to think it is now, 10 years later.
It's relevant, and pretty critical to the entire story. He wasn't traveling. He was picking up a package. The purpose of the 4th amendment to applying at border crossings is to secure the border. Everything customs did in this case should be totally and completely illegal.
All I could think of is, Rust already does this properly. It doesn't recompile libraries every time. It compiles them once, or again if the compiler is upgraded.
This one drives me crazy! My fingerprint never scans properly, so for any app download I have to manually open my password manager to copy/paste the password in.

It actually discourages me from downloading apps. If the fingerprint doesn’t scan on the first try I usually give up and just live without the app. It’s usually not worth the hassle of copy/pasting.
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Building a Serverless Doc Writing App Using Cloudflare Workers and KV Store
It was at the peace bridge which is a little weird, I've crossed there and had to go inside many many times. The building is quite small as well. If you look on the maps you can see it's not like there's a 'visitor' area, just an employee lot.

There's also a u-turn to return to America without passing Canadian customs on the Canada side, but you're going to still have to explain to the Americans why you're crossing. My money is on this being how it happened.

All of that aside, thinking about it more, it's kind of weird that they'd even ask him to go to the peace bridge to begin with instead of any other CBP point in the area
I mean, this could be as simple as internal app teams not going through the same form, or not getting re-reviewed automatically because it's assumed they'll speak up if they add anything objectionable. And Fleksy's point about being targeted for their increasing use count wouldn't require intentional targeting either - that could just be an automatic "trigger an extra review when user count grows enough".

Which doesn't make it acceptable, obviously. It just means that malice isn't required for unfairness - all it takes is Google fixing the dumb mistakes which hurt them faster than the ones that hurt others.
30 direct reports is an astonishing number, and it makes me feel like you're either onto something brilliant or are crazy and this structure is going to crash and burn once things get really complicated and fast-paced. I suppose it depends on how routine a lot of the work is. You'd be spending a minimum of 15 hours a week just on 1:1s, but I could see that being as high as 20 or 30 hours; 15 is already two full days out of the week. That is, unless you just don't do 1:1s at all, which seems incredibly risky long-term.

Given a six-month check-in and annual review once a year for each report, you'd have a total of 60 such events a year, meaning you'd have at least one annual review or six-month check-in every single week. You'd have to keep up with the unique performance characteristics of 30 different people in order to conduct these reviews in any reasonably useful and professional way that actually encourages real growth. If there's any sort of interpersonal conflict or unexpected project complexity, this could easily burn through enough of your time that you'd have to blow off nearly 30 people in the meantime.
Any reason you didn't mention Leetcode? I'm all over leet code right now.
A visualization of the 164,720 most-assigned books on college syllabi
Skip to 1:30 for the technical demonstration.
I use rclone to sync my drive to backblaze b2 daily. This runs in my personal cluster as a CronJob. The initial egress cost was steep but i’m not generating 100s of GB a month.

I download takeouts once a month and store them in drive to cover the other google data.

I have bucket versioning in b2 and only delete items manually every now and then.
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Not as pathetic as "We at IBM are concerned of".
I wouldn't be surprised if the ratio of competent Rust developers to Rust jobs were worse than 40:1.
> Securely access the passwords you’ve saved in Firefox from anywhere — even outside of the browser.

> Only in the Firefox Browser

Ok...?
No, they need to compromise your ISP and your VPN -- that's the whole value. With a VPN, your ISP doesn't see your traffic anymore, they just see you connecting to your VPN provider. Meanwhile your VPN provider can see the site you're connecting to, but they can't tell who you are, just "someone is ISP X's IP range".
This fight is much older than that. If you want to get sad, read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FriendFeed
Sounds like we've made exactly the same distro-hopping journey. I went from Arch -> NixOS -> Ubuntu, and am now torn between Pop!_OS, Fedora Silverblue, or back to NixOS. I thought Ubuntu would be nirvana - just use the defaults, and use the computer as a tool rather than endlessly tweaking it forever - but it's less "just works" than I was lead to believe and I miss knowing the exact state of my system just from a set of nix files. I'd love to know if your Pop!_OS + Nix solution works.
Arapaima (Pirarucu) Fish Scale:One of the Toughest Flexible Biological Materials
Linear Cross-Entropy Benchmark is the framework used to try and estimate the accuracy of the random-circuit sampling -- to try and determine how likely it is that the random circuits are being executed correctly on the quantum computer.

From Scott Aaron's blog post about this paper: https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=4372 -- he shares some thoughts on whether this benchmark is itself easy or hard to simulate on a classical computer.

> Ah, but at the end of the day, we only believe that Google’s Sycamore chip is solving a classically hard problem because of the statistical test that Google applies to its outputs: the so-called “Linear Cross-Entropy Benchmark,” which I described in Q3 of my FAQ. And even if we grant that calculating the output probabilities for a random quantum circuit is almost certainly classically hard, and sampling the output distribution of a random quantum circuit is almost certainly classically hard—still, couldn’t spoofing Google’s benchmark be classically easy?

He goes on to supply an argument that its a hard test to spoof classically.

I'm wondering though -- has anyone addresses how hard it would be to spoof this benchmark using a collection of smaller (potentially non-scalable) quantum computers ...? E.g -- if it were possible to spoof the benchmark with a smaller quantum computer -- would that undermine the argument in the paper that this benchmark is evidence of quantum computing scaleability ...?
- Keep it objective. Use NOTHING that cannot be backed with facts. This is both for the individual AND your team.

- Let HR do their job. Frankly, they should handle 80% of this at a minimum

- KISS - don't add any detail, nuance, courtesy-ANYTHING. Just get it done

How to decide? Keep that simple too:

- are they doing the job? If they're falling short, they are owed a number of chances with honest, objective feedback and equal opportunities to improve. The number of chances depends on you and your HR policies

- are they present? People who don't show are more likely to get canned by me

- Do they trigger the ahole clause? I do NOT tolerate aholes, they disrupt the team, any business partners and anything else. I don't care how good they are, these I'm most aggressive about getting rid of, although in 20+ years, only 2 triggered that one. Both were superb technically, interestingly and sadly

In the end, if I fire someone, they've earned it. I will work VERY hard and patiently with someone who is legitimately trying. Even the most average coder can meet certain standards in my experience - maybe never great, but good. Only the first firing was tough, and he DEFINITELY earned it. Don't overthink this.
Really? I drive a base-level 2015 RAV4 and there's no network connection to anything (except, I guess, my iPhone when I play music over Bluetooth).

Maybe where I am cars are still behind the times.
I reckon one that has quantum error correction on qubits which present Boolean values. I.e. one which could also run a classical program.
That is the quantum computer which is actually a quantum Turing machine and which can do speedups of e.g. factorization. Unfortunately, it is hypothesized that such a quantum Turing machine will require about ~1000 qubits of this machine per qubit with error correction, maybe more.
There are impossibly diverse options for learning today.

Ideally, you'll want to find which methodology (or -ies ideally) works best for you, and continue to branch from there.

The idea of 'how do you learn' extends above answers like 'books' or 'youtube' or 'coursera', and fits better in the categorization of 'I like to Listen', 'I like to try', 'I like to watch'.

Ideally, find which of these, or which combination of these is most interesting to you, and then find the appropriate tool to leverage that.

Personally, I like to Read, and I like to Do.

I have a brainstorming meeting with my Team once every 2 months where we spitball home project ideas, and have a show and tell from work we've done in our spare time. Once I've settled on an idea, I apply the above concepts to learn as much as I can about it.

For example, the last project was to build and solve a Rubiks cube. I read about the mathematics of a Rubiks cube, and built models alongside. I know that having reference material, and an instance of CLion open next to me is my recipe for successful learning.
https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/05/who-lives-in-border-p...

This article mentions an instance where they colluded with local LE to harass citizens near a marijuana festival. Also deportable arrests are abysmally low, whereas their drug related arrests are absurdly high. It really sounds like they're a branch of DEA.