skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Awesome job. This type of service is critical for e-commerce businesses like mine.

Just curious, I see you accept payment in crypto. What percentage of customers pay with crypto, and how has that changed since 2012?
Let's not forget Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange who are currently unable to give interviews because of what the United States is doing to them.
Calling while cycling or driving are not equivalents. A vehicle is much more massive than a bike and to use a phone while accelerating is far more negligent. The chances of a cyclist accident harming someone other than themselves while on a phone are far lower than distracted driving accident.
Thanks for the breakdown!
But so in other words, it’s still not all that far off that (realistic amounts of) disk storage can’t contain the state and scaling reverts to how they assert it.
I have a few ESP8266 projects and WiFiManager [0] makes this a breeze.

Configure a default AP/hotspot, Android and iOS will connect and follow their respective flows for captive-portals. This allows you to grab config from the user and save it. It's a very configurable framework.

0. https://github.com/tzapu/WiFiManager
We should probably amend the link to point to IBM's actual blog post, https://www.ibm.com/blogs/research/2019/10/on-quantum-suprem...
Why does the status page say resolved when S3 is still down for parts of US?
This is a silly thing to jump towards in the discussion, since it's not like we are anywhere close to the situation in which we have next to no private transport. In fact, we are almost at the other extreme.

But if I was to indulge you, I would say that public transport doesn't mean rails. In the case of buses it also uses roads. And of course, if we were to abolish all motorized private person transport (again, no where even close to that) of course there would need to be a system to allow for the transport of items that are too big to be transported by individuals in public transport. I assumed that goes without saying.
The Sunless World of Immigrants in Queens
> I was playing [games] on Linux just fine before Steam was ported.

Yeah, all 4 of them!
I wish IBM chose their words carefully here.
The company's details (which was already up and running and registered in Estonia) which were provided by my accounting services and my e-residency ID. Once there I also needed to provide my national ID card (Portuguese), EU citizens from countries that don't have that would have had to provide a passport instead.
I've used Windows since 3.11 as well and I still use Windows 7 and Windows 10 every day. The rate of significant issues has been higher with Windows 10 than with Windows 7. Although they're mostly related to the UWP parts. For example on Windows 10 the UWP UI stuff sometimes stops working so I can't even open the start menu. That has never happened to me on Windows 7, although it did happen on XP and earlier. To be clear, I'm talking about the start menu specifically not the whole explorer.exe freezing, which happens on every Windows including 10, but can be restarted without a whole PC reboot.
The games I work on do not publish on Nintendo, so I don't have first-hand experience here. :(
I was actually talking about glasses for humans, but I will roll with your argument anyway:

Plants are not narrow-band absorbers. They can utilize rather wide ranges of red and blue light. So if you blocked out a very narrow band there they would still get most of the sunlight. During the night they would simply harvest photons from those narrow bands, they don't care. But the photons wouldn't escape the glasshouse.

But yes, shutters are probably much cheaper than narrowband light sources and matching filters.
Searching for "Exact Real Arithmetic" will yield some. Specifically, a HaskellWiki page [1] is not too bad as a starting point. Or, if you are keen to academic presentations (read: presentations optimized for the maximal information density and not for the actual presentation ;-) [2] might be better.

You can also take a look at the actual source code for the Android ExactCalculator app [3]. For some reason, however, it is deprecated after Android 9.0.0; don't know why.

[1] https://wiki.haskell.org/Exact_real_arithmetic

[2] https://members.loria.fr/PZimmermann/irram18.pdf

[3] https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/apps/Exac...
You should stop reposting the same thing just to shill your startup. It should be flagged.
Scheduling Jobs with Launchd and Friends
Reality winner is only serving 5 years and she showed good faith. Ellsberg won in court and served 0 years. If Snowden weren't a coward he could be there in person right now.
Sit-down Scooter. That's the sweet spot.
I used to be the same way; I'd pore over data sheets and whatever else, I wanted to optimize _everything_.

Then one day, I dunno, I snapped. I think some minor tweak broke something and I just gave up. I wanted to not care about it ever again.

As it happens, I ended up buying a Mac, but I imagine you could just as easily get the same effect with Windows. The trend continued with iPhone and iPad; I don't care about specs, other than "can this hold my pics and music" or "can this run the 5 tools I need to work".

I guess I only started caring about specs again when Apple introduced broken-by-design keyboards and the ridiculous touchbar. Somehow that snapped me, again. Like suddenly someone put a tack on my comfy seat.
It's working perfectly for me
How well do these tools work against code built using obfuscating compilers?
What if I made the caffe latte really really hot before brandishing it?
For market forces to be meaningful, the calculation would need to provide value to someone. At the moment the desired output is simply "a distribution which is hard to simulate classically," so assessment in terms of market value would be very premature.
LEDs are supplemental. Sunlight gives you about 1kW/m² for free, it's hard to beat that. So anything that sacrifices a large fraction of sunlight is probably a non-starter, especially during the colder seasons where you also need it to keep the glasshouse warm.
In case after case, courts reshape the rules around AI
It would be very nice to be able to use libvirt from my Mac in the same way as my Linux workstation.

I believe libvirt as such is supposed to work on macOS. Furthermore, recent versions of Qemu apparently support using macOS's Hypervisor.framework. So it seems like this should be doable, although I've not had a chance to try it myself yet.
The Miami Herald has done some great reporting on this: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/...
> What system(s) do you recommend for single-winner elections? What about Coombs' method or Condorcet systems?

Condorcet systems are, IMO, analytically ideal (that is, any system that guarantees it chooses the Condorcet winner of one exists or a member of the Smith set otherwise is.) They aren't administratively ideal, though; particularly, they aren't straightforward to tally and sum (neither is IRV, really!). For that reason, I like Bucklin despite the fact that it is not analytically ideal in results.
Definitely; he actually came to my mind but I didn't want to ruffle ideological feathers due to his neoliberal ties. Not that he should be pigeonholed as such - an excellent interview about Leon Trotsky he did with Christopher Hitchens and a Trotsky biographer comes to mind.
>marketplace amplification

this never happens, if you JUST upload your app to the store and think it will take off coz it has good features then good luck.
In reality you have to upload and then pay some app advertisement agency to feed your app to the multiple tech blogs to inorganically promote it.
App store is full of inorganically promoted trash nowadays
They didn't say 2.5 days on a laptop. They probably mean on a bunch of datacenters together. That is expensive.

Google implied their supremacy over all of the world computers combined together.
Can't it be automated?
Biking isn’t safe enough to not wear a helmet just because there have been changes to make biking less likely to have an accident. If putting on a helmet is too much work then physically moving yourself to your destination is wayyy too much work. That is to say, it isn’t too much work and it isn’t a barrier to entry. At the very least citizens should appreciate the danger of biking without a helmet even if they choose to do it. Willing the problem away because biking is good on paper isn’t good enough.
There are many problems where the best known quantum algorithm is asymptotically better than the best known classical algorithm but, as far as I've heard, nobody has ever found a case where the best quantum algorithm can be proved to be better than the best classical algorithm. So there's always going to be a danger of this happening no matter what problem you attack.
One of the things that I heard about Windows 10 was that Microsoft switched from testing on real hardware to virtualized testing and relying on end-user crash reports. If Apple did something similar, that would explain why more nonfatal bugs make it through to final release.
My website started five years ago, It didn’t get any traffic the first three years before one of my quiz went viral. Now I have around 70k followers on Pinterest.
Mega markets are limited to the suburbs from my experience living in Lausanne. Yes, people drive to get there, but if you live in a city core it’s not your concern.

Lausanne has nice cobble Stone pedestrian only zones, and it is considered more car friendly by European standards (there are lots of car commuters, and lots of people living in suburbs).
Plant-based meat startup planted foods raises 7M Series A
I came across a first-gen iPod a year or so ago while cleaning out a friend's apartment. That thing looked SO ODD. The bezels, the screen, everything was like the later models, but a weird sort of low-end simulacrum.

How time flies.
Reminds me an old boss I had who, when I reported a complicated problem, always came up with: "why don't you just write
if (problem) { solution(); }
? Should'nt take long, should it?

Well, the difficult part is not writing an if statement...
It's not ideal, but you can search for 'larger_than:5m' and it will show mail greater than 5mb in size.
Drone delivery for all last-mile problems. In fact, I want to buckle on a harness, and have an Amazon quadcopter carry me from the train station to the front door of my house.
The Epic store doesn't need to make money, they have Fortnite for that. A barebones store missing features that even the worst online marketplaces have, is just their attempt to become the new "monopoly" if they can get enough of steam's customer base. Once the platform matures and they stop throwing money at devs and giving away free games, we'll see what changes they make, if any.
> a quantum computer that can do something that a classic computer can’t do at all, not just better at it.

When speed is an aspect of the requirement, then it's something the other computer can't do.

E.g. 'complete this calculation in n days on hardware x' or 'completed this calculation with time complexity t and memory complexity m'
Exact quote from the paper: "algorithm becomes exponentially more computationally expensive with increasing circuit depth". See also figure 4b, where circuit depth scaling is graphed.
Most downtowns in the states do not have a grocery store anymore. If you only eat at restaurants (there are many fine ones around) you are fine, but forget about a home cooked meal unless you drive to the suburbs, at which point you may as well get a weeks worth of food just like everybody in the suburbs does.

Note that there are exceptions where there are stores. However before you point them out, remember that in a generalization there is specifics that are wrong. Even if there are stores, are there enough stores to cover each tiny neighborhood or do a lucky few get stores and the rest have to drive because the stores are not close enough to be useful.
His views on the topic lack nuance. First, you need to determine that the presence of male-to-female trans athletes is indeed a significant problem in a given discipline. Then, we as a society have to decide whether or not we want to do something about it, which is not necessarily a given. For example, are you aware that the top 30 male marathon runners are all from Kenya and Ethiopia? It sucks for Europeans that we apparently just can't compete at the highest level, but most people would probably argue that this is just the way it is. Finally, the actions that should be taken will depend on the sport in question.

Case in point: Rogan talks a lot about fighting. But in that particular case, we already discriminate by weight. So it might be possible to make things more fair by giving a weight penalty to male-to-female fighters that want to compete in the women's league.
I agree, as do many cyclists. Recently the city of Amsterdam enacted a law that forces them out of cycling lanes [1]. Like I wrote in another post, scooters and electric bikes don't really fit the usual modes of cycling or motorized (car) traffic, and are something in between. Adding a mode to all infra is however a large undertaking, would add a fourth mode, which is why some want to lower car speed limits in order to facilitate mixing in higher speed bicycles/scooters into car traffic.

[1] https://www.amsterdam.nl/snorfiets-rijbaan/
Isn't quantum factoring proven to be exponentially faster than the best known classical one?

The only question is we don't know if there is a better classical factoring algorithm.

Wikipedia:

> On a quantum computer, to factor an integer N, Shor's algorithm runs in polynomial time. This is almost exponentially faster than the most efficient known classical factoring algorithm, the general number field sieve, which works in sub-exponential time
As of 2nd quarter 2019 [1] rougly:

32% Energy, water and waste services

24.5% Agriculture, mining, industry, construction

12% Other services

13.5% Transport

18% Households

This is a major challenge (not only in the Netherlands) because it appears there is no one "bulk emitter" that must be tackled.

[1] https://www.cbs.nl/nl-nl/nieuws/2019/39/uitstoot-co2-hoger-i...
Well, I can assure you that seeing a game requires uPlay means I'm probably not going to buy it, and I'm not alone in that. Of course, I haven't even wanted to play an Ubisoft game since... I honestly can't remember, so I guess I'm not the target audience anyway.

> Unless the problem is that you have to have a second launcher?

That's a big part of it. I have enough crapware that insists on constantly running on my PC (a lot of it direct from MS these days, sigh).

PS: Oh yeah, and it wants me to sign up for an account too. Hooray! I don't have enough of accounts spread all over the goddamned place already.
> What election are you thinking of where majority of votes didn’t win?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_ele...

> Because if you say 2016 / electoral college, I’ll have to remind you that the winner had a fairly vast majority

If you mean the winner who lost, sure?
To the owner of this website: for the love of god, please get someone to proofread your work.
I am sure there are many others, but these three shows feature long-form interviews which feature interesting guests:

The Ezra Klein Show - Ezra Klein

Making sense podcast - Sam Harris

80000 hours podcast - Rob Wiblin

[1] https://www.vox.com/ezra-klein-show-podcast
[2] https://samharris.org/podcast/
[3] https://80000hours.org/podcast/
It doesn't in India. Something is borked about their servers internationally, updates fail on me around 30 percent of the time
Public logistics for consumer freight would be pretty awesome actually.
I know they don't understand λ_spm, I know their quantum orbit is totally fucked up. I know that they don't understand short magnetic field condition. I know their particle sizes are all off. (Reason you can' unify QM and GR btw). They are lacking the relativistic micro-curviture sourrounding the nucleus. I know they don't understand superconductor correctly, thats why the fractional quantum hall effect is a mystery. Superposition does not mean what they think (over interpretation).

Most of the ideas about Quantum-Computers can never be done. You can run certain optimizations when you can model some applications as energy states, but very limited spectrum of applications.
You might want to pay more attention to WSL2 then.

I'm a web developer who switched from Ubuntu to Windows earlier this year and WSL has very much been a "best of both worlds" solution. Continuous improvements to VS Code and Windows Terminal have made this transition very painless and WSL2 promises to eliminate most of my remaining pet peeves (e.g. improving Docker integration).

The only downside is that the filesystem is much slower but that's only a problem when compiling native software.
Thanks.

I did not know about Amazon GameLift. I guess I just used the word "fleet" to mean "a collection of similar things under unified control". (Unified control being the aim of the project.) In this case, as building block, I'm using robust, persistent reverse SSH tunnels.
https://www.ibm.com/quantum-computing/learn/what-is-quantum-...
Such a demonstration would prove nothing of importance, partly because the issue is not how fast a particular run takes, but how running time grows with the size of the problem. More significantly, the issue is whether the paper's argument for its original claim is sound, and that would be best addressed by showing where it goes wrong. For a brief and clear explanation, read this excellent post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21334025

If you don't follow what is being said there, reposting your question will not help.
Hi Dan!
What is the website? What do you sell?
That was just an example among many. Anything from alien landings to Atlantis to god knows what is fair game to Rogan.

He will gladly give his huge platform to the most complete wacko as long as it makes a good story and gets him his clicks, spreading a ton of misinformation and reinforcing common ignorant beliefs in the process.
Yes bug fixing the frigging keyboard should take at least 1 Billion. At least they would have something that types properly
The other thing we don't know is whether it's physically possible to build a quantum computer capable of it. As opposed to a theoretical ideal quantum computer.

The thing that gets smoothed over with QC is managing the error rates and the fact that it hasn't been shown to be physically possible to scale up computation without the error rates also scaling up exponentially and making the thing useless.
They are talking about 2.5 days on the world's most powerful super computer, which Google had previously claimed would take 10,000 years to complete the task.
> And Apple gives this all away for free.

$99 a year actually, plus 30% of all sales.
Thanks for the detailed response; I am not a physicist, so I didn’t catch the sleight of hand in the linear scaling claim. The timing of the “rebuttal” is almost certainly intentional, and possible because of the accidental pre-publication last month. I hope the rebuttal is indeed specious, because it’s an exciting advance; I’m sure time will tell.
Which doesn't actually matter if you're in the 96% of people that are not from the USA.

This argument "but we don't spy on USA citizens so now we're all good and ethical" doesn't make much sense to me. If a Dutch company allegedly spies on foreign customers, it really wouldn't change my (Dutch) opinion about my privacy at that company.
Banks are looking for stability in your income. A regular salaried job counts as stability. But proven bank deposits over multiple years also counts. I wouldn't shy away from self-employment just because of banks.

Source: I worked at a bank, and wrote algorithms for loan acceptance which evaluated such things.
Library validation has nothing to do with drivers.

Depends on the type of driver. For GPU drivers, it is indeed a problem.

I'm going to assume from your comment that you haven't actually written many (any?) device drivers on macOS, so let me explain roughly how GPU drivers on macOS work:

- One or more kexts provide an IOFramebuffer implementation, plus an IOAccelerator object which listens for various types of user clients. The IOFB and IOAccel are typically clients of the GPU's IOPCIDevice object and handle its interrupts and memory.

- A variety of user space plugins (essentially dynamic libraries) are loaded into any process wishing to use GPU acceleration, with different plugins for Metal, OpenGL, and so on.

The kext communicates directly with the hardware and manages memory, but the user space plugin tends to deal with the higher level tasks such as generating command streams, compiling shaders, etc., and they talk to the kernel driver using the IOKit user client mechanism. The plugins also provide the back-end implementations for the app-facing APIs such as OpenGL, Metal, and OpenCL.

In recent macOS versions, WindowServer, the process responsible for drawing your macOS desktop, has had the library-validation codesigning flag enabled. This flag enforces that any code loaded into the process must be signed using a certificate from the same Developer Team ID as the main executable or Apple's own certificate. This means, no third-party plugins can be loaded.

This also means third-party GPU drivers can't work with most Apple apps and WindowServer itself, because they require aforementioned user space plugin.

For similar reasons, classic Core Audio plugins (not to be confused with Core Audio Server Plugins) are deprecated - they used to be loaded directly into the process using Core Audio, which no longer works on apps with library-validation enabled.

Drivers which are implemented entirely as kexts or which are loaded into a "server" user space process are not affected by this, which I guess is what you were talking about.
That's a big part of the problem. Policy makers have a tendency to care more about GDP than about people. As long as the numbers look good, people are mere statistics.

Rich countries are in a better position to mitigate the effects of global warming and climate change than poor countries. Rich people will be better able to insulate themselves from the effects that do occur in their country than poor people do.

Imagine New York is about to flood. Rich New Yorkers will probably already have a house somewhere else. The poor ones won't. And they can't afford to buy a new house if their current one becomes worthless. Their jobs are also more tied to the city than those of rich people. Moving Wallstreet will cost a lot of money, but that money is there.
Damn really hate those "subscribe to read", maybe there's a link to this article without the need to subscribe?
Interesting! thanks for the link.
The government doesn't allow a fair trial, which makes them the cowards. They don't believe their case would stand the test.
Replying to myself to add this link, which explains much of the anger well: https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/334268

Note that "I was there" comment.
I have some German specific questions since I’m currently also looking into registering a company.

Which kind of business form (UG, Gmbh, einzelgewerbe) do you use? Have you used something like a „Kleingewerbe“ when you were starting out?

And how do you handle all the legal stuff? And how much time do you spend on this?
>Also removal of the app guarantees removal

My experience with malware would strongly disagree. Heck, even non-malicious programs have been known to stick around after uninstall (https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/358651/unable-to-c...).
I am a firm believer in the esports and gaming industry overall. That is why I created Mascot Logo Maker (https://mascotlogomaker.com/). If you like video games and do not mind putting in a little bit of work I think it can pay off big time gg.
Indeed. It's just that 2^53 bytes (about 10 petabytes) of storage is in fact available, so you need a few more qubits to exclude that.
“Fake” whistleblower? This is a hop and a skip away from Q-anon territory, and shouldn’t be on hn.