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I’ve noticed something different. The apps on the app store used to be good. I’m not sure how or why but the apps on the iOS app store are _terrible_. For any given function, there appears to be no good option on the app store compared to, say, iOS app store 4 years ago (or android around the same time, the last time I used it). This is entirely on apple and not the developers, as Apple are the curators and the developers have already demonstrated they can make good apps.
could you specify a bit more about what the app does and how it tends to help the environment ? Generally I would be up for it if it made sense to me
I switched from win 10 to debian-10 because of incompatibility of docker with win 10. What a pain is that to install that stuff. Its back to 1990, lets install all from the command line. Took me over a day just to get my wireless working on a acer laptop. When that was finally working, had to spend a day to delete stuff because otherwise it wont update. Sudo became my friend. Its an insane experiment for 2019.
Symbian was in trouble in 2008 - two years before Elop became CEO of Nokia. It wasn't user-friendly. Ditto for Blackberry.

iOS and Android wiped the floor with Symbian and BB in terms of ease-of-use.

"..the inscrutable difficulty of navigating menus on Nokia's Symbian phones":
https://appleinsider.com/articles/13/10/10/how-apples-iphone...
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could you clarify what you mean by "untethered from sensibility"? you make it sound like he's losing it, when really it sounds pretty coherent and his (Edward's) usual content/style.
The first few minutes sound like cold opening, so I'd expect them to be more loose. I don't usually watch the JRE though.
Been following the CSB channel for a while, but thanks for show the NTSB one.
I find it's useful to listen to those you have strong ethical disagreements with, in order to challenge your own ego and ideas.
Rubbish. There are plenty of really cool use cases for this. For example combined with the physical web you can literally walk up to something, get a notification on your phone that it exists (yes there are spam concerns), tap the notification, and control it directly through your web browser. The device doesn't need internet connectivity and you didn't need to install an app.

That's great for one-off things that you only interact with once.
I think in that case you would probably be able to formulate the problem in a different way to show that the angle arises through an exponential process (or more) and that the problem isn't truly linear.
Where does Crowder come in at all in this conversation?
IBM's response to Google called "On 'Quantum Supremacy'" has this to say:

"Because the original meaning of the term “quantum supremacy,” as proposed by John Preskill in 2012, was to describe the point where quantum computers can do things that classical computers can’t, this threshold has not been met."

In other words, "quantum supremacy" is not being used as just a buzzword.

So yeah, IBM is casting doubt on Google's claims of "quantum supremacy" because "supremacy" doesn't just mean "better than everything else."
I'm super interested in unpacking the reasons why folks think WebUSB and Web Bluetooth "can't end well" as one user here put it. Would folks mind listing their reasons? This is assuming there is some way to install a native app with access to these APIs... But if you are in the camp of "no bluetooth ever" and "no USB ever" that would be totally interesting to know as well :).
The difference is the Apple app store is not nature. They make a point of curating the app store. When the results are bad and getting worse there is only one player to blame.
No, but 2020 is!

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[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2019/10/18/meet-...
I was searching for such tools and founded a useful one Restya. Restya is a productivity and management tool specifically built around a Kanban-style workflow. Great for personal use (FREE) and scales easily to business and team use. We use it daily for managing our project workflow. I work closely with the developers, so feedback is always great.
Restya is an excellent free Trello alternative https://restya.com/board/comparison.
Even under the ridiculous dynamics of the Tacoma Narrows incident, ultimate failure took hours.

It took 4 months from construction to failure, during which time it was already flexing far more than normal.
> Only other scenario that would work is for Joe to fly over there... which probably wouldn't happen.

I wouldn’t want to see a Sean Penn/El Chapo incident[0] happen with these two.

[0] https://theintercept.com/2016/01/12/sean-penn-el-chapo-opsec...
First, it’s a professional ethics requirement. If there is the possibility of a conflict of interest in our statement, we need to disclose it to avoid misleading anyone.

In addition, there are plenty of ways to figure out where an HN member is employed besides looking at their post history. It’s not necessarily found in publicly available data, but it can be found.

Also, you have to account for future acts. Disclosing early can help insure against accusations about misconduct if you were to out yourself — or someone were to out you — later.
> Nobody needs interstate or international bicycle paths, because nobody cycles that far.

IMHO, this is 120% just a chicken and egg problem. Sure, nobody bikes that far to work, but if you build it people can and will travel large distances to visit just to go on bike tours. In my state, we have an annual event which attracts thousands in which people bike hundreds of miles from one side to the other. Rural highways are closed down/protected for bikes, but just for that one week.
I switched to using PopOS, it's completely removed the headache I previously had with Nvidia cards on Linux.
Joe is not a master interviewer. Compare him to someone who does a lot of research ahead of time and comes prepared with thought-provoking questions, and can keep pace with the deep conversations, like say a Tim Ferriss.

Joe does little research on most guests (mostly due to the sheer volume of guests I'm sure), which could be a more stylistic choice if he were a deft interviewer who could think on his feet and dig deep anyway, but he's not. He's an everyman and asks very surface-level questions. As you say guests are (usually) given wide latitude to own the mic, which works great when it's a guest with a compelling narrative. It works terribly when the guest is very ideological or has some sort of agenda they are adept at selling.

The times he does challenge a guest (sometimes way too aggressively as others in the thread have shown), oftentimes he has missed the point entirely, and the guest has to back up and try to patch the conversation. Once that happens a couple times the flow of the interview is really disturbed and it takes a long time to recover.

I like Joe as a person, and admire his discipline, but to call him a master interviewer would be as accurate as calling him a master comedian because he has been grinding so long.
That makes sense, but I took the original claim to mean what's possible. So it seems like we're comparing apples-to-oranges:

The reality of cars (single occupant) is lower-bandwidth than the fantasy of bikes (lots of bikes traveling like a school of fish). I agree with that.

But if you compare the reality of both, cars are still massively higher throughput in the US.

And if you compare the fantasy of both (fully-loaded cars vs. herds of bikes), then cars would again be higher-bandwidth.
...what does any of that have to do with Amazon? Are you just free-associating?
This is complete disinformation yet is one of the top comments?
There are other options (paid ones) that are equal —or even better since they are quite automatic— than ublock.

The only two things I'm missing in safari to be hones are:

- A no-script extension or similar.

- Sync part of my work is on a no macOS machines I don't have safari there, so no sync. I partially overcome this with bookmaster for bookmarks, but I still missing tabs and read it later list. However, firefox doesn't have this later feature on desktop —and I don't why.
IBMs response seems strong regarding "linear scaling", but could they give a complexity-theoretic argument rather than an empirical one?
I think many companies will bow to Chinese cash, the market is simply too large for them to ignore it.

I think Apple's dealing with China shows the most that even if companies and their employees have and brand themselves with progressive values ultimately this is just advertisement for westerners.
A.k.a. “concision”:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concision_(media_studies)
I agree many more people will feel more comfortable with an ebike in traffic but there are plenty of places without a plethora of ebikes and also plenty of bike commuters, but this change doesn't happen. The "feels much safer" argument is mostly about drivers respecting cyclists...which hi-viz and ebikes won't do. Hi-viz and helmet admonishments only lead to victim blaming. Hi-viz won't make me show up on a driver's phone, sadly.

In cities with reasonable 25mph speed limits and traffic calming then riding around with a regular bike works fine. EBikes are only icing on the cake for some people but I disagree that this is a simple single technical fix (i.e. more ebikes).
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> I'm imagining biking down Market St, 8 months pregnant, with a toddler seat and two kids in tow. That's a lot of faith that nobody's going to open a car door at the wrong time or pull out into traffic without looking

That's why it's important to ride where one can be easily seen. That means riding in the middle of the general purpose lane and not off to the side in a narrow bike lane within the "door zone".

I ride with my three kids (one in the rear child seat and two in the trailer) in the middle of the lane and never had problems with car doors or vehicles suddenly pulling out without seeing me.
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"There is a baseline standard of quality in journalism that a majority of the educated public still requires, populist Newspeak notwithstanding. If you read news without scrutinizing it, and without holding it to such a standard, you are guaranteed to read and accept things that aren't true."

This is largely true concerning any publication. Every publication will have at least a random OpEd that is basically trash.

"When the editors at a publication exhibit a pattern of such sloppy, deliberately misleading journalism, and when that pattern happens to perfectly fit a specific political narrative..."

Oh, come now. Almost every newspaper fits their articles comfortably into the Overton window, thus by definition being a specific political narrative. Even those that don't, will break it only to make a specific political point. Maybe the "specific political narrative" is "trust us" or "everything is fine". That's still a political narrative. Is that deliberately misleading? Maybe when you examine the level of control they have over the populous, yes.
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The everse network effect driven by:

1) Ambition for kids to get into the right preschool so they can get into Harvard or whatever, causing more parents to put their kids in 'enriching' scheduled activities.

2) Unreasonable fear fueled by the media. Ironically, stranger child abduction gas been declining steadily for decades and is at an all time low.

This has effectively removed more free range kids to the point now that if you wanted your kids to go play outside, they wouldn't find any other kids out there to play with.

This is why I call it a reverse network effect. The value in playing outside for a kid is now lower since there are fewer potential playmates out there.
You are correct, rereading my post I did not say what I meant to say. What I meant to refer to was the book value of the reserves that are not extracted. You stated

> 80%+ of their reserves, and therefore their book value, must stay in the ground.

That statement, to me, clearly says the oil that "must stay in the ground" is worthless, and demonstrates that you do mean permanently. If you didn't, the book value of the company would not fall by the same amount as the fraction of reserves, because those reserves still have diminished value at lower rates of production.
Public transport and bikes can both be important, the key is cars have been first everywhere for 100 years and both public transport and bikes are massively harmed by the huge incentives given to cars.
The onty thing I am missing is Lockwise quick access button plugin. Now if I have to search for password, I have to open separate tab.
Yeah, I’ve noticed he likes to do this around issues I imagine are red meat for his audience (e.g. the rights of trans people). It really detracts from what are otherwise decent interviews.
Microsoft is moving away from that model. The cost of rapid release cycles for Windows is dropping the testing and compatibility work that was done in the past.

You see the impact on a few things like Office and SCCM today. As the legacy windows platforms fade, it will become a thing in other areas. My guess is you’ll see more “fixed in Azure only” scenarios to drive demand for those products, and act as a sales funnel for complementary services.
> Just

It's never "just".

In the case of email, you've not only got to back it up into a usable form but remove the old ones from gmail in order to get the free space back. And then it's no longer in your gmail interface.
Like the guy said in the blog post, though, they don't have company wide hiring standards. Their service design is superb (and we should probably note, the service design is very close to the purchase point), but doesn't translate necessarily to their UX.
I remember doing my first hackintosh, due to an attempt at a startup where we wanted to have a iOS and OSX client.

The documentation blew me away, nicely packaged with XCode, and made it really look like a platform that would care about developers, especially given how niche it was.

That was 10.6 time.

Currently, I have a Mac forced on me by company. I look at docs... and they are the same docs I remember, with bits missing, a "deprecated banner" from 5 years ago. Deprecation notices give no information what APIs one should use in place, or where new documentation is.
Do you use any of these in a browser: facebook, instagram, youtube, gmail, whatsapp, github, gitlab?
> why can't we spend less than that to avoid the problem

We can, and we are. That's why I do what I do.

You're absolutely right, it is much cheaper to avert climate change than deal with the consequences. It's also necessary to transition to sustainable energy eventually because we will run out of fossil fuels regardless of what happens with the climate.

The solutions to climate change are being worked on right now by many talented people around the world. I'm confident we will reach the IPCC SR15 1.5 degree Celsius goals.
It would be totally against the spirit of HN, but hypothetically, if you had a Patreon for HN comments, you'd have at least one patron here.

I agree and second 'pcwalton here. I don't always agree with what you write, but I always appreciate seeing it here, you have one of the best insight to comment length ratio.
Not OP, but some reasons could be:

What happens if he gets banned by Adsense?

In many countries, people don't understand the concept of lifestyle business (even if it brings multiples of salary in revenue, like this case). It is considered "prestigious" and safe to have a job (It doesn't make sense, but it is how it is).
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Are there mail forwarding services that cater to people in your situation? Would you pay $10-$15 plus typical US-to-Australia shipping costs for this service? I guess I'm wondering if this is a business opportunity for someone to provide a US delivery address and then forward the mail abroad.
> release a prototype after 2-6 weeks

I'm in the situation where my product overlaps significantly with others but brings (IMO) some missing features and a better overall experience. I would love to launch quickly but feel I need some feature parity with competitors first.
Is it correct that the claim “that it can still best classical computers on some subset of these tiny problems” based on classical computers simulating quantum circuitry to compute those problems?

I’m wondering if there is some other way the problem could be computed without having to simulate qubits.
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From Gmail, GDocs, to Gdrive, I’m very dependent on Google. I know Google isn’t going anywhere but things happen or accounts get disabled.

What’s your contingency plan?
Another anime series that asks big questions is Serial Experiments Lain.

It's about a young girl who gets into computers and learns about a parallel world of networked communication called the Wired. The Wired is like VR/AR/internet/chat rooms all in one.

It's only 13 episodes, so it's not a huge time investment, but really interesting. It covers computer hackers, Vannevar Bush's Memex, and more. It's also a bit like a David Lynch story, as it has its own dream logic that doesn't always correspond to what you expect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_Experiments_Lain
More like #97 here - http://www.justinzoll.com/microscopiclandscapes

I set Sulfamic Acid 3 as wallpaper.
Capitalism or just bankers and other usurers?
Presuming you want or need to get ahead - and you should carefully examine the reasons why you do.
There is usually a cost to getting up.

Horizontal moves are acceptable and sometimes even optimal.
It should be classified by acceleration not velocity.

Weight and velocity are also important (potential energy which could cause harm) but acceleration is the right way to sort things into lanes, there can also be an energy constraint for the lane but acceleration is about being able to anticipate the behavior of something so that you can avoid the accident in the first place.

Electric bikes can accelerate fast and the user will also not care as much about stopping (and losing hard won inertia) this could invalidate some expectation and cause an accident.
First things to do on a new windows 10 install are run the decrapifier.ps1 and install classic shell.

Problem solved.
It is a shame that the default is so garbage but there's an easy solution.
They use different "algorithms", so solving a problem can be done in very different ways for a quantum and a classical computer. Comparing the number of operations per second does not make sense because the advantage of quantum algorithms lies in the fact, that they can achieve the same results with (exponentially) fewer operations.
The lamp is not a programmable light-processor that can compute arbitrary computation using light, but Sycamore is (though it's very small).

The trouble is we don't know many (any?) interesting algorithms to run on such processors. We can factor prime numbers using Shor's algorithm, but the numbers we can factor with 54 qubits are so small that our best non-quantum algorithms on our best non-quantum computers far outperform them. No supremacy is demonstrated. It's only when one takes problems that are ideally suited to run on this processor that it outperforms classical computers.

Even with the deck stacked this way, it's taken until 2019 for it to be done for the first time! It's a very, very early milestone.
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This kind of issue makes me think I should believe all most nothing. When I know the topic and then know how wrong they got it then I assume that the same is true for all the experts in other topics. I suppose I only have a sample of 1, the topic I know, but I have zero samples of the opposite where some expert tells me "they totally got it correct"
there’s 30 minute commutes in san diego, la and sf if you live in the right areas. what about weather? cali has really nice weather. schools / doctoral candidates / etc are basically useless in the real world. if i’m making enough money the free flights are useless. nothing you said here makes me want to move to the middle of the US. exactly what i’m looking at is the lack of opportunity. say i decide to move for some job and hate it. now what? pick up the family and move again?
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> Nobody needs interstate or international bicycle paths, because nobody cycles that far.

Yes, they do. There is a whole series of trans-Europe routes, the Eurovelo network, and some of them are downright crowded with whole families in the summer.

I do some cycling every summer in Serbia and Bulgaria and my route sometimes intersects the Eurovelo 6. It is often a crap shoot if I am going to find accommodation in the smallest towns, because the rooms might all be booked by French and Germans on a cycling holiday along the length of the Danube.
Sure, but why the big difference between Wifi and Bluetooth? You can reach your Wifi devices from your browser. People do not argue that they want a separate application to do so. They use the same application to reach the internet versus the devices on their LAN.
I'm really happy to find this (honestly, I haven't been looking that hard in the past - just assuming that spreadsheets were the best approach). The site looks really polished - well done.
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Love - revealed to us that our constitutional rights were being absolutely trampled to death.

Hate - revealed to the world endless amounts of national security data that was not directly relevant to these constitutional encroachments.
Except the "singular they" doesn't exist and in basically a forced change of spoken language by a minority who thinks forcing people is a great way to accomplish things
Let's not forget Florida - or is its problem that reality sometimes strains credibility?.
The quality of the original "Inside Macintosh" books was the main reason I started programming on the Mac back in the day, and lost interest in the Amiga.
This is an infuriating topic to read about because everybody seems to be varying levels of uninformed.

I worked at Nokia's R&D facility in Ruoholahti briefly in 2011, so I got inducted into the inner sanctum of history regarding the phones.

Symbian was designed for very anemic hardware, there were very tight constraints it's a marvel that the thing ran on what it did. The iPhones first CPU was at least an order of magnitude (and then double it again) more powerful than what Symbian was designed on.

the iPhone, famously did not meet any of the internal tests at Nokia, no drop test, battery life tests nor usability tests for blind people passed at all.

Basically from all avenues it looked dead on arrival.

However, it was obviously _not_ dead on arrival, and so Nokia started looking at things from a "UX first" perspective, the engineering culture was still around though, so, not a major "product" team or graphics design team to be found on the floors of the R&D facility.

But they started this effort _after_ the iPhone had launched, and these projects take a long time.

That's what Maemo was. And it was later merged with Intels efforts and named MeeGo. And everyone who used that system seemed to really enjoy it.

It was, indeed, killed in its crib by Elop. Although to be truly fair, the iPhone and Android were very incumbent at that point.

Symbian was considered obsolete or deprecated internally, not for lack of very intelligent design, but because people seemed to care for things other than that Nokia had believed people cared for.