skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is nowhere close to breaking PKI algorithms. The quantum algorithm that can break PKI (Shor’s algorithm) will require processors of hundreds or possibly thousands of qubits. This 53-qubit processor is the current state of the art, and there are huge engineering and interference challenges to overcome as the qubit count increases.

As for where we are with Shor’s algorithm, it works by figuring out the prime factors of an integer (which is how RSA keys are constructed). In 2001, IBM factored the number 15 (into 3 x 5) using a quantum computer with 7 qubits. In 2012, they were able to factor 21 into 3 x 7, which is currently the largest number factored using Shor’s algorithm.

Given that cryptographic keys run into the hundreds and thousands of bits, Shor’s algorithm isn’t going to be a threat anytime soon. But note, too, that it’s focused on RSA, which is the original PKI algorithm. Newer algorithms exist which aren’t threatened by Shor’s algorithm, and work is already underway to develop new quantum-resistant PKI algorithms.

We’ll hear about it when low-bit RSA is easily cracked. And for several years it will be good enough to just increase bit lengths to stay ahead of it. Given all of that, I’d expect it’ll be 20-30 years before quantum computers are a threat to today’s PKI. And by then, PKI will be 20-30 years on from what it is now.
”When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal.”

- Richard Nixon

The attitude is not a new phenomenon at all.
This was a great AMA, Steph is awesome!
I feel like you're picking one thing you feel strongly about and disagree with to discredit the entire show. I don't agree with a lot of what Rogan believes, but I feel this is an unfair characterization of him and his show.
What's wrong with Jordan Peterson? I think he's vastly misrepresented.
Ah, 30% of the ~3 billion Tinder or any successful business is worth it for "band width"? Yeah, no. Not sure how this even became a norm for people to look so blindly. It's absolutely insane to even think about.. we're almost talking about 1 3rd of the entire business value for hosting!?
As a standalone word, yes. The expression is, nevertheless, "bury the lede", and always* has been.

* since the 1970s when it first surfaced.
What apps do this? How do they distribute on iOS without the App Store?
I see what you did there...well played even if it were unintentionally ^_^ haha!
I'm pretty sure he said he was now a professional speaker and then he meandered in monotone for 20 straight minutes, seemingly oblivious. I couldn't help but cringe a little.
String Melody
There are markets where it pays less - see Warsaw.
Do you see the "Try out the Brave Browser" button on the main page ?

It redirects towards this page: https://brave.com/bat684

I get payed by Brave Software around 5$ for each user that download the browser and use it for at least 30 days
When my wife was having issues with OneDrive I built a small tool which used the API to back up all the files to an external drive, avoiding the OneDrive sync system entirely. Worked quite well. I imagine similar things might be useful for people wanting to back up other cloud accounts.

You can do a Google Takeout but that's huge and therefore painful to do frequently.
Is it? It's a global configuration change in a text file that doesn't exist by default.
Emphasis on 'evil' here.
“Playing politics” is is largely empathy and communication skills. Giving people what they want is actually not intuitive because, again, people are generally bad at communicating what they want. It’s common to hear people maligned for being “political players” but I’ll be honest; if you’re bad at office politics, it generally implies you don’t have people’s confidence, trust, and friendship- often because you’re fixated on the idea that work should stand for itself and not recognizing the massive importance that is working with others.

Being a dick with your influence is a different concept
Norbert Wiener pointed this out 60 years ago, re: US military secrecy during WWII.
Disable websearch, and just start typing right away.

I agree that a lot of Win10 defaults are derpy. But just tune it a bit and its reasonably power user friendly. Maybe not what you want to support personally, but sufficient for professional use.
I'm sure you mean infeasible. "Impossible" goes back to a problem's decidability. If a problem is undecidable, there's no way you're going to find its solution by switching computational models; classical computers can do anything a quantum computer can do, just "slower".
But parent was stating something very different, that today quantum factoring is only asymptotically better that classical one, when that is clearly not the case.
That's a fair point. Maybe the technical language isn't very friendly to a wide audience, that hadn't occurred to me. I'm trying to keep a wide perspective, but I might just be fanboying.
This. Thanks for sharing. May I ask did you feel demotivated in those 3 years? How you kept up and what motivated you to keep on working on that.
TSMC's N7 EUV Yield Dropped Below 70% Claims Report
It's exactly the spirit of the test; the missing element is that the circuit they're emulating can scale in qubits. So the question is, if you add one cubit, what happens? Can classical computers keep up? The tests were run on a range of cubits with 50+ being the largest number, which is where the 10,000 year claim comes from. Anything further than that just isn't feasible to compute on classical computers, because they don't scale like that.

So why is this in the spirit of the test? Because this means that there are some problems that can only be efficiently solved by quantum computers. So this establishes "supremacy" in the sense that while a quantum computer can efficiently solve any classical computing problem, a classical computer cannot solve any quantum computing problem.

The distance between having this proof-of-concept and having meaningful speedups on real problems that cannot be matched by classical computers is very large; all this tells you is that it's possible, and looking more might not be a waste.
The initial sales pitch was that it was enough at the time, and the free space would grow as the years went by, so you'd never run out.

Sure enough, I'm way beyond my 1GB initial limit now. I just tried to clean things up yesterday (deleting large items from Gmail and Drive), and even once I exclude the stuff from Drive, it seems like I'm over 10GB of my 15GB.

So for now, it's still true... But it seems less and less likely that it will remain true. Certainly I'm already worrying about it.

That said, I find the interface so much better than the competition that I would pay the $2/mo for 100gb to keep it working. Or find a way to delete a lot of emails that should have been deleted long ago, but I followed their "archive everything" pattern with.
There is a big difference between Observation (which is what Snowden is doing) and Analysis (followed by Solutions). It's not healthy to confuse the two.

Snowden is pointing out an issue. And he has done it with courage that I massively respect. You hardly see it these days. And that makes it anxiety and fear inducing, as the solutions are unknown.

But think of it this way - tomorrow someone might hand you a diagnosis of cancer. You can freak out about it or you can find a Cancer specialist to see what options are available. Asking the technician who gave you the report what the odds are, doesn't make any sense. He knows only how to create the report.

In this case just look to history, to understand how these things play out. History is the Oncologist.

Intelligence agencies have hard problems to deal with. On top of it, they are giant bureaucracies which means cockups, incompetence, turf wars, hiding issues are the norm. All that amplifies the problems, causes defensiveness, over-reactions and reactions to reactions.

If you read the history (and these days there are tons of resources) this sequence of events (of overreach) has unfolded a thousand times. There are a whole bunch programmes that have been shutdown because one group or the other got carried away or did damage. That history (in out current environment of over information/disinformation/misinformation) is what will always be a source of hope and faith.
> Would you download random native programs and give them hardware access?

No. But I wouldn't grant a "random" website hardware access either.

A reputable native program with a legitimate reason for requesting hardware access though? Sure. Why shouldn't I be able to do the same for a reputable website?
> This is possible only if those people you disagree with don't have power over you

This certainly must be false, or parenting wouldn't work.

I've taken many, maybe even most lessons and ego checks from people more powerful than me.
Indeed these don't have anything to do with quantum computers, but it does have something to do with quantum supremacy, because quantum supremacy is a claim about both quantum computers and classical computers.

Google chose an algorithm exponential in circuit depth as the best classical algorithm in order to establish quantum supremacy. IBM demonstrated (as you agree) it is in fact not the best classical algorithm. IBM is entirely correct to point this out.
Good for you! Hope your business prospers
And also... light grey text on a white background? Are they trying to get us to use their product just to read their website? I got the urge to scan it to improve the contrast.
Defining an Auction Marketplace
It is worth noting that governments may not act in good faith if they know that new laws will, for the most part, retrograde prior contracts.
That's not really what I was getting at. I've implemented the password lookup before. That protects users from setting passwords that have already been compromised.

The scenario I was looking at was..

User signs up with Site A with Password 1.

User signs up with Nest with Password 1.

Site A gets compromised.

Nest couldn't know if you'd used the same password on each site. The only way they could know is if they used the same hashing algo with the same salt or SHA-1 with no salt. Highly unlikely.

I suppose Nest could check the Pwned Passwords API every time they logged in, but I haven't seen anyone deploy that yet, IIRC all solutions I've seen check Pwned Passwords API when the set the password. Setting a password and checking a password are often different systems.
Sure, but 'phone-use' while cycling (thanks ;)) is the number two reason bikes cause lethal accidents for themselves or other bicycles, i.e. it's a big deal.

Source (in Dutch): https://www.volkskrant.nl/nieuws-achtergrond/fietsers-voor-h...
There are a surprising amount of Catalyst API documents that literally just have the function name and no description of what it does and an empty page.
>A personal NAS doesn't have the seamless backup of cloud storage>

Synology has various plug-in's/apps that with either synchronize with cloud storage options (i.e. DropBox, OneDrive, etc.) - or backup to cloud storage.

(No, I am not shilling, just been a happy customer of theirs for about 7-years, store about 20tb on my local 5-bay NAS)
For multiple reasons:

- There's basically no competition, except maybe other hobbyists that trade or sell their excess plants (which is basically what I do, but with a website).

- UK residents represent less than 10% of my customers.

- I don't have a lot of stock. For some species I sometimes only have 1 of them available over the span of a few months.

- It would just cost too much to keep them alive in another country before selling them. Some of the plants I sell require very specific conditions and a lot of knowledge about them to keep them alive.

- It's totally out of the scale of what I'm doing, remember that this is a thread about one-person business. I do not want too many customers otherwise I will just run out of personal time (I'm doing all the packaging after work hours)

It's just really not worth it or even possible for me. If some UK resident really wants to buy a lot of plants from me, then I can request a phytosanitary certificate from the government (costs around 100€, and includes an inspection).
PostGIS 3.0.0
Thanks for this clear explanation of the issue! This looks to me like a convincing rebuttal of the specific claim Google made about classical runtime at this particular size, but does it rule out Google claiming supremacy by using the problem constrained such that n == m? Or would Google's device have exponential runtime growth in that variant?
Quantum supremacy is more about quantum computers being able to do something that classical computers could never do (1). I think that's the heart of the controversy. I'm quite sure Quantum has already proved faster for certain use cases already (2)

1. https://twitter.com/NatureNews/status/1186969282632134656?re...
2. https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.05803
Which is why you shouldn't be making the decisions.
EPYC's Chinese Counterpart, Hygon C86, Takes No.1 Spot in Cryptography Benchmark
This isn’t just because you have a good FAQ, it’s because it’s relatively expensive. The more expensive your product is the more likely people are to respect it and you, and to be the kind of professionals who actually read to find answers to things. Yet another reason to charge more.
How to not rewrite it in Rust
When I was moving a year and a half ago, without a car something like that would have come in handy. Every one or 2 weeks I would see a piece of second-hand furniture I could have used, but had no way of getting it to my new home. I could have payed for the furniture, but didn't have the money for movers or to rent a truck every time I found something.
Awesome work. What does your overhead look like roughly?
I think it needs to have another citation. What if the future can SOMETIMES be predicted with absolute certainty?
How did you find the product?
And how long did it take you to generate your first revenue? (From the initial idea to the first user/euros)

Basically how do you get started with such a venture as yours?
To be clear, I did that because I wanted the convenience of having Leapin to also have access to my accounts so they'd handle my invoicing and expenses without any significant trouble for me (ie. sending them the account movements periodically). Originally I had an electronic payments account in a Finnish bank and for that I didn't have to travel anywhere but I needed a full bank account so I'd be able to pay dividends into it so I went there. If I just wanted to pay myself via salary I wouldn't have needed to travel there at all but I'd rather my income be via dividends than via a salary because of tax purposes in my country of residence.

That said, I could've used a business account opened in other banks (including outside of Estonia) to do that but I'd be missing out on the convenience that is them having access to the account.
Even so, elsewhere on this thread someone pointed out that space is almost entirely empty space, and so, with the exception of hitting the moon or the sun, the chance of any arbitrary infinite straight line projected from Earth actually hitting something is vanishingly small.
Where is Notepad in Windows 10? (2015)
The website is in the jewelry/gemstone space. The traffic is all organic and nets a few thousand dollars per month with no marketing, though could grow significantly with marketing and/or social media. Email is in my profile if you are interested.
Semver Failing the Developers
That has been known as a bad arrangement since Ancient Greece given the Paradox of the Court and related satirical plays.

Lawyer jokes are ancient it seems.
I'm not saying apple takes you from 0 to millions of downloads, I'm saying that the marketplace does find you new customers. I buy/subscribe to lots of stuff that I find through the editor callouts or through organic search and Apple has a probably wildly inflated number for how much they drive downloads, but its definitely higher than 0%.
You can. That's how I manage it. larger:3M smaller:4M (for example).
There's this free, open-source app called Slimbox, that lets you do exactly that: https://rok.strnisa.com/slimbox/
Research Guide: Image Quality Assessment for Deep Learning
AI, bot or robots these 3 can rule every human.
> (~== Not necessarily equal to. Did I just invent that?)

Instead of inventing new operators in your sentences, you can also just stick with plain English
Most companies could chop an entire layer of middle management, perhaps many layers, and get an instant boost in productivity and happiness. I wonder if there’s any mechanism for workers and senior management to make this happen and share the rewards.
Well, I mean, "do" is an English word, "de" is an Esperanto word and "di" is an Indonesian word. I'd rather they get marked as wrong in the wrong language. (If I'm mixing languages, which I do on my phone often enough in text messages, whatever; but then I don't care about spelling anyway.)
I install far more programs/apps using Homebrew than AppStore or direct links for most things, wish more paid apps where that way.
Your Day with Encryption
> bikes accelerate 0-10 faster than anything else

As a cyclist, I don't believe this claim for a second.

When a car starts moving at the same time as me, it's faster than me from the start. Which makes sense, it has more horse power per unit mass.

Often I do start moving first, because I think I'm less likely to get right hooked if I do so. But that's a result of paying attention and having my for on the "accelerator" waiting to go. (Also maybe a tiny bit of lag for a car to get into gear, but that's not substantial).
I love the irony of this: I open the article and start reading. I am told that Google lured us in w/ free storage, but now I'm going have to pay since I've used so much storage. Then, a popup is overlaid on the article and the text is hidden. The popup says this article isn't actually free. I've read too many free articles on Bloomberg and now I'm going to have to pay for a subscription to keep reading.

I don't know what to take away from this other than the reminder that every public company has a duty to shareholders to take people's money! That's the function of a company: profit. What do we really expect here?
I think the point is to get the average beginner dev frustrated and not make macos apps. They've been pruning the platform slowly but surely for quite some time now

ipad seems to be their focus for "pro" stuff now. Now that iPad apps can run on macos i think that's a clear sign that if you want to make a macos app - don't bother, make an ipad app
Real whistleblowers: Snowden, Kiriakou, Binney, Drake, Manning, Winner. Notice a theme of career loss, prison, total life upheaval, and a press that DGAF.

Fake whistleblower: still works for CIA, whistleblowing has purely political rather than administrative effects, and ongoing adulation in the press.

If you don't want to see this on HN, then downvote and move on.
I think you can use a IMAP client like Thunderbird to clean it up.

(I say "think" because while I use a gmail account in my email client, I only use it to receive notifications from Google, so no wild folder/tags setup, and I never check the webmail to see if it matches the emails I see in Thunderbird)
There are a couple of huge differences. You don't have financially anything to gain by that, and you are not influencing the opinions of a huge number of people in the process.

There is already so much scientific ignorance in the general public, there is so much misrepresentation of science already.

A ton of people actually believe thinks like the Earth is flat, Joe many times gives a voice to that type of quacks for clicks.

His podcast many times acts as a vehicle for spreading ignorance, other than that yes its entertaining and people should know better. But often they don't and that's the problem.
"the iPhone, famously did not meet any of the internal tests at Nokia..."

So, Nokia saw it as an inferior product?

Perhaps this is a problem in engineer-led companies - thinking that the phone with the most megapixels in its camera, or most wifi bands is the best?

Technical brilliance counts for nothing if consumers don't want the product. See also Windows Phone, Betamax, etc
I co-founded a beehive monitor startup with my brothers in New Zealand (they run it now): https://hivemind.nz

It's an electronic device that sits underneath your beehives and weighs the amount of honey in the hive, sending data back via satellite modem (because beehives are often remote, so cellular doesn't always work). It also measures a bunch of other important stuff important for bee health: temperature, humidity, bee activity.
On the contary, gamers are relentlessly abused by shitty marketplaces who proactively defraud their users.

Steam's history = sued by consumer watchdogs in Australia for denying ~20,000 lawful refunds. This went on worldwide for 10+ years of blatent theft and shutting down user accounts for chargebacks, and they got away with it everywhere except Australia - maybe 5% of their users and victims. This is the only reason they offer refunds today, using dark patterns like "refunds are outside of the steam client" to keep the fraudy little flame alive.

https://variety.com/2018/gaming/news/valve-australia-fine-12...

GOG's refund policy is you must install additional software on your computer so they can prove the game will open so they can deny a refund. This is an illegitimate reason to deny refunds to consumers in many countries. It's a fake refund policy that is "designed to not give refunds" which is exactly the fraud that got Valve in trouble but continuing for years later.

https://support.gog.com/hc/en-us/articles/115000487189-GOG-C...
Investing in customer engagement can double revenue
Why do you not see mobile the same as general purpose computer? What's the difference besides form factor?
I like how this is a very simple way to explain to NON-technical people how much encryption plays a role in their daily lives.
All he has done is repackage some pretty basic self-help advice into a gross right-wing ideology. I don't think this has any value.
I've had a few really good managers over the years and in all cases I wouldn't have wanted their jobs - yes they had power over me, but they always communicated clearly and asked for my input when appropriate, set clear goals and (most importantly) acted as a political shield while the rest of us were doing our jobs of getting stuff done.

Mind you - have had awful managers as well - but fortunately not very many and not for a long time.

Edit: I should also add that I've certainly been an awful manager at times....
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What would be "organic promotion" in your mind? You're right that you can't just throw something out there and expect it to get popular. Either you've gotta pimp it out to tech blogs and forums in the hopes that people notice it or you pay someone else to handle it.
I feel like the "hardware is a commodity" ideal seems to conflict with this paragraph from the author:

> There are some other luxuries I've lost in the transition. For instance, if I want to plug in a USB microphone, headphones, and two displays to my computer all at once, I'll have to do some configuration through the command line to make them work correctly. Even getting the mouse to move the way I intend isn't as easy as Mac and Windows make it. Doing all these things is possible; it's just more work.

Reinstalling everything sounds like a pain if you have to mess around like that to get basic hardware working.
YARA - Yet Another Regex App
Interesting! Any pointers or code you wouldn't mind sharing on how to do something like this myself? Thanks.
> how he went on how you should destroy yourself in training, and always go 110%

I've been listening to him forever and watch MMA every single weekend. I have hard time imagining him saying this. Infact, one of his MMA pet peeves is over training.
people are stupid to think hacker typer is a real thing
Sorry about that. It should be working now