skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A personal NAS doesn't have the seamless backup of cloud storage. IMO your hardware is much more likely to fail than you are likely to get locked out of your Google account, even if the latter happens to some people. And even if you have backups, now you need to buy new hardware, reinstall, restore, while life is still going on, and during which your data is unavailable. I'd love to not depend on a huge cloud provider but I haven't found a DIY solution that matches the convenience and seamlessness. There are a few rare could sync products that claim client side encryption (SpiderOak, ResilioSync & Tresorit) but they're not fully integrated with Chromebooks, Android and/or iOS. (Right now I'm using a jury-rigged combination of SpiderOak for backup and Resilio Sync for sync, but it's kind of a hack. This is not a compensated endorsement, LOL.)
Factor of safety in the way that most people understand it has gotten increasing difficult to tease out since the switch to load and resistance factor design (LRFD) over allowable stress design (ASD) for most structures. I think timber is the only one which still defaults to ASD for permanent construction.

But the short version of the story is that for LRFD there are two main factors which affect “factor of safety” in the traditional sense (eg - structural capacity / structural demand) which are load factors and resistance factors (as you’d guess). Load factors increase applied forces while resistance factors decrease assumed strengths. Load factors vary depending on the type of load but typically they’re between 1.2 to 1.6. Resistance factors vary based on failure mechanism under consideration and are between 0.6 to 0.9 for structural work.

So the range is 1.2/0.9 to 1.6/0.6 or ~1.35 to ~2.75.

There are secondary sources of additional factors of safety. For example, material properties assumed in design are the minimums that are allowed and so chances are you’ll get something on site that exceeds by 25-50% or so because nobody wants to deliver material that doesn’t meet the minimums and open themselves to claims liability. There’s also a redundancy factor which is touched on in the report where loads are increased if no redundant load path exists, for concrete there’s some additional caps/limitations on a couple values due to time effects like creep, etc.

I would say most modern construction has an overall factor of safety of 3-5 with bleeding edge construction sitting at around 2 and public works construction (utilities or highways - things where architects aren’t involved) at over 5.
I probably have the biggest personal public wiki at this point. Over 720 files and 13,000+ lines across all the files.

All files: https://github.com/nikitavoloboev/knowledge/blob/master/SUMM...

The way I did it was by treating the wiki as extension of my brain and having a perfect workflow for editing it at a speed of thought. In my case it's Sublime Text + Alfred + some macros.

https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/other/wiki-workflow

In fact I recently started to use my wiki to host article drafts I am writing.

https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/fragments

The best thing about having a wiki is the 'in progress' nature of it. Soon I plan to extend my Alfred workflow to access any link inside any of the files in seconds too.

https://github.com/nikitavoloboev/alfred-my-mind
FYI: https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/bury-the-lede-...

I'll keep using the actual word , thank you.
Today in Apple history: Apple puts 1k songs in your pocket with first-gen iPod
This discussion triggered in me the question, "Obviously, I can't just stick a meter probe in the ground [as I'd be measuring the dominant resistance of that probe rather than the grounding rod in series]. So, how would I reasonably measure the resistance of an earth connection?" I came up with the (mildly hazardous) solution of putting a 120VAC line from the power company supply down the ground rod and measuring the current flow back to the PoCo (grounded) neutral conductor and then went googling.

There are a few other (safer) ways that might interest HN readers, so sharing this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg6G5VUSsWA
This quantum computer is not nearly powerful enough to break cryptography right now.

To better understand the difference is kind of how they've just invented computers that use transistors and can do some basic math calculations much faster than previous calculating machines, and someone asks "Okay, so when will we be able to play 3D games on this thing?"
When iPhone arrived in Europe it was disappointment for people who used smartphones. It had few things going for it (better web browser than default IE Mobile on PDAs, better screen than many), and long list of "works worse".

Starting with the basic things that everyone who invested in smartphones at the time wanted, i.e. email, going through hilariously high cost (the reason behind it known only to insiders - Apple was in full rent-seeking mode, and required a portion of your phone bill as payment for being able to use iPhone. Not joking, that's why there were special iPhone-only tarriffs), it lacked physical keyboard, copy&paste, and a bunch of other things. iPhone 2G was also slower at running iOS 1.0 "applications" than higher end Nokia symbian phones (that used the same webkit core in browser).

Symbian devices were well known, and were more commonly considered "smartphones", as "palmphones" generally only got interest from people who really needed the power (a bit of chicken&egg issue).
If the software I want is on it then I use it, while Mac App Store is an inferior experience to a downloaded app + update framework like Sparkle I've found Microsoft Store far superior to software updaters and installers that usually ship on Windows and it works much faster and smoother than the Mac App Store which is very janky.
This had been a consistent problem with quantum computers - - they come up with a quantum computer that can basically do one thing and compare it against a general piece of software not tuned for that problem. Once the software is tuned for the exact problem it is much closer in performance to the quantum computer. The same thing arises with dwave.
I'll second this one. Most of the people in my office who watch anime have all said that SEL played a part in their path in life. It's fun to watch, it has some great artwork, and it's still surprisingly relevant. Just don't expect it to make sense for a long time.
Bowling? I never bowled much, but my son's friends (a group now thirty or just over) seemed to enjoy bowling together now and then.

And volleyball and softball can be played at a variety of levels of skill.
Mandating the use of Envoy is a pretty big limitation, definitely something you should document.

(Right now stuff I touch tends to use haproxy, varnish, nginx, or Amazon ELB for load-balancing / proxying /routing. No envoy at all.)
Well the word creeps me out and I wish they would choose another.

It isn’t even the right word to use since the intended meaning is a quantum computer that can do something that a classic computer can’t do at all, not just better at it.

Quantum Possible sounds better to me.
Depending on the issue, it may not be something that it’s appropriate to ask forgiveness for. For instance, “I made a porn video with my high school boyfriend and it leaked to the internet” is a mistake, not an injury done to the now-husband. Same with “I got pregnant in college and had an abortion.” Or “I was addicted to painkillers long before we met and stole money from friends and family, but I’m 100% clean now.”
Repeating my question from the other thread:

If IBM can cast doubt by describing a 2.5 day classical run, why not just do that instead, and blow the claim out of the water?

There were a couple of responses (thanks) but I still don't understand - it looks like it's not as easy as they imply.
Hey! Been using pinboard for years, so I love it/huge thanks... but please make the web UI a responsive layout so that it's usable on mobile. :-)

(I use the Android apps, and recently flipped from PinDroid to Pinkt, and both are usable but not enjoyable. The Pinkt UX looks great, it's just slow on all my bookmarks. If you don't like Android, maybe do a mini-partnership with the Pinkt guy to polish it into a great experience.)
So many great points. Bikes are the number one carbon cutting technology we need to scale up.
Donut shop might be a better example of a food business that tends to work. They open before other most other restaurants. It works well as takeout. The product has wide appeal. The starting price is low. Businesses and community organizations buy in bulk.

Perhaps most importantly, opening early filters out "my dream is opening a coffee shop" approaches. "Time to make the donuts" is o-dark-thirty. It's a business were just showing up goes further.
Don't you find that whole pretending part to be unethical? With those kind of revenues it shouldn't be hard to either hire 2 and make factual claims, or just drop the whole we're-a-team claim.

I can't imagine that building a foundation on these kind of lies towards your clients is going to be sustainable in the long run?
By all means, is 64 million shippments in 2006, the year before iPhone came to the market enough?

https://www.canalys.com/newsroom/64-million-smart-phones-shi...

Incredible how iOS fanbase tries to rewrite history.
Snowden is really clever with these interviews. Right away in the interview he establishes his concerns about the government, then briefly mentions the government smear campaign against him without hanging on the point too much. He calmly explains himself in an articulate way, establishing himself as perfectly sane. Then he reaches out to connect and empathize with his interviewer:

> When I hear you just speak, I go "actually this is a thoughtful guy."

When he validates Joe, he validates Joe's audience, and it becomes Snowden's audience. He did this with Trevor Noah too; I think he's intentional about it while very cleverly appearing not to be. It's a good thing Snowden is the one who blew that whistle, and not somebody less calculating.
I disagree. Kinetic energy increases with the square of speed. Jogging at 6 mph is simply an order of magnitude less dangerous than biking at 20 mph. This isn’t a simple footnote. You make a mistake while jogging and you scrape a knee. You make a mistake while biking and you may have your mental faculties permanently reduced and lifelong personality issues that drive loved ones away. Barrier to entry isn’t worth arguing about. It’s simply the safety precautions that need to be taken.
I disagree. There is no need for a "balancing act" between cars and public transport. More public transport and less cars is always an improvement.
Physicists here. Note that they say it scales linearly in circuit depth (which is a trivial fact, and has always been true for classical simulations of quantum computers which are optimal in that regard --in fact, that is the case when doing it in the most naive way), not the number of qubits which is the quantum speed up referred in "quantum supremacy".

Another thing, this is actually Martinis' decades long work. I know Google recently started raining money down on his lab a couple years back, helping with the classical aspects, design etc, and media loves reporting as Google's Quantum Computer, but the actual quantum computer, the nitty gritty physics isn't Google's work. Martinis already had a working setup with ~10 qubits when Google started supporting him ~5 years ago.

This IBM "rebuttal" sounds a bit like cheating on multiple aspects, and the timing of the announcement is interesting.
Note that they don't tell you how the memory requirements grow with the number of qubits either (which is exponential as well). I expect the response will be new toy computation proposals which will also be prohibitively expensive in classical memory (not just classical CPU with limited memory) in current supercomputers as well. If the experimentalists can roll out more qubits faster though (less likely), the "concern" will be addressed as well.
Both are considered correct.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_paragraph#Spelling

In fact your own link indicates that too.
This is something I do regularly and I have no problems on Ubuntu 18.04. What's the matter exactly?
True. In fact, the previous owner of our house went on a bicycle vacation in the US where he'd cycle down route 66.

In Europe bicycle vacations are pretty common, but it's very different from a regular commute. I did have one coworker once who biked about 50 km to work, but he was very much an exception. For most people, 10 km is a reasonable maximum.
I gave up on App Store as a user. I only use it for system updates an Apple software (eg. Pages)

I just use Homebrew.

- It has all the software I use not just 50%

- If not I can easy ad it.

- With bundler, I can set up my new computer super easy

- If somebody dislikes the CLI there is Cakebrew
I've run a niche ecommerce website by myself for 10+ years as my primary income. It's down to about 5-15 hours of work per week. I'm looking to sell if anyone is interested.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21118095
Product-market fit x make something people want
30% is high but it’s not just payment processing, it’s payment fraud insulation, download bandwidth, and marketplace amplification (people finding your app without knowing they’re looking for your app).

Apple also drops subscription costs from the second year on to 15% which is coming back to reality. I personally find the subscription model way more sustainable & less user hostile than the paid versioning upgrade model, the grand majority of the industry is also in agreement there. So there’s a lot of bad smells from this developer that they just want to run a shoddy business and not that there’s a big problem with Apple.
I think you’re right. But... Joe Rogan often claims he’s not a genius, and not an expert in many topics. I also feel his fan community strongly understands this. There are a lot of YouTube videos making fun of his mannerisms and when he might be too high on an interview.

To me this is as good as it gets for a talk show that has a wide ranging set of topics like the JRE. Joe Rogan isn’t an expert and doesn’t pretend to be unbiased on all issues. His community, I think, understands his limitations. He just runs a good conversation, and that’s all I want to hear.
Skin care brand Sunday Riley wrote fake Sephora reviews for almost two years FTC
Ugh. We get the same thing here in suburban DC (not the earthquakes but the outright hostility towards any changes in road infrastructure that don't involve adding lanes).

The main street in front of my neighborhood was recently repaved end-to-end (3 miles or so). Prior to that, it was 2 lanes in each direction, with a few left turn lanes. As part of the repave, they wanted to add a semi-protected bike lane (by removing one car lane in each direction). The outcry was ridiculous. This isn't a major thoroughfare, it's a moderately travelled neighborhood road. There's a small shopping center at one end and a school complex in the middle.

Long-story-short, the government add the bike lanes. EXCEPT for in front of the schools and shopping center. So, it's half mile of 4-lane cars, then 1 mile 2 cars/2 bike, then at the school it's back to 4-car for half mile, then back to 2 car/2 bike for the remainder.

And now all the non-cyclists cry "Look! Nobody uses the bike lanes!" Well, of course not. They're completely fucking useless because they come and go almost at random and don't lead anywhere.

It's infuriating.
2.5 _days_, not years.

A still fuzzy and arbitrary but imo somewhat elegant cutoff would let feasibility be set by the market and technological development, in the sense of something not being worth throwing compute at _now_ because the timescale of work is slow enough that future classical efficiencies will progress (much) quicker.
FIGG is one of the premier bridge designers in the country. You can probably get on one of their bridges within a couple hours no matter where you live.
They need to unionize. The company they work for has 60 Billion in profit!!!
This seems like satire. Whizzy animation page with multiple email signup requests, with no example or explanation except for buzzword soup.
This must be very damaging to companies, especially with the PC gamer culture of abusing things like refund systems as some forms of protest.
Yeah your presumption is absolutely correct. I love seeing you use loaded presumptions to try to communicate with me.

I presume that after I say this to you you’re going to stop communicating with me because shoving random presumptions up someone’s mouth isn’t a polite and civil way to communicate. Prove me wrong.
I know that Emacs has good support for Lisps in general, my comment was a joke towards what i consider basic features of an IDE (the whole 'modern' and 'advanced' thing when referring to stuff that were available in the late 80s should have made it obvious :-P). It comes mainly from my observation of the trend where a lot of developers like to jury rig "IDEs" out of text editors and a bunch of other unrelated tools that look as if they are made to be run in 70s terminals that look and feel considerably worse that MS-DOS applications which had 1/100000th of the available resources.
Except that if you use a frequency ratio of sin(x)+sin(2.01 x), which is really very close to an octave and really sounds just as consonant as an octave to almost all people, you almost the same "dissonant" picture:

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%7B+x+%3D+sin%28t%29%3...

The strange thing is, none of these "simple ratio" theories account for the fact that our brains allow a lot of "fuzziness" around these simple ratios, so much that you can't really call them simple ratios as they encompass a whole bunch of not-simple ratios as well.
- you mean a SATA3 SSD to the 2.5 position
- a high capacity 2.5 inch spinning hard drive in the ultrabay
- an mSATA SSD in the mPCIe slot it's not m.2

I had a similar setup in my T420/T420s (I moved to the T420s when the first full HD boards didn't work well for the T420 and then came the sudden thaw in the keyboard winter, the ThinkPad 25).
Try https://www.cakebrew.com/
John Oliver from Last Week Tonight did fly over to interview Edward Snowden[0]. But considering the worries their team went through, it's fair others decide to not do it.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEVlyP4_11M
They don't give it away for free, they supply a license to use it on Apple hardware.
That doesn't change the fact that Apple did NOT create the smartphone.
So after reading this, my question is why the heck have they not diversified their product line to make more money? From what I'm seeing, this company is a one-trick pony.

I mean, I hate Apple practices as much as the next rational freedom-loving person, but I'm kinda having a hard time feeling sorry for companies that don't know to diversify to hedge against single-point failures (which they ironically complain about while self-building their own SPoF.)
Nice job, I've been thinking about this for a while, perhaps leverage...

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/gamelift/latest/developerguide/f...
Ingo Maurer, “poet of light,” dies at 87
Glad to hear. Google is known for killing products right and left, Google should charge for products people love and rely on to make sure its 100% sustainable and won't go away.
Sorry, but I’ve lived enough of my adult life to know that I can tune out people who do mocking imitations of queer people on YouTube and be intellectually just fine.
Which displays ads next to the search results, which makes MS money. Coincidence? I think not.

Though as Hanlon's Razer said: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

Part of me wants Microsoft to be so evil they have deliberately made the start menu search so impossibly poor that you end up opening a web search half the time and making them money. But I know deep down, that they are just incompetent and can't be bothered with the desktop anymore.
I moved to Austin back in Feburary and I've met more folks from SF than folks from Austin.
How to expand the storage though? I want to be able to buy random drives and add them to the server. RAID and ZFS require identical drives: if I buy a 2 TB drive and a 4 TB drive, the 2 TB difference would be unused. In order to expand the capacity properly, I'd have to replace all the disks one by one with new 4 TB disks as if the old ones had failed. This process requires rebuilding the array and the chance of getting an uncorrectable read error is considerable.
So a few days ago we had an article on the front page claiming Windows 10 was buggy because of automated testing, now we have an article claiming iOS is buggy because they don't use enough automated testing...
Lausanne is a very 3D city with a lot of elevation gains (with elevators to travel between different parts of the city!), and biking worked there just fine, even in its Boston-like Swiss winters. I saw kids biking up hills all the time.

You are right that it would suck in the humid south. There are good reasons the obesity rate spikes in those areas.
you know you can do

choco install googlechrome firefox 7zip vlc git ...

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Chrome 78 Arrives with Dark Mode Enhancements, Native FS API, SMS Receiver API
RemoteML for data scinetists? Never tried, but I saw some offers here and there: https://remoteml.com/
No, they definitely did. In the original blog:

> Professor Preskill summarized the two main objections to the term that have arisen from the community by explaining that the “word exacerbates the already overhyped reporting on the status of quantum technology” and that “through its association with white supremacy, evokes a repugnant political stance.”

> Both are sensible objections. And we would further add...

https://www.ibm.com/blogs/research/2019/10/on-quantum-suprem...
If he really wanted to be treated as a whistleblower, he should have only leaked the specific things that he took issue with, not grab anything he could get his hands on and give it out. For example, there's no good reason for him to give documents to China that tell them which Chinese computers NSA has access to [0]. This myth that he responsibly leaked information needs to die.

[0] https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1260306/edward-s...
Would have been nice to have Snowden actually there in person if he were not such a coward.
Is there any site where I can learn about quantum computing without feeling like a dumbass?
He can, and will, continue to fail upwards.
Change the lock screen wallpaper away from 'Windows Spotlight' to an image of your choice.

FWIW on a Windows PC, Windows Spotlight shows me nature and city photos with a bit of info about the place. I think I've seen a game wallpaper maybe once in all the time that PC's run Windows 10. It was pretty (some sort of anime-style game?) and not exactly a typical ad.

Looking at Google Images, looks like most of these 'game ads' are similar -- but I can understand how they can be annoying if you aren't a gamer.
No, if you read Google paper, quantum supremacy is entirely about circuit depth scaling.
Unpopular answer: Meh.

I see your point, but we are already using specialized algorithms to solve problems on generic hardware (CPU). You can move to different generic hardware (GPU/OpenCL/...) which might be better suited (depending on the problem), or use/rent more generic hardware on demand (cloud computing).

What you're implying is already happening, using/programming "generic" FPGAs to act as specialized accelerators seems to be slowly trending (e.g. Xilinx UltraScale); and if that's working well, "larger" process nodes seem to be getting cheaper these days (e.g. >= 45nm ASICs). But as far as I am aware the tooling and ecosystem for all this is still pretty bad; especially compared to how C/C++ compilers came a long way, JS's ease of accessibility or python's trove of libraries. (Disclaimer: I am not working in that field, so I might be outdated).

So to refine you suggestion: Improving the eco system around hardware synthetization could be a thing?

However, that doesn't seem to be what user richtapestry was thinking of(?).