skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, acceleration may be non-linear (bikes accelerate 0-10 faster than anything else, which is why sometimes in NL bikes may wait in front of cars before stoplights[1]). Top-speed and weight are also important factors in whether or not it would be smart to mix. However, this results in a matrix of separated lanes that is impractical ;)

Finding a good compromise (such as [1]) I think is a better idea. Lowering car speeds such that we can mix is a good one, as well as the introduction of speed limits on cycling paths [2], which would force certain bikes to slow down.

[1] https://gratistheorie.nl/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/opgeblaz...
[2] https://www.fietsersbond.nl/nieuws/een-maximum-snelheid-op-h...
I had the opposite impression. Bostrom is just making up nonsense, then dressing it with fancy words and big numbers to prevent people from calling out his bullshit. It's the opposite of clear. If you look a little deeper he has nothing meaningful to offer in any field.
As someone who's been hacking away at his "boring", one-man company for a few months (after the 3 year old is in bed, so only about two hours a night, and only some nights) and has begun hitting those initial slumps, this is very inspiring

Thanks for posting, and thanks to all who have commented with their success stories.
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Business is not for all, believe me I have tried :) but I’m studying for my master’s degree.
I don't think it's quite circular, but in a sense you're right.

if c = -a + b, then for any inner product you have

<c,c> = <a,a> + <b,b> - 2<a,b> as a result of bi-linearity of the inner product.

By definition if <a,b> = 0 then a and b are orthogonal and a version of pythagoras' theorem holds.

But you're right in saying the choice of inner product

<x,y> = x_1y_1 + ... + x_ny_n

is motivated by pythagoras' theorem in Euclidean space.
Are you scrolling with a touchpad? Most of those settings don't impact touchpad scrolling. Is there a particular setting which makes the difference?
The newest Microsoft Flight Simulator is using data like this to populate the entire planet. That's a major improvement over the previous version (2006), which procedurally generated anything outside a major city. It's so good that it's being touted as a potential fix to the pilot shortage.
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Interestingly, I recently learnt that the judicial branch as implemented in most democracies (presently), holds no real power. In my country, for instance, it is appointed by the government -- in the USA, if I'm not mistaken, it's also the case that the Supreme Court is appointed by the president, but I believe they need the consent of your Senate. I've read that there are a few democracies where the judicial power is somewhat independent, but I don't recall specific examples. I was also surprised to read, also, that Montesquieu also made a note about the judicial power. Short version of that observation, taken from wikipedia:

> Montesquieu actually specified that the independence of the judiciary has to be real, and not merely apparent. The judiciary was generally seen as the most important of the three powers, independent and unchecked, but it is also likely to claim to be the least dangerous one.

He also touches on this in the video (around the 1h40m mark). It seems quite difficult to keep our democracies in check if the judiciary doesn't really hold real power.
It's in their actual response: https://www.ibm.com/blogs/research/2019/10/on-quantum-suprem...

> It is well known in the quantum community that we at IBM are concerned of where the term “quantum supremacy” has gone. The origins of the term, including both a reasoned defense and a candid reflection on some of its controversial dimensions, were recently discussed by John Preskill in a thoughtful article in Quanta Magazine. 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.”

Kind of silly to say we can't use the word supreme or supremacy anymore, just because it's used for white supremacists.
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I don't think I need to invoke superposition to conceive of them both being full of shit at the same time.
Meeting other humans?
Enjoying the work?

A regular job with regular income looks good on paper if you want a bank to lend you money, for example.

Maybe less likely to appear on tax authority's radar for undisclosed income if people know you as Joe the IT guy who leaves for work at the same time every morning?
>> The author really is incorrect to claim temperature is not a clearly understood concept

Temperature is a very inexact model of the dynamics of a system. It does not tell you anything about the energy of any individual atom. It's an aggregate number.

Thermodynamics was an eye opening course for me. Its impressive how much real engineering can be done with lumped parameter models. The author wants to convey the limitations of that approach.
Interested to hear your experience with Earnest. Can you disclose how much you raised, what percentage earnings they take, and what the cap is?
We already have. At least Microsoft did for the newest MFS
Preview is amazing. I’ve never used another PDF reader that didn’t make me sad every time I had to use it. It’s nice to like PDFs. Signing and moving pages between or to new PDFs are my most-used features.

And it’s the best basic image viewer / light editor I’ve used.
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What is his “nonsense”? It’s reasonable to not allow people to cross their biological gender league. He’s seen how biological males have absolutely destroyed in biological female leagues.
He was also the host of a prime time game show for 5 years.
Definitely! Thank you.
I enjoy Rogan but he's no master interviewer. In fact he strikes me as a kind of conversational Zelig who will nod along in agreement with nearly any idea a guest might put forward.

For a supremely frustrating example of Rogan not 'getting it' listen to the last hour-ish of JRE#1350 with Nick Bostrom, where Joe simply can't wrap his head around The Simulation Argument.
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They're saying explicitly:

>We argue that an ideal simulation of the same task can be performed on a classical system in 2.5 days and with far greater fidelity.

and therefore

>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.
Be careful, because his podcast is a bit of an echo chamber.

The other day he set up a debate on nutrition where he covered the topic of heart disease, and he put a cardiologist (Dr. Khan) with 20 years of experience debating with an acupuncturist (Kris Kresser) on the causes of heart disease.

And he kept interrupting the doctor and taking the acupuncturist side on the most absurd claims.

He is also into things like moon landing conspiracies and all that good stuff that generate a lot of internet traffic, but I think in a bit of a hypocritical way as I'm pretty sure he doesn't really believe in any of that stuff and just talks about it for the clicks.
I could make a phone call and browse the interest on my gen1 iPhone. I used ATT as my network. Verizon had the limitation you described, but not all carriers.

Copy and paste didn’t work, but it didn’t work on any phone at the time. A few attempted it (eg, win mobile, blackberry) but it really sucked.

The camera was quite good and the ability to finally save and share photos and video was revolutionary at the time. I always thought it was funny how much it sucked at the time to try to store and send photos from my BlackJack or Blackberry.
Ah. Thanks for the link.
Someone made a comment that Joe Rogan is the dumb man's celebrity smart guy. I tend to agree, but I do enjoy some of his podcasts.
I cycled through Rotterdam recently, bikepacking to the UK. I found the scooters in the bikelanes to be massively unsettling. I've cycled all over the place and honestly found riding with the cars to be preferable, at least I'm used to being amongst them.
Thank you for pointing this out. "Just get a loan from your family/friends/acquaintances" is the modern rendition of "let them eat cake."

I come from what I consider to be a comfortable middle-class background in the US (probably not what most people would consider upper-middle class), and there's no way I would have been able to raise tens of thousands of dollars a year from acquaintances to fund an elite education.
>s how is option #3 less good than..

Going to the app-store allows for reading opinions (i.e. somewhat independent) compared to just clicking, go-on. It shows some download/usage statistics and the like.

Also removal of the app guarantees removal, removal of web-works, etc. is significantly more cumbersome. Personally, I have very little trust in browsers (with their constant updates, sort of rushed) and have set deletion of all cookies/storage/etc. on exit - hence convenience is not there.

Overall web browsers make for a poor man OS w/o any specific hardware support (unless you count virtualization to a degree) for privileged layer access.
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True Christian charities probably engage in humanitarian work, like the Red Cross. Political advocacy isn't charity work. Even if you think its effectually charitable, to claim there is no difference between charity work and political advocacy would be laughable coming from a 9th grade student
I think their point was that the crash was because of the fact that:
1. Catalina had a lot of breaking changes, bugs and crashes that caused the apps to crash - which required special attention just for Catalina
2. They were given only 4 days to fix the mess that Catalina resulted in.

At least in this case.
2.5 days, as reported by IBM, is more clearly feasible.

But you’re right, it is a subjective judgement.
I think IBM didn't elaborate because it is kind of obvious if you are into this, and if you are not, linearly scaling graph from 10 to 30 is more than good enough. But since we have niche audience here, let's elaborate.

Quantum supremacy is O(n) claim. Then what is n? The answer is that there are two parameters, not one. In Google paper, n is number of qubits and m is circuit depth. n is well known to be difficult to increase. m is not easy either, because if your qubit isn't stable enough, you can't run deep circuit. What Google did is to run n=53 and m=20.

Then, why do you need n=53 and m=20? After all, you could see whether it's exponential by, say, trying n and m from 10 to 15, it doesn't need to take days and years. The answer is that there is time-space tradeoff available and if your n is constant, exp(n) space (but still constant space, since n is constant) poly(m) time algorithm is available, and if your m is constant, exp(m) space (but still constant space, since m is constant) poly(n) time algorithm is available. So if you want to show exponential speedup, you need to be able to exclude these algorithms by increasing n or m enough such that exp(n) or exp(m) space is not realizable. Google chose n=53 such that exp(n) is not realizable, and ran scaling experiment on m.

This is what they mean whey they say in the paper "Up to 43 qubits, we use a Schrödinger algorithm, which simulates the evolution of the full quantum state... Above this size, there is not enough random access memory (RAM) to store the quantum state". Now what IBM is saying is becoming clear. There is not enough RAM, but there is enough disk, so exp(n) where n=53 is realizable, and simulation runs linear in m. It's not a new algorithm, it's exactly the same algorithm Google ran up to n=43. So 43 qubits clearly can't demonstrate quantum supremacy. For the same reason, 53 qubits can't either.
> "Docker for Mac" is actually a Linux kernel running inside a hyperkit/xhyve VM, and uses Linux's container support.

This is indeed correct. Your Docker VM lives at:

/Users/$USERNAME/Library/Containers/com.docker.docker/Data/vms/0/Docker.raw

It would be very nice to be able to use libvirt from my Mac in the same way as my Linux workstation. Or be able to migrate VMs between the two. They're both using the same-ish CPUs, after all! (Workstation has a "i7-5820K" vs the Macbook Pro's "i7-8850H")
That is not true at all. The iPhone had “amazing” features for the time- a real browser, visual voicemail, photo management, music integration, three way calling, contact integration. Almost all were incremental but really made the functions more useful.
There's no other way to enact change than force or consensus, or mix of these. Consensus is not going to happen. Languages change very slowly.

Royal We was forced, but in widespread use. This pronoun is an offshoot thereof.
And other languages have even better pronouns than English. Check Chinese and Japanese.
This is addressed in the article I referenced:

> David Roberts: The Dutch don’t wear bike helmets. How safe is it to ride a bike in the Netherlands?

> Chris Bruntlett: We — like you — live in a place where helmets have been mandated by law, because they’ve been accepted as a commonsense safety device, normal as a seatbelt. But the Dutch show that [for them], safety in infrastructure, safety in slowing cars, and safety in numbers are all far more important than safety in body armor.

> David Roberts: Yeah, the US approach seems to be to up-armor the cyclist so that cars don’t have to change.
> we do need bike lanes because cars are too dangerous

Cars only are a danger when the driver can't easily see you. A bike lane tells a cyclist to ride close to the edge of the road. That's not where most drivers focus their attention on. Bike lanes also encourage cyclists to pass traffic making a right turn on the right, make cyclists harder to see for traffic making a left turn, and can catch drivers pulling out from side streets and driveways off guard.

If cyclists rode in the middle of the rightmost general traffic lane, then they are much more easily seen by others, get more clearance when passed by faster traffic, and don't have issues with right it left turning traffic or traffic pulling out from side streets.
Attributed to Sid Caesar: Comedy is you falling down an open manhole and dying. Tragedy is me getting a paper cut.
If people are looking to switch for a different offering, they will tell you.
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As a legacy gmail for organizations account holder, I would be very happy to start paying google to host my stuff, if they would flip me over to the newer gmail stuff that has all the new age APIs, integration, and google assistant stuff available.

I tried to just make a new one and migrate, but there is not a reasonable way I have found to migrate 10 gigabyte email accounts. With their rate limiting, I end up with napkin math suggesting about 30 days to migrate, using someone else's github scripts that do lots of error checking and restarting.
> If Apple also spent 10% of its revenue on processing bug reports and fixing bugs

Just to be clear, you're suggesting they dedicate $25B/year to bug fixing? Seems high, given their total R&D budget for 2018 was only ~56% of that.

https://www.macrumors.com/2018/11/05/apple-2018-form-10-k-hi...
> And Apple taking 30% of that... for what? Payment processing

uhhh.. hosting and bandwidth for potentially millions of downloads and updates and your videos and screenshots?

Covering user refunds?

A reviews and feedback system?

Crash logs?

Showing you in user searches?

The Editor's Choice and Featured Apps lottery?

Invitations to develop for yet-to-be announced platforms?

Giving your users peace of mind that your app is sandboxed and cannot indulge in hanky panky?
Kind of nice to be able to verify which one person shops are still operating.
Or a more boring place as our language shrinks.
> practically

or efficiently are terms of trade for computer scientists and mean that there's a polynomial upper bound.

On the other hand IBM also claims (from the graphs? not sure if they have anything more to back up the claim) that their scheme "scales approximately linearly with the circuit depth" which would likely make the experiment meaningless.

The entire post is a bit odd though since it starts out with a serious discussion of computer science topics and then swerves into criticism of how the media misuses terms.
Yes that's right. To me an e-bike behaves much more like a small motorcycle than it is like a much lighter pedal bicycle.
He kept repeating that trans women were “confused gay men” on the basis of one very shoddy Swedish research paper, as if that was somehow authoritative.
> Think of the hacker culture today and now imagine the same rate of change for biological engineering.

I can't wait for all the pre-alpha version creatures :-P
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People in European city centers shop differently. They more likely don’t even have cars, the stores are smaller, they shop daily or bi-daily rather than weekly like suburbanites do. They aren’t carrying a few bottles of wine and olive oil, they have one bag, and everything is pretty fresh.

You can have the same lifestyle almost in the states, just live in a downtown area. Watch out for all the cars though, and wading through huge parking lots can still be a problem (I currently live in downtown Bellevue WA, which is only halfway pedestrian friendly, especially compared to Lausanne CH where I lived as a post doc).
The App Store used to have a Free App of the Day (or was it of the week?) that got me to go and check it out. I've often look around at other apps at the same time. Ever since they dropped that and revamped the store I only visit on the very rare occasions when I read about a particular app somewhere else and go search for it. I'd guess I visit the app store maybe twice a year now.
Plenty of memory and storage without charging through the nose for them. 8GB / 128GB is laughable. Alternatively, user-upgradable.

Smaller trackpad for more ergonomic typing. The 2015 models were better proportioned.
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In context though it is still Apple's issue:

> After releasing the Catalina Golden Master build to developers on October the 3rd, we immediately finished fixing any new crash and issue we could find over the weekend. In our opinion, leaving developer just four (4!) days over a weekend with a public release on October the 7th is not very professional. While we still updated our applications in time, Apple did not review them for the AppStore, and instead rejected them first for a crash (sigh!), [...]
Interesting.

As a person in your target audience (except perhaps geography), here's what I'd like:

I'm really dumb when it comes to skin care, but recently convinced myself that it's important.

So I have zero clue where to start. Looking at your nicely stylized huge rectangles with jars, my eyes glaze over: They're all the same! Short jar, tall jar, short jar.

Why not write some blog posts to increase SEO ranking on subjects that your audience might want to read:

- What should my first skin care product be?

- How making skin care a part of your daily routine in only X minutes a day.

- How does one characterize skin (dryness, etc.), what's my skin type, and what product should I buy for it?

- How to cut costs making your own skin care products, and how buying your products is not much more expensive, but a lot more effortless than that.

- Something related to beards; like your front-page photo of a good looking muscular man with a nice looking beard, maybe interview-style for aspiration.
We are facing this right now for us-east-1 :/

thankfully production is unaffected.
Much easier to just pay for the additional storage or G Suite and regularly backup Gmail using offlineimap or Takeout.

If you like running the local mail server for fun that’s cool but it’s pretty easy to secure your data from loss while still using google services.
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Edit: I am definitely wrong about my interpretation (see child post by DashAnimal)

____

Original comment for reference:

I really don't think IBM implied the social (and definitely modern, circumstancial) figurative meaning of supremacy.

Any tech geek, or history major for that matter, would just read it as "crushing domination", with a strong implication that others won't be able to catch up, ever. You know, like Kings and Empires impose their supremacy on other, lesser powers.

In that sense, the expression "quantum supremacy" (QS) is indeed ambiguous insofar as:

- it's a convention, a simple "we agree to say that QS means <mathematical definition>" (not a very clear one at that, the concept lacks boundaries).

- "supremacy" in QS refers to "quantum", i.e. it's the domination of Q computers versus classic computers; and absolutely not that of the company behind the tech —a recent history of the Fortune 500 makes it emphatically clear that there is no such thing as definitive supremacy for companies. In fact, a certain IBM... [snip]

Big blue is apparently vexed, here; but disingenuous linguistically? Not so much in my opinion. More like downplaying —that is their pettiness if you ask me: why not salute the engineering feat, and look at yourself asking "OK guys, how do we win the next step?" In other words, play it fair.
I question the value of letting people like James Damore and Jordan Peterson speak on such a big platform.

Edit: The people downvoting me are hypocrites. The function of downvoting to make something less visible. Are you saying what I say has less value and should therefore have a lesser platform?

But to be serious, everyone acknowledges that what some people say is of more value than what other people say, and should be seen by more people. We just disagree on what the things that have value are. And your insistence on arguing about the former, rather than the latter is tiresome and dishonest.
I'm, by all measures and statistics, not a dumbass, and yet still qualify as a child / dependant.

My parents gave up on trying to track / surveil me because I knew more about tech than they, and because it was more or less an open challenge to me to try and break whatever software they installed.

Do you want someone peering over your shoulder and breathing down your neck all the time?
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I thought the episode with James Damore was a good example of Joe ruining what could have become an interesting interview: lack of direction, ranting, pushing James towards particular statements. But I don't mind his show being hit or miss, given the sheer number of episodes.
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At the same time I've had instant search in menus in Linux (gnome, kde, xfce, whatever, you name it).
And if you do, and he is smart guy for you, that makes you a dumb man. Not a disrespect in anyway but that should humble everybody on the sense that nobody can know everything in depth, even when bragging about their own “unmatched wisdom”.
People often talk about the extemes. Managers or no managers.

Why can't we have something in-between?

Like, instead of a manager, we have a team assistant. Someone who does burocracy and orga, but hasn't any power and the power is exercied in some way by all of the team members.

This would remove the "if all do it no one does it" problem and still prevent single people decisions.
Just a few hundred years ago it was actually possible for a single person to learn essentially everything that was known in Western civilization. And some wealthy people with a lot of leisure time pretty much did that. So now we still see it as a goal to strive for even though it's no longer achievable.
How are these different or improve upon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsoon_(speakers) (planer speakers from 20 years ago)?