skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry when I say bike lane I mean separated bike lane or cycleway, with a physical curb between traffic and the bikes. This is much safer than biking on the road or on the edge.

In Sydney we have dedicated bike signals at intersections (with dedicated infrastructure) so turning is no issue.

I agree with your point that it is safer to ride with traffic in the middle of the lane rather than an unseparated bike lane - that's not infrastructure, that's paint on a road.

A good friend of mine was cycling in a painted on bike lane and got car doored by a policeman. There is no hope of the general population checking their mirrors when opening car doors if policeman can't!
"It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls" -Aristophanes

The public learns the lesson that X is necessary when they see the consequence of not-X. Hopefully there is a gap between total lawlessness and the public realising that some laws are good and not just "red tape".
> The superdelegates went for Clinton because there wasn't any serious institutional D challenger

No, that's s almost exactly backwards. A key way Clinton locked out other traditional candidates was to secure an unusually large number of superdelegate commitments extremely early, needle other candidates would normally commit to the race.

> IRV can make the contest more fair than the previous voting system, but it can't make candidates run...

Yes, it can. Running in a Presidential primary (and the same is true of many other races) is an investment of time and resources people make—or avoid—in part because of the perceived prospects for success factors like a competitor having a substantial share of the total available vote sewed up before you decide, or a voting system that naturally narrows the field people will actively consider during the campaign do, very much, effect who decides to run.
I run https://www.checkbot.io myself. :) It's a paid Chrome extension that checks websites for SEO, speed and security best practices.

While working as a web developer, I found myself having to do a lot of manual checks or write scripts to test if new pages or changes to existing pages were following a long list of web best practices. I eventually wrapped up all this knowledge and automation into a finish product that others have found useful.
I believe the smart part is he knows what he wants... and that's hard, btw.
Yes, but the interesting thing to me is how that cutoff between linear and exponential complexity comes down not to the processor but other computing resources.

Meaning when supremacy soon is demonstrated even accounting for storage, it should be able to be undone for a while yet by, say, appropriating everyone’s phones and fridge storage, Silicon Valley style.
That’s great to hear. I had assumed otherwise because of the other browsers lack of support.
Oh, man. I completely disagree. I feel like he just talks and talks about whatever he wants to talk about with almost no regard for whether his technical language is being understood or if he's dominating the discussion or anything like that. I don't think I've seen him develop a natural rapport with anyone or even make a firm, memorable point in an interview. I'll always be grateful for his leaks but over 2.5 hours he just became a soft background murmur in my room.
None of which you can opt out of.

I'd happily host my own apps and pay the hosting/bandwidth than pay the $99 a year for Apple Developer Account + 30% of all sales.

But Apple won't let me, if I want my app to run on iOS I have no choice BUT to use their bandwidth.
And no apps apart from the built-ins. No copy and paste. Just like a feature phone. Apart from the browser and music courtesy ipod, other smart phones had the remaining features and far more robust. They may not have had fancy UI, but they were more powerful at the time.

Even the camera megapixel craze was being led by nokia. You're conflating the current dominance of the iphone for the past. At the time, the best thing about it was the finger only touch screen operation. To the best of my memory, others still needed to fall back to a stylus. Finger usage was a whackamole operation with Nseries and blackerry I used then
>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.

Or maybe he just finds it interesting? I find myself on paranormal sites from time to time even though I know it's 100% (or at least 99.9%) bullshit. It's still fun to read.
> embedded a webview that catches web bluetooth calls and implemented them natively, to work around the fact that Web Bluetooth doesn't work on Safari

This just broke my mind. Could you explain how/why this infinity mirror contraption was built?
Was NordVPN hacked or is it false? What Reddit has to say
Supremacy does not mean simply faster. That is already proven. It means impossible to do on a classical computer.
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> No helmet

While I don't think they should be required, I do think they should be worn. I've had a low-speed spill where the helmet saved my head considerably - I hit the pavement so hard my glasses were flattened out. You fall much faster, even at low speeds, and you fall much farther from a bike, than a pedestrian would fall.
Their articles are already ads, if an adblocker blocks their articles I would say it's working well.
Also of note is Gil Kalai's updated take on the experiment [1]. The heart of the complaint is that the quantum computer's solution to this problem relies on a calibration process, which is done on a classical computer and requires resources orders of magnitudes higher than the quantum portion of the computation:

> The Google experiment actually showed that a quantum computer running for 100 seconds PLUS a classic computer that runs 1000 hours can compute something that requires a classic computer 10 hours.

EDIT: Just as a note, lest you dismiss Kalai as an outsider/crackpot, you can look at the researchers who show up in the comments on the blog post.

[1] https://gilkalai.wordpress.com/2019/10/13/the-story-of-poinc...
I feel like this person is an optimist, envisioning a future that is never going to happen. I envision a future of rapidly decreasing revenues as the boomers die off and the population size plummets, while simultaneously climate change starts to wreak havoc, resulting in city infrastructure not being maintained at all, much less being improved to the extent the author is recommending.
I'm not quite clear on your point, are you implying that if Snowden had more perspective on the subject he wouldn't have become a whistleblower?

The second half of your first paragraph suggests otherwise so I'm kinda confused.
Next feature for website: organize plant by trap's type or insect they eat :)
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It is difference between with this quantum chip we can brake encryption that would take 100000 years in 30 minutes or it would take us 50 years.
I think they mean tiles in the start menu advertising various games like Candy Crush-ish stuff.

If memory serves, I removed them and moved on with my day. Think the occasional big update will add a new one, but then you remove it as well and you're good for a while.

That's interesting though. I game heavily on my Windows 10 instance. Most web browsing is gaming related and this is done in Edge as well. All I get are the scenic/animal lock screen images. Really wish they'd get some images that support 3440x1440 because it looks pretty rough (Windows Store looks even worse).
I worked four years in the academic "Exascale HPC" code developing community (if there even is). There is a lot of bullshit bingo happening there. The term "Exascale" is commonly abused for getting the next grant for doing - yes - "your grandfather's HPC", such as very traditional fluid dynamics. Of course the methods are novel, they are more compute intense, scale much better to millions of processors, are communication avoiding. But all this is still very traditional. I think in the nonlinear PDE regime, people are still very conservative of even trusting their (analytically) deterministic results. Applying machine learning is something where people would probably not trust the results. Read about Kolmogarov microscales and turbulence if you are interested in phenomena which are still studied decades after being found.
I can't help but feel this is a little "Boring Dystopia": he's demonstrating "Hey, here's how we keep people fiddling with the thing that they own, because it's bad for business".

Decidedly unsettling.
My number one iOS bug right now: "Hey Siri call Scott's conference line" That exact text shows up on the screen...and Siri says "Calling Don's conference line". Both are in my contacts list. I have not had this problem prior to this week so it's probably a backend issue.
How to Be Productive in Unproductive Teams
As far as I'm aware there actually is no proof that there is no polynomial time factoring algorithm. Complexity theory contains a lot of cargo cult belief with little solid proofs unfortunately. One reason is of course that it is a very hard field of mathematics. See https://www.math.ias.edu/avi/book for a recent survey.
> but the nature of a large world is that a car lets you drive 20 miles from point A to point B in a manner that's prohibitive by foot, bike, or train.

Not prohibitive to do by electric bike though.
Not to mention the fact that Crowder's own material tends to show how severely misinformed he is on some of the views he criticizes - in fact in that respect he's become somewhat of a meme in some circles.
Apple is just milking their over priced pile of garbage as long as they can.

This kind of reminds me of the situation long ago with Windows and how they did not want to allow any other browsers expect IE on their OS. It took a long time to give developers freedom and access to API's to develop application on the OS. This feel like it's pivoted similarly to the App Stores now a days (even you Google).
That sentence actually reads "Schrödinger–Feynman algorithm becomes exponentially more computationally expensive with increasing circuit depth" which is true (because the paths in a path integral in a discrete setting would grow combinatorically, but don't have to sort to path integrals to approximate the unitary in a "quick" and dirt way, which clearly doesn't scale well --in fact, if you avoid such "clever" tricks [which is only beneficial in some limited regime] and do it in the naive way, it will scale linearly). It's not the only game you can play on a classical computer, as IBM points out (for which the upfront cost is much higher).

Figure 4b is about error estimation, They use XEB which is exponentially faster than, say doing full quantum process tomography, which is also true. That's the whole reasoning behind XEB, which gives far less information about the error channels, but you still have a fair estimate on the overall fidelity.

None of these have anything to do with the complexity of the actual computation done on the quantum computer though.
Yes but nobody cares.

The QC isn't cheap or available enough to be relevant is your can compute it reasonably well in a few days.
Thanks for the feedback. SEO is definitely a work in progress. To that end, I've created this to-be-published page (https://www.mendskin.co/pages/mend-skin-guide) which is meant to be a "crash course" on skincare.

The world of skincare is vast, and I intend on creating newsletters to better inform potential customers what they should be looking for. Very Soon.
Cool, thank you for the info. It's been a while since I tried it.
I can imagine the potential advisors/pr folks, having helped shape that type of image. It’s hard to be in the public spotlight and not have PR consultants spamming you.
The only use for cracking Xbox One would be to enable piracy

That's not strictly true, cracking could also allow alternative os loading.
Waiting for a post entitled "unsuccesful one-person online businesses"
> Relatively nobody cares.

If nobody cared, the only illegal domestic data collection program in the Snowden docs wouldn't have been shut down. It has been.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsas-...

If nobody cared, Google wouldn't have encrypted its cross-datacenter traffic. It has.

https://gmail.googleblog.com/2014/03/staying-at-forefront-of...
Agree. Seems a PE should be required to have a few years experience in the construction field before they are licensed. So much friction in the process would be avoided if the professionals writing and drawing the instructions for a structure had actually performed the work, or physically seen day to day challenges prior to having responsible charge. Structural engineers would be less arrogant as well. I see this happening on a daily basis.
Aside from the software side, the licensing also heavily restricts virtualisation - if Apple would just /permit/ it, I know of several companies (not to mention open source groups) who would /love/ to create some industrial-scale iOS/OSX testing tools - right now they're limited to "duct tape a bunch of iPhones plugged into old-gen mac minis into a rack" and that's an absolute nightmare to manage...
I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure those autoinstalls are placeholders. If you go into add/remove programs, they're around ~120kb give or take. I think this goes along the lines of the "Office" install that would come with Windows 7 or 8 installs where you click it and it tries to rush you through the process of acquiring Office.
Decorators in Go using embedded structs
iirc all the bids for a concrete version (ala Florida) were twice as much for the steel design that was used, otoh California version also has to be earthquake resistant. I gotta give credit to all the engineering firms and Caltrans oversight. Very little downtime on 280, that would have been a traffic nightmare for entire peninsula.
Ask HN: Why do some software engineers dislike visual tooling?
Just a friendly reminder to everyone, don't copy and paste commands into the terminal. There could be invisible characters that can execute unwanted operations.

Explanation/example: https://thejh.net/misc/website-terminal-copy-paste

Previous HN discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10554679 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5508225
The article they posted says that "lead" was the original form, and "lede" was introduced in 2008.
Quote 1: "The Google group reiterates its claim that, in 200 seconds...."

Quote 2: " ...by tweaking the way Summit approaches the task, it can do it far faster: in 2.5 days."

Well, it's still 200 seconds vs 2.5 days, so I'd say the claim kinda stands. I know I would definitely buy the computer with 200 seconds vs the one with 2.5 days.
Here it is in glorious action, if anyone is curious:
https://www.pincalendar.com/search/events/?q=
I do plently of install/uninstalls of MS software - office re-install, office upgrade, MSVS install/uninstall (all of this due to other reasons, not because it was "slow") and I don't see any regressions because of this, including on my older work laptop with 3 years old continuous Win7 install.

As for size of Windows dir - it not "leftovers" from uninstalls (but they exist too of course), it is a feature of Windows and 95% of it is a Windows updates, all chain of updates is stored locally and can't be safely deleted (according to MS engineers). Yes, it grows very big, especially if start point was older version/SP of Windows. In extreme cases, e.g. installing release version of Win7 and then updating to all service packs and updates will cause it to increase by 15-20Gb. But it is a known expected "feature" and it doesn't slow your PC, only clutters your c:\ partition. And re-install will not reclaim this space, it will be taken again immediately as soon as updates arrive on your fresh install of Windows.

If by chance you a talking about clutter of 3rd party apps, then it is not a windows problem. E.g. some drivers like to keep older installers in appdata, some apps keeps backups of data there - worst offender is Garmin updater, which creates 12Gb backups every map update. That's not Windows issues.
Biking isn't completely safe. Do helmets really help all that much? Very questionable[0]. Wearing a helmet, for example, promotes less safe behaviour by both cyclists and by drivers around them.

The sense of safety a helmet gives you when you cycle is mostly a false one. Lack of cycling infrastructure is a far greater danger anyway. In countries with the best cyclist safety records, no one wears or owns bike helmets, like not figuratively 'no one', but literally, no one. Can't be a very significant standalone determinant of bike safety then, can it?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_helmet#Effectiveness
Changing the narrative around workplace mental health
They also ignore bugs for a decade or more.
How does batgrowth make money? Interesting project.
Singh
Singh is a type of media where you can earn credits by posting and voting contents of people using the app. Earned credits can be used for buying awesome stuffs.

#Singh #SinghCoin #PeerToPeer

https://www.facebook.com/224739255096156/posts/385091392394274/
Interesting Concept: BeeCanvas (Mutant Powerpoint?)
It's an american development by a company that refuses to release actually open software. Perhaps it's good in theory! As far as I am aware there is no open implementation of it and it is also inside a problematic regime and therefore just as suspect.
And I can't opt-out?
It’s not like there was anything to do in Win3.11 other than Word, mspaint, Solitaire, and writing funny messages in the marquee screensaver
Shortcuts are another feature where they changed the format and anything that syncs back to an iOS 12 device becomes nonfunctional

Another bad piece of this release is that iOS and iPadOS were staggered: iOS 13 came out on September 19th and iPadOS on the 24th. Even if all of your devices were new enough to update, the iPad didn't have a compatible release for the better part of a week, so a bunch of features were broken.
The winner of the 2016 election received the majority of the votes cast in the electoral college by Presidential electors

Those electors voting for the winner were themselves, however, elected by only a minority of those voting for Presidential electors in elections which misleading had the name of Presidential candidates but not electors on the ballots.
I cut the start menu out completely and replaced it with Keypirinha. Instant fuzzy search with no shady web requests, just like on Linux with xfce4-whiskermenu/rofi.

The script looks something like this. It's written from memory and I don't have a Windows machine nearby to test it, but it's better than nothing.

$path = %windir%\systemapps\microsoft.windows.startmenuexperiencehost*
get-process *startmenuexperiencehost* | stop-process -force
takeown /f $path /r /d y
icacls $path /grant "${env:UserName}:F" /inheritance:d /t /c
rm -recursive -force $path
The quantum circuit based simulation actually has much worse accuracy. A classical computer can simulate the class of circuits they are proposing with linear increasing runtime (as opposed to exponential as Google claims) and _much_ higher accuracy according to IBM.
you add all the disk and replicate on all four the 2T partition, then remove the old disk then extend the partition. this is significantly easier if it all started with lvm on top of the raid but not impossible without.
> Biking isn’t safe enough to not wear a helmet

Could you explain why you think that? That’s a pretty general statement. Are you imagining city biking here, or something more like racing in the country-side?

Some data about how this is dangerous could be convincing: https://youtu.be/Boi0XEm9-4E count the helmets.

Just to be clear, I’m not against helmets (I wear one, as is custom in my country).
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Yeah, the Kremlin backed startup that was already caught shipping blatant backdoors is so much better https://habr.com/en/post/206900/
tl;dr are you sure those showers are necessary? If you stink when you sweat it could be because your skin is reacting to periodic exposure to soap and/or hot water.

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It only breaks 100 occasionally here in Colorado, but it's plenty hilly and I ditched my car for a bike 8 years back. I arrive at the office sweaty pretty frequently, and I neither shower nor bring a change of clothes. Luckily the air is so dry that the sweat evaporates quickly.

At first I did a lot of showering, but then my skin suffered. The doctor recommended using less soap without going into how much less, so I asked a few close friends to be brutally honest about whether I was stinky while I reduced my soap exposure and started to look for correlations.

I pretty quickly ended up reducing by soap exposure to practically none (I still use hand soap though).

About two weeks after I quit using soap while bathing my skin has started behaving differently. I can no longer correlate sweating a few hours ago with being stinky now. (Admittedly, is hard to get real data on stuff like this).

Somebody always tells me I'm gross when I confess that now I only shower once every four days or so, but 90% of the time somebody mentions a case where I was stinky, they're taking about day two after the shower, not day five.

My theory is that even exposure to just hot running water depletes the skin of some resource, and about 24 hours after the shower I'm at my stinkiest because whatever process replenishes that resource is at a peak. By 48 hours this has subsided and my scent is steady-state. (i.e. body odor correlates with the derivative--not the absolute value, of this resource. It might be bacteria, or oils, or pheramones, I'm not sure).

I've also found that by avoiding cotton or synthetics in my shirts, I can get get a week's worth of wears out of them (I just cycle them so that the color changes and nobody asks).

I think that people in general are frequently wrong about the causes and effects around bathing, but the social conventions are too strong to help them, so occasionally I go on a rant like this, just in case I can help save somebody else from soap. Thanks for listening.
Yes, for factoring integers the best known quantum algorithm is better than the best known classical algorithm. The catch is that we don't know if a better classical algorithm exists but just wasn't discovered yet.

Compare this for example to sorting. We have proven that any sorting algorithm working with comparisons can at best be O(n*log(n)) fast, it's impossible for a faster classical algorithm to exist.
You're completely misrepresenting this.

He didn't give them any documents, he didn't tell them all the computers, he only _showed_ them a sample of them. They were also only civilian computers.

I think civilians all over the world had a right to know that they were being spied on by the U.S. government. What difference does it make if a person is a U.S. citizen or a Hong Kong citizen? Human rights are human rights.
Forget the public, why don't elected officials themselves act more in simple self-interest? Not all of them are bankrolled by the military-industrial complex, yet not a one ever utters a peep about the trillions we spend on evil security-theater bullshit. No, killing lots of people in the Middle East does not make us safer, which anyone on any of the relevant Congressional committees could tell you. Most of them would be happy to spend those trillions on other priorities. None of them, with the partial exception of e.g. Rep. Gabbard, ever say a thing about this.

Why is that?
Exactly, a long time between releases pushes teams to get their feature into this release even if just 90% ready. If the Mail.app team could ship updates not just annually, I’m sure they’d make faster progress and ship more stable releases.
But that goes for any raw benchmarking, it’s busywork by design.
Hard to feel sympathetic about a company that literally has fights with local city councils about their humongous all glass company headquarters