skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The comic kind of pokes fun at such parallels, especially in the final panel ("Quantum computing and consciousness are both weird and therefore equivalent,") but I think it's a common experience, and quantum physics in general becomes the canonical example because everybody has the same experience with it. Whereas with many other examples, two people might find different things intuitive or counter-intuitive, depending on their path to the subject. I've even seen a professor confuse an entire classroom by describing something as "counterintuitive" when it was completely straightforward from the perspective they had been taught the previous semester. Quantum mechanics can serve as the byword for needing to absorb an entirely new and counterintuitive set of concepts because everyone experiences it that way.
It's not common, but there are other projects like this for easy integration, especially on embedded systems. You see some C++ libraries that are a single header file include. And here is a collection of single file headers for graphics tasks, like loading images, resizing images, rendering font glyphs, etc:

https://github.com/nothings/stb
Journalism has been one of the worst offenders with regard to the misuse of statistics, not only in "soft" topics, but also in science reporting. Perhaps statistical literacy ought to be normative in that profession the same way that checking sources and using correct grammar (supposedly) is.
I had the 235 in the past and now have the 245 music. I haven't tried it in a while but it was really poor in comparison to my fitbit.
Fitbit has a privacy policy that says they won't sell or transfer your data IIRC, but that does not prevent them from doing so in the case of a sale or merger. I hate those clauses: the hypothetical argument is always 'what if some data miner buys them' ?

This is health data we're talking about
> A command line interface isn't a great medium for singing, but graphical interfaces enabled sophisticated music production software, desktop publishing using beautiful fonts and images (examples he used). It enables expressiveness beyond what can be captured in mere text.

Mere text[0][1].

CLI vs GUI in the context of this thread is a false dichotomy, because we’re imagining (I.e, inventing) scenarios where GUIs are better. “Look at this virtual rack of equipment in Reason and see how democratic that is.”[2]

Sure, or a mess that begs to be put into a table in a text processor. Where it’s more truly democratic because a screen reader can be employed if necessary. Jobs was selling sparkles, successfully, not “computing”.

“Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life, or do you want to come with me and change the world?”, indeed. Why pick only one?

Text isn’t dead or outmoded.

[0] https://drive.google.com/file/d/1D6ZzTeUlk6mwqyZ0GIrhYIFeRkK... - my own, developed in console with vi, tmux, CSound, ffmpeg, custom software for compositing, Makefiles

[1] https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/1319/showcase-of-bea...

[2] https://youtu.be/PjeFRLcioqk
Thanks. I was looking for more info on this extremely strange case. It's hard to find after the gag order.
There’s a lot of steps that are failing to produce this problem:

- The browser could do a better job of making sure a text selection only includes the expected content (this is not just a security issue - I often find that text copied from websites include unexpected words or whitespace).

- The browser could do a better job showing you what it is putting on your clipboard. For example, they could briefly overlay the text they copy on the selection, in a way that would be virtually unnoticeable when you copied the expected text, but reveals the difference if the content somehow changed.

- The system could do a better job showing users what the clipboard contains. The fact that clipboards are completely invisible in most OSes is kind of weird, and also has privacy implications, for example if you copy something sensitive on a public machine and forget to clear it.

- The system could implement a way to flag clipboard items as “untrusted”, and require apps to implement adequate checks if you paste something that can have security implications.

- When you paste into a terminal, it should probably give you a chance to see what you’re pasting before it tries to execute. After all, this is the place where the actual security problem happens.
My new garmin 235? has the hr monitor built into the watch body and does a pretty good job at sleep cycle tracking.
Maybe for simple programs. Of course, an arbitrarily deep neural net can emulate any compiler (a function from plain text to machine instruction sequences). But predicting output is limited by the halting problem and complexity.
First, do a couple of problems in elementary quantum mechanics. Then, see if still “strikes you lately.”
You're right that Bitcoin is only pseudo-anonymous. But there are cryptocurrencies like Monero which provides much better anonymity.

Also, anonymity isn't black and white. It would be very difficult for the Venezuelan government to prevent you from buying Bitcoin in-person and then walking out of the country, with your Bitcoin keys written on a small piece of paper or even memorized.
In a vacuum, reading that statement, that was the assumption I made. Certainly strikes me as a bit odd, but then, SQLite is a bit of an odd project. And sometimes odd projects do things differently in a way that works out well because they have the discipline to pull it off.

But it does make much more sense that it is worked on in pieces and then put back together.
Failure is not a binary 1 or 0 thing. There are at least 256 levels. If your failure was down to 193 in the first decade of your career, you may be better off over three decades than soneone who was consistently at 240 in the first decade and later went down to 170 in the second decade, because you may have greater information exposure, it all depends on what happened.

Also...please define failure?
I think the title is extremely witty, since you expect to see the sentence in a different order.
Official Typescript support is what I am after before I decide to use Svelte for serious apps
Thanks for feedback! I'll get Sam to work on making load times way quicker.
VW's electric bet in China brings global muscle to zero-emissions race
Apple says they adjust the active noise cancellation 200 times a second.

We can't tell exactly what that means just from reading it, but it could very well mean that while the filter is updated 200 times a second, it isn't limited to filtering 200 Hz sound.

I'd be rather surprised if it was.
It is more about declining trust in the source of that information and the institutions that spread it around. People have been given plenty of reasons to distrust the various sources of information over the past decades.
The Octane transition is indeed a big one!

As for being welcoming and friendly—of course! We desperately need the help, esp. to hit the gaps that we're blind to because we're used to working around them. And honestly, "awful" isn't far off from how I would describe our docs; doubly so far anything related to Octane with TS (where it's subject to precisely the critique I leveled in this post: they don't exist!). See you on the issue tracker!
> admitting under oath in court that they were never backed by reserves

Huh. Did I miss something? If they were never backed by reserves how could $800 million of their funds ended up seized?
I am willing to bet that it will be used in future as a way of measuring ad impact...
Cute, but the actual science suggests otherwise: http://ine.uaf.edu/wtc7
This is exactly what I've been dealing with for the last month, as I attempt to completely re-write an Electron app in Swift. The part about scavenging through WWDC transcripts particularly resonated with me. Coming from JS ecosystem, I was also shocked at how few google results (even stack overflow) would come up for issues I was running into.
So your thesis is simply "Poor people are lazy. If they worked harder they wouldn't be poor"?

You're right that the difference between the middle class and the poor isn't luck. The difference between the poor and the middle class is poverty. Poverty isn't just about being poor. It's about being poor BECAUSE you're poor. It's generally cyclical, it can span generations, and is very difficult to break out of.

People don't get ahead when they can't afford to eat.
People don't get ahead when they can't afford to go to a school in a better neighborhood.
People don't get ahead when they get sick and can't afford health care.

I believe you have a fundamental misunderstanding about why people are poor, and remain poor. The idea that poor people have 'equality of opportunity' in any practical way is not based in reality.
It's much better than most other brief explanations I've read. One thing I wish it would hit more strongly is that the "actual world" is bigger than what we can interact with, we only experience a "slice" of this larger world under almost all circumstances- The complex amplitudes of qbits hint at this fact, and quantum computers essentially take advantage of this "extra stuff in the world" to do calculations, though in a completely different manner than mere "parallel computation". What we don't yet know is if this "extra stuff" is really big (i.e. represents parallel universes) or is just some kind of more restricted phenomenon.

The other important thing to know is that our brains are subject to the same complex probability amplitudes as qbits- That's why things seem weird when we magnify quantum phenomena via experiments and try to explain what's happening: Our brains get entangled with the experiment and the "slice" of the world that we're experiencing varies depending on the results of the experiment. Quantum phenomena seem a lot less "weird" once you get comfortable with this fact: i.e. that our brains are just physical objects prone to the exact same physical laws as elementary particles, and that the organ we're using to reason about the experiment with is entangled with the experiment itself.

(Disclaimer: I'm only an armchair enthusiast)
Well, I am amazed that one can be so rude.

First, you come blazing with accusations of transphobia, because of a joking mention of Thailand's ladyboy scene, to challenge the parents' notion that everything is WYSIWYG. Do you even know me? Or you have a hobby of randomly assuming things about people you don't know?

Second, when I don't take that quietly, you add the above comment about having the gal to defend myself, going for the "This animal is extremely vicious. When attacked, it defends itself" angle...

Perhaps you can go even lower against some stranger on the internet, but you wont be getting any replies from me in this thread.
..except that it was for an Objective-C position, and "idiomatic Swift" doesn't mean "unmaintainable Swift."

Most of the open-source code that I've written has been for other people to take over. Most of my repos are still 1-contributor ones, but every single one has been written to be extended. The ones that have been extended are being extended very well, indeed. I have had almost zero questions about the codebase.
Open source hardware is hard to build a viable business off of because any decent manufacturer can create clones from the designs, and sell those at a price that you cannot afford to match them at.

To make it work, you need to do something like Adafruit where people buy from you because of quality and to support your mission to build more open source hardware.
> banking API is clearly a multi-billion dollar a year business

Why?

AFAIK most big banks have APIs, and it would seem to me the use cases for needing to access an account programmatically are few.
That's like saying if people don't like military drones, then military drones will start to have less relevance; but some technologies are sufficiently powerful in their own right that it needs only a few people to recognize their power. Then the stress of competition can do the rest.

I doubt statistics or mathematics gained its influence because various cultures were fond of symbolic play. We study these things because we expect concrete payoff, not because of cultural affection.

So is social science lame? Or is Google insight scary? At some point a deliberate posture of mis-devaluation will come to terms with reality.
At my previous office we had a huge window view to a really green area. It was great. We didn't have any real plants inside, though. That might be a maintenance thing, i.e. we'd have to figure out who would take care of them and it might be out of the scope of the janitorial staff.

At home I'll randomly but little $5 plants for me and my wife. They add a little more life to house.
That’s sort of the vision I have for https://www.naverator.com/. Make planning the actual specifics of a particular trip easier, but also make it easier to discover and share ideas with others both within the site and on other platforms.
Are there workable solutions to negative externalities other than government involvement?

When it comes to tech, "negative externalities" usually equals "a company is doing something I don't like" not "a company is killing people or harming the environment".
Who'd have thought this was a built in.
Hmm. I'm no physicist, but I'm a (lapsed) member of a Soto community, and once upon a time my best friend was working on a quantum computing project and occasionally tried to explain his work to me over cocktails. I think I see where you're going there - any attempt at a popular explanation seems doomed to failure. There's no real Cliff's Notes version, you just need to keep grinding through the work (staring at a wall on the one hand, staring at a chalkboard hanging from a wall on the other), and eventually it starts to make intuitive sense just through repeated exposure.

Now it's starting to sound a bit like learning a new language, too. Stuff that tries to make it easy and approachable and bite-size like Duolingo just never seems to do the job; the success stories I know of (including my own) always involve accepting that it's going to be unpleasant and confusing for a while, keeping your nose against that grindstone, and giving your brain some time to rewire itself.

That said, knowing physics, someone out there has already read this and interpreted it in some Chopraesque way that I can't even anticipate, and someone else is probably getting ready to downvote in reaction to some other Chopraesque interpretation I failed to read into my own words, so I probably should keep my mouth shut instead of posting. People get (understandably) twitchy about this topic.

But, effit, I'm going to anyway. The only practical characteristic of HN karma is its combustibility.
If your bread has side cracks, it didnt have enough steam.
Show HN: Text Editor for creating Voice Over Audio
I distinctly remember the point in my career where I realized shortcuts aren't shortcuts if they increase the overall effort required in a project. Quite often the seemingly slower and more expensive way is the overall fastest and cheapest.
It is a 17th-century concept applied to 21st-century data collection.

Plus it gets misused all the time - even by statisticians that should know better.
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This is an objectively good thing, most statistics don't actually tell most people anything interesting about the world. They don't aid the average untrained guy in the street in gaining a better understanding of the world around them. They are bombarded with opinions that are based on contradictory studies and statistics all day, this is bad in politics and sociology but medical statistics are probably the worst offenders.

Wine is good for you, chocolate is bad for you, cholesterol is good for you, wine is bad for you, red meat good for you, Fluoride bad for you! I could find you a statistically significant study supporting any conclusion I want right this minute. Since that is the case, why should the average Joe believe any of them? This is made even worse by news articles and popsci blogs not even linking to the source papers, so avg Jane can't even investigate further if she wants to.
There are very few parameters that make sense to update 200 times a second if not the actual voltage level to subtract. If you adjusted EQ parameters 200 times a second you'd just be injecting a ton of noise in the center of the audible band due to phase jumps.

Edit: There is reason to believe it is just 200 Hz ANC. It's the same wording used in Beats over ear headphones that have a W1 chip and ANC. Those headphones have abysmal ANC that doesn't do anything above 500 Hz (aside from adding in some noise).

https://www.engadget.com/2019/10/28/apple-airpods-pro-announ...

https://www.engadget.com/2019/10/15/beats-solo-pro-headphone...

https://www.rtings.com/headphones/reviews/beats/studio-wirel...
> If there are a hundred HMOs and there is a treatment which cures a disease which ten of them choose not to cover, it still exists and you can pay for it out of pocket or do whatever it takes to switch to a different insurance company etc.

This is purely an on-paper difference. In practice, most Americans (where this conversation is relevant) don't actually have the ability to choose between an open market of health care providers. If they have access to it at all, its within the framework of what their workplace has negotiated for them, which may or may not be good. Certainly there is no individual recourse other than to choose between existing plans (which may all be from one provider).

So in that context, its actually exactly the same "systemic risk" problem only without the scrutiny of a general public. Plans are not public, and it is not unheard of for people with health issues to be quietly terminated to get them off plans. Pre-existing condition coverage is all over the map, with only the wealthiest citizens and workers having access to fair treatment. Even for someone like me, I struggle to get good health care when I run my own business because I am a cancer survivor.

So I think this concern you have is valid but the American system actually exacerbates it rather than protects against it. Both my partner and I face the auditing
of unaccountable corporate "death panels" every time we go to the doctor.

So maybe you can tell me how if I suffer from this condition while being within the top percentile of earners in the US, the market approach has done anything to fix it. I have a history of successful Startup participation (and I've exited my own in a profitable fashion), but as I get older the health care situation is so bad, I'm forced out of participating in startups because their health coverage is so bad. Is this outcome better than what other public options have got?
pexpect is nice, and basically replicates expect functionality in Python. I remember when using it it had few minor bugs, but maybe that improved.
Too many science projects reporting statistical results that do not hold up in repeat experiments; contradictory media coverage of the same topic repeatedly as a result.

Reduces trust in science, statistics, and the media all at once.
So how do you formulate a useful problem such that a quantum computer will have the amplitudes interfere to create the answer? Can the low number of Q-bit computers available factor small integers, for instance?
I was envisioning a net-zero emissions private plane, a pure luxury item for frequent fliers where profit wouldn't be an issue - Depending on a celebrity's public position on climate change, that kind of signalling could be worthwhile.
Love how we play a game where only about 1 in 5 people tops can "win" or suffer harshly.
Something that explains this quite well (IMO) is the Dreyfus model of skill acquisition. You’re essentially talking about the difference between a proficient engineer and an expert, but I also think you’re suggesting there’s a 6th level: mastery.

The beauty of the model, to me, is in the separation of skills. Being an expert programmer doesn’t make you an expert in mentoring, or leadership, or architecture sometimes, and if the place you work has any flexibility with its career setup, there’s plenty of opportunity to branch out once you think you’ve maxed out your current tech tree.

... or you quit and get paid more elsewhere/go consulting/whatever ...
As others have mentioned, it might affect sound quality in terms of passing a tiny bit of environmental sound, because ANC isn't 100% efficient. But in terms of hearing, ANC itself has no negative effects on its own, and it is definitely way less damaging to your hearing than if you used the same earphones in the same environment, but without ANC.
I feel like the author of that comment looks at it kind of like the discovery of the electron: once we learn how to control it, we can achieve things that were never possible before.
Interestingly, if we had something like the GDPR in the USA, we should be able to force them to delete our data before the merger. I assume people in the EU who may have Fitbit devices might be able to have their data scrubbed from the Fitbit servers. Also they do use open formats if I remember correctly so some people have utilities to extract data and chart it and such.
Non-starter. You're giving all your user information to Google. If you're OK with that, go for it. A lot of people are not.
That's unlikely to happen. Was there a point you were driving at?
It’s probably a good exit strategy for Fitbit as they might not have a sustainable business.
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- High single instance reliability. I have ~1000 EC2 instances; every week I get a notification how an instance has been restarted to move it off failing hardware. I never got these in my DC

- Consistent large scale workloads at low latency. Nothing beats low latency then bare-metal servers. Also, it costs significantly cheaper running large clusters on bare-metal then in the cloud. If you move to the cloud, you need to use the cloud services else your costs are astronomically higher.

- If you already have datacenters that have been paid off why move to the cloud. Use your own data centers and run a hybrid cloud.

I think there is a reason allot of big tech companies roll their own cloud or do some kind of hybrid approach. Whe nyou running a app that is core to your infrastructure you do not want to rely on another persons hardware you want 100% control of everything. I have had route 53 cause issues, S3 cause issues, EC2 servers get stuck and there is nothing you can do but wait 15 min for the enterprise SLA of AWS. In a business critical system, 15 min is not good enough. You need your operations techie to be sprinting to the rack to hit the reset button. Just my experience.
> At one point does policy targeting a statistical measurement render that statistic useless?

When the statistic is a proxy for a quantity of interest, and when policy exploits ways of manipulating that proxy without commensurate change in the underlying quantity of interest. My driving policy of targeting my speedometer does a fine job of controlling my vehicle's speed even though the former is just a potentially-inaccurate measurement.

In the case of the CPI (actually the PCE for the US Fed [1]), the quantity of interest is the "[nominal] cost of living." To the extent the CPI doesn't in fact measure the cost of living, the easy solution is to change to a price index that does measure the cost of living. Since living tends to involve buying and consuming things, a price index, suitably defined, can be a fine measure of this.

To the extent you are concerned about the exact ways in which the CPI is computed, independent measurements [2] generally reproduce the broad trends in US data, which in turn suggests there is no significant manipulation by the BLS.

[1] -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_consumption_expenditu...

[2] -- http://www.thebillionpricesproject.com/
(2) is possible to define in practical terms, that is, with a small amount of false positives, and very close to zero amount of false negatives.

It's like spam: a precise closed-form analytical definition is impossible, but spam filters do work.