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This is a reasonable take. Consider that IBM, Microsoft, and Google - the credible cloud competitors to AWS - all have their own in-house QC efforts. AWS is outsourcing theirs... they make it sound like it's going to be a marketplace model, but you're right, if/once the profit motive is in place they'll snap up the supplier.

Of course, if nothing productive materializes, they're also out nothing. Sort of a win-win for them.

The question I have is whether we'll see things like SageMaker and other higher level machine learning features use the quantum computers on the back end.
I think the "floating point are bad for storing currencies" is one of the most common misconception about floating point.

Most people don't realize that the IEEE-754 single precision floating point represent real numbers with 9 decimal digits (or 23 binary digits). The double, on the other hand, represents the real numbers with 17 decimal digits.

This means that the double error UPPER BOUND is (0.00000000000000001)/2 per operation. But in reality the error is lower because of the rounding operations.

Also, it is posssible to extend the range using denormals, but most (all?) compilers disable them when compiling with anything other than O0 to avoid performance degradation.

The overheads associate with dealing with non-float types for most applications might not be worth it the cost and risk. If course, if the language are working with provides a currency type, go for it. But if doesn't , there is no need to worry.
{Fry-meme:} Not sure if joking or not aware that link is dead. [it links to a dreamhost page with a bad SSL cert and no content.]
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Most resumes I’ve seen don’t even bother with the accents.

Most are written in Word on Windows, and I’d guess that most people don’t even know how to access the accented characters.
This was actually shown to be a hoax, or at the least not reproducible. Most of the people selling the iron condors with ridiculous limit prices did not get filled.
In Russia at least they could match your photo against your phone number, IMEI, IP address etc.

Especially useful for capturing younger users who are more likely to be anti-Putin.
Plenty of chinese apps under "utility" category is flooding the us consumers...
I’m not really an expert—I’ve just been playing with quantum computer simulations since the supremacy paper came out, but yours is basically IBMs criticisms of that paper.

Part of the problem is that comparing a quantum computer simulation to the state of an actual quantum computer is almost inherently an apples-to-oranges thing.

We do not know of any way to compactly represent the state of a quantum computer in a classical computer; it appears to require an exponentially large state vector. So it requires an exponential number of operations just to evolve the full state vector. But it also produces the exact and full probability distribution describing the quantum computer state. Running a physical QC produces one _sample_ from that distribution, and you have to run it completely again to get another sample.

If we pretend that the simplest quantum computer state is equivalent to a coin toss, then classically simulating a fair coin would produce a distribution like {H: 0.5, T: 0.5}, while running the quantum computer would produce “H” half the time and “T” half the time. You could run the QC a bunch of times to estimate the actual probability, but there’s a fundamental difference between what the QC does and the simulation does.

There are some ways to approximately solve the classical simulation, but we haven’t found a way to compactly represent and manipulate the quantum state vector that are as fast as physics/nature seem to be able to do it in hardware. The Extended Church-Turing thesis (ECT) basically says that such an encoding and simulator should exist, and the basic premise of QC is that such an encoding and evolution process is impossible.

We don’t expect to ever conclusively prove that ECT is false (someone could always find an efficient simulator for QCs) but that doesn’t mean QCs can’t be useful in the interim, or even potentially after such a simulator is found (if it is a polynomial with a very large constant factor, for example).

The supremacy paper claimed that classically simulating their largest circuit would take 10,000 years. IBM said it would take them 2 days. The sycamore processor did it in 5 minutes. That still a big improvement, even if the classical simulator can be further optimized—and even IBM admits their simulator wouldn’t work if the quantum processor had even 1 more qubit.
No idea why you are being downvoted. While I cannot comment on skin whitening and being Han (never lived in China), I can absolutely attest to the rest of your points that similar things can be observed in Russia (which to me, in a lot of ways, seems to be very similar to China culturally). If you have a child with disabilities, it isn't, unfortunately, socially acceptable to treat them the exact same way you would a normal kid in public. People prefer not to mention their relatives with disabilities and sort of "hide" them from the public eye. And if you try the opposite, people would definitely look at you weirdly. Same goes for dressing "appropriately", except you will also get a lot of nasty comments.

There were no special-ed classes in my school (I went all the way from elementary to high school), and I have never seen a person with disabilities in my school, despite the fact that it was a large school (but we all still kinda knew each other, at least on a surface level). And I find it extremely unlikely that my hometown and my school somehow had such great odds, that there was not a single student with disabilities in a school of ~1.2k people simply due to the fact that everyone in town was that healthy.
DDG is great, and I use it by preference. The only thing I prefer Google for is when I want to search for something in a specific geographical location. Otherwise, I find DuckDuckGo more useful, and I wonder why others don't. Maybe it's residual search mannerisms I've retained from my Altavista days.
Bitcoin uses fixed-width unsigned integers. The smallest unit is 10^-8 of 1 Bitcoin, which is represented as just 1.
CSV is fairly OK if you just ignore Excel. Unfortunately, if you're working with others, they won't let you ignore Excel.
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ah yes they shouldnt exclude themselves . of course it depends on the roles and quality of their hires.
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I noticed there are a lot of popular links on this site that go to websites that use this practice
Would at least be useful to point out in this article that Huxley didn't have an overly moralistic view of substance use in general and he wrote one of the most classic books about using psychedelics to explore consciousness with Doors of Perception!

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I tend to find simplistic pro and anti substance screeds yawn-inducing. All psychoactive substances, whether legal or not, whether they have physical dependency issues or not, whether they are used by rich people or poor people, have a unique set of consciousness-altering properties in the short-term and long-term. They give with one hand and take away with the other.

Whether something is useful for short-term or long-term use is a profoundly individual choice that is best made with as much information available as possible, and far separated from moralizing judgement. And sometimes, far from the pharma companies and current psychiatric fad.

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I don't see much new in this article. It's true lots of people are popping pills to deal with late capitalism, but maybe that's what a lot of humans have to do in late capitalism til we figure out something better.
I actually checked a while ago when UTF-8 was created, and it was just around the same time when Windows NT was developed with 16-bit "early" Unicode support. UTF-8 was created in September 1992 [1], and Windows NT came out mid 1993, but I guess it was too late for Windows to change to UTF-8 (and I guess the advantages of UTF-8 haven't been as clear back then).

But IMHO there's no excuse to not use UTF-8 after around 1995 ;)

[1] https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/utf-8-history.txt
It's certainly better than giving your face to sketchy apps from Russia or China.
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I also have a few. You could buy a stack of 100 trillion dollar bills few a few bucks then. They are now selling for $50-$60 on eBay.
I watch Youtubers build things, or just playing my favorite video game and while I learn a lot from them, sometimes I learn more from the times that I disagree with them.

I was watching a video for a game I play, about a dogmatic approach to solving a particular problem and realized it had been min-maxed into the ground by bad math. By de-optimizing it a couple percent I could get 2 and a half beneficial outcomes instead of just the one. Given how time consuming the process is, it was madness to sink so much effort into solving only one problem. Of course having spotted something someone else missed, I've been staying up too late trying to validate my theory. Unfortunately my change barely made it any faster, and my first attempt to break it down into two phases didn't work out and ended up costing me more time than I had saved.

Point is, I got all new nuances and areas to explore based on watching a video that I felt was provably wrong.
I wonder if folks that have been "bit" switch to their own cloud. (either by prices or by vulnerabilities/intrusions)
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I dunno. I've got a 15 year old toaster with a bimetallic thermostat. Still works fine. Maybe everything doesn't have to be "smart"?
Thanks, that makes sense. You're right, it will be simpler to just register in NYC.
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>Moreover, SoftBank itself has been a big contributor to that high level of occupancy. The Japanese conglomerate and its subsidiaries take up about 20% of WeWork’s office space in Japan, the people said. Over the years, WeWork pushed its locations worldwide to attract corporate clients because those contracts are more lucrative and stable. But Japan had a higher proportion of enterprise customers from the start, beating the 40% global average.

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It's a lot easier to be profitable when your owner buys 20+% of your services. Also easier to get more than 40% institutional customers when the boss puts his thumb on the scale for the first half of that...
> I guess shipping Windows API cargo crates makes too much sense. Does anyone have any context for gaps in Rust they are addressing?

I haven't finished digging through the OP, but it looks like a bunch of Microsoft employees (already aware of Rust's safety benefits) have started recognizing the commitment to FFI as well. My last project had a feature that depended on a bind to win32, which turned out to be the most time consuming aspect - as it demanded a bunch of tooling that was otherwise unnecessary (valgrind, etc). If they were to take stewardship of that interface, lots of unsafe{} would disappear overnight.

https://kennykerr.ca/2019/11/05/rust/
My wife utters obscenities when I do something stupid, but there is no Tourette's involved!
WorkSmart is becoming the benchmark for how people will work in the future
Let's keep this very focused on this issue.

Someone with down syndrome at 13 or even 21 is in a different place than an adult without down.

We probably disagree somewhat on whether exposure to a global audience as a child is healthy, even if it is 99% supportive. I'd be curious how star wars kid, and other young stars are doing - kids / disabled are CONSTANTLY being exploited, particularly if there is a financial angle to it.

We ALREADY see this on youtube where streamers absolutely do crazy stuff with their kids for views.

I'm sure we'll have some funny down syndrome tiktok stars, most likely ones with support staff / agents etc able to keep a good pace of content coming.

I think we are in total agreement - folks making nasty comments should be consequenced. That's the easy part.

But I'll be curious what stories we hear in 5 - 10 years about whatever tiktok stars end up making it big by being themselves. Who gobbled up the money, how happy were they etc. I say this because fully mature adults struggle with this terribly on these platforms already. The history here is not great BTW.

And where you and the rest are reading the since changed guidelines as "victim blaming discrimination" by an evil corporation - another possibility is that they used a guideline (potentially from an education setting) and applied it in a setting that it wasn't considered for.

I say this because in an ed setting with down / disabled kids you really don't (even with their permission or their parents) video and promote the "funny" things they do.
There is no threat model for an iPhone app to do nefarious things in an App Store distributed app on a non-jailbroken phone. At most, FaceApp grabs the picture you uploaded and some minor meta-data that every app using an analytics tool (read: all of them) collects.

This is political grand-standing at best, and would be a non-issue if you replaced the geographic location of the dev team with any other countries

I get it, Russia is the Big-Bad-Boogeyman right now. But if you think for a second that a real attempt at counterintelligence would publicly come from such an obvious point of interest, than I have a bridge to sell you
In the beginning, G was a search engine. Now it just seems like a recommendation and answers engine.
I added it to smhasher. It's extremely slow. Slower than the previously slowest hash sha3-512. double pow and division.
Orgies as well. Went to my first one 2 weeks ago. Orgy-porgy baby.
I wonder if we had the same perspectives when comptuers were first established in the 50's/60's.

We couldn't possible foresee how these monster of a machines could possible fit in the palm of our hands and yet, now, it's hard to see how we couldn't see that far in front of us.

We had this famous quote from IBM but, I wonder if as an industry this was a common perspective. Or wether between those who were building these machines could foresee where we'd be now? Is there some one in Quantum Computing who has the intelligence and creativity to think, nah, we'll have giant refrigerated quantum computing mobile phones in 5x decades time (I understand Quantum Computers wouldn't make great phones I'm just drawing baseless comparisons :) )

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."

Thomas Watson, president of IBM, 1943

= = = =

I only found out about wolframalpha a month ago and I'm still in awe of it. Quantum computing as a service? No idea what I'm going to want to do with it. But I re-watch this video by Veritasium and Andrea Morello from UNSW a couple of times a year to just remind myself how much I don't know.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Auha-gXTiqU
I hate to be That Guy Who Argues With Everything, but I will. I'm a big fan of Huxley and Brave New World, but he wasn't particularly visionary with Soma. Drug use goes back as far as humankind does because people have been trying to cope with the stress of life since there have been people. If you're looking for a drug that helps with the anxieties of everyday life, alcohol would have my vote. It's been used for thousands of years, for better or worse. Alcohol use comes with lots of problems, of course, but that doesn't stop it from being the socially acceptable drug of choice.

As for Valium, it seems odd this article even makes a big deal about it. Valium (and benzodiazepines in general) aren't prescribed as much these days because of their addictive potential. Their spike of popularity came and went in a few decades, roughly 1960-1980. Benzos are still popular in illicit use, but a key point of Soma was that it wasn't illicit---it was sanctioned by the state.
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“Infinite price improvement”
Using the bangs (!g, !wiki, !youtube) makes it for me. When I have a feeling a result won't show up on DDG, I drop a !g bang in there and it works.
I think I’ve seen her ads. Doctors hate her because of this one weird trick?
There’s just got to be a way, there’s no way we can just give up.

I’m fairly sure decades ago people assumed we may never have tiny computers in our pockets with the same certainty you have now.

This is what it means to be crazy enough to change the world.
I think it is cute that the author trys to make some leap about valium. If Huxley was talking about, or thinking of anything it would have been a more contemporary problem. Though my memory of the book is hazy, I do not recall that Soma was addictive or potentially deadly.

The contemporary family of drugs would have been barbiturates, and in the very early days of their use. Well before we knew how bad that they were in regards to addition and withdrawl. Valium is a benzodiazepine, and those come much later, again we don't find out how bad the withdrawal from them is till much later. In some regards benzodiazepines end up replacing barbiturates not for consumer heath reasons rather for patent and profit reasons because as it turns out both are fairly damaging.
Having a database of peoples picture is a huge asset for Russian intelligence. They can use facial recognition to enhance their visual surveillance efforts.
I use Joplin, it uses markdown so I have my folder of files I can grep. It also has a mobile app and you can set up syncing with WebDAV, I use Seafile.
So like every other android app where you login with facebook.
Right this instant you can talk to the bare metal of a computer with more power than anything you had way back when C64's roamed the planet. Get yourself an ESP32 and you can talk directly to the metal with no OS to get in your way. Get two, they only cost a few bucks each.

> I see this occasionally on electronics.stackexchange: "how do I attach a light to the end of a USB cable and turn it on and off from the computer". The answer to that is astonishingly complicated.

It is astonishingly complicated because what they are asking the wrong question.
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This is great news. Microsoft is adopting/forking Rust. That means Rust will be supported for all eternity.
To see 0.1 error using _double_ you have to do at least 2*10^17 operations (assuming the worst case scenario and no subnormals).

If you are working with such huge numbers, 0.1 cents is probably a cost you are willing to pay to avoid expending thousands in a software solution. The saving with power saving using a floating point is likely greater than power your computers will have to expend to get a precise solution.
Those are some big words when it's literally a more obtuse, less production ready variant of what WPF has been doing forever (and WPF wasn't the first on desktop UX to do it!).

I mean, here is Qt shipping Qml interfaces in a ton of cars, and you're talking up rust2html.
The comment is not regards to subsistence farmers using rudimentary methods.

In regards to latter half of your comment. The value is robbed from them by not valuing their efforts fairly in comparison to the value added by the equipment used to scale the operation. Sure you can hyperfocus on the study's cohort but then what's the point of any discussion at all?
Privacy, offline access, low latency - these are all excellent use cases for edge computing. Once it's time to do some heavy lifting, though, it makes a lot more sense to centralize. Decentralization gives you control along with responsibility, so the cycle goes something like this:

* Decentralized as a part of early development

* Centralized for ease of early deployment

* Decentralized once it becomes simple / commodity enough that everyone can just have one

* Recentralized once it's cheaper to run them all centrally again

And then you only break back out once the thing you're doing fundamentally changes for some reason.
It says potential threat, not threat, and according to this letter, the Russian government can access ISP data directly without request.