skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Completely tangential, but on the subject of the actual quantum hardware:

I swear that if our entire civilization went under and some future archeologist found this:

https://media.amazonwebservices.com/blog/2019/qc_rigetti_400...

They'd surely assume [at least at first] it was a religious artifact (and they'd only be half wrong?).
> so why is the one factual claim

It's not factual - it's false.

> Am I somehow wrong about this? .. can I actually crime someone

Making a reasonable citizen's arrest is not a crime. That's what you have wrong.

(And you don't 'crime' someone, that's a noun not a verb.)
I think it has a certain chic - yes there are shades of 1998 about it, but its not over the top, and some of the effects are quite nice! Would like something quiter if I were reading.
What's amusing about all this is companies that offer the exact same services to state or corporate clients are allowed to operate with impunity.

e.g.

- Zerodium - https://zerodium.com

- Exodus Intelligence - https://www.exodusintel.com

- Hacking Team - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacking_Team (now dead due to the actions of a very skilled gray hat)
Can you imagine a better world?

Can you imagine a programming language, library, and/or operating system that improves these issues?

Perhaps one where integer overflows were handled safely by default, with wrapping behaviour within easy reach of the programmer for those tricky bit-twiddling algorithms.

Perhaps one where allocating some large blob based on tainted data were a compile-time error until the programmer explicitly asserts that's what they really meant to do.

Perhaps one where process teardown isn't some faceless horror from the deepest depths, but a reasonable and expected way of reacting to an unexpected situation.

You don't have to settle for second-rate tools. Compilers and interpreters are just programs. We can learn from our mistakes.

> I just tire of hearing that switching your language will make it so you never write any bugs again.

Well, you might be reading too much into what I actually wrote. All I said was that writing C programs ought to be a literal crime against humanity, ultimately punishable by hanging from the neck until dead. A moderate and restrained position, if ever I heard one. I'd never go so far as to suggest that switching language would improve things in any way!

> The difference is that memory safety gives you better failure modes that don't lead to serious problems like remote code execution.

... yes! Yes. Exactly. This is exactly my point. Memory safety, proper support for integers, and so forth give you better failure modes. Significantly better failure modes. In the sense of "fail safe".

> You can make that argument reasonably without pretending the new language will make you infallible and the old language is responsible for all evil in the world.

Oh, I'd never say it's responsible for all the evil in the world. Just an eminently avoidable fraction of it.
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That isn't a problem at all, a charging circuit will be designed to only take as much power as the device can receive.
Reassuring news
> but these companies are not selling developer tools

Welll ... from their website:

> Red Planet Labs is pioneering a radically new kind of software tool.

Also, the Materialize "reactive SQL" solution sounds a lot like Firebase.
Yes, and the point being made is that it's wrong.
> Selling developer tools these days is just a losing game.

I agree this is true for _trivial_ dev tools, but for dev tools that are more complex or provide an entire ecosystem I think this is not strictly true. Where I work (Sourcegraph) we are able to sell a good cohesive bundle of dev tools (code search, jump-to-definition/find-references, etc.) and through that have been able to easily fund REALLY cool tooling like https://comby.dev

I imagine the same is true for e.g. GitLab
Income Share Agreements
It takes me 26 flicks of my scroll wheel to show a single column. Given the content, each column should be about 3 flicks max.
On that note, skim is an alternative to fzf written in Rust -- https://github.com/lotabout/skim
So I love the ambition - especially as a way to decouple services and encourage interop. But in the end, isn’t this kind of thing typically a lowest common denominator approach? For example, Spotify or iTunes specific features/integrations either get lost or get added as an extension, to the point where you’re only worse off the main service’s APIs (which will be always up to date and are still required to be up, and will have dedicated devops teams unlike your VPS).

The case of updating your website again is pretty specific and niche... the majority of people’s personal sites these days are their FB/IG pages. And this does nothing to create APIs for locked down 3rd parties like WhatsApp or Messages.

Rather than being a simple wrapper / bridge, is there the possibility of doing something more new that isn’t possible with a variety of SDKs? Like a personal API into my health or routines, that either creates inferences or is able to intelligently control a variety of devices/services?
number of people * hours taken per person
90k Packages Disappear Daily in NYC Is Help on the Way?
I think there has been a very successful diversion of derision towards ‘Americans who own homes’ and ignoring the vast majority of foreigners who own properties(both rent seeking and farmland) in the Bay Area as speculative/investment properties that they have purchased sight unseen.

Deriding pensioners on fixed income whose taxes actually built the infrastructure and schools and roads of the Bay Area is shameful..Whose final home is not ‘speculative property’, but their retirement nest egg. Not everyone has a pension from a public sector job.

Look into pension funds, foreign investors,insurance companies, university investment funds ..and yes, Wall Street..who are literally raiding California from the other side of our state to see how this inequality and unaffordablility is caused. And the Govt in the state of California seated in Sacramento is complicit in this.

On a broader scale, they are also stealing our water(example: family farms in Paso Robles can’t grow their crops like alfafa and corn because of a water moratorium because Harvard investment funds have bought acres and acres to grow grapes in vineyards..and drilling wells at the fence line which makes it legal but essentially taps into aquifers and water tables meant for the entire region. 1500 ft when water was found at 300 ft.)

This is causing a divide between rural and urban causing the former to become unliveable and increasing population pressures on highly dense urban hubs.
I have a copy of "Digital Halftoning" from Robert Ulichney at home, if it's anywhere it would be there. I'll try to remember to look at that tonight.

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/digital-halftoning
> If you look at China's constitution they value the same stuff as the United States. They are a democracy by their values, just like the U.S.

> Words are meaningless if not backed up by action.

Exactly: the PRC's constitution forbids gender discrimination, but even government job postings will frequently ask for men only. That shows how significant the words are, in this case.
In South Africa we have had to abide by FICA act for many years already, months of bank statements, identity document, proof of address etc., there has already been abuses of this information to identify corruption leaks to reporters...
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It's convenient to have stdout only returning the body so you can work with it without having to remove the header. With curl, if you pass the -v, you get headers on stderr too.

When headers are specifically requests with -i for instance, I agree curlie should print them on stdout. PR accepted ;)
To use an analogy... when people were smoking a lot of people got lung cancer. Doctors can try to treat that and many people died. Access to health care did not mean that everyone who got care was cured of their lung cancer. Instead, people had to go to the root of the problem. Smoking causing lung cancer. They worked to reduce the rate of smoking to reduce the rate of cancer. This was not related to someone's access to medical treatments because access to medical treatment wasn't a silver bullet fix.

The same idea applies here. We talk a lot about healthcare access (and I'm not suggesting that should stop). We don't talk enough about going after what's causing the mental illness and fixing that.
Why the Top Startups Start with a Mission
Do you think someone is monitoring your landline?
It took the US over 200 years to fully embrace its values. It’ll take time for opposing groups inside China to change it.

Remember that Xi was sent to a re-education camp in his youth and was initially considered to be an average politician. If he was able to rise to power, there’s no telling what changes can happen in the decades to come.
This sounds fairly similar to where Hyve [1] and Penguin Computing [2] fit in, so what does Oxide plan to do differently?

[1]https://hyvesolutions.com/
[2]https://www.penguincomputing.com/
> work when you feel like it == burnout city

yes because most of us don't know how to turn that off!

Mental health must become a priority when working remote. Separation is a key way to stay ahead of the degradation. Even if you're not a person who tends to go outside, you HAVE TO when you work remote. Lack of face to face interaction will eat you very slowly over the years.

It can't just be with your usual people either. You need to have a level of unexpected interactions with other humans to stay a happy person. I'm not a psychologist, but I've had this happen to me and any other colleague I know who worked remote. It's a very real thing – respect it.
Amazon Braket
It was valuable everywhere because it was used for more than just flavoring and even if it was just for flavoring some things you would want to add salt to you don't want to also add water to. Salt water also comes with all the microbial content that would make long term storage and transport difficult.
Blood and Soil in Narendra Modi’s India
Do you think the people being filmed would've behaved less aggressively if the camera man had told them that he only keeps footage for a month, doesn't run tracking and ID-ing software on it and only ever re-watches it when there was 'an event'?
Well, this new company seems to be about building servers (probably with custom mainboards?) with existing chips and open firmware.

Would be fun if they used Ampere :) but my guess would be that the first products at least are gonna be Corebooted Intel platforms.
> but so is alcohol usage, should we encourage students to drink at school?

Not a great analogy, since the effects on alcohol are quite different than the effects of using a smartphone.
I rather like the horizontal scrolling. It was refreshing to see a site adapt properly to the vertical size of the viewport as well.

Makes reading such pages much more comfortable on a wide screen like my 17" HP Omen.
Mark Wielaard: A public discussion about GNU governance
The Codice Fiscale is supposed to be a unique value you get from the State (via the Agenzia delle Entrate), but the whole system is so outdated and badly designed that most websites just check that the inserted code corresponds to the data you inserted.
Kind of weird how the founder of PCPer now works for Intel.
Lecture 7.
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China's ghost cities were privately developed.

Edit: A better example for you would be Singapore, with its history of public housing, which gets privately owned (or 99-year-leased). They also have public roads.
Realistically the three laws are silly here.

Better laws in this context would be something like “police robots cannot be armed”. Then maybe some other restrictions about circumstances under which they can be used — eg do we want a police robot sitting on every street corner monitoring? (Answer: maybe?)
You have to integrate more socializing into your life or you will not make it in the long run. If a remote worker tells you this doesn't bother them... ask them how long they've been remote. If it's less than 5 years, it's slowly eating at them and they don't realize it yet. Even the most introverted homebodies need to do this for remote jobs IME.
If you don't mind: what are the key things that make Django useful for a project like Zulip?

How much does the framework help you, and where? What are the places where you have to go against the grain, if any?
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Yes. Right now simulators tend to be faster, cheaper, and more accurate than real quantum computers.
The primary function is irrelevant.
Do you mean they did that actively (using lead as an added sweetener)or was it passively (by proxy though the vessels they used)?
The Vatican's new Minecraft server is on-brand for Jesuits
Private developers will build anything with 0 regard. Laws are in place to maintain sustainability. You could build a million new homes but what about water and waste issues?
China tightens cyberspace controls by introducing face scans for phone users
10 years is the norm. They build it..raze it down and rebuild it.
Making legal trade-offs can be evil, and setting & enforcing social norms is a basic responsibility of every adult.
You should check out Code on Standard Library [0], we do exactly this - turn JavaScript files into APIs via the open source FunctionScript specification [1]. We’re a Stripe-backed company and we do a lot of other stuff, too (handle auth between multiple providers... etc.), but building APIs easily is where we started.

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Comments like this look absolutely insane to anyone outside the US. Look at the numbers: https://edition.cnn.com/2018/05/21/us/school-shooting-us-ver...
What year did you graduate high school? I graduated 2010 and I cannot agree with you more. Public schools are a demented crossbreed of daycare, zoo with some prison culture mixed in.

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The one aspect of my opinion that hasn’t changed is that there should be more discipline. Bring back the paddle and rules. Boys need it psychologically, order and structure and consequences.
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Stuff like this: https://blog.valerieaurora.org/2018/07/01/bryan-cantrill-has...

I don't know him personally. I've only seen him speak via YouTube videos. My point isn't to damage his reputation further, just add evidence that there may be an egocentric aspect to what is going on with the team heavy focus of the initial marketing push for the company.

There are arguments being made in these few threads today that such a direction is misguided and I believe his history supports that.

He tends to dismiss his impact on the failures and blame others instead. The claims about joyent for example that it was too far advanced for mass adoption or Amazon squashed it, rather than he not focusing on better marketing or the customer.

The products are held back not because he wasn't good enough, but rather because he was too good. I have an intuitive sense this new company is going down that same road.
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This is very interesting!
> Why does America have these kinds of people at such high frequencies compared to Switzerland?

Public schools.
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Win 10, FF 70.0.1 left and right cursor control keys work fine.
You may be correct. While I often like to try advanced methods in my neuroimaging work, there is always a risk that the method ends up telling you the same thing that traditional analytical approaches do.

Yet, "trash" is a harsh word, especially given that your further comments are not always clear (or supported).
I was thinking more about automated vacuum cleaners.

You can take a very broad view of the term 'robot', where it is more or less equivalent with 'machine', and then you world be right - they are literally everywhere.

But given the reaction to this article, I think that it's clear most people have a more narrow definition of 'robot', one which draws a line between a machine which splashes water and detergent inside itself for a pre-determined amount of time on one hand, and semi-autonomous walking machines on the other hand.
Are you proposing a secondary level of insurance for a failing primary insurance system? Won't that just make it worse?