skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The first aspect that you mention is actually not a disagreement but the whole point of his message - the recently popularized demonstrations of "quantum supremacy" did not allow for universal programmability, but instead were more comparable to an experimental setup for a particular problem of how do atoms behave in that setup.

Where does Wilczek claim that? The only sentence I can see where he arguably comments on the programmability of Google's device is "the computation that Sycamore performed is very specialized". But this is before he brings up the carbon example, and he never says the programmability of Sycamore is comparable to the programmability of carbon.

Indeed, Sycamore is programable. It's obviously not capable of arbitrary-length computations, because the noise level is too high to be fault tolerant, but it has a certain accessible state space in which it can be arbitrarily configured. Here's Scott Aaronson if you don't believe me (emphasis mine):

> [Question:] Even so, there are countless examples of materials and chemical reactions that are hard to classically simulate, as well as special-purpose quantum simulators (like those of Lukin’s group at Harvard). Why don’t these already count as quantum computational supremacy?

> [Answer:] Under some people’s definitions of “quantum computational supremacy,” they do! The key difference with Google’s effort is that they have a fully programmable device—one that you can program with an arbitrary sequence of nearest-neighbor 2-qubit gates, just by sending the appropriate signals from your classical computer.

> In other words, it’s no longer open to the QC skeptics to sneer that, sure, there are quantum systems that are hard to simulate classically, but that’s just because nature is hard to simulate, and you don’t get to arbitrarily redefine whatever random chemical you find in the wild to be a “computer for simulating itself.” Under any sane definition, the superconducting devices that Google, IBM, and others are now building are indeed “computers.”

https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=4317

Therefore, I think abdullahkhalids's interpretation is right: Wilczek's carbon analogy is inapplicable.
The story reminds me of the people doing intentional helminth infestation (e.g. hookworm) as a treatment for issues like asthma and IBD. My sense was that helminth treatments are on pretty solid scientific ground -- of the kind where we don't have large N studies but that's only because it would be hard to get approval for them -- but maybe that's not true? Reading this article has me wondering if it's all just placebo and eventual recovery.
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I watched the documentary about flat Earthers and I think they're just having harmless fun.
This is due to the tendency for bioaccumulation in lipids, which breast tissue and organs tend to have a high percentage of. I'm not an expert, just what I remember reading, so someone please chime in for the exact mechanisms.

Likely to be some other contributing factors, like their role in producing breast milk biochemistry related to that (speculating: accumulates in the mother but doesn't get passed on to the child).
If you're doing this you're using lambda's wrong.
The capital cost is only one part of the equation. These modern ARM cores have insane per-watt performance and that’s what adds up for horizontally scalable services.
That is one expensive Subaru.
can you elaborate on this? I am not familiar with how dodd-frank and other regulations impact building
Yeah exactly, you're not going to skimp on the CPU by choosing ARM to save $500 a year when you have software that costs you thousands every single year. You're going to stick with x86_64 instead of the crappy budget option that doesn't even run your software.
Venture capitalist. Someone who invests in startups.
Oh, looks like they have a partly completed compiler with a c transpiler backend: https://cforall.uwaterloo.ca/trac/browser
Is it really true that the scientific concensus was in favor of ice age in the 70s? I have heard people say this before but I have never seen the historical evidence.
Then they don't respect their users privacy, they respect (or not) the laws.
You mean, overriding defaults as conditions to get a remote hole?

Can you exploit a bare OpenBSD install by default remotely, yes or not?

Everything else is bullshit.
You're mentioning things where not getting a verdict is an unfortunate side effect in pursuit of more important goals. That's not what the question was supposed to be about; it's a complete tangent that doesn't help the discussion.
This is completely wrong. The court determined no such thing in either one of those cases. Both of these are cases in which the Ninth Circuit disagreed with findings made by the Board of Immigration Appeals in denying asylum relief and reversed said decisions. Insofar as passports/documents are referenced, it is in relation to testimonial credibility. Those decisions do not endorse or in any way legalize the use of false documents or the commission of illegal entry.

(Also, ninth circuit court holdings are only applicable in the ninth circuit.)
One difference with eBPF is that it limits the number of instructions you can execute (and also prohibits backward branches if I recall - "loops" must be unrolled) and that the semantics are restricted enough that it can be "proven" to be safe.

You are correct however that allowing arbitrary eBPF code to be installed by untrusted users increases the attack surface. For example, we need to trust that the eBPF checker is correct, as well as the implementation of the eBPF operations. Moreover, even though eBPF may be safe I suspect it could potentially trigger or exploit bugs in internal kernel subsystems that might be harder or even impossible to trigger through the regular system call interface.
Strange that Brendan Gregg's blog is not available via an RSS feed. An oversight?
This is what I came to say. There were very definite beliefs and they were pretty reasonable (although the evidence did not bear out) about global freezing in the early 1970s.

Interestingly, we might compare this with the popular idea of Nuclear Winter at the time. Essentially, a nuclear war was supposed to ignite a global conflagration that would incinerate the skies and burn so much smoke to block out the earth. But 1). The calculations were excessive in terms of the number of smoke supposedly produced and 2). Bombs became so powerful and caused such a shockwave as to almost extinguish their own fires.
I think he means Daniel Bernstein, a prominent cryptographer and coder.
Lol WebEx is always the weakspot. Push to talk by default would be a nice add.
They didn't, you've been told a lie:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/06/that-70s-myth-did-cl...

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2005/01/the-gl...

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn11643-climate-myths-t...

>A survey of the scientific literature has found that between 1965 and 1979, 44 scientific papers predicted warming, 20 were neutral and just 7 predicted cooling. So while predictions of cooling got more media attention, the majority of scientists were predicting warming even then.
Don’t forget the distinctive aroma of the computing center.
You can have your cake and it eat by installing an Ad blocker. Win win
I honestly don't know if it is a large one. The nearest populated areas to Portland are Seattle, 200 miles to the north; Boise, 450 miles to the east; and Sacramento, 600 miles to the south. Maybe the Portland hub is used to serve all the little town halfway between Portland and Seattle, Boise and Sacramento?
I wanted to buy a dynamo because I was driving long-distances with smartphone navigation and listening to audiobooks, and my smartphone was dying after about 6 hours.

I looked at the options and bought a $50 20000 mAh powerbank instead. Enough to charge the smartphone 4 times and the lights basically forever.

Dynamo is much more likely to break than the batteries, less convenient, and more expansive. It's obsolete technology IMHO.
There is also the Cloudflare AMP cache that can be hosted on any domain, so it is easy to implement a link aggregator that gets instant article loading just like Google and Bing. Compare to the situation prior to AMP where if you wanted instant article loading, you would have to convince publishers to integrate directly with you like Apple News or Facebook Instant Articles.

Dominant AMP cache is a meaningless concept. You as the link aggregator have to have your own AMP cache to implement instant loading.
It doesn't really matter. What matters is you put in $1,000, but are happy with the output. Some contractors will charge for their lunch hours or YouTube breaks, but less per hour. Some don't count distracted minutes. Everyone is a little different.
> At san jose's going rate of roughly $4k/month for the same thing, that would be the equivalent of a $400k/yr salary.

No, it wouldn't -- conflating absolute dollars with percentages is a mistake in this kind of comparison, even though it's a very common one. You need to look at the amount of money you actually have left over after expenses. Let's throw in federal taxes based on 2019 rates for a better comparison.

Person A: $50,000 a year - $8200 in taxes - ($500/mo * 12) = $35.8K after housing

Person B: $400,000 - $127,000 in taxes - ($4000/mo * 12) = $225K after housing

Even if we assume everything else costs eight times as much for Person B as it does for Person A, they'll still have several times left over after paying those expenses than Person A had before expenses.
> Why an imbalanced total ratio? Why not average length of heads? Average number of occurrences of "HT"? Frequency of alternations between H and T? Average fraction of times H appears counting only even tosses? Given the combinatorial explosion of possible criteria, I guarantee you I can find a simple-sounding criterion on which any desired string of fair tosses gets a low p-value.

Sure you can p-hack and people definitely do it. Still, good papers argue for any unconventional choice of what they mean by extreme.

> Let's say I think the string "HHTHT" is extremely indicative of conspiracy.

Then I as your peer-reviewer will say I require more justification for your premise. Usually what counts as more extreme is not up to each paper to define, but depends on the conventions of a field that were agreed upon by domain-level reasoning, so you don't always have so many degrees of freedom left (but still have some, that's why p-hacking is a hot topic.)

Again, you're arguing against p-hacking: coming up with your criterion for what counts as extreme after looking at your observation.

Indeed if we assume no p-hacking, things look much nicer. If for some reason you've for years argued on YouTube that there's a conspiracy to make the 5 coin tosses that person X will perform on live TV on this and this date to be biased towards HHTHT, and then it actually does end up being HHTHT on live TV, then I think it's fair to say we can reject the null hypothesis at the level of p=1/32. It doesn't mean we absolutely for eternity have rejected it, but I guess it's worth accepting a paper about your analysis and discussion (taking the analogy back to science). We're already accepting a 5% false positive ratio anyway.
We didn't listen.
Someone just named their library in Python or whatever that was "Assembly".
It’s not the case. Newsweek has a cover story. None of the consensus of climate science said anything about an ice age.

The anti-warming FUD spreaders use this debunked claim to press their lies.
What about the person who believes in anthropogenic climate change but doesn’t believe that humans will ever be able (or have ever been able) to cooperate to the extent that is necessary to prevent it, and questions whether required technological advances will ever be made?

Asking for a friend...
It's hard to take school seriously if you have to work 3 jobs to provide for your child.
Exactly my thoughts as well! The average update to a product I use regularly is strongly negative. If I'm already using it that means that it mostly does what I need it to. Constant updates are far more likely to change or degrade existing functionality and/or add bloat that slows performance or clutters the UI, than they are to improve something that already works.
Ask HN: What's Going on with CircleCI's New UI?
This thing has been in progress for a long time and still seems like a regression in every sense of the word; visually and functionally. Recently they have been getting more aggressive with pushing it, though it's clearly not even half-baked, by forcing users into it before they can switch back out.

Visually it just seems very bland and not very space efficient. I believe liking it is subjective, sure, but it really seems like the existing UI had a lot more care, and purpose behind it.

Many people have complained about missing functionality, missing information, and regressions in existing functionality. The new log output virtual scroller for instance has been mentioned multiple times for not being searchable and having select issues; typical virtual scroller issues and perhaps a poor choice for the use case in its current form.

Somebody raised an issue with colors that are not "color-blind safe" being used to convey contextual information. To which the reply was "As we built this UI we’ve put effort along the way into designing for folks who are colorblind and other accessibility needs. Sorry to hear we screwed up here.". And yet.. This is one of the only places the color even matters? A lot of the responses to people's feedback are SUPER PR feeling, almost like the target audience isn't the user so much as management.

Overall the whole process feels like cargo-cult product development. There seems to be little forward-thinking user empathy and a lack of acknowledgement that a lot of the UIs current functionality are going to be "basic needs" at this point for many users. I find it very bizarre and a little concerning for the future. One almost has to assume all this work and effort going into the "New UI" is delaying new features? Certainly if it's so far from parity at this point, it is even further from moving the ball forward?
Daniel Bernstein, author of qmail, djbdns, and daemontools among others.
No, it’s not. There were a small number of scientists that wrote about possibilities of global cooling, but vast majority of scientists were concerned with warming.
C’mon! Video please, Porsche.
> video games do not make money. The consoles do.

Where did this idea come from?
>There was also an additional challenge: The driving characteristics had to be optimized exclusively through software. The Porsche engineers could not install any additional sensors and had to use the existing control devices. The task, in short, was essentially driving stability by app.

sounds almost like 737 MAX. Though of course it is just a common chewing sound of "software eating the world".
They didn't rationalize that because that's not what those cases were about. See my other reply to OP.
Ever been anxious about something and gone over everything that could go wrong in your head?
It’s _nearly_ an urban myth. Some people did say we were due an ice age, but in the “within the next few millennia” range of accuracy, not ‘any day now’. Basically, it’s a good story, but that’s all.
Thank God for DJB. His entire website should be required reading for software developers.
I have a friend at work that plays competitively and I just gave him an old CRT we had lying around as he stocks up for tournaments!
Everyone agrees that Sycamore isn't fault tolerant, but I don't think many people agree that it is "not much different than a sufficiently complex other physics experiment". Here's a test: do you think there is any device that could be achieve quantum supremacy without being fault tolerant? If not, then your complaint isn't specific to Sycamore at all.
Frink is a full-fledged programming language, so you can read data from files, write functions, access web-based data, repeat calculations, process text, create data structures, etc.

In short, it is a Turing-complete system. Soulver isn't, and that's a huge difference.
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At $28.50 a flush, San Francisco leaders say staffed public toilets worth it
It's rubbish that science predicted an ice age in the 70s. The vast majority of peer reviewed studies predicted a rise in global temperatures due to a rise in CO2.

There were a few studies that predicted an incoming ice age, but they were by far the minority. And these studies were based on predictions of the composition of the atmosphere which did not pan out, where the CO2 predictions have been on point.
we didn't listen!!
Thank for asking, I will be provided that information in readme. Right now squzy it just health check system it is can be connected to nagios or grafana. Plan do complexity solution
Yes please see Stephen Schneider’s book talked about in The NY Times in 1976. He worked at NASA at one point: https://realclimatescience.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/20...
If you did not include graduation on your application would this not have been a problem?

Do you think the company would have let you continue to work while completing the course? Especially if it was like a foreign language or something?
A nice way to solve this would be for steam to require all games provide a drm free version to valve and in the event where the DRM breaks and the publisher is gone steam will replace everyones copy with the drm free version. Although these days I don't think valve is really in the position to demand such a thing.
I believe it only takes a few changes to make sufficient difference. Changes that are already in action.
It was a political concensus. And that political concensus is still strong today. Our (Australian) politics are infested with it. It is like another reality with them.
Because you've only listened to people who told you what you wanted to hear (that there hasn't been consensus, that its a conspiracy, that it's normal and not human created) and one of the other things that have been pushed has been the idea that there was a significant belief and prediction in an ice age outcome. There were some early models that could produce such an outcome, but they were not long lived due to them very quickly found to be too simple and inaccurate.

But sure, you can claim that 50 years of consistent predictions are fictional or rewriting history.
The problem is that most of these people who are diagnosed by "chronic lyme" actually have CFS (according to multiple studies). So, it's unlikely that any lyme treatments will work for these patients.

As for CFS, many people do fully recover from that (I have myself, for example). But going down the chronic lyme rabbit hole is unlikely to bring any kind of relief.
It matters for the people that create and distribute the cracks. Its much easier to simply dump the crack file/source on your website and freely distribute it if its legal to do so.
I've watched quite a few of the flat earther videos found on youtube and at least to me, they seem to come across as genuine and sincere, yet very much misguided.

I would say this is also a good description for todays climate change deniers.
Indeed. I've found cameras super useful in debugging issues with wild animals and contractors, figuring out where something outside went or how it got broken, etc.

Anyone interested in cameras should check out the forum at https://ipcamtalk.com/

One of the reoccurring points there though is actual experience with the low utility of cameras-- especially if they're not very carefully positioned and prolific-- at identifying strangers.
Well, I'm saying that Java doesn't have any of those. Other languages have some concept they run away with, like macros for Lisp, monads on Haskell, named parameter enumeration and monkey patching on Python. Even PHP relies heavily on object enumeration.

All of those techniques are kind of equivalent in power, spread through a curve trading flexibility (expresivity) with organization (possibility of analysis). Java has nothing near that curve.
Pretty sure that's the brand I noted in my local McDonalds too. I wondered why there was so much lag to the display, so I checked the brand to look into it later. Dumb of them to write it on the side if they are profiling.

GDPR request here we come...
They were not definite beliefs, they were fringe studies that were not widely accepted at the time or now.
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> Who cares about the dmca? Just ignore it and live consequence free

The people distributing the software are at greater risk than those downloading it.
I think both for the reasons you named, and because more people use MySQL maybe?
I intrigued at how uniformly negative the reaction is to this. Do people here not use things like AdBlock? Do you also avoid fast-forwarding over ads in videos for the same reason?
It wasn't worth the hype.

It was cute and all, but you played through a 'flow' like cell phase, a simple tribal phase, a slightly more complex civilisation phase and then went space and ... meh.

I wanted to love it, and I did play it through a few times, but from the hype you'd have thought it was the game of a generation where ultimately it was unsatisfying and played out more or less the same each time.
iPhone 11 Pro Is Sending Location Data to Apple No Matter the Settings
I've been having a happy time putting together a BuildStream project (https://buildstream.build/). It's meant for integrating packages into a larger system, for instance Flatpak runtimes and Linux system images, but it happens to do a really good job of this because every component is built in its own sandbox - with zero internet access, because they're going for reproducible builds. (Go to a commit from two years ago, build it, and you should get the same output you did back then).

This means you have to obsessively specify dependencies, including exactly which files to fetch from the internet and which system components are required. And it also means some lovely security wins. For instance, if everyone lost their minds and decided that we should wrap all of our Python packages with BuildStream metadata and build everything that way, a build-time attack would be extremely difficult :)

Of course, said library could do whatever evil it wishes for end users, but I guess the interesting lesson here is that the steps required for sandboxing can have genuine benefits outside of security, as well.
With at least one other, I far preferred PC Tools. Until Symantec bought and canned them.

PC Tools had a great tape backup program too - that was the real casualty of Symantec buying them.

At least I'm still not bitter :p
In the '70's, Porsche unabashedly made cars that earned the nickname "widowmaker."

Now it's bragging that in the near future a driver (user?) will be able to mash their car's throttle mid-corner with total impunity.

Off the top of my head I can't think of another car company that's had such a weird trajectory.

It's disappointing the new technology is unlikely to help Porsche users stop any faster, because the need for them to do so could be a side affect of their finally feeling secure when turning.
The goal is really no longer preventing it; that’s not realistic. The goal is keeping it at ‘merely very bad’ rather than extinction level.
I, too, am curious how it'll fare compared to DIY PgBouncer. Related, I am building something related that solves a superset of these classes of struggles. I'd love to pick your brain, if you're interested! Do you mind shooting me a message? (email in profile)
Humans have cooperated plenty. Many universal or nearly- universal treaties have been signed by all nations. In fact humans already cooperated on an atmospheric pollution treaty when we prevented the destruction of the Ozone layer.
Hyperbole isn't a citation.
That sounds like a perfect case for generative DL network photos. Especially the faces, which are also eye-catching.

Getty is already disrupted
It's all fun and games until someone falls off the edge.
They'll probably have toothpaste though.