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More accessible lecture from Kalai: Noise stability, noise sensitivity and the quantum computer puzzle – Gil Kalai – ICM2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oR-ufBz13Eg

How Quantum Computers Fail:Quantum Codes, Correlations in Physical Systems, and Noise Accumulation http://www.ma.huji.ac.il/~kalai/Qitamar.pdf In the paper Gil Kalai presents 4 conjectures:

Conjecture 1: The process for creating a quantum error correcting code will necessarily lead to a mixture of the desired code word with undesired code words.

Conjecture 2: A noisy quantum computer is subject to noise in which information leaks for two substantially entangled qubits have a substantial positive correlation.

Conjecture 3: In any quantum computer at a highly entangled state there will be a strong effect of error-synchronization

Conjecture 4: Noisy quantum processes are subject to detrimental noise.
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I have not looked at the implementation, but I’m sure you could come up with a scheme that checked a flag on context switch and choose to clear the cache or not, which would mean you could ensure it takes effect the very next switch. In practice there may be practical or complexity constraints that would prevent this.
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> I guess that's technically contact tracing,

It is contract tracing. No technically modifier needed.

> the patient has to voluntarily notify partners

It is either "has to" or "voluntary" depending on state. It can be crime not to notify past partners. It can also be a crime to not warn people about your HIV positive test or otherwise put them at risk of getting it.
I just moved out of SF. I was paying $1600/month for 24 sq meters studio in the Tenderloin with no kitchen. My next neighbor was paying under $300, having moved into the building in the 80s with a starting rent of $85/month.
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We employ remote workers globally and are over represented by New Zealand and to a lesser extent Australia, I think for this very reason.
Thanks. For a moment I was horrified that C++ made it into 2770.
I don't doubt that there's been scientific research into the best way to mummify a body; they wouldn't have done all of the steps on a whim / guess. But we're talking about a tradition spanning hundreds, if not thousands of years here. Mummification or otherwise preserving a body goes back a long time - the oldest form of intentional mummification goes back to 5000 BC, or 7000 years ago (according to wikipedia), so even then they had developed a tradition and the knowledge of preserving a body already.
Actually I drank nothing as we didn't feel like buying milk.
Please post an example showing that this works. I'll run the example with OS-mitigations disabled to confirm.
This looks like more work and more opportunities for bugs than protothreads.
Why? It appears, in the essence, it's a video player that support streaming over the BitTorrent protocol. Do you also claims FTP server/client software has no legitimate use other than copyright infringement?

There are so many video streaming usage as everyone is now capable of capturing the video and uploading it live.
is this real time or not
or Prometheus. Seriously, never touch anything that looks like black goo, especially in ancient setting.
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>"By the 1990s, the term was widely used, including formal engineering papers. (As an example,

Towards unobtainium [new composite materials for space applications], by Misra and Mohan

describes how the ideal material (unobtainium) would weigh almost nothing, but be very stiff and dimensionally stable over large temperature ranges.)"

Addendum: Perhaps Carbon Nanotube Fibers -- are one potential candidate for "Unobtainium": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_nanotube
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There are apparently ways to get around even this requirement.
If you work at a corporation beyond a certain size, usually big enough to have an IT department vs one 'IT guy', there is definitely some sort of monitoring software installed on the computers given to you.

It just lives in kernel modules or as a OS config and they do not tell you as an employee, and it's done for 'compliance' or 'security' reasons so it's not obvious what it is when you look at a list of processes on your computer in the task manager.

Some popular ones in the bay area for macOS at startups are crowdstrike, carbon black, jamf, openvpn, umbrella, crashplan, munki, etc. Not mention the OS management configuration stuff like MDM profiles for macOS and active directory configurations for windows. A lot of brand name corps you might think are 'good guys' use this, like lyft or dropbox. Similarly with companies FANG, where it might custom software.
Okay, let's play with the word baffle here to make the headline more fun [1]. I like "baffle: auxiliary devices employed in tank which suppress the effects of slosh dynamics."

So scientists employed a device to prevent the slosh dynamics caused by fuzzy green mice from affecting glaciers! Now THAT is an article I'd like to read!

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baffle
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We're they starving the beast? I hadn't noticed...
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I second those thoughts.

When I was 10 years old I started coding in Qbasic, a few years later I told my dad I wanted to be a programmer when I grew up, he told me that it would likely be automated soon (as had happened with his industry, electronic engineering) and I'd be struggling to find a job. 23 years later and the demand still seems to be rising.

I'd say we're still quite far from such level of abstraction; but a certain degree of it is already possible as you say... k8s/docker/kafka/glue/databricks/redshift, all of these technologies mesh together "seamlessly", but more problems arise as a result.

The problems we must tackle just shift elsewhere.
> we're coming at the end of a tech bubble, the money will start receding, and organizations have already been realizing they don't need so many coders (and other staff) after all.

This is an interesting point. Is this really happening though? Tech valuations pretty much bounced back up. Gut feeling says yes something is wrong with the current monetary system, and a bust cycle should be coming, but with the 0% interest rate and massive quantitative easing, maybe this can go on for longer than we think...
If you:

1) Cite only the positive studies

2) Don't make any claims about effect size (i.e. correlation strength & predictive strength)

You can basically make this point about literally any substance with enough studies on it. Ranging from melatonin to insulin, to idk... probably not mercury? So I guess that's a strike against 1 and 2 being fully generalizable.
It's Senate Bill 3770 -- it's right in the links at the bottom.
They either knew what they were doing and were doing it willingly or they had no idea no business doing it at all. This isn't rocket science, it's basic regulatory compliance in clinical diagnostics. Comparing SCAN's situation to a QC problem at Abbott, which has been in the business of medicine for over a century and modern clinical diagnostics for decades, is disingenuous.

I think the FDA has done an overall shit job at managing this crisis but everyone needs to keep the bigger picture in mind. It might seem like a really good idea to bypass a whole slew regulations right now but it has to be done carefully because those regulations have been written in blood of countless individuals. With over four million confirmed cases, any mitigation or response will be deployed at a massive scale. Any mistake, any oversight will be magnified across tens perhaps even hundreds of millions of people.

Over four million are infected now. A lot more could suffer at the hands of eager arrogance.
So that we don't have to relies on a platform which is infamous for automatic ban anything it's automated system think inappropriate. Like now, if you utter the word coronavirus, you may get banned regardless of the content.
I think while it's true that new tools allow fewer people to do more work, that also expands the pool of tasks engineers can work on - more fields come to value software, work gets deeper in the fields that already did, competition gets fiercer, and the market as whole expands. This probably can't go forever but I don't see that trend ending any time soon.
I'm wondering if these tasks have a form of bias that decreases the performance. If the model sees only positive examples and no negatives then it is biased on the positive paths of decisions. The moment where one changes the path to be incorrect, the model can't recover from the mistake because there weren't any negative examples during pretraining. There's many words that never follow some words but the model never sees that.
I can't find where Hetzner helps you procure the bare-metal. Only receive it and install it for you.
The tech Scene here is good for the size of the city. Nowhere near SF or even Paris level, but definitely bubbling and growing at the moment with a lot of new implantations. I am the CTO of a 20 people startup with offices there, coming from France. Super happy with the move.
My employer has been encouraging WFH for a while but mandated it for half our office before government requirement (didn't want everyone in key teams sick at the same time). We have been allowed to buy a monitor and have been supplied with a new laptop; we can also borrow any of the kit we need for the duration (I have borrowed an additional monitor).
I moved house last year and chose one within walking distance to work and with an office (personal computer is also there).
Tax authority allows tax-free compensation if employer requires WFH but that might complicated tax when house selling.
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I stayed in chiang mai for a month last year.
Air quality is second worst in Thailand because of crop burning.
> It is clearly much riskier to provide individuals with their test results than to collect aggregate data. Consider for example if you gave 1 false negative, and that person then took that false negative as an excuse to return to work -- potentially infecting many more.

Conversely if they are positive and you don't tell them then they are spreading disease unknowingly. That was what happened with the Tuskegee study. Either way, the solution is to get informed consent. At least that is for an experimental study.

Apparently an additional issue here is that this project wants its data to be reported and used by govt agencies. Which means their protocol must also be approved as good enough for that by the FDA. And the FDA decided on May 11 that swabs taken at home requires further analysis as you say.
On my morning walks in the TL, I had brieflly kepts stat on the poops per mile I counted. I decided it was too much work after I saw 3 poops on a single block.
I am a developer.

When I have had peer reviews within organizations (my current one does not do this), I usually convince other team members to let me write my own to save them the time or ask them to help me craft my review of them (and they usually reciprocate). Most of the time they let me write both and just approve their own.

I end up spending my time crafting my own narrative instead of working as well as giving them a convincing one in exchange.
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Imagine if there was some kind of central digital rights management system, that simply kept track of which shows and movies a consumer had purchased/leased the right to see, and then they got to legally see it from wherever they pleased, including bittorrent. Forcibly (by regulation I imagine) separating the "negotiating licensing deals with rights-holders" businesses from the "delivering video to the consumers" businesses. You could stick to whatever delivery platform you preferred, maybe get a marketplace to see the cheapest options to get to view the video you wanted if it wasn't already included in any of your current subscriptions.
Did you try SELECT COUNT(*) FROM trip ?

MySQL has optimizations for that, and since you’re counting the primary key column, which can’t contain NULL values, the result will be the same.

You might want to move the JSON column to a separate table with a 1:1 relationship (same primary key) to keep the row size down in the main table.
Fun fact about Jevons: He put forth one of the first prime factorization challenges.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Stanley_Jevons#Jevons'...
> Want a few fresh apples? That’ll be ten times the price Canadians or Europeans pay.

Apples are maybe $1-2.50/lb ($2-$5/kg) in the US. Surely they're not one tenth that price in Canada?
I'm not offended. I'll give you housing. I'm nowhere close to being able to afford a home. But I'm fine with an apartment. Doing a rough estimate of housing in places I might consider moving to, I might be able to save 5k-10k/yr. I could save more after actually looking, and maybe get a nicer place.

But I don't think saving that money would be worth the long term cost of moving to a place where I would be overpaid for my experience level. I might get lower raises, and I think I would have a hard time getting a competitive offer as a remote worker.

The calculations would change if I had a family. I'd be be able to afford a really nice house in the state where I went to school.
And 25 years ago, no code database apps were things like microsoft access, filemaker pro or even hypercard. And along with those access apps where the programmers hired to fix the mess that the access app became.

Within every big central spreadsheet or access database running some business critical process is a seed of a new software startup.
We spent about 6 months looking at pretty much every database tech on the market, cockroach, clickhouse, influx, voltdb, memsql etc were top contenders, there was an outdated article on medium.com (by victoria metrics) which slammed TimescaleDB for its disk usage, we did not realised it was biased, so we dropped TSDB dropped off the list, but we saw a email about their compression segment by device_id, and gave it a shot, ....we implemented it, 5 months after our production release we now have outstanding performance and compression (95x)
We are planning to move the rest of our databases to TSDB now as it ticks our boxes our use case is HTAP, not solely OLAP and OLTP

I'm super excited about this news, but TSDB please work on allowing us to put data over 1 year old on slow disk seperate servers, so we can keep the hot stuff on the NVME servers, once you get this sorted it will be the perfect fit for us.
Agree with the dating scene and nightlife. Beaches too.
I really messed up my posture by working in cafes so tend to look for proper setups these days
Author of the post here. Most of this is speculation obviously so I expect lots of opposing opinions - happy to discuss or answer any questions about my perspective!
I wouldn't mind so much working from home I think, but I'm privileged in that I'm a homeowner and have a desk in a bedroom away from the rest of the family; a lot of people don't have this. So if remote-first becomes a thing, the workers have to be able to afford and live somewhere comfortably.

But if I were to work for a remote-first company, I'd expect them to pay a stipend on top of my wage, equivalent to the amount of money they save by not having office space. A quick Google indicates office space costs about $500-$650 a month per person (in Amsterdam, according to Google's summarized results from instantoffices.com), or between 150 and 450 euros / month per m². With that money, as an individual, you could also afford a spot in a co-working space if need be.

I think a $500 or €500 / month stipend or reward for working from home is fair; it's a decent amount of money, and I'm pretty confident it's still cheaper than renting an office - you don't just save on rent, but personnel as well, and things like support and maintenance contracts on the utilities, coffee machines, etc.
> So, an ask: any historical examples where government policy other than deregulation has increased the efficiency with which a resource is used?

I would say there are examples around. For example, the numerous dams and levees we enjoy. Getting wrecked by a flood is not very efficient. Non-navigable rivers are not efficient.
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When the entire world became literate, the demand for good writing skyrocketed in comparison to the illiterate world.
Sometimes stuff that is 20 years from now happens in 20 years. They're up past 50 qbits and it looks like it might be another exponential growth process with doubling time ~4 years [0].

[0] https://s3.amazonaws.com/cbi-research-portal-uploads/2019/01...
Wow really? I've never seen a company actually employ canteen staff, it's always been either totally subcontracted (eg Sodexo), or in very rare cases, managed by the company but with agency/contracting staff, definitely not official hires.

I guess it's pretty good for the cafeteria staff then, do they get the same health and bonus/stock perks as other staff?
Don’t give up on the perpetual dance between employers and employees. The tension between companies wanting to commoditise their staff, and staff wanting the opposite and in some sense be a business of themselves.
That's definitely the biggest negative of such arrangement.
Low code/no code trumpet again. I work with it(Salesforce) and while it can do pretty cool things,as soon as something more complex comes up, I have to write good old code. I understand these things are improving a lot but it will take decades to get to the point where it's wiping thousands of devs out of job market.
Thailand has become very difficult to stay in over the last decade. Unless you marry a Thai or are employed by a Thai company, you are limited to 60(-90) day tourist visas, which are only available from countries a long haul flight away. Expect lots of Visa hassles and day long trips to immigration to extend your 60 day visa to 90 days.

Chiang Mai has terrible pollution every year Oct-Nov due to burning crop residue. It affects all of Thailand and neighboring countries, but Chiang Mai and Northern Thailand gets it particularly bad to the point of needing smoke masks. You might be better off looking at Hua Hin if you don't mind trading mountains and cooler climate for a beach.
A lot of speculating, nothing of value.

Software is a tool to get things done.

The only way software eats software, is by having intelligent people wanting better tools and abstractions to get shit done.

Building better tools and abstractions is hard work. For people to be motivated to do hard work, there need to be goals worth sacrificing for and a support system in place, to help and motivate the hard workers to keep going. Society has to want change and treat those on the front lines as champions for their cause.

That's how real progress gets made, and not only in software, but in all areas of life.

Americans seem to have forgotten or maybe never knew, that this is how things work. This tendency to dumb everything down to never offending anyone and not letting anyone even have a chance to make a wrong move, has made everyone into a bit of a complacent dumb-ass, writing blog posts like these that say absolutely nothing.

If you want a bit of a shocking example of how deep this goes - you can't customize, group, rank, save, or do anything on the number one photo-sharing app in the world. You can only mindlessly scroll, like, comment and share.

I mean, we've reduced an entire creative medium to a single algorithm of behaviour, optimized for maximum time spent zombie-scrolling.

When people wake up to what zombified lives they've been living and that it hasn't been an accident but happened by design - it will not be software eating software, it will be software users eating software companies and then some for what they've done to humanity in the name of quarterly profits.
I have to admit that as a technical person it's easy to ignore the tools which are being built for non technical people. A non-technical is currently building a wordpress site for me that is better than what I would have thrown together as css/html.
I can imagine that software like Popcorn changes hands every once in a while to a grey-area investor who thinks they can make money off of it.
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> Channel and message overload is arguably not much better than the email system it is meant to replace.

I still don't understand why this is surprising. Why do people continuously think that moving to another way of receiving messages will somehow help with the overload? At best it's only a short term solution, before all message faucets that are responsible for the overload eventually get migrated over.
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I don't think parent or people are against fashion. What they are against is probably brands violating many labour laws in other countries to sell you a non functional piece of "fashionable" cloth at a 10x-100x mark up price stuff.

Fashion can exist without harming the environment or society even if that society is not yours, there are still people suffering in third world. The argument that without these companies, they won't even have a job is plain bad because they have enough margins to justify paying more and investing in safety but they choose not to and consumers support that by purchasing it.

There is also difference between buying cheap produced out of slave labour vs buying expensive produced out of cheap labor. In former, you might not have enough money to be moralistic but in latter, you have a choice to and you didn't which imo makes you more responsible.
Could you clarify what ideas contradict each other?
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And it will keep happening, because there are many more people starting programming each year than old people that can teach them.
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Personally, I like Lisp the way it is. I fully agree with this image:

https://www.reddit.com/r/lisp/comments/e2e5o/lispovision/
Git already is p2p / decentralized, but I suspect you mean that you don't store all the files on your own system.

But that's where bittorrent comes in, they've solved that issue already.

A p2p bittorrent / magnet file index would work though, through Git (for an offline copy) or otherwise. I'm sure something like that already exists though, I've not been in the piracy world for a while now.