skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Is it possible that brain is in fact a quantum computer?"

It's an interesting thing to ponder.

Quantum computing is still just another computational model, and it's main Advantage is that it involves non determinism. But non determinism, in and of itself, can be modeled by deterministic computer.

I think the biggest problem is that we don't understand what computation is taking place in the brain, or even if it is "computation" according to our current definition of the word. I think that this issue is the biggest problem in reconciling whether or not it is possible to accurately model the human brain.
This is such a good word, great find!

There are so many things in production that are prototypes (even when people/companies cannot allow themselves to recognize them as such...), having a word for this pattern is great.
It's not AmigaOS, it's AROS, a different system.

It has its own problems; Messy licensing and poor support for the real (68k Amiga) hardware are two of them.
is there a link to the archived post?
Why frustration though? Those things are funny. There's even a joke "I accidentally the database".
> Zuckerberg should take note. Yes, it’s crazy for one person to have such massive control over what people say online. But like it or not, our system gives leaders of huge corporations massive power. In his total control of Facebook, he must be the arbiter—of harm. We must demand that he perform that role in the best possible way, minimizing the toxic speech posted by his customers, whether they are peons or presidents. His employees are speaking out. His billions of users should let him know as well. And the government should back off.

And when Zuckerberg steps down as the CEO of facebook and his successor is someone leaning towards a different political ideology - what happens then?

The next CEO of Facebook is not an elected official. Unless you count Wall Street appointed board of directors approving a successor as somehow being representative democracy.

I still believe that tech companies should focus on building tech - Facebook engineers have incredible impact in connecting friends and families all over the world. Changing company policy to be aligned with the Bay Area’s political inclinations seems to me to be very short sighted.
In my experience, the final sorting needs to be done by a collaboration between ticket manager and someone-who-understands-technology anyway. If the ticket manager doesn't have a clue, they can't make judgement calls necessary as for nontrivial software, it can be hard to say if this is one day or one year of work.

And that affects prioritization a lot.
Mobile networks allow seamless switching of cells. If you're on a call while in the car, your connections won't drop and ideally you wouldn't loose a single packet.

Network and smartphone monitor nearby cells. If you're just about to switch the cell because the quality becomes too bad, everything is already being prepared in the next cell.
> Very quietly the CDC has mentioned it now thinks it is around (0.8% to 0.26%)[1]

The CDC says CFR -- deaths out of cases that involve symptoms -- could be as low as 0.26% but this is bonkers. New York City has seen 16,992 deaths plus 4,760 probable. The total city population was 8,336,817 as of last July. So if we assume every single man, woman and child in NYC was infected and symptomatic, we get a death rate of 0.204% using only confirmed deaths, and 0.26% by adding in the probable cases. (Note that this doesn't include excess mortality, which could add thousands of deaths.)

Of course, antibody tests last I checked were only at about 20% for NYC, and presumably many of those people were asymptomatic. So the rate is potentially much, much higher than that. But even under ridiculously "optimistic" assumptions, the CDC's lower bounds are crazy.

Edit: calculators are hard, fixed a bogus number.
Python is great, but if you quickly want to play with matrices and vectors, then it’s a no-go
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I read it more like "get involved in FOSS projects to gain experience and trust, and base your CV (+ references) on that when applying for the jobs you want".
Usually anywhere with a favourable tax regime for non-doms we're pretty ok with from a government relations perspective.
Although exercising and eating well are very important for our well being, they're not enough. The most fundamental thing is having the right mindset:

Some beliefs are so destructive that no amount of exercise will alleviate their effect. For instance, some people are what I call blamers. They believe that their misery is because of life, others, society... They refuse to accept what life has given them (whether their look, family...). They honestly believe that their misery is result of external consequences. No amount of exercise will fix that. Contrast that to those who are always grateful. Always glad with what they got. Happiness for these is simple.
Daniel Batson spent his academic life researching altruism. His work is wonderful:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Batson
This does not mean that having priority is not useful, this just means that they did it badly.

Everything is prioritisation. I'd say that prioritisation is one for the key skill of people leading organisations.

People who can't do it will fail whatever tools they use.
I am not convinced that you have ever worked at the average startup. Your points are incredibly divorced from the reality most face.

Years worth of runway is not the norm. Having your choice of senior engineers to hire right away is not the norm. Most startups exist as sinking ships.

It sounds like you lucked in to a company that raised a shitload early on and so had the luxury to make these decisions.
And what does sophistication of means has to do with the subjectivity mentioned?
The main problem I had with them is inability to sort them in a list, which is somewhat solvable with GH Projects now.
People fail to understand that nothing is static. One minute you’re in, the other minute you’re out.

What was PC today may not be PC tomorrow depending on dynamics.

They don’t understand the same forces they want to use to muzzle someone today can become the force that muzzles them tomorrow.

They like Jack censoring twitter only because he aligns with them. They don’t like Mark right now because he doesn’t 100% align with them.

They don’t care one whit about data retention and third party selling, etc. all they care about is “are you aligned with my narrative today?”
Read "The Evolution of Cooperation" by Axelrod. You'll love it, and itll give you further insight on your very point.
If you're a gmail and a notmuch user, consider using lieer - https://github.com/gauteh/lieer. It uses the Gmail API to synchronize mail bidirectionally so that you can handle mail locally (except for muting threads).

If any Googler is reading this, why oh why is muting not part of the API?
Ok. I dont really have anything to gain by lying.
There are multiple reports that all over the country in rural areas people read fake facebook posts and mobilized arms in a bid to protect their area from "antifa". Zuckerberg did not want to get into the vetting business because incidents like this will then fall squarely on them. Now he doesn't have to care and can just count the dollars from all kinds of clicks.
The biggest thing for me are the trivia. Wanting to know something that wasn't actually important didn't used to be an itch. Hell the urge to know it would slide right off one's mind, because it was impractical to follow up. Way too much work to find out. Hardly a concern.

Now with the world's trivia (far from all the valuable or deep knowledge, even decades in to this experiment, but by god, we've got the trivia covered) available with maybe ten seconds of effort, it's so hard to resist looking up every little unimportant thing. "Who was that actor in that one thing?" Ugh, why do I care? Why would anyone care? ... but yes I'm going to check.
I feel the same way about Asana and Jira. They're so customizable and cater to too many people that it requires management to be someone's full time job. And I haven't found someone who is passionately in support of such as service as you might find with say Notion.

I've been working on a project that is attacking this problem but from the TODO comments angle. https://cosmolabs.io
" if the announcement were too provocative/evil/illegal, there are ways in a democracy to hold the wrongdoer responsible."

Are there really though? Perhaps there are said to be, but can you give me an example of this supposed system working?
Let’s also ask if they will do it to other big authoritarian countries on the east side
Sounds like the concept of 'propriety' in English?
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I'm in the UK. I cannot recall any recent protests against racism or police brutality (apart from the current ones) that I might have joined. There probably have been some, because racism and police brutality are certainly issues in the UK, but they did not get enough coverage to register with me. The most recent protest, prior to the current ones, that I can recall is the Extinction Rebellion. The most recent protest I did attend was against leaving the EU, for which one of my motivations for attending was to take a stand against the xenophobia that I see as a core part of the Brexit platform.
Haha, it took me half a day to realize what it refers to.
> Try it if you speak another language and read both the translated version and the original of a great work of literature and you'll see what I mean.

Agreed.

There's an even simpler way to experience this: jokes and puns. Often times, they are untranslatable because their literal meaning is nonsensical and all of its expressiveness comes from timing/context, play on words and/or a local cultural references. By the time you've explained a joke, it has already lost its effect.

There's a curious story among diplomatic translators where in a live diplomatic meeting, one of the parties blurted out a joke and the interpreter, attempting to accurately set the mood, translated it as "X just blurted out an untranslatable joke, please laugh heartily"!
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Actually, I've started 16:8 IF 2 to 3 months ago. I don't know if there's any correlation, but my sleep did improve following that habit (more details in my other reply).
I believe the reply was focussed towards the gig economy and the use of venture capital to scale aggressively.

I agree with a lot of points op is making, but when it comes to e.g. the gig economy and using vc funds to scale b2c businesses by undercutting competitors, I'm very happy that we have a different situation in Germany.
The double hit videos such as https://billiards.colostate.edu/high-speed-video/hsv-b-6/

Are very useful for understanding fouls.
I had a junior QA discover this while working at a Fortune 50... everything ground to a halt for two days until everyone (team of 20) was assured during a handful of meetings that this is how browsers work and why we use HTTPS.

I appreciate they where trying to protect passwords & promote security, but it definitely caught me off guard that this wasn't widely understood.
> Hashing in the client leads to a fair share of security issues, especially if it's not also hashed on the backend using the usual salted hashes.

I've yet to see someone give a good reason to not hash on the client and the server... I would be curious to hear if you have any.

It's definitely non-standard though.
What metrics do you use for web applications and services? I mean with mobile app, you have downloads and ratings. But for web apps, you have no such thing.
> source on every single American hoarding toilet paper?
Maybe it would be easier to see how pedantic this discussion is if the title were just "Words that don't easily translate". By my reading, you just did a pretty good job of translating that epithet, though it took you many words. I suspect you could do an even more precise job with even more words.
> is the ToS legally binding if you are just searching

Based on the LinkedIn case my guess is no, because it could be considered "generally public". But that ruling is highly suspect and likely to go to the supreme court, imo.
I thought this was common knowledge to everyone and not at all controversial :) There are multiple reports over the years that the military is not asking for weapons but they are being assigned 100s of billions worth. If you are interested please dig it out.
Was referring to WhatsApp owned by FB not Signal.
Police who refuse to identify themselves and carry no markings used against an administration's political opponents sure sounds like something everyone should be opposed to, no matter their political camp.

If someone thinks that's a healthy part of a democracy, I'd be real curious about your reasoning.
HTTPS is critical yes.
If hash(password) is sent over HTTP in plaintext, then hash(password) can just be used in a replay attack.

You shouldn't be sending passwords in any form over unencrypted HTTP, and there isnt a clear case for hashing or obscuring the password over HTTPS.
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Also fact checkers Are human and can have biases and can make errors. There is a lot of misinformation out there that seem like facts right now.
Yeah, I was also curious and did some research about the "Everlywell" food allergy test this article recommends, and the evidence behind it seems INCREDIBLY weak. From what I'm reading the product seems to be some Shark Tunk funded non-FDA reviewed no-oversight pseudoscience. Apparently many "at home testing kits" are not FDA regulated at all.

Worse, it seems that many doctors and organizations think they can actually do harm given the misinformation they provide:

......

"Patients who ask Dr. Robert Wood, an allergist at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, whether they have a food sensitivity would never undergo an immunoglobulin G test. Immunoglobulin G tests “are completely useless and do dramatic harm” because they may compel patients to unnecessarily avoid broad swaths of a healthy diet, Wood said.

“In all my years of practice, I have never sent an immunoglobulin G test because they have no ability to predict food sensitivity,” he said.

That’s because immunoglobulin G stems from the body’s normal immune response to exposure to many substances, including food. High levels don’t indicate a problem; they simply point to foods a person recently has eaten.

For these reasons, a 2008 European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology task force recommended against testing for a type of immunoglobulin G to evaluate for food intolerance. In the report, the group wrote that the test was “irrelevant for the laboratory work-up of food allergy or intolerance and should not be performed in case of food-related complaints.”" [0]

......

"Dr. Neha Shah, a rheumatologist and immunologist at Stanford University, is one doctor who is skeptical.

"What we don't have is proof that having a high IgG level against a particular food item means that that food is causing your symptoms," says Shah.

"A lot of this kind of huxterist testing is keying off of the placebo effect," says Dr. Norman Paradis, a clinical lab expert who teaches at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College, referring to the industry in general and not to a particular product. "[1]

......

"The presence of IgG is likely a normal response of the immune system to exposure to food. In fact, higher levels of IgG4 to foods may simply be associated with tolerance to those foods.

Due to the lack of evidence to support its use, many organizations, including the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology, the Canadian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology and the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology have recommended against using IgG testing to diagnose food allergies or food intolerances / sensitivities" [2]

......

The author should seriously consider removing this from their article.

[0]: https://www.statnews.com/2018/01/23/everlywell-food-sensitiv...

[1]: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/05/28/6141252...

[2]: https://www.aaaai.org/conditions-and-treatments/library/alle...
Any recommended resources for learning about mobile communications technologies that aren't overpriced engineering certificates or surface level marketing material for / from telcoms?
+ good sleep + meditation
In the realm of corporate censorship, I still believe that politics is much less important to companies than profits. My takeaway from censorship on YouTube and other social media is that it's levied at content that could reflect poorly on advertisers. Inconvenient and controversial content more so than any specific political views. Granted, controversial does overlap with politic and especially fringe politics.

Personally I'm much more worried about infrastructure becoming closed off than any specific sites. I don't know whether companies' moderation is effective or not. I trust the market to sort that out. What would be really concerning, though, is if the underlying infrastructure starts conducting censorship of their own.

We've already witnessed this to a degree with 8chan being effectively wiped off the face of the internet for the better part of a year. Square and other payment providers have started refusing to do business with certain people and groups. I'm less concerned of a world where Facebook censors its content, and much more concerned with a world where someone can't even run their own personal website because DNS providers, payment providers, and hosting services have blacklisted them.
It's a similar value to obfuscation schemes.

If the password 'Superman' is stored as text in this configuration file I need to fix for a user, there's a good chance I inadvertently learn their password is "Superman" and I may remembers this for hours or days even though I did not set out to learn it. Maybe I half-forget and think it was Spiderman or something, and this wouldn't happen if it was 16 alphanumerics chosen at random, but it isn't.

Whereas suppose the file obfuscates that password with Base64 and stores U3VwZXJtYW4= my brain doesn't see that and realise "Huh the user's password is Superman" or even "The user's password is U3VwZXJtYW4=" it just goes "Some gibberish not important to the current problem" and an hour later I couldn't tell you what it was.

There are a bunch of things we do not because they stop malevolent people from doing evil, but because they avoid tempting good people to be naughty.
In my experience 2 was the cutest age, 3 wasn't as bad as I'd been led to believe, but 4 was pretty rough.
Another thing to point out about gear specifically that doesn't seem to be getting talked about:

All of those full face respirators the cops are wearing would also work great for healthcare workers, who are still dealing with COVID-19. Specifically anything with pink cartridges has a P100 particulate filter, the highest level of filtration (99.97% vs N95 95%). When you see a picture of cops wearing or holding respirators, you should think of the nurses, EMTs, and vulnerable people that have been deprived of that PPE, just so the cops don't have to think about which direction the wind is blowing before they open fire on peaceful protestors.
The capacity easing was always the main reason pushed to those in the know, it was easier to sell to the public based on some new top line figures though, so that's the reason that narrative was used.

HS2 is almost all about easing local commuter routes.
I never really appreciated gov.uk until I moved to France. Here nothing is online, you need to take days off work to stand in line and collect paperwork.
As alluded to by another comment below, having even a small specialized workforce trained and skilled in building rail is something that's desireable. Maybe even a topic of national security (or at least national competence).

However, people need practice and real projects to stay skilled. And if a country only has 1 major rail project every 30 years, you're not going to be able to maintain that workforce or national skill -- unless that workforce finds projects outside the country to work on. (Or attract people to that field. Maintenance alone is not very interesting to many people.) It becomes a very boom/bust talent pool that loses its sharpness because of lack of wood to chop.

I think advanced countries will find these kinds of skills (rail being just an example) attritting to developing countries like China, India where growth means that 10,000 rail-specific engineers have places to practice their skills on real projects that keep on coming. They stamp out an elevated rail bridge every month.

First you see the expertise moving to the private sector because government no longer engages in the building of infrastructure. Then even the private sector talent moves overseas to follow the projects. Even an org like Parsons almost cannot compete with this. And that's why you see rail projects going to such countries' companies as top bidders possessing the necessary expertise -- ready to go right now, rather than taking 1 year to even find the people.

Talent and ability follows the need (and money) for it.
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In my experience the Netherlands is quite a bit like the US. Not as much VC available, but businesses tend to be pretty agile and willing to pivot to get results. All normal day to day government interaction is digital and works well. ING is a good example of a very big Dutch company that seems to do pretty well with innovation.
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You can add heart disease to that list too.
I would argue the algorithm needs to be personalized.

people should have multiple channels. And you should have a volume control.

if not query access.
I haven’t had a meaningful discussion since the debate club at college. People today just can’t do it, you have the chance to maybe string a few words together before they label you as friend or foe, and if the latter they’ll try to leave or silence you.

There’s no way I’ll attempt that at work as it will only end up in me being fired.

And this coming from Google, of all places.
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Does every unix utility suport -print0 or similar?

My point wasn't specifically about find, but about the problems of text and other unstructured input/output in general.

Update: reading a bit around the internet, it looks like it's not possible to do something like this :

find / -print0 | \
grep something | \
xargs -0 cat

As grep will mangle the output from find -print0.
That Yoshi is horrifying. Must have been someone's internship project.
Back in the cold war, there was a proposal to criss-cross the USA with underground tunnels carrying train-launched ICBMs. Would make for a great post-apocalyptic sci-fi movie.
The brain is weird. You can figure out how to split an atom, then forget your keys inside your car.
This frustrates me a bit, personally. I've been a professional developer (as in getting paid to do it) for 15 years, full time. I know a lot of tech terms are overused and misused, but I consider myself full stack. Frontend, Backend, Database, some devops. I've worked, in depth, with MSSQL, .NET, C#, Apache, Nginx, MySQL, PHP, Python (Django/DRF), JS, NodeJS, React, Flash/Flex. I've dabbled in Java, Clojure, ClojureScript, Objective-C and probably some others I'm forgetting.

I'm in the low, low $100k range. Maybe it's because I'm introverted and don't really network? Maybe it's location: Ohio, now Orlando? Maybe I just don't push myself - imposter syndrome is very real. Maybe I just like the job security and steady paycheck over really reaching for the stars?

I know money isn't everything, I'd love to contribute and be known in the community, but not sure I have the chops.

Curious if anyone else is in this boat?