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I am far from an expert, but as I understand it, Shor's factorization algorithm is a gateway to lots of fast crypto, so it's "enabling technology" for a lot of crypto and number-theoretic applications, not an end-point.

There is also Grover's search algorithm, which can retrieve items from an N-element list with fewer than N operations.

In the quantum chemistry world, there is work underway to build QC circuits that act as models for natural systems, "natively" capturing the exchange and correlation structure. I've seen model Hamiltonians for small molecules, and this work seems to be in that family also.

There are also folks who can do linear algebra on sufficiently sparse, well-conditioned matrices[1].

From what I have read, quantum computers really are very different, a good way to think about them is as super-efficient correlation-finding or correlation-generating machines. Asking "What Von Nuemann algorithm can I put on this?" is the wrong question.

If you can devise a correlation solution to your problem, then a quantum computer will be a good tool for you.

To re-disclaim, I am not an expert, I'm a reasonably technical interested bystander. For me, the "Oh, I get it!" book was Yanofsky, "Quantum Computing for Computer Scientists".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_algorithm_for_linear_s...
I know it goes contrary to common sense, as we could expect a lock on the exe, but it does work.

I mean it's easy enough to try for yourself if you do not believe my own experience.
This. So much.
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It's currently a VPS rented from Strato.de, one of the biggest German hosting providers.

Since I'm paying out of my own pocket I currently don't want to afford a colocated server, even though I realise that'd be cooler and possibly more secure.

I'll try to have a detailed cost overview online somewhere soon-ish.
I wonder if this causes a performance penalty on position independent code, which seems to be used a lot on non-Windows platforms [].

[] It always struck me as one of those propeller-head features that GCC & co. love but which the MS and Intel compilers avoid 'just to be on the safe side' :]
A positive view would be that you could say that even the NBA needs to "pick it's battles" and can't do all of BLM, HK, Uyghurs, etc.

A more grim view would be that in the end companies will do what's best for them. Currently It's in the NBA's best interest to support BLM since it affects their base. HK, Uyghurs, etc. doesn't really affect them and fighting a battle for it doesn't help them in anyway.
Grover's algorithm provides a quadratic speed up to any brute force search. i.e. from O(N) to O(sqrt(N)).
Most job losses ever? Or highest deficits ever? Or highest unemployment rate ever?

Does that win anyone over?
China's actions are targeted genocide. They're a completely different level of evil.
Most people like Lebron James aren't making choice between getting new "millions" vs "not getting them"

They are making choice between getting new "millions" vs "losing all previous contracts" and going back to zero or negative.
As someone who has looked on into the hobby in Canada. I feel there needs to be another class for people who just want to use a store bought radio.

I have to take time to study an exam about how increasing x changes y, and all these other fun facts about radio equipment. However the draw for me is talking to people, not building radio equipment.

Just my two cents.
Actually, this is a matter of global espionage. The CCP didn’t just appear organically, it was put there by people who have been working for generations, to build a one world government. Communism in China was not started by the Chinese. Yale also spurred Mao’s emergence. If you search for that phrase you’ll see an old Yale newspaper article about it. Yale, the home of skull and bones, the elite university built from opium money. The world is a lot darker than most people realize.
AFAIK there's existing microarchitectural optimizations in gcc and clang already, so it's reasonable to assume that AMD would add just such a feature.

But most people don't enable these features when building because they often make the resulting executable/library unusable on general CPUs. However, businesses/individuals with more specialized needs and better control over their targets often do capitalize on these.
What is the hardest thing about hiring programmers?
What drove Apple growth in 2019? A look at Apple business growth for 2020
What has Trump done to stop the concentration camps aside from praise their leader and sell products made there?
And what happens to the US (and world) economy if there's a war? And how would that war end without taking the world with it?

I think COVID has shown Chinese society/government/people are much better equipped for big shocks than the US is so if it's a protracted thing they would have a huge advantage.
I think the area where Intel is currently lagging is not so much the internal architecture of the chips, but the fabrication process, where they have fallen behind AMD (who is using 3rd party fabs): https://www.forbes.com/sites/linleygwennap/2020/07/28/intel-...
This is a technique I often see from the fact-checking sources. A claim such as Spygate will be conflated with something more ridiculous like Q. The ridiculous is used to ridicule the first claim.

In fairness, Spygate is currently being investigated by the DOJ.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/14/us/politics/kevin-clinesm...

Attributing Spygate to Q is a convenient way to discredit it. Regardless, coverage of Spygate is not equivalent to propagating Q theories.

The entire discussion digresses from the topic at hand.
> a large amount of the amateur population is 50+

Yes, and a lot of these folks take a "get off my lawn" approach to anything that's different to how amateur radio has been done for the last 50 years. Try talking up metro-wide mesh data network or using packet radio for anything other than APRS you get the "Why would you want to do that?" Once upon a time amateur radio operators MADE their own equipment: it was the maker space par excellence long before the term came into being.

There is so much that can be done with digital, SDR, and hybrid/fusion over-the-air and internet modes. We could probably advance the hobby further and faster by creating new amateur radio clubs specifically aimed at younger, more technical makers and experimenters and specifically excluding people who think talking about the weather on a local repeater is the height of the craft. Yes, its elitist, agist snobbery but if amateur radio isn't a home for hackers and makers it's going to die within our lifetimes.
I remember this guy!

Amazed by the his results. Personally I haven't read the book but some of my friends have and their review was pretty positive.
I've been to ham radio clubs and the age gap is real. I go to the meetups in the Chicago land area and only see about one or two people my age. The people my age are usually sons or daughters of the older people.
No, thats not what i said!

I tolerate religious people. I do believe that those religions put a deep wedge in our society but that has nothing to do what i meant.

I personally will not work/help an organisation which is build around a religion. I'm not a Christ, so why would i go to the Caritas?

My main problem is, with current existing big systems like churches, they put a lot of rules out. Don't be homosexual, they discriminate against females etc.

Now they do have and had a huge number of followeres. We need something similiar and with we i mean people who care about the environment and think its crucial for us to change. And that is more inclusive as the basic rule is not 'do not be religious' its just not based on it.

We do have science in a way, or at least i have as a believe system but 'we' dont have a lobby. We are not organized.
Yes, this is what I'm thinking too might be the killer feature. But specifically - what would be easier to simulate?
Sure, that's what I thought too, but at the end of the day it is a judgement call from Apple, if they think you're hiding your use of unofficial APIs, I guess they will also deny your updates...

So much power in a company is really scary IMHO.
I got my license 25 years ago and now I’m 50+. Even then the population skewed much older.

I never got into HAM and never really used it. I always thought the hobby would evolve into more of a digital Internet. The idea of chatting with voice is really not appealing. Too much like CB radios in the 1970’s.
I don't but currently the ssh registration script is nonfunctional.

Once that's working again you'd just have to give a fake mail address, but you won't be notified if we created an account for you this way.
By sanctioning responsible government officials and businesses related to the concentration camps.
Currently, the US secretary of state is lobbying in Europe against Huawei and their 5G networks. The same thing should happen whenever there are massive human rights violations.
You are arguing in bad faith. I am not even a communist, so I'm not sure what your goal is.
It's currently badly broken—see the issues, someone points out what needs fixing—but I have a tool that uses Word's built in track changes functionality as git diff backend: https://github.com/Gaelan/WordGit
Also, the IETF has no formal membership roster or membership requirements, and all participants and managers are volunteers.
It mentions 50 percent greater inductance than a a regular coil. Which is great, but would only reduce the size by a third.

I imagine this has some use cases that would merit the higher cost (graphene is expensive, right?). But probably not many.
Even if it’s in there, it won’t be enforced.

Manufacturing is entrenched in China. Before you can threaten China, you need to have a backup plan. Otherwise, it’ll call your bluff, like it’s doing already.
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One common thing I've noticed from working in web publishing for the past couple of decades is that design is often created to serve the frequent homepage reader who is familiar with your publication, not the first-time entrant who came in via an individual page. The unstated assumption is that you will start on the homepage, and navigate from there to the article you want to read. Leaving the year off of the article isn't an anti-pattern to them because it should be clear that it's recent from the fact that you found it on their homepage.

Never mind that this rarely matches with reality. Even with pretty comprehensive web analytics to show actual usage patterns, it's common for site developers, designers, and publishers to make decisions based on this unconscious bias.
Could you explain the connection between this feature and a possible side channel attack?
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Let's not forget that China's credibility goes as far as a one party totalitarian state.
You might know another HN'er, Luuseens: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23906046

> we were listening to music in the car with the windows lowered and I later read that it was illegal.

In turkmenistan, I think if you want to pump that bass, you're supposed to do it off your horse — no windows whatsoever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zo-YE2Ori0&t=10

(I wonder if the turkmen play https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyz_kuu ? As I understand it, the catch is that traditionally the guy has to give the girl his best horse, so two viable strategies are (a) impress her enough beforehand that she doesn't go full out, or (b) have at least two very fast horses in one's stable.)
The overwhelming majority of hams are male, white and old (like me). Just take a look at most of the photos in QST or glance around a hamfest sometime. There is some synergy happening with the Maker crowd but it doesn't seem to me that it will be enough to keep ham radio alive.
Agreed. When that hunch crept in I scrolled to the bio, read this, then immediately hit the back button:

> [The author, in third person] is not an economist, which is probably why he's been able to develop a working model of the global monetary system. His research is unique and informative in ways an economist would never consider.
and now I'm downvoted for pointing out that it's being pointed out... will it ever end?

(it was in the grey when I commented, but i upvoted it so I think that brought it back into the black)
Japanese don't all wear masks but it's the cultural norm that if you feel bad you wear a mask. I would think that custom would help stop the spread.

It's not necessary that everyone wear masks, only the people that have COVID.
Looks good but I haven’t tried it yet.

Julia is a remarkable programming language, and pure Julia projects like this show that it is also good for general purpose development.

I want to try this combined with the Flux DL library.
Your assumption is fair, and feedback is generally welcomed, but this kind of opinion is not helpful or solicited. Some people may not know the correct spelling.
Boats full of cars take 2 months to get from California to Europe. 2 months before the beginning of July the Tesla factory was shut down due to COVID 19. So not surprising that Tesla didn't sell many cars in Europe in July.
Google is apparently taking down all/most Fediverse apps from the Play Store
I don’t understand how this is playing devils advocate. How does it relate to what I said?
There's pretty good understanding on how quantum mechanics works (for decades), and you can easily write theoretical algorithms for such computers. It can be all expressed with matrix multiplications. See Shor's algorithm for an example.
First of all you seem to assume that everybody here is American. Let me tell you, they are not.

Second, if the USA killed a million muslims, does that make it right that China does it as well? I don't think it does.
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Features, requirements, scope, datasets. It's not like services are cheap and easy to make.

The other part of .Gov contracting is integrating so tightly that you become a defacto standard that is not easily replaced. Then lobbying to ensure you keep that position.
A good fake is borderline undetectable. So your friends could have received fakes and not known.

It's not like many people would buy several copies of a book or DVD to do a side-by-side comparison of textures and precise colour matching. Or have the equipment to tell apart a CRI 95 LED bulb from a CRI 80 bulb in the same housing. Or tell name-brand nail polish from generic in an identical bottle, or a genuine Apple charger from a good clone.

Of course, my experience with Amazon in the UK is it's nowhere near as bad as AliExpress.
Many European countries have mixed-use zoning. That still hasn't stopped bookstores from hollowing out -- actual books getting fewer and fewer while most of the stock becomes hipster accoutrements like vinyl records and tea sets -- or closing entirely. The problem is that physical books are just not in-demand and high-margin enough to cover labour costs and rents in this day and age.
Violating the privacy of 100% of patrons, putting them ALL at risk, to be able to catch the small percentage of violent people is not an acceptable trade-off, whether the group is 100 people or all of society. This is why we have the presumption of innocence and the 4th amendment. Private businesses can act otherwise, but they’re douchebags if they do so.

Showing ID doesn’t make anyone safer; indeed your bar violated everyone’s privacy and on multiple occasions someone STILL got stabbed. Worst of all options. It makes everyone less safe.

Privacy is a basic right.

Don’t give a single dime to organizations that act otherwise.
Sell it on eBay and donate the money to your local food bank.
The trucking companies were desperate, but apparently not desperate enough to significantly raise wages or improve working conditions.
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I don't want to drive more divisive discussion here but if you understand chinese language the edits of the video is not without problems (a little sensationalist if I may say). The local guys are clearly helping the journalists, the normal citizens conversation were quite innocent and used in a way to indicate the editor's views. At the end people were chanting 'Are you chinese', while it should be clearly interpreted as 'Are you a chinese citizen'. The editor clearly wants the viewers to think they are being taught to be Han chinese.
We're doing similar in the United States. Shouldn't we focus on stopping it at home first?
I thought cancel culture referred to the practice of reporting someone's postings and getting them taken down or even banned by the platform. It also includes doxxing people and trying to get them fired from their jobs because of their online postings.
I agree with this entirely. I've been to Japan and can confirm it isn't noticeably more clean than most rich cities and certainly not as clean as Singapore (for example)

I've dug into this in some depth and there is no convincing explanation. Even "luck" (which is a much underestimated factor in initial breakout dynamics) doesn't seem to explain it - unless they are persistently lucky somehow.

There's something else going on and no one really knows what it is. There is plenty of speculation, but nothing that is even close to an accepted explanation.
> Boycotting China is definitely possible, simply stop buying their goods.

Is it possible though? I’m really not so sure.
As evident from my other comments I don't like CCP one bit. But while we criticize oppression, Muslim extremism which triggered this oopression shouldn't be pushed aside either.

Tibet is equally oppressed under CCP's boots for many decades now but nobody seems to be bothered.

I don't like this selective outrage of west.
You're speaking absolute crazy talk man.

>Write markdown

You have now lost almost all people who currently write documents. Nobody who is not a developer wants to write in markdown. The mass market wants point and click, buttons, and WYSIWYG.
I would guess that Digital Mobile Radio gets held back by the fact that most of the internet is now SSL/TLS. And that you aren't supposed to (outside of emergencies) pass encrypted traffic over Ham.
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Weird however that it happens so often with Amazon (with books from different publishers) while it never happened to me when using more local online booksellers, where I was essentially buying the same kind of books.

I noticed the same thing with other stuff from Amazon. E.g. 3 of the Amazon basic HDMI cables I ordered didn't work. Ordered similarly priced ones at a local retailer and they worked like a charm - all of them.

I am not the only person who noticed that Amazon's quality has dropped in recent years.

Edit: one thing I forgot to mention: one of the faulty books was also clearly used, there was even a coffee (?) stain inside. This is not something that happens because the publisher has bad quality control.
Two additional things from someone who has considered getting a license a few times, but never quite made the jump because it wasn't clear what for in the end:

- a bunch of interesting radio things are available without a license today - e.g. hunting for various signals with a cheap SDR receiver. Which could potentially be a way for ham communities to then get people deeper into it, but the communities seem quite distinct, or even hostile to each other (the latter is even worse between ham and non-licensed radio communities)

- online communities. For better or worse, thats what people look for today for niche interests, and dedicated ham communities often are ... not the best advertisement. (EDIT: but people are sharing plenty of links in this thread, so I'll have stuff to dig through)

A hackspace is probably a good environment to get people into it (my local ones don't seem to have active hams, but in theory).

EDIT: just noticed the username. Greetings to the Scottish Embassy!
this is the purpose of the gcc -mtune flag, which does have an actual purpose beyond being used in the utterly redundant -march=native -mtune=native.
Awesome question. Replacing it would be worse of course (because then not even the old timers understand it). One thing i liked about google docs?? Was automatic save, maybe this is the trend. If you take a 5mb picture on your smartphone there is no question do you want to save it. Space is cheap.

But if i really have to come up with something, I'd say green arrow pointing up. Meaning 'upload to your (own private) cloud'
Advertisers have zero scrutiny in tracking me and extracting as much personal info as they can, so accusations about dishonesty about faking an incentive to buy something doesn't really reach my conscience too much.

Do we have examples were sites were banned for this behavior? I think "click fraud" doesn't actually fit, since it is not the operator of the site who is responsible. I would be more open to call that behavior fraudulent. I mean cases where users fake their activity.

edit: And if true, why wouldn't I go to google.com and let it run there for a while? Just researched the Google really put effort in banning it.
There's a lot of people who have a lot of SQL database experience in a synchronous, one-thread context, who know how to use transactions and have simply never thought about the way the implicit guarantees of a synchronous, one-thread context harmonize conveniently with transactional usage. Once you have interleaved computations, either via some sort of callback system or via threading, suddenly there's some extra concepts to understand, such as the way most database systems (if not all of them, but I'm hedging here) tie transactions to the specific DB socket you are communicating with, and this concept tends to poke its way up to even the highest-level API. APIs like Go's designed to support this by having an explicit concept of "transaction" also tend to be tricky because it's still so easy to use a non-transactional select even in the middle of a transaction just by accident, because it's surfacing a concept that the accidental context of the other APIs people have used always took care of automatically, with no visible signature on the API.

I don't think there's necessarily anything "special" about this, I think it's just a case where there's a lot of people with years or even decades of experience in that context, and it simply doesn't immediately occur to them that in a higher-concurrency world they need to modify these skills.

I suspect there's also rather a lot of database + application combinations out in the real world that, by coincidence and a bit of hacking around problems as they arise, "just happen to work" with the highly characteristic access patterns used by the web pages that can access the DB and the transaction isolation settings in the DB. Using any more concurrent and looser access to the DB is likely to expose a lot of problems that in some sense existed all along, but were just never quite uncovered before with the old access patterns.

(It isn't really Go. Threading an old-school C program will raise the same issues, or going async in a scripting language.)
COVID has been a shot in the arm for Ham in the UK in my opinion, the best thing being remote exam invigilation. Now it's possible to study in your own time and take the exam when it suits you - not just a couple of times a year, or in a place miles away!
Indeed, there's a lot to be said for meeting up as a club - like anything really, but the logistics of the exam system seemed like a vicious circle in the past: Not that many people are going to do it, so it's not worth setting one up and booking a facility and all the paperwork that often, so fewer people are going to be able to take it...
I'm using Fossil for my book. My book is about business systems simplicity so it's a great fit. If I hadn't started using sqlite for a project, I would have never even heard of Fossil. What a great, beautifully simple combination. Don't add complexity unless the complexity is worth the dysfunction it addresses.