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What is usually misunderstood about QM is that QM isn't a model of the world.

QM is a model of "what we can observe from the world" based on "what we can observe from the world".

QM is a model of "accessible" information.

What laymen usually wants is to understand how the world evolve.

What QM physicists tell them is there exist some inaccessible information, but using accessible information we have, we know how to predict all the accessible information (albeit stochastic-ally).

The typical example to help computer scientists to understand is the seed of a pseudo-random generator in an online casino. The players will never be able to access the seed, therefore the best they can do is make decision based on the value of the generated random numbers they observe and their probabilities.

Bell inequalities are a consequence of this modelisation. They are a refurbishing of Boole's inequalities, a theorem about probability which only bound those who use probability.

The usual fallacy forward is telling QM is a non-local theory, classical local theory can't violate Bell inequalities, Bell inequalities violations are observed in the real world, therefore the world is not local...
Thanks for the clarification, that was exactly my point.
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Nice phrasing. A bit edgy and exaggerated, though.

But since they are the same, I bet you can show us where the USA holds a few (at least 5 digit range) people in abduction camps, just to name one difference. Now that would be interesting.
Assange is not American.
>For example, I've met quite a bit of people that don't want to pay any taxes. Yet they all want for them and their goods to be able to use roads for free, roads that are built and maintained with taxes.

That's a complete strawman and you know it. Any libertarian would say they'd be happy to pay to use privately-run roads.

>No idea why they are not able to understand that both things are incompatible. If there is some option that allows both that I am missing, they didn't manage to explain that.

Privately owned/built roads! These even already exist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_highways_in_the_United.... What's hard to understand about roads being built by people that aren't the government? Yes such roads might not be as optimally placed/efficient, but the libertarian's goal isn't efficiency, it's minimising what they consider the moral injustice of taxation.
It depends on the project; I haven't looked at this one in depth specifically, but it's certainly possible to write useful things with a (much) small codebase for to replace (much) larger ones. Usually the trade-offs are:

1. It solves a more limited set of use cases. It's perfectly reasonable to want to solve a wide range of use cases, but there's value in more limited software which solves a more limited set of use cases, too.

2. It caters to a more limited set of users. Suckless is perhaps the epitome and most extreme flavour of this, where they just excluded things like config files in favour of a config.h file. This doesn't make the software less stable, but it does make it less usable for some users.

For example, I am working on a CI system right now, as I ran out of Travis "open source credits" pretty fast and didn't care much for the alternatives (or Travis, for that matter, but it did work) and I figured there's some space for a somewhat different kind of CI. It's currently functional but unfinished at abut 1500 lines of code, and I'd be surprised if the finished version will be more than ~3000 lines.

It's smaller because it excludes features that are useful, but not for my (and I suspect many people's) use cases, and because it makes some assumptions that you roughly know what you're doing instead of abstracting everything. Combined, this drastically reduces the code size. This also means it's not useful for everyone, but I'm okay with that and it's a deliberate trade-off: not every project needs to solve all use cases or cater to all users.
> There are still many conditions besides COVID-19 that only have a therapy available but no cure because of business reasons.

Name three, and give reasons to believe that there's no cure for business reasons. If you can't name at least three (of the "many conditions"), then how can you be so sure of this?
At work I had to take a course on US export control. The restrictions they bully everyone into are pretty nazi.
Likewise with SWIFT.
As evidenced by TFA it's always regular citizens that suffer.
Compare this with EU sanctions that are targeted to particular companies and individuals.
Maybe the vector instructions are interruptable like the "increment and repeat" instructions on the Z80 (e.g. LDIR)? LDIR could copy a block of memory up to 64 KBytes (which would take nearly 1.4 million cycles), but even though it looked and behaved like a single instruction to the programmer it was actually looping over itself until the transfer has completed by simply not incrementing the program counter until register BC (used as byte counter) is zero. The downside is that each copied byte required to fetch and decode the whole 2-byte instruction again (costing 21 cycles per copied byte), but the upside is that those increment-and-repeat instructions are interruptible, since they are actually a regular loop of the same 21-cycle instruction over and over again.
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The manual vetting that I do revolves around discarding real-yet-unhelpful reviews (which aren't easy to spot algorithmically). E.g.

Off-Label Usage - Customers rate a portable jump starter 5-stars, even though they have only used the product to charge their smartphones, not to jump start a vehicle.

Self Validation - Customers rate a carbon monoxide detector 5-stars because they feel a sense of relief and validation that their purchase will protect their families.

Customer Service Uprating - A 1-star rating is later updated to 4- or 5-stars because the manufacturer offers the customer a replacement product (and suggests altering the review).

Misunderstanding - A customer leaves a negative review because he or she didn't read the product description carefully and is consequently disappointed with the product.

Ideology or Spite - A positive review is paired with a negative rating because the customer disagrees with the business practices of the manufacturer (e.g. It's a great product, but Widget Corp. is a POLLUTER!).

Wrong Model - A review for one variation of a product is lumped in with reviews of another version of the product. (Hard drive failure rates can differ by 900% depending on the size of the drive.)

Wrong Product - A product page is repurposed by a seller, thereby mixing the reviews of one product with a completely different one. E.g. A page about a protective phone case contains reviews about a wireless charger.

Shipping Issues - Customers leave negative reviews because their packages arrived late or damaged in a way that reflects negatively on the shipping carrier, not the manufacturer.

Joke Reviews - A customer uses his or her review as a platform for comedy. Sexual wellness products, or those that are gender-based, seem to be disproportionately affected.

Empathy or Pity - A customer has a bad experience with a product, yet he or she leaves a positive rating (typically, 4-stars) because "someone" might like the product.
> So who's going to pay them? Their employer?

Whoever wants artwork, obviously.

> 1) Creators can't be independent and self-employed anymore,

Actually, there are plenty of independent creators who are either self-employed or work at a job.

> 2) how is their employer going to make enough money?

Presumably the reason they are an employer is their ability to run a successful enterprise.

> A rich patron? That's hardly a better system.

Why not?
You're treading down a well worn path here, Einstein was down this road as well as you note and got stuck there for the rest of his life.

Everybody in the field would WELCOME something we can measure but can't explain with QM. But there isn't, and not due to lack of trying. Cosmology aside (difficult to measure) all the measurements of femtoscale interactions and condensed matter "constants" and their corresponding QM/QFT calculations that match to like 13-15 decimal places.. there are just incredibly massive chunks of evidence in favor of QM. It's just not a "first approximation" of reality that can be thrown out easily.

Theorists and experimentalists in the field come up with new tests every year (they are my favorite papers to read!), so it's absolutely not like there is some inherent scare of not daring to contest it. It's just that you need experiments to contest well-established and working theories, you can't just go out and say "well, but I don't like it"..

By the way as I'm sure you know if you studied this kind of physics, the "it doesn't give us any insights into how to peek beyond it" isn't really true, there are falsifiable assumptions that are tested and peeked at all the time - I'm thinking on the hidden variable theorems and validations. The theorems don't assume any specific theory (QM or a new one would do). That road is a nice one to casually drive down.
Regulations ( to combat fraud, etc), to be able to process chargebacks?
GitHub makes far more noise about such laws when it care about them, however.

Another thing it also doesn't care about is the U.S.A. laws that prohibit those under 13 from effectively contributing.

The real issue is that many projects, many of which making sanctimonious statements about inclusivity they clearly caren't a bit about continue to operate through GitHub and other companies under U.S.A. control and remain reliant upon them for contribution.

The last time I assessed the matter, publishing on crates.io seemed to require a GitHub account, though I'm not sure whether this issue has now been fixed; I've certainly seen Rust preach and pat itself on the back how much it cares about not excluding anyone, but apparently Iran isn't so included.
"Observers are being cautious in drawing any conclusions, with so little confirmed information. BBC cited an Alibaba employee saying that Ma often takes time off before the Chinese new year, in February.

Martin Chorzempa, a research fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, told Vice he would expect Ma to be laying low. “You don’t want to be in the public eye when your company is in a very complicated political situation.”"
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It's not an Iranian employee. That's just someone visiting Iran and login to their GitHub account.

GitHub reaction is outrageously disproportionate. They should just prevent login from Iran. They had no basis for blocking a legitimate customer in Europe based on this.
Given the legal penalties for violating sanctions and the vigor with which they are pursued, probably not.

Should it be this way? No. Is it entirely Github’s fault they overreact to any sign they’re serving Iranian users? Also no.
Yeah, that's not how the world works.
They also say you need root to software spoof your location, but I thought you could do this without root using Mock Locations in developer options. I'm not sure if that's just an oversight, but it makes me think they aren't exactly familiar with Android as a whole.
IANAL and I'm not 100% confident on my knowledge around the export laws in the US, as I've only have to deal with that mess once in my lifetime.

But, if the CEO of GitHub (Nat Friedman) claims that they "do no more than what is required by the law" and end up banning a user, my understanding is that the lawyers are GitHub and Microsoft have made the judgement that banning users are a must, simply restricting them temporary is not enough.

Again, I think export embargoes are shit and don't necessarily agree with the calls that GitHub/Microsoft did, but trying to understand the side they are coming from here.
Dockerfiles are just a few lines of shell script and a single shell command away from a fully reproducible image that can be run anywhere. They are also reusable across projects. This is a point where you can easily carry over your productivity if you are constantly starting new projects. Your latest project will be much further ahead on day 1 than your first project. Compare that to manually typing in commands on a server to set your production environment up. You'll forget things (massive drop in productivity) or have to write them down (massive drop in productivity). You'll redo the same stuff over and over (massive drop in productivity). For what gain? Just to stay purist?

You are taking the advice way too far. The advice is do things that increase your productivity and many things that increase productivity are also easy to setup once you know them. I'm not saying that you should learn containers for the sake of your startup. I am saying that tools you already know well often require very little effort to setup and pay dividends immediately.
Would that comply with US law?
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If criminals are the only people using cryptocurrencies, it becomes socially trivial to criminalize the possession of software that interacts with cryptocurrencies.
Analogies are simply tools to facilitate discussion, they can't themselves say anything definitive about the underlying claim. That's why it's useful to interpret them generously. If I came up with a flawed analogy for time dilation would that show that time dilation is nonsense?

I think a better approach on encountering a flawed analogy is to attempt to improve it, come up with a better one, or address the underlying claim directly, but saying "this analogy is unclear to me the end" isn't going to get you very far in life.
If you think about it, modifications to state of the system caused by human actions are the sole purpose of computers.
> remote work (also called telework) is likely to become far more common in the future for four reasons. First, the productivity of individual workers who switch to remote work is comparable or higher than their colocated peers, at least in some industries. Second, matching firms to geographically distant workers is becoming easier thanks to technological and social developments. Third, remote workers tend to be cheaper because workers value geographic flexibility and the ability to work remotely. Fourth, the benefits of knowledge spillovers from being physically close to other knowledge workers has been falling and may no longer exist in many domains of knowledge. While the prevalence of remote work (pre-covid-19) is small, I show it was already rising rapidly with plenty of room to continue growing. Finally, I argue remote work has positive externalities and should be promoted by policy-makers.
I'm too polite to repost, but I will sometimes plug the stuff I previously posted on the comments, such as when I link to my webring entirely out of context ;)

But, no, not really, it sounds reasonable that it would work if done at different times of the day, different amount of traffic and maybe types of people ?
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Yes! It would be easier to write 500 word blurbs than a meaningful 50 words. I despise recipe sites for this reason. So much "content" gets in the way of the actual content. The recipes in my favorite cookbook are around 100 words on average, yet if they were published online, I doubt they would rank.
Using a company email to sign up for services and expecting to have access after you leave the company is 100% entirely your fault.

Even with the positive spin you're trying to put on it, it still sounds like you are trying to steal data from your former employer.

The situation would probably also be easily resolvable with your former employer's help, and there is likely a reason they aren't helping you.
While GitHub is not really to blame (following the laws and all, no matter how silly they are) why would your employees login from Iran with their work laptops into their work accounts while "visiting their parents" anyway? Why is that not the actual problem? Lack of policies?
It's very easy to say that on someone else's behalf.

Essentially you're saying that Nat Friedman should risk 20 years in prison, and a million dollar fine per user in order to let Iranian developers use Github.

As much as I hate the idea of software not being freely available to everyone, I would not be willing to take that risk. I doubt many HN readers would.
The real question is why GH blocks an Indian company and all its Indian employees (all legal and outside the US sanctions list) when an employee logs on in Iran.

Does US law require application to such an extreme degree? If not, then why is GH doing it?
Why do you need to encrypt the kernel? It should not contain any secrets and it can he signed.
> # list keys starting with "we" curl -v -L localhost:3000/we?list

Ah, I missed this!

> If a GET/PUT/DELETE fails it is communicated to the master server, who doesn't write anything in its own database

Yes, but there's no protocol for cleaning it up. Example: If the second replica fails to store it, then the first replica will still have the data and there doesn't seem to be a way that it will be removed. This might end up "leaking" storage. Also, if you then attempt to do a rebuild it seems to me that the file will be revived.

> All in all I believe it does quite a lot for less than 1000 lines already.

Oh sure. I wasn't trying to be negative. I think it's great that people play around with these ideas! Distributed systems are complicated beast, and there's only so much you can do in 1000 lines.

Another thing I realized: It buffers all received values in-memory in the master server. You might need quite a lot of memory if you intend handle uploads of big files in parallel.
I don't have any bitcoin or other magic internet money and in general find it totally useless overhyped nonsense.

The only thing I've always wondered: If you are one of these curious people who tried it out early on and quickly mined a couple dozen coins: How do you safely sell them nowadays? All I ever read is stories like this and bitcoin exchanges getting hacked...
Why don't we have internet havens yet? Companies are so clever in legally avoiding tax by registering companies in the most favourable jurisdictions and only running the absolute minimum of operations through tax expensive countries and so on, why don't we have the equivalent for avoiding dumb laws such as US trade wars, DMCA takedowns, etc.?

Can most internet operations not run through companies who are registered and have servers in a country where most of those laws don't apply to customers who are not US citizen?
Do you hold any political views that Google considers haram ? If so, they are banning people that disagree politically with them so it's not surprising.
I do now, I have hundreds of logins stored as of today.. but back then, password managers were not as user friendly as they are today, and the ones that were, did not have sync/online storage, thus I have no credentials stored for paypal. I think my credentail store has items from about 2015 and newer. I remember those days where I had a text file with passwords that I would then encrypt as a zip file with the strongest encryption that the zip tool allowed.

On principle I will not ever supply Security Questions with real answers, they are rubbish. Most of them you have to answer exactly correctly (spelling/casing), so you are biased to use simple one word answers that any of you family members or close friends can guess.

I prefer 2FA, but back then offline 2FA wasn't that big of a thing and most sites only supported 2FA via an sms otp, if they even supported it (aka justified the financial costs).
Maybe they do secretly handle coronaviruses in the provincial administrative office; they can't prove they don't anyways.
> To counter the obvious success of the Nordics, some will define them as actually capitalist.

That's because they are. They have privately-owned companies, which is directly antithetical to the definition of Socialism as it's been understood since the 19th Century. You might as well insist America was Socialist during the New Deal.

> “welfare state capitalism,”

Historically, the welfare state was invented by Otto von Bismarck specifically to counter Socialism:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_von_Bismarck

> A master of complex politics at home, Bismarck created the first welfare state in the modern world, with the goal of gaining working class support that might otherwise go to his Socialist opponents.

This seems to define Socialism as per the old joke: "Socialism is when the government does stuff. The more the government does, the Socialister it is." That's a really neat way to insist you can have Socialism without having to solve any of the problems Socialism ran into in the previous century.
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> ... one employee opened his laptop while visiting [h]is parents in Iran.

I suppose this implies that the employee is Iranian.

The U.S. sanctions are pretty aggressive, and I don't think preventing login from Iran is anywhere near enough to comply. The law is the problem here.
This is not meant as a snarky comment - but I would be happy to hear how many worlds is a local theory (as I guess it isn't a fully operational theory in the sense that QM+Born rule is). Even if you assume the independent, local evolution of all "branches" of Psi, at some point you need to explain interference (as that is an observed phenomena in our real world) and the comparison of different swaths of Psi's is not a local operation. How is this handled in that interpretation?
>What really puzzles me about Apple fans and it's userbase is that they do not care. They simply do not care at all what's being done to them.

I am Apple user and I care a lot for my self and my privacy. Thats why I will not support this company with my money. Some people are aware, but unfortunately we run a business in which Mac OS as software platform is superior. Little Snitch is installed in all my Apple computers. In last 5 years after every os update, telemetry from mothership is exponentially more. I don't like this direction and have taken active measures to change my business operation and remove everything Apple related excluding some graphic software and audio. Windows is not an option.

Apple is a company that openly dislikes professional users and focusing marketing efforts to semi pro audience by using powerful tribe psychology, trends and sentiments to create public perception of a Good Shepard and Guardian.

In reality they know that future is data based and Google has advantage in this market. So they correct direction to recondition public over the idea of personal computing and transform Mac OS to iOS UX with already established consumer habit of no control and minimum transparency.

From business perspective the idea that someone will have a log file with my office activity is non acceptable. Period. Apple knows this and recently stopped standalone updates. This pushes businesses to avoid sandboxing of Apple computers in corporate network.

The message is clear. You rent Mac Os as a service, the price is your data. It is Beautified Google:)
>benefits from far more usage and thus attention than alternative libraries

For me this theory was disproved by Heartbleed.
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I believe that would be illegal. I suspect the reasoning is that the US is not on friendly terms with the government of Iran, which is a political squabble and not a conflict with the people therein, even though the practical consequences are indecipherable.

The US military has been wrestling with that reasoning for about 20 years. If the majority of attacks and intrusions on military infrastructure originate from a single nation state and there exists evidence that most such attacks are sponsored by that nation state it would make sense to simply block all IP addresses originating from that nation state. This does not occur because the attorneys will not allow it due to both diplomatic and legal reasons.