skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think QNN are very interesting from a compsci perspective, and interesting from a quantum tech perspective, but not so much from a real world perspective.

As I understand it loading classical data into a quantum computer - into quantum ram - is a big bottleneck. So running a QNN over a picture of a cat can't give a speedup vs. running it on a classical machine. Is this wrong HN?

I haven't found a result showing QNN's do offer strong speedups for training or testing - I have found papers saying it looks good - but I haven't found the result. I think this may be a literature search fail by me though.

For generalisation I have seen
papers claiming that there will be better generalisation with QNN but I have failed to understand this result and do need to work harder!

I also believe that the most promising algorithm for quantum ML (HHL) has been "dequantized" I think that Grover's and QMC are pretty secure but also only quadratic in speed up (I say only - this is because that means there is a window of quantum advantage that may or may not be useful before the quantum algorithms fall off a cliff as well.

Ok - I need to understand this stuff for real, so please shoot me to bits !
> The USA will continue to exist and function as the USA even without gas pipelines and power generation.

Temporary outages, maybe. Sustained outages (or destruction) of gas pipelines and power generation, if systemic, would almost certainly mean mass starvation.
Why all open source maintainers are jerks, the Drake equation hypothesis
When you say ‘the conversation moved on’, it seems like what you mean is, the commenter I replied to took a single phrase out of context.
I don't think it entails presumption that our form of life is special to say, "You can't determine frequency based on a single data point."
For sporting events we use iPads for videos and photos. The reason is that the quality is "good enough" and the large screen makes it so much easier to actually follow the action on the screen. When we tried to use phones, people were much more likely to watch the action not using the screen, and then would miss the shot because they couldn't get the camera aligned with the shot fast enough.
How old is PG? Born in 1964, so age 56, according to Wiki. I'm from the same era. Being young and nerdy in the '60s and '70s was pretty isolating.

Computers weren't available until the early '80s, and weren't affordable for another decade, so few kids had easy access to them, and networks didn't arise until about 1990. So if you were born before '80-'85, you had a tough time rallying around tech toys with other nerds/geeks to share your enlightened world view.

Stewing nerds in their own juices through adolescence tends to foment fierceness, which is just another word for not understanding or tolerating non-nerds very well. With today's omnipresent social connectivity, isolation should be less a problem in 2021, since tech content and cool devices are everywhere today.

What I would have given to play around with RPi or robots in my teens...
The problem with glorifying fierce nerds is that there are already too many of them. (Or us, perhaps, but not for me to say.) Sure it's great to have a few fierce nerds trying unconventional things, challenging orthodoxy, etc. Unfortunately, when there are many fierce nerds, they start to compete among themselves to have the most contrarian ideas and often to establish themselves as the earliest champions of those ideas as soon as possible.

This rush, not only to be right but to be right when everyone else is wrong and to show them the light, is what makes people susceptible to bandwagons, cargo cults, and conspiracy theories. We see it plenty right here. Elsewhere we see it in QAnon. In both we see it in arguments about COVID origins and countermeasures.

Like a chemical compound that's therapeutic in one dose but toxic in another, fierce nerds can be either a good thing or a bad thing. We're already well into the toxic side, so I think this is a poor moment for pg or anyone else to glorify more.
Hmm, slightly different measurement. They're not talking about "sticker price of fuel at the gas station", so not "fuel cost".

Rather, if you ask them casually in an informal setting "Does your car get good milleage", they'll say things like "Yeah, it only costs me $50 to fill it up!" or my personal favourite, "Yeah, I only have to fill it once per week" --> the amount of unspoken variables in that one just boggles the mind, but goes to another commenter's point of "practical perspective". "How often I need to fill it up" is probably a sane, pragmatical way to think of milleage. It may in fact cut to the point faster than saying "it does 11L / 100km", because while it answers some questions in abstract, it doesn't actually answer the practical considerations of how often I need to refuel / how far can I get on a tank.

As mentioned in my another reply, for me at least, it hasn't been a factor of where I live but variety of company I keep -- on average I'd say my Comsci/Sci-major friends don't do it.

But I'm currently in Canada, where we do indeed as per stereotype, measure distance in units of time ("How far is your work?" "About 20 minutes" ComSciMajor response: "GAAACK!")
> The site is experiencing higher than normal traffic and we have temporarily halted database creation.

Ironic coming from the infinitely scalable database, isn't it?
I'm pretty curious about the detection mechanism too
True, but it might also be one.
The inherent difference in design philosophies of both operating systems will make it arguably difficult to target Linux in the same manner Windows is being targeted today.
The problem is with negative externalities.
All the time, just look at any tourist group and you'll find a few doing it.
“I’m not an asshole! I’m a FIERCE NERD.”
Are you saying the files were no longer available in Google Drive? Did you download the Drive for desktop client to try restoring files or just try reinstalling the Backup and Sync client?
This anodyne name is likely because there was a small internal shitstorm over calling it Meena because some folks were tired of chat bots being given women’s names
The server never gets to see your master password nor the vault key. Every client has a public/private key pair. The private key grants access to the (symmetric) vault key and will never leave your device. At vault creation time, a copy of the vault key is encrypted using the public key of the recovery group and then stored on the server.

The only secret the server ever sees is the secret (device) ID, and that’s by design.
Yup, there's Dolt, and DVC, and probably a dozen other projects I'm forgetting or haven't heard of. Dat!

There's more than one way to data. We looked at a bunch of them, and the key thing we keep coming back to is git semantics. In many ways, all these other projects attempt to graft git semantics on top of more scalable datastores, allowing you to "fork" your data or roll it back to a given version. Trouble is, these abstractions have subtly different semantics or behaviors. These aren't inherently bad — just not the same as the ones you know from git.

This approach sacrifices "scalability" in order to let you Just Use Git™. It won't work (well) for a larger dataset, but we find that it's useful in a ton of situations.

For example: I have personally shipped bugs to production because my test fixtures had stale example data. I should have remembered to create new fixtures, but I didn't. Flat could have made them for me, on a schedule, subsampling and anonymizing production data as it worked.

It's a subtle difference in appplication. If your goal is to version $BIGDATA, then Flat isn't the right tool for the job, and you should check out Dolt, DVC &co.
Hi! I'm Jordan, a manager on the Documentation team at Stripe. Thank you (and thank you to others on thread) for sharing this valuable feedback. It would be great to get more details about your experience. This kind of feedback allows us to make specific changes that will help you (and likely many other users) in the near term. Drop me a line at jordan@stripe.com and I'd be more than happy to chat.
Passive Google Scrape+Dork
From their Keynote today I definitely saw the renewed focus on their mission: "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful". The new features introduced in Translation, Search, Photos and Health diagnosis along with that cool feature to search/find a specific clip within a video etc. by utilizing AI and ML at scale is pretty good.
Lifting and moving mass can take quite little energy compared to actual air travel energy consumption. Lifting 100 kg straight up by 1000 m at the lower bound of physics takes ~1 MJ. But real life air travel comes to 1+ MJ per just horizontal passenger-km.
Seems like it isn't the randomization (high entropy) but rather the excessively low entropy. Sleeping brains are colder and more predictable (due to massive synchronization). REM sleep might be described as when our cortex turns on and tries sensemaking all the intrinsic oscillations.
I saw someone hold up an iPad for an entire Bjork show on the row in front of me, live-streaming the gig to their friends on Facebook. Didn’t totally block my view but was definitely annoying and I thought especially rude as there were notes saying Bjork had specifically requested no cameras be used (it was a gig with just an orchestra so she wanted people to focus on the music). My friend had a word with them at the interval and they did move it out of our line of sight at least, lol
In live demo, when you change range to custom range, and click "refresh" button, there is JS error. type error, e.match is null
There's a missing term: "How much of our potential budget are we spending trying to fill in the other estimates?"

SETI is incredibly poorly funded compared to other science. For a long time it was barely funded at all. There's been an uptick recently, but a project like Breakthrough Listen runs on $10m/yr and gets ridiculously constrained access to telescope time.

The remaining SETI projects get by on less than $5m/yr. So SETI as a whole gets about as much funding as one episode of The Mandalorian.

No wonder we haven't found anything. We're barely even looking.
This is an important article on copyright as it ties together so many different but related issues: orphan works, Google's scanning of 25 million books that no one yet has access to, Google's spat with the Authors Guild, DOJ antitrust issues, antiquated copyright law, the problem of European copyright influencing US copyright which has led to increased copyright duration and much, much more.

I would recommend that anyone who has even the slightest interest in copyright should read it. Here are a few quotes:

"It certainly seems unlikely that someone is going to spend political capital—especially today—trying to change the licensing regime for books, let alone old ones. “ “It’s not going to get anyone elected. It’s not going to create a whole bunch of jobs.”

"The first copyright statute in the United States, passed in 1790, was called An Act for the Encouragement of Learning. Copyright terms were to last fourteen years, with the option to renew for another fourteen, but only if the author was alive at the end of the first term."

"The greatest tragedy is we are still exactly where we were on the orphan works question. That stuff is just sitting out there gathering dust and decaying in physical libraries, and with very limited exceptions,” Mtima said, “nobody can use them. So everybody has lost and no one has won.”

I recall a short while ago Cory Doctorow making the point that copyright isn't a man-in-the-street issue in that the average person just isn't grabbed by the subject, which is why publishers win the copyright wars so handsomely—that is that there is no effective opposition to fight them. This, in my opinion, is a very unfortunate situation. Note the support for Doctorow's point of view in the quote above, i.e.: "...not important enough for the Congress to somehow adjust copyright law,..."
"The issue is using more power than all of Argentina for one currency. "

It's using the power of Argentina for an MLM/Ponzi scheme that doesn't apparently create any value.

If it were a) broadly useful and b) used less power it would be another story.

'Cruise ships' at least allow people to 'cruise'.
This is one of the product that come close to webflow with 1/3 price.
Do they? I constantly see DropBox taking days to sync files that are 30kb on size. Or doing dumbfounding things like download all files, then re-upload all files when I set sync to "online only" on a folder if just one of the files is not set to online only.

Maybe they have grand academic visions and papers, but I've been using them for well over a decade and I feel the client quality has gone downhill over the past few years. They keep adding unnecessary stuff like a redundant file browser while the core service suffers.
> compute intensive tasks, like browsing the web

Modern computing is a sad place :(
Monero is closest to the original cryptocurrency dream: decentralized and private currency. It's most definitely not "bullshit".
I came here to point this out - this is how people from California communicate. They simply take turns talking about themselves, orbiting around the same subject until somebody says something with enough gravity to drag the conversation into its next orbit. It was really off-putting when I first arrived, I got used to it over time, though I still don't like it and it's sad to see it used as the default model for this type of application.

California is Borg. All will be assimilated.
It means you brute force problems with linear algebra on a quantum computer, but quantum computers big enough to brute force things don't exist yet, so they've got a couple-hundred year plan to bootstrap themselves up there.
it's a textbook prisoner's dilemma paradox.

If everybody agrees not to pay ransom and follows through, criminals won't try to hack companies to collect ransom.

But as an individual company, you can't coordinate with everybody else to prevent everybody from paying ransom, so not doing so puts you on disadvantage.

Philosophically, the usefulnes of government is to threaten violence to solve the coordination problems amongst individuals.
Just to give you a different perspective: in Japan, and before COVID hit of course, I've attended quite a few concerts, and none of them had any person holding up their phones or iPads to record anything, ever. It's completely banned in all the concerts I went to and is illegal: you'll have your phone confiscated and the recorded material deleted by the event staff. Not that I've seen anyone trying to break it. Maybe the ones done by amateurs at small stages don't have that rule, but even then, I've never seen any.

But what we did carry were penlights/cyalium lights. And each song has a set of calls people do at specific parts of the song. And for the rest of it? We set our penlights to the color matching the artist on stage, and we wave them, and sing along and make the screaming calls when it's appropriate. I would feel this crazy emptiness in my hands with one penlight so I'd bring two for both hands. The making of magic moment happens when few thousand fans scream "Encore" at the end, and when we do this penlight waving and all the stuff together. Phones don't even come to the picture. They are in vibrate mode. Can't have it ringing when the MC is speaking and everyone else is quiet, that'd be rude as hell.

I guess it's totally different elsewhere, but I'd be in for a culture shock if I saw that many people trying to "capture the moment" on a device screen, instead of in their hearts and minds. For me, those are memories I treasure.

I do understand that I cannot share the experience with my family/friends, but I get to share the experience with the guy sitting/standing next to me, and maybe the guy I exchanged Twitter details with so we could talk about it afterwards. Met quite a few great people during those concerts, and some I talk with time to time on Twitter even now. :)
Aluminum could be better than plastics in the sense of less phyto-estrogens and endocrine disruptors being introduced into the environment and the users' bodies. I wouldn't be surpluses if a case can be made for most packaging materials used nowadays being environmentally friendly in some way.
Llama Preview: Swift on .NET
The new UI overhaul looks interesting:

https://www.theverge.com/22439777/android-12-design-features...

The privacy changes are a step in the right direction.
Seen this in real life, too.

A brand new ice cream place opened down the street and, since opening, lines have been out the door. 45 minute waits at minimum in the evenings.

But there they are on social media telling people "it's a great time to stop in!" The first two replies were people stating they'll wait a month until the lines die down. Probably not the reaction they're expecting and maybe a fatal one if word starts spreading.
Does this behavior anger anyone else on a deep level? I get that its hard to buy GPUs right now, but this seems like such an attack on general purpose computing.

Hardware manufactures already segment features between consumer and busness grade parts that the silicon itself is capable of, such as virtualization, but restricting what algorithms one can run is a whole new level.

I am pretty sure my next GPU is going to be AMD due to this behavior by Nvidia.
I'm here to help that transition, It's already happening, many folks I know are transitioning to a hardware wallet. I've personally helped people onboard on to lightning and running their own node.

The whole process of running your own node has improved so much nowadays: getumbrel.com comes to mind.
No necessary so as the company may just pay for insurance from future attacks. Granted insurance companies then will demand some compliance with security check lists, but this feedback loop is very slow.
The federal reserve is

Decentralized?

> The Board of Governors' seven members guide the entire Fed system.

> The Board and FOMC make the Fed's decisions based on research.

https://www.thebalance.com/the-federal-reserve-system-and-it...
It's popped up on a few streaming platforms stitched together as Stargate Origins: Catherine. It wasn't too bad.
I have this same issue. Fans spin constantly throughout the whole meeting. Hot to the touch. I never realized just how much I hate laptop fans until WFH started.
But as soon as signal processing and noise cancellation enter the picture, there will be signal loss. So even if lossless could be transmitted wirelessly, there will be loss due to signal processing.

At most what could be gained is one less ad/da conversion to go through.

The the question presents itself, why not buy wired analog headphones in the first place.
It can use any coin. You can send ETH or any token, including stable coins such as DAI or USDC.
Agreed! I remember reading somewhere else that fancy restaurants actually make significantly less than QSRs or lower quality restaurants for these reasons.
Or to find more sneaky ways of completing the transaction...
Ford reveals new electric F-150 Lightning pickup during Biden’s visit
The monthly downtime during working hours has been getting to me lately.
GitHub reverses DMCA takedown of OpenBeta climbing-data repository
Definitely wasn't expecting the chief architect at Slack to reply to that example, really appreciate the response, HN is such a blessing in that regard :). The scaling datastores at slack is a super interesting read aswell thanks, does make me wonder if there was a fully 100% MySQL compatible version of yugabyte/spanner etc if that would have shifted the decision.
"We already found many interesting things using our disassembler, in particular the two undocumented x86 instructions for microarchitectural access".

Now this is interesting! If the same exists on big cores, I wonder if this could fuel some fun VM escapes.
I'm happy to hear our export worked well for you. We spent extra effort there to make sure our export format contained enough structured information that it could be imported properly elsewhere. I hate data lock-in and we wanted to make sure you wouldn't be locked into 1Password.

I hope we can win you back someday.

++dave; 1Password Founder.
« New design » ?

I would totally love that they port the new iMac white&color design to the laptops. I miss colors on laptops. I miss the white MacBook. The last decade of aluminum is so boring.
I cannot speak to the feasibility of such a thing, but it feels a lot like OS vendors should be very seriously looking into moving GPU drivers away from the kernel and into userspace. GPUs are increasingly looking like a massive hole in otherwise secure systems, even without the added possibilities of GPUs being exposed to the web.
It's really too bad. I'm happy enough to use Wireshark, but I liked that MMA could filter by PID.
Bitclout is now open source
To expand on that:

The design challenge of high-performance CPUs today is heat. Too much heat induces throttling. Putting low-priority stuff onto efficiency cores reserves the power budget of the SoC for high-priority tasks.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/05/apples-m1-is-a-fast-...
Coffee, by itself, doesn't affect me much. Could this be the secret to making it work?
totally. I'm very passionate about this, like probably most Americans who have families now touched by addiction.

I am 100% in favor of unscheduling all drugs and providing addicts under Dr. care actual pharmaceuticals. Including opiates. Even if they still inject it's still a LOT safer.

When are we going to see some of this settlement money expanding treatment?!

If anyone hasn't watched it, I highly recommend the new HBO doc from Gibney "Crime of the Century" shows some new evidence just confirms how evil Purdue is and specifically Richard Sackler.

They present evidence that the FDA employee who wrote the label wrote it in a hotel with Purdue employee.

This is HUGE. That label is what they used to market the original "Big Lie" that OxyContin “Delayed absorption as provided by OxyContin tablets, is believed to reduce the abuse liability of a drug” which is on the same level as cigarette companies being horrible and deliberately killing hundreds of thousands of us.

Second half focuses on the Kapoor's fentanyl corporate crime syndicate. at least he is serving a small amount of jail time. Sadly now corporations are moving on to Asia and Africa. It's disgusting and makes me so angry.
HTTP, HTML, CSS, ECMAscript all have formal specifications.

It's your choice to use things that don't conform, such as IE11, but I wouldn't assume it's the server's problem.
At the beginning of the pandemic, no one in our family had any fixed time obligations other than my afternoon meetings, so we basically stopped enforcing any bedtimes or wake up times for the kids (and ourselves).

Pre-pandemic we were all waking around 8am to get my daughter to pre-school. Within a week of foregoing bedtimes, we were all going to bed between 2am and 4am and waking up around 11am. So the kids still got their 9 hours and the adults got their 7, but it did stabilize.
That's ridiculous. There are a handful of emails about the former topic and there are numerous hour long events where Sundar talks about other aspects the business.
Sounds like the Mac Pro processor would use 2x or 4x of the Jade C-Die, perhaps in a single package. This makes good economic sense because it may be challenging to justify a unique chip design for only a few thousand units / year.
Understood. There will always be something cheaper. Just commenting on your point about:

> I think 3.33 euros per months is about a good valance.

:)
Especially if the entire communication goes over the internet via an obscure channel.