skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, it really does not seem like a likely outcome. There are way too many small "coincidences" that point to a substantial separation between complexity classes like BQP and BPP. On the other hand, it is indeed incredibly exciting to see all the progress in derandomization of classical probabilistic algorithms and de-quantization of some quantum algorithms (in particular, all the initial ideas in quantum machine learning).

Also, it seems most computational complexity theorists do not believe probabilistic algorithms (BPP) are more powerful than deterministic ones (P), and the details of this process of de-randomization are absolutely fascinating. E.g. how we found a deterministic prime-testing algorithm after decades of relying on the random ones. Or deterministic algorithms for creation of expander graphs. There is no equivalent to such derandomization techniques in the quantum case. Quantum and classical probabilities are just too different.

Also, post-quantum cryptosystems have very little to do with finding classical counterparts of quantum algorithms.
you will watch ze approved media, and you will be happy.
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Airports seem to be able to spot fake passports pretty reliably.
It’s not of zero use, even if it’s imperfect. The perspective shared in the comment you’re replying to is a great example of this, unless you deny the validity of their reasoning or experience.
This kind of purely statistical investigation (quite prevalent in modern academia) is just so bad at investigating holistic causal forces.

E.g. in the intro it mentioned “malicious envy” as a motive accounting for 50% of people’s desires to redistribute wealth. But could not “malicious envy” be caused/increased by outside forces? Is that stable over time and across countries, for example? (I doubt it is.)

These are precisely the kinds of fallacies or at best partial explanations that founders of sociology like Durkheim so clearly cut through. And yet here we are > 100 years later.

I mean, I’d rather have science that sacrificed its significant p-value for a little perspective and philosophy. What good is a correlation with no idea of the causation or overall perspective? For us humans this kind of result is at best a conversation starter (doesn’t really show us anything).
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I’ll answer your questions with another question: who is responsible for maintaining the single API gateway in your alternative scenario?

If you have a single module that needs to support customised APIs for each front-end client, and each of those APIs potentially needs to talk to the now-internal APIs for each back-end service, you’re back to the monolith problem where everyone has to co-ordinate changes and deployments with everyone else. Chances are that you adopted microservices to avoid exactly that kind of problem.

If the modules in your new layer instead correspond 1:1 with your front-end clients but each might need to depend on multiple back-end services, you create new problems if the back-end teams have any responsibility for maintaining the new modules. Now each back-end team has to understand all of the different front-end clients using its service and cater to each of them separately, and you also need all of the relevant back-end teams to co-ordinate on any changes and deployments of each front-end client’s back-end API. Again, this is adding new responsibilities and overheads that you didn’t have before.

So that brings us to the idea in the article, where each front-end team is responsible for maintaining its own back-end API module as well. This avoids the original performance problem of having each front-end client making an inefficient set of relatively slow requests to multiple general-purpose APIs for different back-end services, but without needing any extra knowledge or co-ordination between teams that you didn’t already need anyway.
The IoC is a nice paradigm that I tried using with a couple different libraries in JS, but they all felt like they had missing features and sometimes were annoying to run tests with (depending on the how they implemented the IoC container within their frameworks). The work Microsoft puts into their web frameworks to make them so cohesive with the rest of their ecosystem libraries is sometimes underrated
DIP is quite easy to desolder with a desoldering iron like this one https://www.ebay.com/p/2254498136 . You just have to avoid heating adjacent pin. For a DIP-8 like this:

1 8
2 7
3 6
4 5

I would desolder in that order 2, 5, 1, 6, 8, 3, 7, 4.
A crawler should see the web pages as a human would and read the pages as a human would and extract keywords based on the real displayed content. After that the search could be as simple as looking up a book in your library catalog. Think liberally about the search key, e.g. "<40% screen is display ads". If the search engine gets popular, you can then worry about scaling up to serve the results faster.

Oh PageRank (R) can be done using real semantic links (actual human comments) rather than easily spammed hyperlinks. And you can group all similar pages and serve those as a single expandable/refinable entry.
I really like SvelteKit's way of helping you create a similar BFF with their endpoints system. I still have my "real" backends, but w/ SvelteKit endpoints I can even turn my BFFs into real APIs. And it's trivial to create an interface for getting/posting data from those BFF APIs, which I use for admin.
The Attention Span. “Hidden Forces of Radical Hope.”
Tied to a unique and expensive Apple hardware serial number. It's a reputation-certification VPN.
Nice! I do enjoy using https://numi.app/ - very similar but native MacOS.
First this made me really laugh.
Second I had to really think about it.
Third I realised that this is actually completely correct.
Is there even any way to reliably identify individual users behind a CGNAT without invasive fingerprinting?
>"There is no absolute truth" is an absolute-truth claim, which means the whole foundation of that world view is based on a self-contradiction

This is mere sophistry and the phrase does not mean what you think it means. There is no contradiction here.

The phrase is almost always used when comparing/contrasting different schools of philosophies/religions to emphasize that while within the worldview proposed by each of them they may posit absolute truths, outside of their framework there is nothing i.e. the phrase itself has no meaning. There are two different frames of reference at play here.

James Tartaglia in his book (referenced in my other comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32920232) points out that our inability to make sense of reality from the outside in (i.e. Nihilism/no meaning) does not prevent us from giving meaning to reality from the inside out (i.e. as it is lived via any chosen philosophy/religion). The distinction is very important since it resolves a seeming contradiction i.e. how can life be both meaningless and meaningful at the same time?.
"Launch HN" is a perk/benefit available to some YC-funded startups, so it's sort of "unfair by design".

https://news.ycombinator.com/yli.html
Ah, the "smoke a whole pack of cigarettes" method of teaching software dev.

I kinda agree - often no amount of "this is a bad idea" will teach as well as just letting someone make the mistake and actually experience the consequences.

The only problem is that hard to maintain code often does not cause any problems until you write a critical mass of it and end up trying to develop enough non trivial extra features on top of it.
Well easy, Europeans are going to fund it with their taxes, public search labs are going to build it, private companies squeeze the concept for cash for as long as possible while taking EU taxpayer money as "research grants" and claiming operational costs as "research tax credits" which will set them up as special parners for the next EU cashgrab (I mean quadriannual plan) since they have successfully run a public-private partnership (into the ground)

t. was involved in one of those plans as part of the research team in a public lab
A.k.a. Algebraic Topology.
How does this fit if I pay for YouTube Premium? I don’t see the ads, and I guess they still get the data. Why are they trying to drive me to particular content if they can’t show me the ads they want to?
remix-routes and next-type-safe-routes both allow for tacking on type safety here with a build step, not ideal but 90% of the benefit from that.
I've always found that SEP feels less like an encyclopedia and more like a collection of essays. For example, the article on "Plato" is written in a style that would not be accepted on Wikipedia. The author switches freely between their own viewpoint and Plato's, without clearly indicating which is which.

Also, while SEP articles usually feature comprehensive bibliographies, there are few references in the article that link individual statements to sources. This again would not be tolerated on Wikipedia.

I don't doubt that SEP contains plenty of material that is missing from Wikipedia, but in terms of encyclopedic standards, it seems to me that Wikipedia is far superior.
That's because the alternative is for browsers to send a "I-WANT-TO-BE-TRACKED" header if users want tracking and then basically no-one would consent.

The simplest way would be for companies to stop tracking individuals then they wouldn't need to seek cookie consent.
I seem to remember coming across this at some point. Something about forcing yourself to breathe through your nostrils to improve health.

If you’re so out of shape that your breathing through your mouth entirely, I imagine you would see some of these similar benefits through that one change in habit.

The correlation could go the other way though. I lost 30 lbs and find I no longer breathe through my mouth the way I used to.
Related: This was posted on HN a couple of years ago. It's a journalist's story about using one of these, and includes the source code for the TRS-80 Associated Press program:

https://wayne.lorentz.me/computers/trs-80/this_trs-80/
> I do exactly zero web crawling / scraping / abusive anything from my home connection.

That you know about. Your house mates share the internet connection.

I’m guessing you have WiFi, so you may have unintended guests.

You probably have lots of devices, one of which may be infected.

Your ISP may have issued you a different IP which may have a negative reputation score.

You could be using a malware infected browser or browser extension.

There are lots of variables. You haven’t isolated all of the ones in your control, so assuming CloudFlare is the only possible cause isn’t rational.
Does anyone else just not use youtube anymore? It's not even worth fighting its annoying systems. There might be some content I want to see on there, but it's going to go unseen by me. Sorry video creators. It's probably time for a new site.
So your definition of a free market is one in which there is no possible resource that isn't owned and commodified?
Blockchain Scalability: What are layer 2 scaling solutions
If you're wondering what layer 2s are and why you should choose them over layer 1s, then this article is for you.
Yep, in New York of all places.
> I have the gall to browse in private mode and to block trackers and ads because of all the malware they contain.

I do these things as well. It’s been months since I’ve seen a CloudFlare challenge page.
Also typescript doesn't always infer things thoroughly with generics and deeply nested types, so I’ve ended up avoiding them when possible. Performance also explodes if you have too much unions and stuff. Beware! Definitely some popular libraries out there that went overboard and nuke compiler performance for minimal gain.
Your second paragraph does not make much sense to me. Pretty much any quantum error correcting code being pursued today deals both with phase-flips and bit-flips. The comment about "pure" state also does not make much sense to me: a qubit afflicted by phase noise would not be in a pure state. I think you might be using the word "pure" in a way that is not the typical way it is used in the field.

Maybe you are trying to say that the more toy-like codes that have been demonstrated today, like the repetition code, do not protect against phase flips. That is true, these "easy" codes that are small enough for demonstrations on today's immature hardware indeed do not protect against all types of errors.

But codes like the toric code or qLDPC codes do protect both against phases errors and bit-flip errors. They are just too expensive to implement on today's immature hardware.

Lastly, no, Dwave's annealing approach is not particularly promising compared to others. Annealing does not provide real-world performance boost compared to classical computers unless you have error-corrected qubits.
I am convinced there was fraud in the 2020 election. Enough to give Biden the win? Maybe not, but fraud nonetheless.
> that could give a shit who tracks me

nit: couldn't

though I completely agree with your sentiment
> whether there exist computational problems for which classical computers demonstrate exponential growth in time complexity, but quantum computers show sub-exponential growth.
> It remains unclear whether even this is possible

"Quantum supremacy" by this definition has already been experimentally demonstrated, and it's not a high bar to meet. Like saying that if I let go of a feather in a windy area and measure how long it takes to fall to the ground with a stopwatch, that is "feather drop timing supremacy" because I have solved the problem of determining how long the feather takes to fall easily, while a classical computer would need to do complex physics simulations to get the same result.

What is hard and interesting is to find a useful computational problem for which quantum computers are much better than classical ones.
I don't donate directly, but I check the box to donate them a dollar every time I buy something with PayPal.
Let's hope a moderator steps in.
If you do enough sales of virtually any product buying a car gets easy. It's just a game. When the salesperson says "I'll need to talk to my manager," you just say "No problem. I'm not in a hurry." And when they try to add stuff to the contract at the end, just say "No."
YouTube is famously watch time centric.

> Now it takes me at least 2 mins longer to get to the same judgement

Sounds like metrics at work.
So what history tape calculator do you use on iOS?
That's... The opposite of working on this. It's moving the internet further away from being an interoperable, endpoint-agnostic medium.
Looks like remix-routes is using string literals, which can be a pain for refactoring and jumping to usages etc. But it's certainly better than nothing. I'll give it a go. Thanks!
The app sounds really cool, but the videos are what stood out to me.

Everything you need to know about the app is conveyed clearly and succinctly (and persuasively!). It’s high quality but not overdone.

If I want to promote a side project, these videos are what I’m aiming for.

Well done!
There are two good arguments against this that you didn't address at all. The first is on principle: things that you own shouldn't enforce laws against you. The second is practical: unless the machine always says "negative", false positives will happen, and you provide no solution for when they do.
That's a fair ask, but are you prepared to pay for it?
This is very much true of high density areas.

Although there is somewhat of a counter point to your energy and distance scaling. Without infrastructure and laws forcing the worst possible vehicles, it's quite possible to build a comfortable vehicle which will hang on your wall in a bedroom that does 40-80km/h for several hours a day with the only energy input being the sunlight that falls on it and human effort equivent to a brisk walk.

Similarly a self sufficient homestead doesn't need those utilities and can sustain a person in surpriaingly little area.

We don't have to force the minority who want an actually rural lifestyle to give it up. We just have to apply the same rules and changes that would fix suburbia.

A low-input, no-beef, mostly vegetarian homestead with a 2 story cottage that manages its own utilities and has a 2m wide LEV path 10km to the train station is no more unsustainable than arranging those ingredients into some large farms and a large city. It could be a large mostly-native food forest, or an acre of high yield closed system.

It would be vastly less labour efficient, but if a household wants to dedicate one member's time to agriculture and domestic labour that's fine.
No we cannot, and we are very far away from that point.

Eventually we probably will, but we are like 20 years away from that at least. And even if we can, its unclear how useful it would be except in very specialized situations.
Mathematical Foundations of Joy (2002)
There was some fraud, yes, not a whole lot, and so far only on the Republican side. But to swing an election at the national level it would require millions of votes. That's a tall order.
Energy density is far from vacuous. It goes directly to energy return on investment.

Solar and wind require comparably MASSIVE amounts of raw materials because of their low power densities, and overall deliver a massively lower energy return on investment. Because of their intermittent nature they will also have to be paired with storage tech requiring still more raw materials and/or be built to a capacity which is far in excess of baseload requirements.

All those input raw materials are mined, processed, and finished using, by and large, fossil fuels. Ergo the perceived low cost of renewables is actually based on the relative low cost of fossil fuels. And that fossil fuel price point which is rapidly rising under supply shortages.
I don't know how you can reach it from within YT itself, but I know that if you do a datadump of your account, you can see it in one of the text files within.

It, unsurprisingly, has a history of _lots_ of different things, you'll be shocked about how much Google knows about you. Probably things you yourself have forgotten.
The upside hasn't changed much since 1994, and well significant, is definitely not "unbounded"
Ideally the 'pump' is not for your biceps, but shoulders. The book is really nice, he goes into the details of how it's to be done.
This app has a lite version you can try for free.
Getting a PhD in System Security – The FAQ
Yes, that chip was the TMS9918A and it was also used in systems like the MSX computers and the Colecovision game console. The Colecovision was similar in that it offered 1KB of "scratchpad" RAM the CPU could directly address, and 16K of video RAM shared with the VDP.

The chip used auto-incrementing address registers that would allow a CPU to read from and write to VRAM.
If the API were a REST API then the client would only need to make 1 call to request the screen (representation of a resource) in a format (media type) the client expects.
It drops into desktop, you have to drag out the keyboard / mouse, it's connected as another monitor on hdmi, so if someone else turns on the tv, that starts interacting with your computer as a second screen. Not to mention the extra annoyances when the tv is in another room.

Streaming boxes like the nvidia shield or similar have their own issues, along with dropping to desktop and so on.

While a dedicated TV console has none of those issues.
I definitely know what you mean. There is usually a type that is "just right" in terms of rigidity and flexibility.

The reasons OP encourage restraint might be the mental overhead of understanding what's "correct", as well as needing to rely on not only yourself but other people to be correct.

Sometimes simple is faster and harder to screw up.
I'd like to see them match the 10 years of fine tuning from 2012 google.

My understanding is google used to keep a lot of data around for "long tail" queries, and stopped doing that at some point. This seems to be the issue around search declining outside of "food near me" type queries (which they absolutely excel at).
Yep. That paragraph made me pause and consider that maybe OP is the victim of some compromised device running on their network.

If two independent sites believe you are a bot, you or something at your address just might be.
No, Covid Learning Loss Doesn't Prove That School Works
I can certainly agree there should be a separate algorithm for under 13 year olds. I've seen a fair number of family or friends with toddlers and you check out what they're watching and 9/10 times its literal nonsense. 3D renders of spiderman jumping on a bed or in GTA just running around, lol.

Very odd and you can certainly get some bad content in the mix because they don't know what they're doing.
Interesting.

On the other hand, I learn that working in car sales might teach you about wrong sales "skills". At least, one does not learn skills needed for companies which want to have relationship with their customers.

But you also learn a lot right skills (follow up, tick skin, read people, etc.)
"Just track me already!!!" said "throwaway.."

If the first part were true, the second would be your name.
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For now. If Google is willing to break operators in Search they'll break them everywhere soon enough.
I think you are having a relatively common misunderstanding.

Indeed, just having some analog process run itself is a boring example of "supremacy". https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2013-07-19

A "useful" computation is indeed the important final proof of supremacy.

But intermediary results of "programmable" but useless computation is a pretty amazing achievement on its own, and it is not just "an analog process running itself". The distinction is described quite well here and it really matters to computational complexity theory https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=5460
To go on from this, I'd suggest OP look for a therapist. This does not sound like a good attitude towards a job (that you have been successfully working at for 10 years), and becoming a parent will need you to make a lot of big changes. You can either go in blindly, or go in with someone to help you.

From the outside my wife and I had a pretty good childhood and were living successfully, but inside there were some deep traumas and we started to notice our first child exhibiting the same behaviours. Working with a therapist helped us to understand ourselves what was happening and learn how not repeat the same mistakes for our children that our parents made. My only regret is not doing it sooner.
To be fair, i think literally anything is more worthy of funding than web3.
Yeah i use brave which does something similar.
I feel like the balloon would probably be helpful for exhalation, but as I understand the article, the devices also provide resistance for inhalation.
Making small apps requires talent.

Very few banks I've worked with have much in the development department.
This post seems a bit off-topic for HN, but is dropping off multiple (in many cases 2) ballots simultaneously all that unusual? I can imagine many instances here in CO where a husband/wife would drop off their spouse's ballot. I understand that may be against the letter of the law in some states, but i doubt it constitutes election fraud.
What an amazing idea! I would love to have that feature.
The entire living under the grace of the vendor-king to have permission to modify your own experience is fairly onerous on it's own.

And before you say, but app store review!, I also think that is bad too.
But even worse than that, because you have a limit on how big that list can be.

Otoh, with full permissions it can still do things like hide ads that aren't blocked by the declaritive rules. But, to continue the analogy, that's like killing a process after it's doing malicious stuff instead of preventing it from running in the first place.