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How many computers does the world need? Fewer than you think (2008)
>In the real world, we do not throw criminals in jail

Again, you seem to be very confused about private property.

Think of it as a civil action, which at least in US law, that is operated under a completely different set of books and assumptions. For example I can tell you to leave my properly in a civil action without any explanation why. If you come back a criminal charge can be presented against you.

Much like a business can remove its patrons at will for (nearly, civil rights apply) any reason they can be negatively impacted if and when they do this to too many people and the patronage stops coming, you still don't have any legal right to their property.
The biggest obstacle to the realization of quantum computing is not technical, imo, but theoretical.

it is well known, but not to laypeople, that a quantum computer is efficiently (quadratic overhead) simulable if it only operates on the eigenstates of the generalized Pauli matrices with the so called Clifford operators. This is a really fancy way of saying that this group action is not dense in the unitary operators, which is itself a fancy way of saying that it behaves like rolling a die, instead of like rolling a ball.

In order to achieve density in the unitaries it suffices to construct a single state that is not one of these magic states (their language, not mine), to a sufficiently high level of purity.

The much touted paper which claims to do this only succeeds in showing that the problem is equivalent to some other problem which we also do not know how to solve, (creating many, worse separable copies of this state) and there is no particular reason to believe that it can be. Moreover given what it would be able to do, it seems much more likely to me that there is a proof, waiting to be discovered, that there is a fundamental obstruction to harvesting such a state without at least waiting as long as you would have to wait to do your computation the old fashioned way.
The only plastic allowed in our recycling is PET. (And we have a local 3D printer recycler anyway, where both go anyway--it's more of an incentivization thing. It's a marginal incentive, but better than nothing.)

Of course I accept that I'm going to generate waste--but I am trying to generate less of it. Hence NonOilen and Algis Alga as prototyping materials.
I usually run into issues at the boundaries in the system.

Usually moving from primitives into complex types does not account for serialization and deserialization between db and the client. This can be very annoying to work with in something like C#.

Usually it ends up resulting in alot more types and a lot more mapping between types.

However this has its own benefits, but is very boilerplate-y and is sluggish to work with when your domain changes.

Luckily, for C#, https://github.com/SteveDunn/Vogen now exists thanks to source code generators which soothes some of the issues.
Problem is, practically any special purpose can probably be done more cost effectively by brute forcing with conventional computing.
I have adhd, and personally I find it a lot easier to follow through "math" when it's step by step. When I can say "first this happens, than this". I'm sure part of it is a don't have a great toolbox to break problems down, but personally what you're describing sounds horrible. Like trying to read a book out of order.
Cleavage photos are still rare (I hope amount just decreases), but everything else, including “lol (insert tech-stack) is lame” are majority (atleast in Europe) :/
You're wrong, we do know that, and the paper you cite doesn't refute that in any way.

Integer factorization and quantum simulation would be two examples of commercially highly relevant applications where an exponential speed-up applies.
Link? I missed the news about this.
There is also the side case that they just have friends that use the platform. Or they like to retweet pictures of cats.
It's definitely not true today: for example, there are no NIST standards (and I'm not sure about standards from other governments) for quantum-resistant key exchange. Several such systems have been developed, and NIST has even chosen one to standardize, but they aren't standardized or widely deployed yet.

But I expect that in 5-10 years, most security systems designed by competent professionals (up-to-date OS security services, TLS servers, SSH servers, VPN, firmware update systems etc) will have post-quantum crypto enabled by default. And I expect it will take longer than that to build a QC that can break classical crypto.

More likely it will play out like the SHA-1 break: all professional security engineers should have switched off SHA-1 (at least for unkeyed hashing) years before any collision was found, and users who apply security patches should therefore by mostly up to date, but I'm sure some are still using the older crypto.
That's great, but most people don't have hundreds of acres of empty land to plant trees on.
"There are youth speaking out" should not be taken to mean "all youth". It means "some youth".

It's another point of view on an issue that I'd only previously seen presented from one perspective. That's why I found it to be so interesting. I was shocked to hear it because I had no prior understanding that anything untoward was going on. Question for you, what do you think about Keira Bell's story?
Gotta admit the transistorization of the computer and the exponential decay of size required for the transistor, and exponential decay in duration of the transistor to FO4 (switch states, it's much less than the clock cycle) was beautiful while it lasted. Like now it's back to the drawing board.

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Same as airplanes, basically the same since 1960, like we fly on Super Fortresses with the bomb bays replaced with cargo holds...like different dispenser, and the plexiglass fishbowl artillery in the front done differently. I would love to be in one of those fishbowls, like all exposed flying at the horizon like panoramic view. So suicidal, like all aviation.

Like not getting shot at like in Catch-22 though. Hopefully.
What's wrong with asking first and letting the web operator opt in?

The gist of your argument is if I go up and try to pick your pocket but say my intentions are only to help you from real pickpockets, there's nothing but your personal choice to walk on public sidewalk and should just accept it.
The message I sent to my girlfriend last night. In 30 years, when I am running for president, that email/text/signal message might come back to haunt me should anyone be able to decrypt the archived/encrypted copies held by state agencies.

Anything that is private today is private for a reason. That reason doesn't automatically disappear over time.
Sigmoid Social
Thats interesting - what do you feel changed in your view of open source?
SiGe is used since the 90nm node as source/Drain material.
I think it's all the humans in reptile shape that can live up to 250 years old filling in their real age. Proof David Icke is right!
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Good for you, keep doing what you're doing and don't listen to these people, people like them just like to stir shit up.

Relatedly, have you asked and observed your grandma using it? Might be interesting, I'd definitely read a blog post about her usability of the product as a sort of UX test.
Or Python, or JavaScript.

The reverse is true, you can have static type-checking without OOP, like C, Rust, Haskell.
> it’s just never going to be open sourced

Mathematica is a prime, tender and juicy target for modern reverse engineering tools.
Then again, if this is really stopping them from going to McD’s, why not just buy a pack of straws for your glove compartment.

Same with people who forget about reusable bags when you can buy a big pack of plastic bags for $60 for the car.

It’s a weird sort of helplessness, especially while driving what’s basically a mobile storage container. We’re really running out of things to complain about.
Why Egypt became one of the biggest chokepoints for Internet cables
This line of argument overlooks the vast amounts of investment that goes into commercialization after the basic research phase. A lot of the fundamental work on self-driving cars was funded by DARPA and was done at CMU, Stanford, etc. The DARPA Grand Challenge demonstrated working self driving cars back in 2004. But private industry has invested over $100 billion in commercialization since then. And we still aren’t close to a market-ready product.

Nobody is “paying twice.” Folks on HN should understand this intuitively. Nobody thinks that angel or series A investment entitles you to 100% of a company and right to get the products for free.
My Forman always would tell me KISS - (keep it simple stupid), maybe there is another single word for just solve the problem at hand silly - j,s,p,a,h,s - doesn’t really roll off the tongue the same way…
Why would they end it?
I think what bothers me more than anything is how often even fact-checkers are just wrong. We had a moderator in the last presidential election literally interrupting the president to tell him something wasn’t factually correct, and the moderator was wrong!

Fact checking should be reserved for things that are just provably untruthful (i.e. flat earthers and other nonsense). But when only applied in that capacity, it doesn’t really have much value anymore.
The behavior you describe with cell phones is also how overall internet access works in many geographic regions.

There are areas where residential internet is fast and reliable, but if you’re building a service that sucks on bandwidth/energy/throughput constrained links, you’re building a service that’s not viable for tons of users.
R has some superior data science tools. For example, the tabular data packages dplyr and data.table have no adequate parallels in the Python world. There are many also-rans but no real rivals.
Are there any plans for a Mac version?

Pretty cool that both Windows and Linux both are supported and already exist. Keep up the good work!

I also appreciate the easy to read and clear privacy policy about what telemetry and data this SaSS platform collects and how it is handled.

https://safing.io/privacy/#article-1-where-we-collect-datapi...
Even VFAT has to clear the dirty flag when you unmount it; other filesystems will similarly write the superblock or do something with the journal.
These are features that don't exist in Markdown though, unless there's some implementation that adds these. Also, the context of the parent comment and this post is documentation.

So, is it worse than HTML? Maybe, if you need those features often, but not for documentation where you'll rarely, if ever, use those.
Yup, all you need is the phrase "Excuse me but what does $word mean?".
Somehow I doubt that in most business settings in a multinational company. English is the de-facto language of _global_ commerce. It is the most “inclusive” language to use.
Riiiight. 1 nm naming and ~15-20 nm pitch? Like the current 5nm stuff with a ~20-30 nm pitch and element size. ref: https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/5_nm_lithography_process
Apples and oranges. A switchblade is only ever useful against a target. It doesn't have the firepower to suppress enemy movement, to cover an allied advance, or decimate an area of ground when you cannot pinpoint a target's exact position. A helicopter with some FFARs and a machine gun can.

If the helicopter can do something that no drone can, then it does compete regardless of the extra cost/complexity/manpower needed to deploy it.
Also, people with personal difficulties traveling: physical limitations, small children or other family members they’re the primary caretakers of…
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Having their own DCs means they are on-prem already.
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I never thought I'd see the day Kropotkin made the front page here! You love to see it!
Nice graphic. I have been thinking about this a bit.

I think a good way to say on which side you are is to ask: Could I protest here freely?

Most democratic systems will allow protests, no matter what the official/government position on the topic is.

Protesting and speaking your mind will get you in serious trouble elsewhere.
On the flip side, it publishes and prominently features people like Chris Rufo [1], who openly acknowledges propagandizing and intentionally muddying the waters around topics like CRT [2]. Obviously you can still have a conversation or discuss the points made, but at a certain point it just becomes a waste of time to use people who revel in acting in bad faith as a starting point for a dialogue.

Especially when they are far from the only ones discussing the issue: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear&page=0&prefix=fal...

[1] https://www.city-journal.org/christopher-rufo-on-woke-educat...

[2] https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1371540368714428416
The problem for him going forward is that he’s burned all trust. Maybe his alt-right bootlicking is theater to get a volatile crowd on board, but it alienates the rest of society, not to mention putting him on the wrong side of Popehat’s rule of goats.
> Quantum computers are promising technology, yes, but the same can be said about nuclear fusion and look how that worked out.

I've been following Sabine for quite a while. She's really working on her snark.
An app being confusingly passive is the blinking 12:00 display of our time.
Flask could be one option
That is true, but this happens even to credentialed users who speak on papers outside of their supposed field of expertise, even when their comment is within their area of expertise. If a mathematician points out a math error in a biology or climate science paper, it gets deleted. The mathematician rightly should know more about math than a biologist or a climate scientist, and the comment is still taken down.

Also, you shouldn't need credentials to demonstrate that you know something - the fact that you post something polite and useful should be enough to have your comment not be removed. It is a useful proxy for moderation at scale, though.
Hah, I chuckled bigly, nice one.
If you are a python programmer you must program in python.
The problem with quantum computers is that every time someone thinks of a good application, there's a scientist dropping in with an "ackchyually that's not how any of this works". At this point I'm convinced that RNG is the only thing quantum effects are actually usable for.
You know those "how to draw Bugs Bunny" art guides they used to include in children's art books? Where they begin with a circle with some guidelines and then do a whole bunch of stuff and the end result is Bugs Bunny? But you have no idea how they went from Point A to Point B? That's the same thing with Type Theory.

PROFESSOR: Well, you see, there are different objects, like strings and numbers, that are shaped differently, so we put them into different categories. Those are types! See how simple this is?

<a whole bunch of stuff later>

PROFESSOR: Now the endofunctor of the covariant types are jointly distributed under the free monoid, provided that the pullback doesn't reverberate the time fibration of the dependent type space.
The author didn't explicitly state anti-violence and anti-genocide is being "woke progressive. But a lot of other messages from Rust or any other Tech circles within US are "woke progressive".

If I was to guess the author deliberately left those example out for obvious reasons. Especially when many of them are well known SJWs.
Nah, they’re climate change “alarmists”. People ignore them. It doesn’t change anyone’s mind.

https://youtu.be/3E0a_60PMR8

https://www.foxnews.com/media/physicist-tells-tucker-carlson...

Companies do make more promises they can’t keep.

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2022/02/07/study-worlds-biggest-fir...
Having a voice recognition interface for something I could type (more accurately) in 10 seconds is very off-putting. I don't use Siri for a reason.
In 1990 15% of US households even had a computer (the highest percentage in the world). A small number of those had a modem or were otherwise web capable. Modems alone were roughly $1,000 (inflation adjusted) in 1990. When I first got on the internet in 1994 the computer was $5000 (inflation adjusted). Mosaic wasn’t even released until 1993…

The growth of the web also depended on laying many millions of miles of fiber that required everything from digging up entire countries to dispatching ships to cross the world’s oceans. Millions more phone lines, ISP modem banks in almost every phone central office in the country, etc. A truly monumental and expensive effort of humanity.

In 2015 68% of the US population owned a smartphone. 85.5% of US households had the internet. Data is cheap, reliable, fast, and plentiful. Billions of users are interacting on social media platforms to enable communication and spread ideas across the globe more quickly than ever before.

In 2015 these billions of people could catch a random Tweet, news story, etc and be counted as an Ethereum user in minutes for free or close to it.

See the difference?
I live in Portugal and wish we had summer time all year round. We're not Britain, our days are longer, it sucks for night to suddenly come 1 hour earlier.
Ask HN: Any non profit social media sites?
Quantum resistant encryption is already available
They are, often but “the left” is not one organized group of people.

This is actually a fundamental problem with discourse that I don’t know how to solve. There is a reasonable moderate left that struggles with these kind of issues, and its pretty large. Most maybe even!

Why is it you’re acting like there’s only one “left voice”? There will always be communists and SJW’s free speech doesn’t work if you act like the extreme voices are the mainstream or only voices of value.
>a) Thinking you'll get away with something is categorically different from knowing it. Nobody ever experiences this sort of assuredness

That's not really important at the personal behavior level (the thing we're discussing, and which the article addresses) though, but more of a pedantic dictinction, isn't it?

We can't even be sure that we'll not die from a sudden heart attack in the next 10 minutes, but we nonetheless act and plan as if we have a 100% certainty that we wont, and we even feel that way (that is, we don't feel as this is an "open thing", we thing we'll live just fine - except those of us who have a related phobia and anxiety).

>When your bottle slips and shatters on the hiking trail, nobody - not a single human soul - runs Monte Carlo simulations on where those shards might end up and what that might mean for the future of humanity and "solves back" the right action.

I'd say most humans will worry about somebody stepping on the glass on a public trail (or even less pressing concerns, like the impact of the litter on the environment, the possibility of the sun starting a fire through the shards, and so on) and will try to pick those shards. Heck, many will feel guilt if they don't.

Whether they run Monte Carlo simulations or just use some conscious rational logic to deduce the possible issue, is not really important to the question, is it?

So, the question would remain, why do we care for the possibility in the future of someone we don't even know stepping on the shards in 1 day or 1 year or 5 years, but not for other consequences of our actions far further in the future?

I'd say the real answer is because they're too dispersed (based on many levels of n-th order effects and cascading consequences) and too remote (1-2 generations in the future is beyond a reasonable horizon for most people).
I use syncthing instead. But if I switch computers quickly there are conflicts which I resolve like this:

function sync_history
cat ~/.local/share/fish/fish_history.sync-conflict-* >>~/.local/share/fish/fish_history
rm ~/.local/share/fish/fish_history.sync-conflict-*
end
> Say nothing about anything? That leaves it as a programming blog, but ignores my humanity.

You can follow more than one blog. What downside is there to having separate blogs per concern?
'Don't be a jerk' is the more important, seemingly less obvious alternative.
> Most people, both in developed countries and across the world, rank climate at the bottom of their list of concerns.

My impression from the recent polls I've read about was that this is generally not true anymore, specially over here in western Europe after the summer we had.

> That situation will remain exactly the same if we buy more time with geoengineering. But at least with geoengineering, hundreds of millions of people might not be driven from their homes by literally unlivable heat conditions in this century.

This is just witchcraft. There's no way back from it and it's be a petty excuse to keep doing business as usual and generate profit. And keeping a stable climate isn't the only ecological challenge we're facing.

> If those people want to live in your backyard, does geoengineering sound a little more appealing now?

Absolutely not. And "those people" are already crossing the mediterranean ocean by thousands to live in my backyard.
so this is again one of these "material x was slightly better in a lab experiment" -> "we conclude that it certainly can be used as part of a complex technology" press releases.

I am not too fond of this, but obviously thats the easiest way to explain the significance of research results.

Getting a new material into a semiconductor manufacturing process takes years or even decades. Whatever material will be in TSMCs "1nm" process, it is already known.
Burning at least emits CO2 instead of the methane emitted by a landfill, and can generate heat and electricity for residential use. In the end, recycling isn't feasible for most materials and the solution needs to come from the other pieces of the carbon puzzle.
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need a Mac version
There are real complexities in designing a survey right. As you say, it's a subject of multiple books and even PhD dissertations.

I worked for 4 years with a team of mainly social scientists (agricultural economists, rural development researchers, etc) for a huge EU project that included plenty of surveys for 6 locations in different countries/languages. The effort to design the necessary surveys right and in different languages/cultures really amazed me. Some of the teams even got (good) papers out of it. There are so many biases that you can have with the wrong questions, groupings or even question orders.

One example I remember is that while in Germany (Altmark region) you could go straight to the people and ask them about their use of policy programme money, what had worked and what hadn't. You could not do the same in Croatia or in Bulgaria (we had study sites in both places), but had to layout questions differently, to get useful answers.