skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
QAOA is a funny algorithm that co-opts a classical computer to perform high-dimensional, multi-parameter optimization of a quantum cost function. The "quantum cost function" is just a normal function that takes as input some number of float values and produces as output one (or several) float values—it just uses a quantum computer to calculate those output float values.

A huge problem with using the algorithm practically, especially with more qubits, is that noise really affects how well this multi-parameter optimization can succeed. How do you optimize

f(x1, x2, x3, ..., x49, x50)

when calculating f just once requires repeating a calculation umpteen times on a quantum computer, and this quantum computer is actually providing you

f(x1, ..., x50) + error

where error scales with the number of variables, the size of the program, and (roughly) the reciprocal of the number of calculation repetitions? 50- or 500-dimensional space is big, and there are tons of local optima that disappear and reappear in the presence of this error.

This is a personal opinion and not a statement of fact, but scaling up QAOA to work with ~50x the problem size the paper demonstrated (which is needed for a practical RSA demo) on any near-term quantum processor will not work.

This assumes that all the doubts about Schnorr's work are relieved.
Wow this is very interesting. I suffer every spring due to pollen and I grew allergic to cats in adulthood which has been a shame. I've been contemplating the allergy shots for years, but it seemed like an annoying process for something with seemingly mixed results. I'll have to take a serious look at this, it could be actually life changing.
The overlap between anything that would be in a white paper and anything that would gain traction on LinkedIn or Twitter seems small.
Why do you regret it, specifically? Did you notice any negative effects on your life?

(Not trolling. I also started watching porn at a young age and I wonder if it had any negative effect on my development.)
Definitely don't look to the mental health system for help. It's designed from the ground up to use people like resources, mine them for all their value, and discard them (after some insults).

I really feel for people with mental health issues and no insurance. I have insurance, but have somehow still payed thousands of dollars out of pocket, and in far worse shape.

It's like they're TRYING to get people with ADHD to kill themselves. You can find countless accounts of people traumatized by this system, but they don't want to change a thing... they seem to think it's our problem just for existing. I was told to just give up on my career... nevermind that it will never matter, and the next job will just fuck me up.

I can't really put into words the rage I feel against Doctors and Psychs... this is who they expect us to go to for help.
I know that, but I recall specific literature reflecting the specific effect mentioned[0] and it seems intuitive that the surface area and orientation currently in use for these qubits may potentiate the effect, I think the other effects you list are barriers to other qubit registers as well.

[0] https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/01/resolving-high-energy-impa...
I bought one of these. I needed a new screen and went to the local store.
Its a large 42" 4K Samsung monitor and it comes with a remote to use the built in youtube/netflics.. if I had given it internet access.

Its been a few months and even with not internet its still fine and hasn't tried any tricks (that I know of..).
The speakers are good, but its annoying to have to pay for a computer inside the monitor I'm not using.
so print it via pressure into the inside of a sealed envelope? that's how they send me my PIN.
AMD's (Dr Lisa Su) CES keynote tomorrow will likely announce Zen 4 chips with 3D V-Cache variants.
Thats why I use a cheap external box. Doestnt matter whether its firetv, appletv, chromecasr or anything. Unplug the power when u r done watching. Its so easy this way.
The article title has been revised to more accurately reflect the researcher's position (and removes the AI ambiguity): "Google Researcher, Long Out of Math, Cracks Devilish Problem About Sets"

Should the title of this HN entry be updated accordingly?
AI, quantum computing.

The first one is becoming a bit of a buzz word, sometimes with great(excessive) expectation not in line with what the actual thing is (statistical algorithms fed with a very huge amount of data in order to build a model consisting of serialized data saved on disk and serving as filter to classify input or generate new output, like picture (midjourney), text(chatGPT), or actions (brake for self-diving car) from input).

Quantum computing seems to progress quickly, but according to comments from an article published yesterday, it's still prone to error which makes it unreliable for actual commercial use and is more used for training for future quantum computing software dev.

The problem is that the ones reporting on these things, for example on youtube, don't always understand how or what these technologies do and have excessive expectations about them. The other problem is people having a ball in the game (scientists, startup CEO, investors, paid commenters looking for clicks) do the same in order to have a financial gain.
Blockchain developers’ simple guide to navigating the complex future of Web3
I realise you are being sarcastic but I genuinely did not see the H1. The face on the video was probably the first thing I looked at and then I went scanning for some explanatory text. It's your choice what you do with your web page but a short paragraph would, imho, help to engage casual visitors.
This is horrific - what mechanism would you use to accomplish it?
The Nikon Monarch 7 is good. For birds you want something with a lot of light and less magnification (easier to hold steady). I also like the Vortex Viper HD for lower budgets. 8x42-50 is going to be your best bet for birding.
Sorry, is someone getting free internet service? They don't have to pay for bandwidth?
One could develop mechanisms, that make the ability to compromise and negotiate outcomes, a requisite to holding offices, even after elections. This could for example happen, by the small minority parties (who are usually filtered out in most democracies) negotiating the voices they represent to another party that will enter representation, in return for representing a certain view-point.

This would prevent votes from being lost and would make the ability to compromise and "secure" these votes more important then populist behavior.
This always bothered the hell out of me when interacting with Korean websites, especially online banking. I believe in addition to the factors that the article listed, there are several laws in place that mandate this chicanery, at least for banking.
>You'd have to intentionally make an open network these days,

So any 2 bit hacker wannabe in an apartment complex? I mean if I was a teenager in the wifi days I would have been playing games like that.
The analog would be forcing him to see a specialist against his will. Another poster pointed out that the hospital said they were required to do this to protect one of the mother's health.

I don't know whether that was true, but then again, I don't know whether anything said in this story is true or not.
Ask HN: Advice on Becoming a Cloud Architect
I consider certifying to become a cloud architect to be able to work remote full time. I live in Europe and wonder if I should choose for AWS or Azure. Which certification is easiest/cheapest/best for remote work?
"The FTC's disregard for these benefits to consumers and focus on supposed harms to Xbox's deep-pocketed competitors betrays a fundamental disconnect between the FTC's theories and the antitrust laws' underlying purpose, which is to protect competition, not competitors. The FTC is asking this Court to protect the world's largest gaming companies from further competition from Xbox, and thereby turning antitrust on its head. Blinded by ideological skepticism of high-value technology deals and by complaints from competitors, the FTC has not only lost sight of the realities of the intensely competitive gaming industry, but also the guiding principles of our nation's antitrust laws."
i use two hands on a pencil and race. have to remember to slow down at the end though.
Ukraine is widely supported vs Russia but I guess he’s saying that just because it’s popular doesn’t make the point morally correct in the context of what he’s saying.
The LGBTQ+ is currently controversial in the context of the erosion of women only spaces and rights in the face of certain pressure groups.
These are like a few thousands people, maybe in the tens of thousands at the most. There are about 1 billion men on the internet, give or take.

The internet is very good at amplifying a bunch of very motivated nutjobs. I can, if I wanted to, send death threats and all sorts of horrible things to hundreds of people before breakfast. And tomorrow again. And the day after that. And I'm just one guy with a crummy laptop.

Go out on the street and I'll bet you that most men haven't even heard of gamergate, or have only vaguely heard of it and don't really know much details. And those that do at least roughly know what it was all about will think they're a bunch of idiots.
Thanks for the context. Was the GoFundMe campaign accessible when you linked it? I caught your comment at "3 minutes ago" and it can no longer be found.

Edit: Link was fixed!
> “Mike said, ‘Justin, you’re going to get me thinking about this problem again and I don’t want to do that,’” said Gilmer.

This is a very relatable feeling. I often find myself getting trapped into thinking about problems I am unlikely to solve.
"Low skill" is often also something of a misnomer. Many are highly-skilled, but have difficulties navigating the social environment of both employment and self-employment. Neurodivergent people often fall into this category.

Others are moderately-skilled, but not to the magnitude of their competition (common in art/design); or, they have technical skills that are only useful in jobs that also require conceptual/design skills (or vice versa); or, they're skilled in a niche set of tasks which hiring managers see as nice "add-ons" to another prerequisite (if outmoded) set of skills. As an anecdote: until the Meta crisis the past fall, there were a lot of openings for jobs that amounted to, "Builds XR prototypes/vertical slices so that when VR/AR goggles take off we have some sort of killer app concept ready for production." This requires someone with 3D art and software engineering and interactive design chops, for an interaction paradigm that's maybe 30% finalized. My vantage point was as an intermediate-level amateur 3D artist trying to stumble my way around Unity/UE, watching devs stumble their way around Blender/C4D/etc., all of us watching UX designers used to Figma et al. stumbling their way around both. With no room for people to bring what they CAN do to the table, and learn the rest as they go, many don't find anywhere to land.
> Honestly, most of the paper is over my head—both the lattice-reduction math and the quantum physics.

Yeah, that alone is impressive. Schneier led a group that wrote Twofish, which was one of the AES finalists before losing Rijndael.
If you have a truly modularized monolith, you can have a directed graph of dependent libraries, the leaves of which are different services that can start up. You can individually deploy leaf services and only their dependent code will go out. You can then rationalize which services can go down based on their dependency tree. If email is close to a root library, then yes a regression in it could bring everything down. If email is a leaf service, its code won’t even be deployed to most of the parallel services.

You can then have a pretty flexible trade off between the convenience of having email be a rooted library against the trade off of keeping it a lead service (the implication being that leaf services can talk to one another over the network via service stubs, rest, what have you).

This is SOA (Service Oriented Architecture), which should be considered in the midst of the microservice / monolith conversation.
I know Django, Rails, and various JS frameworks, but I'd probably do it in PHP with a SQLite3 backend.
In the UK, I've had a battery plus solar for just over a year.

its a 5kwp set of panels and a 13kwhr battery. From mid march to late November, we only drew from the grid once (that was because we had a portable hottub setup, which took ~28kwhr to heat up.)

Its raining and january and december are shit months for solar, well mostly because of the short days. December we were 45% independent from the grid.

Currently we do not have heating or cooling from electricity. If that were the case we'd need 10kwp plus more storage.
ABA states:

Standard 3-1.2 Functions and Duties of the Prosecutor

>(b) The primary duty of the prosecutor is to seek justice within the bounds of the law, not merely to convict. The prosecutor serves the public interest and should act with integrity and balanced judgment to increase public safety both by pursuing appropriate criminal charges of appropriate severity, and by exercising discretion to not pursue criminal charges in appropriate circumstances. The prosecutor should seek to protect the innocent and convict the guilty, consider the interests of victims and witnesses, and respect the constitutional and legal rights of all persons, including suspects and defendants.

I get that everyone laughs at normative standards nowadays, and the concept of 'civic duty' is apparently dying out, but there's your standard right there. If you're forging warrants, you are abdicating the responsibilities of your station.
This links to an advertisement. Is that legal on Hackernews?
Google Squared, and yes, killed around 2007-8, and yes, never seen something that compares ever since. It was Sheets except you could make any row and column headers/labels you want and it would try to fill in the result for every cell.

Edit: just RTFA'd, yeah this is better. What happens if you call magic.ai_take_over_world_debug_until_no_exceptions()?
I don't see any problem with evolving invariants over time as business requirements change. The point is to be clear about your invariants for any given release.
Good for you! I've never noticed this thing so it doesn't exist. Pure and simple internalized misandry.
Irrespective of indication you still need informed consent for a medical act like an induction (unless the patient is unable to consent). The 'against their will' bit is the critical part.
Sounds fun, wish I had the talent to do some serious debugging.
There was a 1st Season Episode of Star Trek Voyager called The Phage where a bunch of aliens whose organs were being eaten away by some virus had to continuously harvest fresh new organs from unwitting travelers to stay alive. Is that fictional disease related to the real world virophage?
What's the rate of false positives?

What's the shortest piece of writing it works on?

What's the relationship to rates of false positive and length of writing?
I wonder how widespread the phenomenon is. I'm based in the UK and those are my thoughts exactly.
The hospital said they're doing it to protect the mother's health due to complications. So it's more like they're trying to avoid making things even worse.

It is horribly lacking, and that should be fixed, but trying to make sure her baby is delivered safely isn't really reducible to "reducing costs."
I think it's a combination of many things. Very powerful compute, very large datasets, transformers and diffusion models and a ton of research by lots of researchers easily available on arxiv, etc.
Expand the argument to the economy as a whole, and it's just the Prisoner's Dilemma. You'll get screwed by someone else someday, the solar company will screw someone other than you etc. I'll certainly agree it would be better if everyone cooperated. Whether it's unethical depends on your ethical framework.
You're brushed aside the game-theoretic truth in favor of continuing to push this self-defeating what-if worry narrative. Taken to the absurd, your "tough decision" would allow a single madman to ransom the entire world.

In the "real world", Ukraine seems quite willing to face the possibility of being nuked - if they were not, they would have already surrendered to the bully with the nukes. And it's the Ukrainians ultimately making the decision to keep defending themselves or not, regardless of this specious reference to "proxy war".

Furthermore, offensive nuclear use by Russia would most likely invite an overwhelming conventional retaliation by US and NATO forces, with the goal of preempting Russia from ever doing such a thing again. The alternative would be to just sit back and watch Russia conquer ever-more westward, while suffering the same ongoing "what if" worry.
That's the parents responsibility. Not the states, and not the websites.
I don't think it's normal people pushing the polarization, at least not in the root cause analysis. The political parties are playing the meta-political game of continuing to exist and the game theory there is to slice and dice the electorate along advantageous lines in every voting district/region. The more divisive an issue, the more predictable and reliable as a tool for staying in power.

Political parties have no external goals; they are self-interested and use the people within them to achieve that goal by offering carrots (which result in fulfilling the external values of normal people) or sticks (which punish defection or opposing party members).

Progressivism and conservativism are not opposed on a single axis. Political parties lay claim to and label particular issues which benefits both major U.S. parties in the long run by giving them each a grab bag of issues for a particular set of voters. This is why, for example, guns and wombs have opposite signs in the personal-freedom axis for both parties. As long as the shared belief exists that an issue "belongs" to "one side" it remains useful as a political tool but nearly worthless as a policy tool for normal people.

Finally, it is not the extremes leading this charge. The core DNC and RNC execute this strategy because they are locked in a struggle for survival. The DNC and RNC have successfully used the threat of the least-aligned party to trap moderate and progressive voters within the party structures. Non-partisan primaries and ranked-choice/runoff voting are starting to show moderate success (AK and NH) at changing the game theory to favor politicians who compromise on multivariate issues versus enforcing party platforms.
Customer support, at a company that is not obsessed with customer support and satisfaction, is typically "check the box". They have to provide some sort of support. It is seen as a cost center rather than as a face of the company. "number of unfixed issues" isn't relevant if you perceive customer support as perfunctory.

As a result, for many companies obsessed with KPIs, the only KPI for customer support is "price". In that lens, they are optimizing.

Obviously this situation is awful for customers.
> Our code and compilers are constantly changing, and the problem disappeared as suddenly as it appeared ... only to happen again 2 years later in a completely unrelated executable.

It does not encourage me how much this sounds like the short story "Coding Machines". The original post even happened right about 2 years after the short story was posted, then in that comment reoccured after another 2 years.

https://www.teamten.com/lawrence/writings/coding-machines/
Older houses in urban areas are typically seen as a negative rather than a positive. If you could sell the land without a house at all, you could save on demolition costs when the buyers of that high value property knock down the old house and build the house they really want.

Houses really do depreciate with age, even if it is less noticeable in the USA than it is in say Japan.
I play very casually, mostly on the Android app. There is also http://aagenielsen.dk/hnefatafl_online.php which seems to have the most "serious" community but I think the UI might be older than the game itself.

There are many different variants around, with different levels of balance. When I started playing I picked a variant and thought I would try to "specialise" in that one, but to be honest there aren't enough players around to do that, so you tend to just play whatever variant you can get a game in.

Generally in a tournament each set of opponents would play each other twice, once as each side. I'm not sure about aagenielsen.dk, but the way it works on the Android app is that if each player wins one game, the ultimate winner is the one who won in fewer turns. I don't think that's a great system but I guess it's the best one there is for elimination-style tournaments.

Most things I've read suggest that the defenders (white) generally have an advantage, but personally I seem to play better as attacker (black). Possibly just a sign that I am a novice!
This is a very isotemporal statement. All it takes is some hacker in learning to setup an open AP just to see how many people connect.
Happy to help.

And interesting, yes, the gofundme was live when I watched the video on the site (link is on the site).

I think it's just maybe how GoFundMe handle's the links?

https://gofund.me/a58c25bd

Works as normal I suppose for you.
> We're a few interactions into this debate. I want to clarify, are we discussing what is legal or what is morally just? Because those are far from the same. I personally would rather discuss what is morally justifiable, since that is a more important standard.

Who's morals? Yours? His? What makes your morals better than his? Why do you think your bar for "morally just" is the correct one?

Arguing morals is pointless - it's all subjective.

The best you can do is argue whether the rules are being adhered to or not.

Second best is to argue for addition or removal of rules.
Is this one of those deals where they "sell" the company to a trust to avoid taxes and then use the organization's power to allow he and his family to effect the course of politics for generations, like the Patagonia founder did?
I don’t know. How would you feel if your ISP would say something like “We will throttle excessive traffic” without specifying what this traffic is.

I think limits should be clearly defined. Especially for paying customers.
Basically any software, even something in C or C++ with manual memory management will scale more efficiently vertically than horizontally. Basically it would be better to run one twice as big as it would be to run two instances on the same machine. There is almost always some overhead or cache that will make the performance of fewer instances better. The only exception is resource contention but it is generally not too hard to fix the important cases.

My default recommendation has always been to make instances "as big as possible, but no bigger". You may need 3 instances for redundancy, fault tolerance and graceful updates but past that you should probably scale up to near the size of your machine. There are obviously lots of complications and exceptions (for example maybe using most 3 instances uses 90% of your machines so you can't bin pack other processes there so it is better to use 4 instances at 70% as the machines will be used more efficiently) but bigger by default is generally a good option.