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> references "random circuit sampling"

It's either Monte Carlo or bullshit.
They also had prototypes with a reverse passthrough screen. They didn't ship it likely because they are focused on low cost.
This was the point I began my Google-exit.

What I feel is more remarkable than how long ago this all began, is how stable the choices I moved to have been. Fastmail has been amazing, Feedbin is still very solid, DuckDuckGo while not perfect is good enough while Google search results continue to get worse.

Other than occasionally needing to use GSuite when others share documents through it, I pretty rarely use anything by Google intentionally anymore.
In 1991, when Soviet Union collapsed and some parts of it had finally a lucky chance to go their own way, there was a lot of western "experts" who lectured new countries how complex their past was, how Soviet past should be also respected and shouldn't be handwaved away etc. It actually continued decades until very recently – Bucha happened.
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There are only about half a million H1Bs in the US total.
Utilize the power of my own PC to build web apps faster (with zero build time cost).
No, your poison is ineffective in a very large well.
If it is able to break crypto then surely that means it can do other "interesting" mathematical calculations that are currently extremely slow/hard though?
Best article seems to be https://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/business/article270574632...

It's a very confusing mix of what sounds like neglectful incompetent management followed by overexpansion, control fraud, stock-pumping through affinity fraud, and possibly naked embezzlement/theft at the end.
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Yep, I've seen situations where the programmer goes for brevity, and then runs into problems in the future when they want to "be consistent"

take_ownership -> acquire (fine at first)

give_ownership -> unacquire (not even a word)

split_ownership -> halfacquire (complete nonsense)

then there needs to be a way to split ownership other than an equal 2-way split and you're fucked.

I haven't seen this exact situation, but I've seen stuff like this. And sometimes, I was the programmer.

Names should be as short as possible while still being meaningful AND keeping in mind future work requirements.

On a tangent, I'm always frustrated when as a developer, I don't learn much about the actual business. There's always a situation down the road where if you had known what the company was planning on doing in the next quarter, or couple years, you could have saved everyone some work by doing things differently.
So far, to my knowledge, not faster than a classical system. We've been searching for decades for a problem with a better quantum solution than a classical solution, and it's been a tough slog. These are, at least thus far and from my limited perspective, very special-purpose accelerators. Shor's algorithm is the one thing that comes to mind tbh.

"Breaking crypto" in this case isn't anything other than finding prime factors of an integer.
You don't need to put an apostrophe before every s that ends a word. Only ones that are possessive, like "career's"

It's 20s, not 20's. It's sees, not see's.
I’m sure there are plenty of ghost towns with housing sitting empty that could be had for a song too. That probably doesn’t help if your job, family, and friends are somewhere else.
> ACSL recognizes that the copyleft requirement of open source can be a drain on limited resources, can expose sensitive or secure information, and can put software at risk of theft.

Does whoever wrote this actually understand either copyleft or computer security?
> GDP stays flat or grows while the number of jobs is reduced

I lack the economics knowledge to do more than parrot the response I've heard to this, so take this with the appropriate level of "hmmm":

As I understand it, the counter-claim is that the measure of GDP mostly excludes exactly the set of things that grows absurdly fast.

For example, the measure of inflation may include the cost of a smartphone in the standard basket of goods, but not the fact the GPU of a smartphone (or Apple TV) of today, operating in double precision mode, can do more than the Numerical Wind Tunnel supercomputer in 1993 costing 100 million dollars.

Or that everyone has a free encyclopaedia a hundred times the size of the Encyclopædia Britannica.

And maps which for most users are as good as Ordnance Survey, but free and worldwide, when the actual OS prices for just the UK is… currently discounted to £2,818.17, from £4,025.97.

Or that getting you genome sequenced now costs a grand rather than 3 billion. Although that might not yet even be in the basket, I don't know where the actual baskets of goods get listed in most cases, and search results aren't helping — one result, on a government website, lists "health", but even digging into the spreadsheet didn't illuminate much detail there.
R/webdev could not solve this challenge: A “Is it Friday” website, no JavaScript
The challenge is to create the functionality using only html and css
- No serverside rendering that serves a css file on friday
- No special CDN setup
- No image loading that serves another image on friday
Just html and css
Ask HN: Has anybody else noticed DNSimple's new plans?
Depending on how many zones you have, prices have either gone up or gone down. I have 4 zones on my account and if I switch to the new Solo plan, I will be paying $2 extra per month for the same service.
New user joining the fray here. I worked in cybersecurity at a bank for many years. I haven't read all of what you said, because I agree that you're missing the point that someone was making. Right now, I could throw up some kind of merchant page for some homebrew service, and have an HTML form that asks for a credit card number a CVV and an expiration date. That would be illegal or otherwise non-compliant with PCI, absolutely but it's technically doable. Every time that someone types in a credit card number into a website, they have to trust that the merchant they are doing business with is handling that data in a secure and compliant manner. That is the point of the OP.

Their point extends to the fact that there are other ways of exchanging payment data that would not allow a malicious recipient to reuse that data illegally.
WebXDC sounds fun, could you tell more about the use-cases you found?
If you can control your experiment perfectly, then you don't need the simulation.

Now break the wooden stick in half while on the moon. In space. At absolute zero. While under acceleration. While spinning. While bombarding it with 10^100 neutrinos/second. And do it with 100'000 randomized iterations of the wooden fibers.
This take is the right take.

...in exactly the wrong way, but the right take.

Charismatic Evangelical churches are the growth sector in church attendance. If your church offers a vaguely apocalyptic isolationist version of faith, you're going to attract plenty of scared conservative folk who don't like how fast the world is changing, and who want simpler answers to how to fix it. That those answers are _wrong_ doesn't matter, because that kind of ignorance among the laity is a _feature_ that guarantees more control and higher income.
No practical use. Just making people say "wow" for a minute then move on. You really can't use them for anything good yet.
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Three advantages of non-AI models
As an engineer I can appreciate what you are saying. But as a product manager: the question I am asking is if it matters?

Do we have problems (eg transmissions failing faster) because of this. Or people getting injured etc? Because if not, it's just a distinction without a difference?

EDIT: I think you added the first sentence of your post after I read and replied to it. That was the answer I am looking for, thank you.
You are either full of shit, or your "coding" is pretty basic, or your code is full of bugs and you don't care.

I can't trust GPT, and neither can you. But if it really can do all your coding for you, what stops your employer from replacing you with a secretary from a temp agency?

It's so stupid for engineers to say that ChatGPT codes for them. They are shooting themselves in the face. They are devaluing the entire profession. Why? My reaction to all those breathless online demos was to point out the difference between what they were showing and what an engineer really does. Your reaction is to act like being a prompt jockey is the new way of engineering. How does that give you pride in yourself?
This model is probably more common than you think, I don't see how anyone would be doing this any other way in a scalable fashion.
I don't think this is a stupid question at all- it actually touches on some pretty interesting topics. The human brain is absolutely fascinating, in particular because it is extremely energy efficient and fast at the tasks it does. The more we learn and understand how the brain is working the more we'll be able to improve a ton of computer science topics, from AI to signals processing and a whole bunch more in between.
> Apple tends to be good at getting technology into people's hands and then iterating based on the use cases that emerge. The iPhone without being able to write apps for it seemed like a really bad idea at the time, but they were able to iterate quickly and get feedback that let them launch the app store more effectively.

The iPod is an even better example, the first three or so versions didn't hit the mark, but with 4G they finally had the right feature set to sell them like hotcakes.
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But your customers now have money to spend on something else. The money didn’t disappear.
https://archive.is/8XAqV
> The idea of inserting an entity id into a “published” table, instead of setting a boolean “published” field to true, doesn’t always come naturally.

It doesn't come naturally because now you need a JOIN in your SQL just to fetch what was before a column. Or two queries instead of one.

Not to mention having closely related data spread in different tables increases cognitive load.

You just added a layer of indirection for what gain precisely?
Where did you hear Disney wanted to buy twitter?
Indeed it is. I just looked "Baader-Meinhof" up a week ago...and here it is in your comment again!

https://twitter.com/dvsj_in/status/1674481301880213504?t=4t3...
I still enjoy twitter, I find its death greatly exaggerated.
Programming education, tacit knowledge and LLMs
WhatsApp voice notes are revolutionizing farming in Senegal
Management Theory Null: All management is fundamentally parasitic and only exists to perpetuate the organizational structure designed to extract as much wealth as possible from both the Actual Contributors (preferred over "Individual Contributors") and the investors, into the pockets of management. Climbing the org chart means having more opportunity to bleed the company dry for one's own benefit. Understanding modern capitalism requires realizing that corporations aren't really profit-seeking entities trying to maximize revenue and minimize costs, but rather the livestock upon which the Business Caste tries to sate their insatiable hunger. Sometimes the parasites are so brazen as to kill the company they're feasting on (at which point they all call up their buddies and get jobs at their next host), and sometimes they're conservative enough to keep the beast alive while continually harvesting from it.

I don't believe that the next great leap in human rights will come from more unions and worker's rights (although those are important right-now steps too). I believe it will come from democratizing ownership -- giving everyone their own piece of the pie that they can cultivate. One way to do that is to use AI and automation to replace not the low-level workers, but the towering edifice of bullshit management jobs. Can we get automation and AI to the point where everyone can use it to enjoy self-proprietorship of whatever their labor is? Can we extend the "gig economy" so far that every tradesman out there is running his own company, with almost all the meta-work of running the company outsourced to an AI? Not centralized like Uber, but decentralized; democratized? That (plus a healthy dose of basic income) feels like the only escape from this hellscape of cancerous capitalism where the Business Caste who already own everything just continue to feast upon the blood of workers and investors alike in a global Tragedy of the Commons until nothing is left but the fetid husks of once-productive corporations.
100%. A couple of the podcasts I'm listening to are moving more towards pre-packed ads and they are horrible. I think what advertisers don't realize is how much more the live ads are worth. I'm much more likely to listen through the hosts riff while doing an ad read vs someone who sounds like they are talking through a forced smile.
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I was under the assumption that, because of how cloudflare works, it has to be globally available.

That would mean support in every dc and a easily to expand capacity.

They can't just make it available in one region and then see how it goes.

I like how cloudflare works, but this use-case for them ( on the edge) seems more difficult to plan. It's not just the tech, it's the infrastructure in this case.

Just my 2 cents
One would be the direction of entropy. Breaking the stick is not "particularly fascinating" because you're going in the direction of increasing entropy.
However, _putting it back together_ is. In the simulation it takes no more effort to go one way or the other, while you probably cannot put the stick back together no matter how hard you tried.

A quantum question that is "interesting" would also be similar to finding order out of disorder (e.g. factoring).
I agree that consistency is what’s important. If almost everything in the codebase roughly follows the same API then it takes less effort for people to use the various parts
Anyone who has one of those has a disproportionate amount of wealth obtained almost certainly at the expense of others.

The reality is that anyone earning over 70k a year is earning more than thier fair share of society's production.

We only produce a fixed amount of GDP, which when divided by population makes for a fairly small number even excluding children.

Yachts are hella expensive, with even the cheapest used sail boats costing more than a new car and an "ok" used one being 200k+

That not middle class shit, that's rich people shit. People earning 65 k a year and raising 2 kids can Never afford that, unless they are neglectful, go bankrupt to do it etc.

People need to stop using Elon level wealth as the metric for rich.... That's not rich, that's Obscene. Rich is anyone earning over 100k a year. That's Extreme privilege having nearly 2 shares of GDP while how many have to have less than a fair share to get you there? Yea....
The C standard effectively can’t add new types without the “_t” suffix, so they’re stuck with limitations that a brand new language won’t have.
It's a pretty common use of toggles, really! It has many upsides: decoupling deployment of code from feature release (useful for many reasons eg giving PMs control over the feature release), gradual feature rollouts, fast feature rollbacks, breaking up big features over multiple small PRs (eg each implementing a different part of the logic/UI), deploying "risky" code knowing you can enable/disable it instantly...

We use this extensively at work, and wouldn't go back. You call it "just hiding incomplete parts of a feature", but for us that was a huge improvement in workflow. The real downside is that these flags tend to outlive their purpose; they don't get cleaned up as soon as they should.
It doesn't need to handle much to be a large market because international trade and foreign exchange are so huge.

If btc replaces 1% of fx it's doing $50B/day of transactions. Market cap of btc is only about $600M, so 100x btc is not crazy.

Is a p2p transaction system with an auditable record attractive to 1% of fx transaction parties? Seems reasonable, especially when corrupt states are a counterparty.
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FoundationDB has, in my experience, always been well regarded in DB development circles; I think their test architecture - developed to easily reproduce rare concurrency failures - is its best legacy, as mentioned in a comment above and frequently before.

However, since these topics are always filled with effusive praise in the comments, let me give an example of a distributed scenario where FDB has shortcomings: OLTP SQL.

First, FDB is clearly designed for “read often, update rarely” workloads, in a relative sense. It produces multiple consistent replicas which are consistently queryable at a past time stamp, without a transaction - excellent for that profile. However, its transaction consistency method is both optimistic and centralized, and can lead to difficulty writing during high contention and (brief) system-wide transaction downtime if there is a failover; while it will work, it’s not optimal for “write often, read once” workloads.

Secondly, while it is an ordered key value store - facilitating building SQL on top of it - the popular thought of layering SQL on top of the distributed layer comes with many shortcomings.

My key example of this is schema changes. Optimistic application, and keeping schema information entirely “above” the transaction layer, can make it extremely slow to apply changes to large tables, and possibly require taking them partially offline during the update. There are ways to manage this, but online schema changes will be a competitive advantage for other systems.

Even for read-only queries, you lose opportunities to push many types of predicates down to the storage node, where they can be executed with fewer round trips. Depending on how distributed your system is, this could add up to significant additional latency.

Afaik, all of the spanner-likes of the world push significant schema-specific information into their transaction layers - and utilize pessimistic locking - to facilitate these scenarios with competitive performance.

For reasons like these, I think FDB will find (and has found) the most success in warehousing scenarios, where individual datum are queried often once written, and updates come in at a slower pace than the reads.
ADA was also used as the basis for Oracle PL/SQL, and the later ISO SQL/PSM standard.

These are very much alive, and implemented in major modern databases.

"SQL/PSM is derived, seemingly directly, from Oracle's PL/SQL. Oracle developed PL/SQL and released it in 1991, basing the language on the US Department of Defense's Ada programming language."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL/PSM
Have you found a good way to drive pandoc from emacs?
(I don't have a background (or interest) in quantum computing)
I've tried some of the "chat with pdf" websites for other topics.
It seems like they could help you understand the paper.
If you give it a try, could you report back here on how it worked for you.