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>I am in the camp that believes that quantum computing is not possible in any useful sense; in particular a quantum computer will not be capable of being significantly more powerful than a classical computer, in the quantum supremacy sense.

Could you elaborate on that? I was under the impression that some companies are using Quantum Computers because quantum supremacy has been demonstrated (such as in molecular modeling for drug discovery or materials science) - but I'm a complete novice here, and would love to learn more. I'm probably quite wrong, and happy to be corrected.

Also, by not possible in a useful sense, do you mean that QCs as they are now versus in N years, or just in general?
California wildfires are an important, natural part of the ecosystem, but I still like to know when it's worth wearing an N95 mask and turning on my air filter to prevent that important, natural part of the ecosystem from permanently damaging my lungs.
There's something about the font that looks awful but having a 2007 look and feel is fine, in my opinion. There's something charmingly retro about the gradients and AJAX era of Web 2.0 before apps ate everything.
Isn't it just shift+cmd+v to paste as plain text?
> It doesn't matter if the demand for homes is "artificial" or not - the easiest solution is to build more.

crafting a "i owe you a house" and giving it to the investor while squatting the real estate seems much more efficient
Wanna Make Big Tech Monopolies Even Worse? Kill Section 230
> it was estimated that roughly 1/3 of Vancouver’s condo supply was vacant

Did you misread something? Maybe from this post:

> https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-empty-homes-tax-st...

> Empty Homes Tax has reduced Vancouver's number of vacant homes by 36%

> After five years of the EHT being in effect, the total number of vacant properties within Vancouver has fallen to 1,398 homes or 36% fewer properties compared to 2017, when the tax regime first launched.

The statement about 36% is a relative percentage, not absolute percentage points. What happened is that ~2184 homes were vacant in 2017, and fell by 36% to 1398 in 2022.

It's saying that of the homes that were originally vacant, there is 36% less of that now. It is not saying that of all homes that exist, the vacancy rate decreased by 36%.
I don't think you understand the situation. The alternative is no Google in Russia.

You can not ask a corporation to act criminally, that is an absurd demand.
The i3 I've been driving around has been a complete revelation. It's an older model with a worn-out small battery. It usually claims to have 52mi range when it's topped up in the morning. Realistically, I can only use about 40-45 of that before I worry about it shutting off the contactors to protect the cells.

But it has a range extender. That transforms it from essentially a dedicated grocery-getter to a daily driver that can commute all over Socal. Barely over 2 gallons of gas will give you an extra 70mi (at about 65mph)

Granted, it's more a technology demonstrator than a blueprint for an affordable mass-market EV, but it's a huge step in the right direction if you ask me. Much more similar to what the average person in a city needs in a car than, say, the 600hp model 3 I was driving around for awhile.
What is this? Where does it go?
Parti pirate: Notre programme en 30 minutes
Yes, but isn’t lead getting into your bloodstream worse than pollen? I mean oxygen gets into your bloodstream via inhalation…
Historically orcas usually didn't mess with boats or even assisted whalers in hunts.

I wonder if this was a cultural memory of the orcas about sailors (whalers at least) retaliating quite fiercely in the few instances they were being messed with and that's fading away now.
Tesla owners file federal suit against Elon Musk and family trust
GitHub wants to know where you live by 19 Aug 2024
I've tried this on a dozen or so records and all I get is "Please made sure your device can hear the music, and that you're using a modern song with a clearly defined beat."

(There is definitely a very well defined beat.)
Is this intended as an accusation that the SQLite contributors don't live up to their own code of conduct? It could easily be read that way.

If so, do you have any evidence to back up the accusation of hypocrisy?

If not, and you're referring to some amorphous group of other people, why are you doing so in the context of SQLite's code of conduct? It would be pretty weird if I started talking about how various people who have nothing to do with the Rust project are violating Rust's CoC, right?
And I think it’s fine, but what they’re filtering on with their ChatGPT canary is people who don’t proofread the output to make sure it’s a resume they stand behind. It should be easy since it’s all about you, right?

When using AI, “distrust and verify” is the best policy.
I don’t see how the move out of Cairo really indicates a loss of control anywhere else. It’s not like all the army bases in the Sinai or Alexandria or anywhere else are going anywhere. And there are good reasons to leave Cairo otherwise—for example, the severe mismanagement of the Cairene urban environment, traffic, &c. As for the second point, there have always been Islamists more radical than the Muslim Brotherhood, and Daësh if anything has less power now than it did at its peak.
I'm gonna need a source on that, as the only relevant thing that comes up on a search for "lipopolysaccharide toxin air filter" is a single study [0] that tested a single air purifier (whose filter had not been changed in a year) in a single room. It includes the telling phrase: "The conclusions here, however, should be interpreted cautiously due to the small sample size here."

[0] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016041202...
Idle fins are the devil's workshop!
Yes, threatening fellow students with violence and disrupting daily life for weeks is “an inconvenience”. Right.
US court to hear challenges to potential TikTok ban in September
...if you pay for it.
Oooh. 6809 resurrection project. I studied that arch obsessively when I was a kid with a Tandy Color Computer.
With the used EV tax credit, I just put a friend in a used Model Y from Carmax for $22k out the door. ~44k miles on it, will last them at least 10 years (if not more), at which point EVs will be even better and cheaper.

Certainly, driving down new EV prices is invaluable, but these vehicles can be had today at affordable prices in the used auto market.
Which of these events have a >1% chance of happening in the next thousand years?

If our rate of innovation continues, maybe we don’t have much to worry about on this front.
If we're talking about the WAIS-IV test specifically, I'd wager it would do quite well.

Compared to a human it has essentially infinite working memory and processing speed.

The most difficult parts might be visual spatial processing and problem solving.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wechsler_Adult_Intelligence_Sc...
I'd just go with Occam/Hanlon's razor, the author is somewhat inept (at least when it comes to Amazon returns) and wrote a piece on it because being anti-Amazon gets clicks like being anti-Walmart in the early 2010s (2000s?).

Returns are hard because in practice, 11" (or 10.5") baskets are one such item that are just sold and returned on Amazon for appearances, as the dimensions probably makes shipping cost-prohibitive, but Amazon knows that they can't just say "keep it" because then people would fake-return stuff all the time.
It seems it has been done before:

"Syntax-Aware Transformer Models for Neural Machine Translation" by Yang et al. (2019). This model enhances the transformer architecture with syntax-aware attention mechanisms that consider dependency parse trees.

Context-Aware Neural Machine Translation Learns Anaphora Resolution" by Bawden et al. (2018). This paper explores integrating context and syntax into neural machine translation models.
Or completely replacing the email logic throughout an application with a db backed queue service in order to ensure delivery when the previously configured SMTP direct delivery gets spotty in about 2 hours.
To be fair, that doesn't really distinguish it from the rest of the industry. I would say the same thing about AI and (especially) blockchain.
That’s not the same though. Your unpacking allows for any non-empty iterable while OPs only allows for an iterable with exactly one item or else it throws an exception.
The middle of the graph, the peak, is the current year.

It has not started falling yet, and it won’t particularly if they keep announcing new projects.
I won't trust no tracking if it's non free.

I know I will sound extreme (although I think it shouldn't be the case in among developers) and no offense, but this sounds like a happy outcome to me. I believe proprietary software to be unethical. I'm not interested in being proposed non free software. The software industry should figure it out and start respecting its users.

However software funding is a real concern and I do believe there's room for some set of builtin solutions allowing free software funding beyond a donate link.

There are many ways to fund free software. I'm not saying it's easy but there are many open source businesses now and as a developer I decided to join one of them.

Support, consulting and paid (but still open source) paid features are some options. I don't think anybody would remove a license check in an app sent to f-droid if it's free software.

Now, I genuinely thank you for having considered an alternative to Google for distributing your software.

I know it's hard to build stuff and bootstrap it. I'm with you on this.

In f-droid, you can still add third party repositories and I heard it's getting easier for users. Not sure it is easy enough.

Now I'm totally aware only free software doesn't cut it for most people yet, and fdroid will not suffice. Most people will do with the play store, but some will use fdroid as a store of "trusty" apps and resort to the play store if really needed. I know people doing this.
> Starting August 19th, 2024, GitHub will begin collecting state-mandated sales tax, where and when applicable, from paying customers in the United States to align with industry standard regulatory practices.

Much more reasonable than what the clickbait title seems to say.
> EUR 400k for a newly build home in the greater Berlin area seems like extremely affordable in my opinion.

I was picking the absolute lowest cost for an example, so on one hand it should have.

On the other hand, what's that in "years of average income", and does it seem reasonable that half of this is the land itself?
That's your employer's doing. I can access RT just fine, from both my work and personal connections.
Jan Leike joins Anthropic on their superalignment team
I'm not sure what I was expecting but the orca equivalent of lol tiktok wasn't it.
Most continental crust is over 2.5 billion years old. Very old rocks aren't exposed at the surface very frequently, because they tend to get covered over in younger rock, but it's still there, and we can sample it with deep drilling.

Oceanic crust tends to be less than 200 million years old, though even then there are some much older examples.
Accessing the dataset to train from scratch will be the biggest hurdle, now a lot of the pile has had ladder pulled since GPT-4
In the world of startups, annoyance is as common as coffee in a co-working space. But how do founders keep their cool and steer their ship through this sea of irritations? Let’s look at some of the unique ways founders have turned annoyances into triumphs.
Raising an Obelisk (1999)
Original publication with all images (PDF): https://www.handshouse.org/s/TFG-Obelisk-Article-sm.pdf
Funny, I have the exact opposite intuition as you. It being a totally-sandboxed phone app means I can trust it not to collect any data without my knowledge, without me having to spend hours looking through the source code for some trick I might miss.
2024 Milky Way Photographer of the Year – Capture the Atlas
Worse in what way? Lead is a long term neurotoxin, but pollen triggers the immune system and makes you miserable. Both are bad but in different ways.
I see you're making wild assumptions about peoples' backgrounds, including hunger, income status, and whether they've ever been fishing or not. Check your privilege.
Has anyone seen some top-notch chat bots recent to the restaurant space for helping people do phone orders? Some people here describe uses of chatbot that are meant to basically thwart customers and waste time, but IMO chatbots are getting good enough to eliminate some customer service roles.
People constantly criticize the US, and no one censors them. You're doing it now.
Yes, but maybe I want to shoot myself in the foot or am willing to take the risk, it's my computer and nobody can tell me what to do with it. That's why I like C. I've been writing Python for almost two decades now, all the new languages are trying even more to tell me how to do things or that I'm doing them wrong, screw that, I don't want to be coddled or patronised by the language I'm using, I'm writing C.
> You could try to spritz them with a water bottle but I suspect they wouldn't notice.

One of my cats responds well to the water bottle; mostly I just have to pick it up, I don't even have to spritz it, and I certainly don't have to actually squirt her. The other cat though, could care less, if I get him anywhere other than the face, he just is like 'oh, being naughty did make me thirsty, thanks for the drink'
I take it you’ve not driven from Boston to Miami and back.
#413 with 122 upvotes, still just 1 hour after submission.
Genuinely I read it as a little cross-species 'boys will be boys' at work.
i have many aliases [1] for everything i ever need to do in git, serves me great for the past couple of years

[1] https://github.com/looshch/configs/blob/master/.gitconfig
…if you live in the US.
I never knew what the heck those squares were for!

Just thought they were some funny aesthetic choice from the 70's and 80's.

Thanks for giving me the definitive answer for something that has always seemed odd to me.
Simple Equation Predicts the Shapes of Carbon-Capturing Wetlands
Very normal. You have to consider how long you need to 'replenish' the the range you used from your daily driving.

Assuming you plug in when you get home, you likely have ~10 hours of charging time. Standard wall outlet is 12A continous, so 1440W. Most 120V is relatively 'inefficient' due to needing to run all the cooling infrastructure which tends to be a fixed overhead. A good number is roughly 4 miles of range per hour of charge on a 120V standard outlet for most normal vehicles (Bolt, Model 3, Ioniq 5, etc)

So, as long as you're driving less than 40 miles per day, 120V outlet will always keep you topped up. If you charge longer (i.e., plug in at 8PM, leave at 7AM) then the numbers look even better. Some considerations for cold climate and whatnot, but 40 miles in a day is a good commute.
"our rate of innovation"

That's the most worrisome thing
Thank you, from an appreciative reader!
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All told, bogs and other peatlands occupy around 3% of Earth’s land. Yet they manage to pack away twice as much carbon as all the planet’s trees.
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I am just going by what the article says:

> For four years now, orcas have been ramming and sinking luxury yachts in European waters, and scientists have struggled to work out just why these smart

Where are all these plumbers and teachers with luxury yachts going out on leisure activities?

And article authors were the first one to bring in the "rich" joke with the "it's not their anticapitalist 'eat the rich' agenda" phrase so I just went by that, and thought it was funny that it as has nothing to do with that at all, but the proceeded to describe a multi-year research and study effort to eliminate the problem. There was something a bit ironic there.
So this is how being a bored teenage ocean hooligan looks like?
> You cannot explain difficulties in IPv6 adoption by need to rewrite in 2024.

The difficulties encountered with IPv6 would have been the same even if another proposal would have been chosen for IPng because the exact same thing would have needed to be done: new address type for syscalls, new data structures, new surrounding infrastructure.

When your original standards do not allow for address length changes/flexibility, you have to write a new standard with the new address size, and there's no way to stuff >32 bits of data (addresses) into a 32-bit field. IPng would always have been a breaking change, regardless of proposed candidate chosen.

And if you're not going to have a flag day (à la NCP-IP changeover), then you'll need transition mechanisms with tunnels for sparse dispersal between IPng islands in a sea of IPv4.

> And yes, maybe IPv7 in particular is not the best solution, but it's hard to imagine how it could be worse than IPv6.. 20 years since support has been added to all core software and it's _still_ not adopted by end users?

All the proposals for IPng needed to have the same things done. "Technical Criteria for Choosing IP The Next Generation (IPng)":

* https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1726

New packet type/header, new API options, new records and data structures for DNS, transition mechanisms (tunnelling). All this needs to be rolled out to hosts, routers, firewalls, ASICs, etc.

All the while IPv4 would continued to be used, so what incentive would business and IT departments have had to move to TUBA or TP/IX-CATNIP? ("Our (IPv4) network works, why do we need IPv7?")

> Today, for home networks, IPv6 is even harder to manage than IPv4 was, just try to keep your small office LAN functioning while handling ISP address changes.

Before recently moving ISPs (to go from DSL to GPON) I had IPv6 for several years on the old one and all my hosts (cabled, Wifi), phones, printers, etc, had IPv6 addresses given out by RA by my Asus, and I had no issues.

In fact IPv6 worked "too well" for me at one point: a while ago I was web surfing I had all those little Facebook icons show up that were served from their web site, probably dropping cookies on my system. I didn't want that so I put FB's domain in my hosts(5) file so that it go to "0.0.0.0": the little icons went away.

Then suddenly they appeared. And I checked hosts to make sure things were still there, and I did web browser debugging to see if things changed in the HTML.

And then I remembered that my ISP had activated IPv6, and so the icons were coming from FB's IPv6 address. Once I added "::1" for FB in my hosts file the icons disappeared again.

The IPX/SPX and DECnet folks managed to learn IPv4, so I'm not sure why the IPv4 folks have such a hard time with IPv6. IPv6 is no more difficult a Layer 3 protocol than IPv4.
They're not talking about lower temperatures, but greater volume.
Mars currently has less than 1% of Earth's sea level atmospheric pressure.

Cusco is roughly 0.6atm of pressure.

So Cusco is a lot closer to use. Mars is essentially the Moon. Actually, it's worse than the Moon. Because all Mars's atmosphere dos is blow really annoying dust all over your equipment. Everything about Mars is the worst [1] eg specifically about the problems of landing on Mars:

> “It’s like this annoyingly middle value,” he said. “The atmosphere is thick enough to cause you all the problems you have on Earth, but too thin to really stop you like on Earth.”

[1]: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/everything-about-mars-i...
Attosecond X-Ray Pulses Reveal Dancing Electrons
What would happen if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90% the speed of light?

https://what-if.xkcd.com/1/
Air quality is not thought enough of in terms of localized data. Some modeling works at larger scales, but if you want to know the forecast for other pollutants (especially ones that disperse or transition) or the source of methane leaks, you need very localized data from many modalities (wind direction, temperature, topographic, seasonal, traffic, etc).

I worked at https://aclima.io on air quality for 6.5 years. My role was managing backend data pipelines, but I worked with scientists and data scientists who were pushing the boundaries of models' capabilities. Models are complex and expensive - any advancement here, like Graphcast, is very important. [1] One job our team was responsible for is to reduce the cost of high quality data, so we drove vehicles around to collect very localized data, which ended up being temporally sparse. Modeling can fill gaps to some measurable level of certainty.

It should also be said that policy is far behind the science, but the burden will remain on science and data to continue make conclusions irrefutable.

[1] - https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/graphcast-ai-model-for...
>Too many properties are being used as investments and not as a primary residence.

Following this logic it would be a net positive to buy an apartment building, move everyone out, and live in it as a single family home.
Making Future Software Memory-Safe- a Path Towards Secure Cloud
So AIUI this is explicitly trying to be smaller than 32-bit RISC-V. And I can see that in the abstract, but I gotta ask: How much does it matter? My very uninformed impression was that with current fabrication, RISC-V is already more than small enough (on-chip surface area) and cheap enough ($) that there's not a lot of market for anything underneath it. Am I mistaken?

(To be clear, I'd like it to work, just questioning the economics.)
agreed, i renamed [1] it to ‘who’ (well, actually it’s just ‘w’ since i’m a vim-diehard)

[1] https://github.com/looshch/configs/blob/master/.gitconfig#L1...
This is a Show HN, so I replied with my feedback. The author explicitly invited this, too, by writing:

> Would love to hear what you think about it!
I don't know if I'd go quite this far, but I definitely had the same overall impression. The person set up two returns and got two QR codes, but just used the same QR code twice. That is just an inability to follow basic instructions, not an Amazon problem.
It's well suited for permissionless compute.

Only issue is, not all languages that compile to WASM are deterministic.
To be honest, OOP never really seemed like a good fit for R. Functional programming is a much more natural fit, given that both it and R come from a mathematical point of view. R is a great language for the mathematical/statistical stuff it was invented to do, but I don't think it will ever be a general-purpose language, and it probably would become worse at its core purpose if it tried to.

More work on being easily used by/incorporated into applications written in other languages, would perhaps be a more impactful thing to work on.
you say it's the opposite of the old TV model, but it comes to the same result, doesn't it?

The same result? The old network TV model gave users a choice of ~5 channels to watch. Cable TV expanded this to ~50 and later a few hundred. With YouTube there are effectively infinite channels to choose from (tens of millions). It's a HUGE difference.

A channel all about knitting would never had existed on TV. A quick YouTube search for knitting yields dozens of knitting channels, each with audiences numbering from thousands to millions.
I try to explain the ills of interest rate intervention to people all the time and they act like I'm a conspiracy theorist. The problem will likely not get better.
Good point, I didn't consider this.

I understand that feeling to some degree. At the same time, I think this is just how CSS has always been. Originally we had to style pages with tables and when flexbox/grid came out there were oodles of devs who refused to use them for a while. CSS is an ever-evolving toolset and I like that, but I do understand that change can feel unwarranted to some.
DOS is Disk Operating System
To be fair, selling this thing seems harder than making it.
The article itself is open access https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-48402-1
Brain Network Link to Stuttering
not a day goes by where hn doesn't try to convince that rust is the future.

jokes aside, thank you for this explanation.
If you say it with an Aussie accent.
Unfortunately blocked on iOS without special app entitlements ... Apple being Apple.