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Why not have a meta discussion like a Wikipedia Talk page so comments like these would have room and critique won't be shut down. Yesterday (you can look in my comment history) I r…

My other comment on this thread followed others in congratulating the author. It specifically said "Bravo!" and guess what? It got down voted. So the explanation may be that it is …

Why is this down voted? I hate it when people do that and offer no explanation. Totally useless input, even harmful. HN should force comment on down-vote.

Bravo!

That's not true. The quantum tunneling effect is what gives physical (as opposed to simulated) quantum annealing an advantage over simulated annealing (classic thermodynamics) Goog…

I saw the CuMn reference and thought they're leveraging quantum spin dynamics in glass alloys. It's not quantum parallelism but quantum annealing that I was referring to. Very diff…

Maybe you could explain where the paper contradicts the above?

My understanding is that the D-Wave quantum computer uses quantum spin-glass annealing (by tapping into these physical effects) to solve combinatorial optimization problems faster …

Elimination means removal of something. Eradication means it will never come back. So maybe they meant (or should have meant) that the risk of exponential spread has been eliminate…

The title is a great test for conversational AI. I thought this was about driving (in a car) engineers to an arbitrary (blind) date.

Very nice and much needed. What worries me is the consolidation of great resources in the hands of one party. We know from our collective experience since forever that concentratio…

My own comfort is in knowing that this virus can be kept at bay if my immune system is strong enough, and as a mindful engineer and a living being I understand which behaviors are …

I understand. But a significant percentage of people keep voting for stooges and corporatists. What do you call that? Maybe not your self but the collective self is responsible, no…

> Self-oppression? Sure. But it does not mean that oppression doesn't exist. It's just that it is self caused, and self here refers to society as a whole. Oppression exists whether…

Count me in.

Apple spends more than $30M/mo. on AWS. [1] Comcast, I was told, spends over $1B/year on AWS but I cannot find any public references to back it up. [1] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04…

I suppose redundant communication channels (that go over different network modalities, e.g, data center native, satellite, 5G, etc) can be used to recover from network partition. S…

The post you're replying to does list compensating transactions (a form of rollback) One gotcha that is not covered by Sagas (I could be wrong) is when one or many of the network p…

Sorry, it took me a while to catch up on the latest developments in webrtc and write my response. If I had seen yours first, I would not have replied redundantly.

Local IP Leak SOLVED: Chrome (and maybe other browsers, too) no longer share local IP address. They share the mDNS address instead, which is often generated and registered locally …

" but these seem to be relatively rare nowadays " AT&T 5G uses Symmetric NAT. It's not rare if you have an iPhone or iPad with cellular. No way to do P2P without relaying traffic u…