skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Again, wow! "behind my back" means you denigrated my work in a public forum without apprising me. For all you knew, or cared, I'd never have seen this and the harm you inflicted would have been done. What if I went around in public forums and said, "Hey there's this crackpot out there, Ron Garret, check him out on your bogometer"? Most of us learn at a young age not to disparage people behind their back. Apparently you didn't learn that.

You introduced the term "quantum supremacy" to our discussion. I don't usually think in such hype-y / marketing terminology, but I assented because I take it to be synonymous with there being a classical realization of quantum superposition. There is. Sparsey is an example. But you haven't taken the time, again by your own admission, to study or understand that.

For the (apparently hundreds, based on hits on my website) of others watching this thread, my short 2012 paper, "Quantum Computation via Sparse Distributed Representation", clearly describes how the probabilities of multiple states can simultaneously, physically be active, in superposition if those states are represented as sparse distributed representations (SDRs). And, contrary Ron Garret's claim, my 2017 paper, "A Radically New Theory of how the Brain Represents and Computes with Probabilities", provides empirical evidence that the probabilities of all states (hypotheses) represented (stored) in an SDR coding field are updated (in a way that is semantically consistent with the learned dynamics of the input space) with a number of steps that remains constant as the number of stored states increases. That capability is minimally necessary for any quantum algorithm. I don't know of any other model that has shown this ability.

I think the mental block that has existed thus far in quantum computing (QC), and in quantum theory (QT) more generally, is that theorists have been thinking in terms of the probability amplitudes of states as being represented in localist fashion A localist representation is one in which any single entity is represented by a single representational unit and that unit represents only that entity. Any localist simulation of QC on a classical machine will require exponential memory. But, an SDR coding space has a storage capacity of combinatorial order. This opens the possibility that an exponential order number of states can be represented in the polynomial number of units comprising the SDR coding field.
Associations form the foundation for future reportable SNPs. Many of their tests are now FDA approved. Many of the variants they report have clear and drastic impacts on health.

You are splitting hairs to be bitter.
Housing is a huge component of the US economy. Total value in 2018: $33.3 trillion [1], 1.6x GDP (20.9 trillion) [2].

Tech is about 5% of GDP [3].

[1] https://www.housingwire.com/articles/47847-us-housing-market...

[2] https://www.thebalance.com/u-s-gdp-5-latest-statistics-and-h...

[3] http://www.ianhathaway.org/blog/2017/5/31/how-big-is-the-tec...
Makes you wonder how it wasn’t caught early in development and if it was why didn’t they fix it then?
re: the universe has no obligation. This is a central statement in the book of Job. The idea of prosperity theology is rebuked in Job: that better people are wealthy and therefore more godlike and vice versa. God and Satan make a bet, Satan says Job is only loyal to God because of his wealth. When that wealth is taken away as part of the bet, Job gets mad, and demands an answer about all this unfairness from God, who then (in effect) says: I have no obligation to make sense to you, I created everything, and you created nothing.

Of course, that's what you'd expect a deity to say, but American Evangelicalism is chock full of prosperity theology adherents: good people are rich people, rich people are good people, they are closer to god, and rich people closer to god deserve more and better things: Privilege. Bloodlines. Family name. Everything should be a product so that the wealthy can buy anything and as much of it as they want. Everyone else gets less or inferior versions, including public education, health care, environment, and justice. It's foundational in all ideologies, except liberal democracies - which at least in political science we don't actually say the U.S. started out as one. Rather it was designed to be a polyarchy in contrast to a monoarchy, using representative democracy with highly restricted access (you had to be a "better" person to participate, i.e. white, male, landowner) but it is a potential liberal democracy and has tracked that way over time, but does often resist. It is tedious. But that is the system. Churchill said it was the worst form of government except for all the others.

Most of history is not fair, indeed it was also not prosperous. It saw centuries of anemic economic growth, and it was very violent. Genetics show we aren't all that different, we're mainly products of environment, the bloodlines nonsense is just that nonsense. We are best off educating as many as possible, and mostly letting people make their own decisions. In aggregate, I trust most people most of the time make good choices slightly more than 50% of the time. If it's not true, and instead the state of man's nature is so hideously flawed that we need lords, then I saw we are doomed. We never get off the planet. We will destroy it, and ourselves with it.

All rapid technological change brings risk to economic and political stability. I think it's useful to see anti-tech more as a desire to spend time being deliberate and integrate it, rather than as curmudgeon.

I think it is less important that people have 100% trust all the time in their government, than trusting it's possible to change it when it is failing.

When any government shall be found inadequate or contrary to these purposes, a majority of the community has an indubitable, inalienable, and indefeasible right to reform, alter, or abolish it, in such manner as shall be judged most conducive to the public weal.
http://www.civiced.org/resources/curriculum/mason
> developers keep wasting that on inefficient languages like javascript, python, java, etc

> For fast, efficient software there will always be low level languages such as C, C++, etc.

this sounds like every "low level developer" ever, in that the opinions are completely removed from reality. it isn't 19<whatever>. if by inefficient, you mean slow, then java isn't anywhere near comparable to javascript or python. beyond being a completely different type of language, java is fast. so is c# and f#. so is chez scheme and sml. so are plenty of much higher-level languages than c and safer languages than c++ that are just as fast (if not faster in some cases dependent upon development time and application and developer) than c and c++.

also, c++ is low-level? it is an insanely complex high-level language.
Depends on the failure rate of the AoA indicators, but this seems like a reasonable question based on the current rate of failure. At least 2 failed in ~10,000 flights, so you'd expect simultaneous unrelated [0] failure roughly every 10,000,000 flights. There are 100,000 scheduled flights a day worldwide, so that's 3 catastrophic crashes a year if those were all 737s.

That seems a bit too high for comfort, but if they got another order of magnitude of reliability on the AoA sensor it would be OK. Alternatively, they can reduce the incident severity so that everyone doesn't die when the sensors fail.

[0] If there are multiple related failures, on the other hand, adding redundant sensors doesn't fix that.
Laboratory Notebook Skills [pdf]
especially when it's just an offer/rejection. we aren't talking about a layoff.
> someone should definitely get fired over the 3 year keyboard fiasco

Tim Cook. His time is up, Apple needs new leadership so they can move past their Ballmer era
Musk says it's at least 100 times harder to build EVs at scale, then it is to build a few prototypes.
I try to use Telegram groups first for most things, since a lot of my friends and co-conspirators are on it.

But I've yet to find many good organizational bots. I have pondered writing one that would keep track of #hashtags used in the group so that you could find old posts more easily, for instance.
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I should clarify: By 48 hours I mean that my comfort zone would be a 48 hour timespan from getting the assignment to handing it in, which might be 10hrs spent actually working on it.

Some companies do impose a limit like that, to reign in people who would break the rules and put massive numbers of hours in to get an edge over people unwilling to do that. ...this limit is something I agree with as good practice.

Also, as a bit of context: I tend to work remotely. When interviewing for a remote job, I don't think I would prefer it if they were to fly me in. That would most definitely be even more time wasted, plus the time I spend on a plane is doing nobody any good, neither them nor me.
That's not practical utility, it's pure recreation.

Which is fine. If you want to pay thousands of dollars for something that has no other purpose than to put a smile on your face, go ahead -- but that is clearly a luxury purchase and there is nothing wrong with charging a luxury price for it to anyone willing to pay that much.
Except it's not tightly integrated on OpenBSD, and that you can replace any component for any reason without the whole thing collapsing.
That specific problem is related to NVidias refusal to support the open API components that every other player is standardizing around.

The reason it's becoming possible to run Wayland compositors on NVidia hardware just now is because the Gnome (and now KDE) teams have just given up and started implementing the NVidia-specific pieces. It's not really a Wayland problem, it's an NVidia problem.

You can run any Wayland compositor on AMD hardware without this issue.
> Now I have no idea how that information is being re-used or sold.

You were explicitly asked for permission (in clear, non-caged language) when you accessed your data. If you declined, your data isn’t being resold. Other reuse is restricted to the extent that you’re answering voluntary 23andme questionnaires, and used in a non personally identifiable way (i.e. in summary statistics).
There's no law that would prevent manufacturers from saying that a product warranty is voided if it is used for purposes other than its clearly intended use. It would be one thing for a car maker to say that the warranty for a normal car is voided by normal use (i.e., driving on a road), but off-road driving is a very different beast from regular, on-road driving. Off-road vehicles like Jeeps and Suburus are made with special suspensions and drive trains for a reason...
They have previously confirmed that they use F-150s as test mules for the drive train.
There's a kickstarter for a magnetic USB-C connector -- there has many of those, of course, but this one says it's fully compatible including Thunderbolt.
And that's fine as I would not be interested to work for you anyway. For me the prerequisite is mutual ability to work out differences with my future boss. If we can't agree on a detail so fine as the exact process he uses to learn I can program couple of loops how are we going to deal with really challenging problems?

Why would you turn away a candidate that is able to explain why your process is flawed, stand for what he believes and propose a solution that gives both parties what they want. Do you have such surplus of candidates that you can throw away the ones that have spine with impunity? In your case you want to learn if the candidate is able to code and what best way if he shows how he does it while he does it with you sitting beside. Also explaining the process and showing way more like asking for clarification and verifying results with you?
Is it actually possible to enforce this degree of isolation in all cases? It seems like you need to separate everything influenced by user input from anything containing secrets.
Don't let one guy ruin it for the rest of us!

Thanks for your work on OpenBSD Ted.
So if an alien race far superior to our own arrived on earth tomorrow and started having humans for breakfast, just because they were tasty, you wouldn’t object right?
In the future will the "Apple Pay" in this instance also be replaced by PayPal, Google Pay, etc, depending on what the person uses?
> These communities should put the blame elsewhere, starting with themselves

So the communities of people who are direct descendants of people were forcibly brought here, enslaved, and then systematically denied access to the mechanisms the rest of our ancestors used to build wealth, should blame themselves because they have higher crime rates?

White families have more than 10 times the wealth of black families on average. This is directly caused by the years of systemic oppression faced by their ancestors.

In addition, to this day, we arrest them at a higher rate rate than White people for the same crimes. We are more likely to convict them for the same crimes. And we give them longer sentences for the same crimes. Elementary school teachers even give harsher punishments to Black students for the same infraction.

Job seekers with black sounding names are significantly less likely to be called back for interviews. Black renters have a harder time renting than White renters with the same credit score. The list goes on and on. When you combine all of this, you end up with a community with a higher crime rate. The problem is caused by systemic injustice, it's not a problem that black communities can fix themselves. If you apply those same conditions to any demographic, you would see a higher crime rate--it's inevitable.

>If that means racial profiling, because some races are more prone to crime, then so be it.

And it's absurd to use that higher crime rate to justify racial profiling, which inevitably has a disparate impact on innocent Black people, which erodes trust in police and institutions, which directly leads to even more criminality. In turn that leads to even more racial profiling. You can't just ignore positive feedback loops by mentioning them and pretending they don't exist.

>That is another form of fairness

Trial by combat, enslaving defeated enemies, and separate but equal are all "other forms of fairness" that our society has rejected.
Now how to apply such a law that wouldn't also apply to people who reproduced in the standard fashion but don't want to disclose whom they did so with?
No, the cell has 23 pairs of chromosomes.

You don't keep your shoes in 2 different piles for lefts and rights; you pair them together.
I question if this optimized to be ran on top of ClearOS. I agree the RnD would be better for all if they worked with Upstream.
Or you know, concentrate on the good arguments, and judge them on their individual merit, instead of obsessing with their tally?
WinFS[0] was the code name for a canceled data storage and management system project based on relational databases...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinFS
The crazy thing for me is the lack of reason around talking about China and the West.

The article basically says: "China is bad because it sells technology irresponsibly" (while implying the west does it responsibly)

yogthos points out that this is wrong, since there is ample evidence of the US and it's companies selling repressive technology to repressive regimes.

Then people start attacking his argument by saying "but IN CHINA it is worse". And there are a lot of these comments despite the fact that the article, nor the comment, are talking about 'where it's worse'.

If it was any other line of reasoning, this wouldn't be happening on hacker news.
oh. well then... that's disturbing.
It's not anywhere near gray, and 5 minutes is no amount of time to draw conclusions.

> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

> Please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You’ve got a very big point. Would increasing cameras and maybe putting them st different levels aid in identifying shoplifting activities? Clothing retailers can have a harder time due to privacy issues in the changing rooms, but the Targets, Lowe’s, Kohl’s, etc... heavy coats, pacing aisles, bags, etc along with video tracking.
Are there still genius bars though?
I appreciate you trying to explain it, however I believe it would have really helped if you started from the examples where this way of thinking is useful: you mentioned tensor product and vector space duality, however unless someone is already familiar with these concepts (I'm not) then it does seem needlessly convoluted. Are there any practical applications of these concepts that you can describe?
There is a lot of research that lack of sleep (under 7 hours, likely 7-9) causes significant problems with memory, working memory, and is directly linked to cancer and Alzheimer's in later years.

In short, it might be feasible in the short term, especially if they have mindless jobs where they can study. I memorized a LOT of vocab during my factory work summers. But it has to be repetitive and mindless for that. I did more thinking at the factory than I did at software jobs.

Anyway, any time anyone says they work 12 hours and study, I don't believe them by default. Once you factor in commuting and maintenance, it's just not realistic...unless you are in a sweatshop dorm, I guess that would save on commuting/grooming/meal prep.
Exactly. Wait, was it ironic (: ?
I would totally do it if it's obviously not for profit. My previous employer asked me to investigate and try to fix a Firefox bug over the weekend; they had nothing to do with Mozilla, and I claimed no prior experience with Firefox (and had none). It was a test of how I would approach a huge codebase. Ended up being a great employer - I learned a lot there and, be all reasonable standards, I got rich doing it.
Packages are dependant on certain version of system librairies, and binary compatibility isn't a huge concern from version to version.
I really like styled-jsx. You have the scope isolation of a css-in-js solution with a standard css syntax which can be enhanced via the usage of post-css, sass, or less.

I don't hate the cascading nature of css. I actually think it's super useful, if it is contained to a subset of the document, and not the entire document.
>I'd un-watch certain mainstream media if I could. Number one, with a bullet, would be all of South Park. That show has a way of putting really stupid stuff in my head such that it intrudes on my consciousness daily, even though I haven't watched it in years. The laughs it delivered in return weren't even close to worth it.

That's interesting, although certainly not anything I've experienced or heard anyone else express. That almost sounds like you may be experiencing some kind of other underlying problem or disorder (I don't mean any offense by this, I was recently diagnosed with a personality disorder), because I don't think constant daily intrusions on your consciousness from a cartoon you haven't watched in years is normal or healthy. However, I also don't believe that is evidence against my statement
ugh.. didn't realize that. wasn't trying to evade the HN duplicate-finder system either.

Agreed - it'll be interesting to see if/what Mr McAfee delivers.
Me too. Whenever I'm depressed, my "Sad Songs" Youtube playlist ends up on shuffle.

I think it helps me to feel all of my feelings which eventually gets me out of my rut. I find it comforting to have my mood matched.

Here's my playlist:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOd-rz8lDXQ&list=PLhMrEC5L8T...

Coincidentally, the first song, "Quiet Times" is about being in a relationship with someone that is depressed.
>The city and the Office of Chief Medical Examiner said Monday that the settlement did not mean that Ms. Stajic was treated inappropriately.

Weird - I thought the lottery was run at the state level.
OK, thank you. I will keep following this project.
I see two main reasons to run my own DNS server: privacy and performance.
DoH sufficiently solves the privacy aspect, but for performance a caching mechanism is necessary.
Exactly. MacOS is unix, has as great CLI, and full support from all major vendors so I don't waste my time doing something bonkers like fighting to get Word to work.

And yes, I need Word to work.
> You can certainly see why they bailed from their existing car lines.

For clarity, I assume you are referring to the elimination of sedan models from their lineup. They are producing more crossovers and SUVs, pickups than ever.

They didn't really have a choice, sales on sedans have been dropping like a rock.
"Come on we need 23 reasons because of 23 chromosomes! I don't care how stupid the list is, just hit that number"
I use MacOS at work, and I just can't get used to it. I love how fast I can navigate in i3 and how fast everything feels. I do like MacOS but I hate how the only shortcut keys to switch Windows are from cmd 1 - 5, I hate that I can't easily move windows without something like spectacle (that feels clunky - 4 buttons to move a window to another screen?) and I really can never get used to the cmd key placement :D

I've tried using Amethyst or whatever the tiling window manager is, but I found it crashed a lot and the keybindings weren't great.

Overall I think MacOS is a great OS, I just feel like I need a real tiling manager that I can't get without Linux.
> journalctl --file /mnt/var/log/journal/`</mnt/etc/machine-id`/system.journal | my-favorite-log-reader

Lol you actually think that's good.
In that case I was referring to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17922994. When a new account posts like that and we have evidence linking it to a previously banned account, we usually take it as a sign that the user does not want to use HN as intended. In such cases we extend the previous ban to the new account, for what I'd hope would be obvious reasons.
Java program to display date in different timezone in Java-PST GMT IST
I tried that, and it seems to lose some of the capabilities you get otherwise, like issuing remote commands to build. I'll take another look, though.
Would likely increase weight too much or battery use. Luckily they track those stats too.
> In general, I agree with you. I would not use the current US as a stirling example, historically, though the US system has been largely successful. We probably disagree on the level of success though.

That is sort of the point. People see the US as an example of democracy because of its prosperity, not because of its democracy. If you want democracy you probably go to Finland instead.

Everything is worse in these authoritarian countries not just the freedom. That is another thing people generally don't understand. There is nothing to catch up to. We just have to make sure to not get worse ourselves. And to actually use the advantages we had. That is why I am saying that it is the West that is defeatist. It is we that are changing our ways, to a large extent from our post war ideals.

If you want the feature of democracy you have actually be democratic. Which many areas of our societies increasingly aren't. It is nice to be able to say whatever you want, but if no one is listening there is no effect. The point is that something should happen, otherwise we are just cargo culting ourselves and being jesters for those in power.
Right but to go back to the beginning, we shouldn’t target short people per se, but the behavior of shoplifters, if the shoplifters in fact end up being predominantly short people while not looking specifically at short people I think it’s not immoral.
> Right now, foreigners in China have a hard time getting any kind of credit [...] so the government wants to fix that.

Another case of the cure being worse than the disease.
I'm so so so tired of these articles. So a dev can listen to conversations because they write software to transcribe voice to text? Sigghhhhh....
Sadly they can't fix the fact that my laptop has no Esc key.
It is impossible to use the GTK3 or GTK2 bindings for any language without understanding the C interface. Usually there is no real documentation on the bindings.