skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
HN downvotes can be rather confounding still. Check here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21653015

I responded very matter-of-fact, pointing out that the sharp edges of Tesla's cybertruck are something that makes it more dangerous to pedestrians. I didn't add any flourish or snark or whatever and yet it went into the grey. That kind of voting behavior just gives me a giant question mark.. why would anyone be hostile to explanation via fact?

IMO any site with a voting system should attach a heavy cost to downvoting:

1. each downvote you do costs more - with a slow backoff timer

2. the more points you have, the more it costs to downvote

3. the more downvotes a comment has the more points it costs

This mirrors the real life cost in social interaction:

1. you can't constantly be negative to everyone

2. high status people can afford to do that more, but not infinitely

3. you can't pile on one person (or rather, with each person adding it nears the threshold of "wow, maybe that's enough, dude")

(Yes, I know, talking about voting vis-à-vis HN is discouraged, but it apparently does bother a rather large contingent of users)
Short answer is no. Longer answer requires understanding quantum error correction and how long before we get quantum computers with 1000s of qubits.
Victoria University in Australia has moved to a block model, where students do 1 course at a time, in 4 weeks. Sit the exam/assessment and then move onto the next. They do 8 courses a year (Standard Full time Australian study load)
Why don't we ever see Larry Page doing such things? Don't even remember when I last saw news about him.
> when “Artichoke scientists came up with a new drug or other technique they wished to test… they asked the CIA station in South Korea to supply a batch [of] ‘expendable’ subjects...

While I’d like to believe the CIA has since found its moral compass and abandoned these kinds of experiments, I have a suspicion that it might still be going on and they just found ways to hide it better.

There had to be other technology since then that they looked at and said “we should try this thing on humans”.

> One of Pfeiffer’s subjects was James “Whitey” Bulger, who later became a notorious Boston gangland killer. Bulger said that as a young inmate, he was given LSD daily for more than a year.

That is bizarre. Wasn’t another killer, the unabomber also tied to some psychological experiments when he was in college...
It's even easier than that... return players - 1. The trick is knowing in any single elimination tournament in order for there to be one winner there must be n - 1 losers.

edit: Also, I'm not sure your solution works for 13 players.
You're implicitly assuming each woman only had one single encounter with the guy.
Fast and Frugal Trees
It’s implied in the first paragraph – “In double-entry bookkeeping, a transaction always affects at least two accounts, always includes at least one debit and one credit, and always has total debits and total credits that are equal.”
And honestly, VHS tapes of recordings have been around forever: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0896401774
Many pedestrian-crossing lights in Australia have countdown timers also.
Indeed, a date on the paper would have been really useful. It's frustrating that it's not obvious.
Well, I don't care about such things because I'm not in California...
I’m sure most have C fallback, but that code is 20x slower and isn’t actually tested or used by anybody else in practice. The devs probably don’t even have unit tests or build environments for ARM server platforms.

As for which libraries, I’m too lazy to do a detailed search. All I can report anecdotally is that we very briefly tried ARM at dayjob on our codebase about a year ago and it seemed everything was immediately broken. Especially interop between high level languages and C libraries. The team tasked with it said almost imm fiat would “way too hard, let’s quit this experiment”.
I think you misinterpreted that passage. The larger context is:

> Look at my industry. Videogames. What did make games tinkerable? Liberated individual creativity, art, even the ability to make a living?

> Steam, the Apple app store, Microsoft XBLIG, Youtube, Twitch, Spotify, Patreon... Unity, Pico8, Dreams passing through Minecraft and Roblox and the game modding community... Not the blockchain, not linux or torrents and so on.

I interpreted this as saying the free software, linux, torrent, blockchain, torrent communities, which are nominally attempting to empower and liberate users ultimately failed to do so, and it was actually these proprietary products which successfully did by focusing on an accessible user experience open to tinkering. He compares these proprietary products to the proprietary C64.
The alternative is worse. Look at all of the problems we have with Turkish I, just because they didn't create new codepoints to make Turkish I and Latin I distinct even though they look the same.
Late capitalism? Hasnt marxist historical materialism been debunked? Why is this term suddenly making a resurgence?

More likely the pill popping is on the rise in the face of a creeping nihilism as traditional religious faith and that way of viewing the world and ordering society is on the decline.
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Афтер зис фифз йер, ве вил хав а рели сенсибл ритен стил. Зер вил бе но мор трублс ор дификултис анд евривун вил финд ид ези ту ундерстанд еч озер.

Зе дрем вил финали кум тру.

It was fun typing that :)
I don't think your dichotomy is valid.

Git definitely doesn't fit the first approach. Not sure why you would state that.

Maybe the core of Clojure, with the persistent data structures, fits the first approach, but I doubt the rest of it does (speaking as an outsider to th eproject).

"Implement the best one" belies a lot of sweat and places where it could have gone wrong. In other words, the initial thinking is not even addressing half of the problem or doing half the work.

The philosophy of Clojure itself is very much based on iteration and interactive programming. You need a lot of action, feedback, and iteratino in addition to the "think very hard" part.
Here's the suggestion: don't ask!

This is bad advice and I hope nobody takes it. We learn from each other. I've very glad I didn't have to learn everything I know first-hand.

Personally I am honored when people think highly enough of me to feel like they can learn from my experience. I also like learning new things, so if there was some obvious answer that I just missed of course I want to know about it!

The correct answer is first form a relationship, then ask. The author worries:

I have realized I honestly don't know how to express my question to make clear that I mean #2, without including a ridiculously long and pleading disclaimer before what should be a short question.

It's perfectly ok to have that long preface the first time you ask this kind of question. "Sorry to be long-winded, but since we don't know each other that well yet I just want to be clear: I don't understand why you didn't choose XYZ? I'm interested in learning about this but I haven't spent as much time on it as you have. I would have tried XYZ but I'm assuming there was some issue. What was the issue?"

In general over time people will learn your character and your intention. If you are truly humble and trying to learn they will come to expect that attitude of humility from you and the long preamble won't be necessary.

In situations where you don't have the opportunity to build a continuing relationship just accept that the verbosity of your question is the price of clear communication without the context of an existing relationship.

But please, please keep asking questions, even if they seem obvious. That's how we grow.
So you're basically against ad blockers.
Quite possibly a plumber. But you don't want a real scientist to do your plumbing.
I agree. If you are using their platform, then you have to abide to their terms of use.

I don't use Facebook for this reason.
Using FPGAs for AI
> So quantum computing is expected to based on Bra-ket notation? In that case, is it simply based on linear algebra and statistical sampling?

Yes. You can simulate a 53 qubit quantum computer with a 2^53 complexed valued vector as input (about 20 petabytes), and a 2^53 x 2^53 complex valued unitary matrix, which will take about a trillion exabytes to represent exactly. However, that is for a generic quantum operation on all 53 qubits, and some programs can be represented significantly more compactly.

> I assume you can get that experience with low-level Tensorflow and a GPU for parallel computing.

No. Most GPUs have at most about 13 gigabytes of onboard memory and would not be able to hold the matrix in memory. Also, GPUs still do not reduce the computational complexity of matrix multiplication, you still have to perform the full ~ n^2.37 operations (using Coppersmith-Winograd). Though again, this is for a general Unitary transformation; reductions can sometimes be made; this is how IBM was able to validate result computed by Google.

However, yes, this does mean that you can simulate a smaller quantum computer using just linear algebra and no particularly fancy tricks.
I can say, as a CS graduate, that I liked discrete math and hated anything in-discrete. I avoided statistics (as opposed to discrete probability) entirely.
"sshd may also work for that"

The trick is to turn question into a constructive suggestion.
Looks like these ‘questioning motives’ comments are becoming more prevalent in HN.

Which is horrible, because you judge by what is said or done, not accusing people of wrong think/motive. It’s akin to self censorship, the suppression of view points in the name of ‘protecting freedom/democracy’

There will be hostile forces and actors, but we cannot lower ourselves down to their level to fight them because it’s convenient, while sacrificing our own value in doing so. In which case, we would have lost before we even begin.
I feel it's important to make reference to primary material [0] to bring more attention to CCP goals. It certainly helped me in becoming aware of their actions as another major state actor.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document_Number_Nine
Some resources Doctors use: Medscape [1] which is owned by WebMD; Sources like MPR [2] for handy drug information and The Medical Letter [3] for in-depth medication reviews; UpToDate [4]; various journals depending on specialty, The New England Journal of Medicine being one of the most prestigious [5]; the Sanford Guide for infectious diseases [6].

[1] https://www.medscape.com/

[2] https://www.empr.com/

[3] https://secure.medicalletter.org/

[4] https://www.uptodate.com/home

[5] https://www.nejm.org/

[6] https://www.sanfordguide.com/
From the title I thought this would be about something from Boston Dynamics. It's actually more of a precursor to kinetic sculptures, which are themselves pretty cool, ex. [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jansen%27s_linkage
I've got use to DDG's results after a year and really don't use the G bang as much as before. DDG's results 8 out of ten times provide what I seek.
On large projects, it becomes impossible for anyone to understand how each line of code works and what the best solution should look like. In such a complex area, assertive code review comments could be counter-productive.

In most cases, showing curiosity and asking questions in code reviews goes beyond educating yourself: it's also about providing "self serve" context for future developers who need to understand why a specific decision was made.

This context can also, for example, prevent future developers from trying to refactor or rewrite entire pieces of a program to follow "what first comes to mind".

I'm curious to know about the kind of projects you work on and how you've seen the approach of asking fail there.
What's the code point for uppercase superscript Z?
What's less adorable is how people repeat fictitious narratives because they bolster their worldview and make them feel superior.

You know why that story sounds ridiculous? Because it's well documented that most of it never happened.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/there-never-was-real-...
The CIA is now, and always has been, engaged in global disinfo campaigns. Who cares?
Isn’t what’s good the the goose also good for the gander?
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I dislike Facebook but using it means you should agree with how they monetize their business.
Sounds like if CSS could allow matching by patterns, it could still block it out? I.e. something regex / wildcard like? Though performance probably would suffer.

More advanced ad blocker can probably use some AI, that could be trained with user's hints about what is an ad. Or it can use some OCR for that purpose. If you can recognize that it's labeled "Sponsored", so can ad blocker potentially.
Unicode doesn't solve the underlying complexity of human languages, as you noted. I think the main contribution of Unicode Consortium is that they brought all the nitty-gritty problems of human languages into one central repository and made them visible to everyone. That itself is an awesome effort, and I personally had a lot of benefit from it (my native language is Japanese). But that doesn't make Unicode as a standard "awesome". Maybe we should be thankful for how messy it is? That's more or less a view that I can agree with.
Your answer was an answer to a question that wasn't being asked, and one that was obvious, at that. It seems reasonable that it was downmodded.

IMO any site with a voting system should attach a heavy cost to downvoting:

I think 'dang has already elaborated as to why this is a bad idea, but:

Hacker News depends on downmods for community moderation. Discouraging them would lower the quality of the site.

3. the more downvotes a comment has the more points it costs

Not to assume bad-faith, but this was a joke, wasn't it? A bad comment should be downmodded more, and users should not be penalized for that. Flagging, too, should happen if it's extremely bad.

This mirrors the real life cost in social interaction:

1. you can't constantly be negative to everyone

If a person is only posting negative content, it makes sense that they would get downmodded more often: active users of the site will often see these people's comments more than others. Should they get punished for keeping the quality of the site up? I don't think so. That seems unreasonable.

3. you can't pile on one person (or rather, with each person adding it nears the threshold of "wow, maybe that's enough, dude")

That's completely unreasonable: if a comment is bad, it should be downmodded.
I don't really see why this is surprising or horrifying: I turn to YouTube all the time to fill gaps in my knowledge, or watch talks/lectures (I've been enjoying Strangeloop recently, along with assorted DIY content).

As for quality control, this is what our critical faculties are for. I have no data but suspect good critical thinking skills correlate well with being a good doctor, so I don't worry about these people picking up information from YouTube.

Bringing this back to programming, others have mentioned StackOverflow. StackOverflow has descended into a cesspool of crowdsourced ignorance but nevertheless it's still possible for competent developers to find useful information there.

On the flipside, if StackOverflow disappeared tomorrow, all the bad programmers finger-vomiting garbage "information" across every question would continue to be bad programmers.
Also oftentimes not all that lucrative for the founders. The reason Big Tech will aquihire for a million or two per employee is because it costs that much to get a good employee. When companies have managed to assemble such a team and build a product to showcase it it's usually because they took a lot of capital before they had a product, which means that VCs own the lion's share of the company.
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Somehow this associates in my mind with
https://0.30000000000000004.com/
How embracing cloud-native is the best way to use cloud technology?
wow this reminds me of borland delphi and mfc components and libraries. now with subscription on top of it. it might actually work because it did before for highly specialized gui components.
Even if none of these things matter to you, how about the fact that the mechanical control would not be easily adapted to handle variable width bread without much more expense?

Who wants a toaster that can't handle thick cut bread or bagels in the 21st century?

And it's not just California. You couldn't get UL approval for such a toaster today, so it would not be sold anywhere.

These old toasters cost the equivalent of $235 in today's dollars. (~$23 in 1949) Of course if you buy a $200 toaster today, it would be a marvel of technology. Nobody buys $200 toasters though, you can get a crappy one for $15 and that's what people buy, so any comparisons between today and yesterday are unfair. Compare like price with like price.
If a business chooses how they make money to survive, can you just say "I don't like how you make money so I'll just get everything for free"?

If you don't like how a company uses ads (regular, spammy, deceptive), no better way than tell them than by not giving them any traffic at all.
If many of my comments are still black, despite having at least -4 down votes, then it can only mean I’m being targeted by select users.

I have some posts where it’s simply not clear why anyone would downvote it, and some of my downvoted comments spawned huge sub threads, so clearly not everyone thought they were downvote worthy.
It's tricky even for Javascript.
Yes I think you are misunderstanding what the poster means. When you make a request to an external server, you are giving that server your IP address. There is no way you can stop an external server from them taking your IP and looking up your IP in a geolocation database.

Therefore this kind of location lookup does not require permission.
Loitering Objects
Forgive my ignorance with this question. Would it be possible to run these quantum chips in space? Space is cold and quiet so maybe that’s cheaper at scale.
You can be in favor of both sides of this argument, I would say I am. I believe in my right to modify what's running on my computer and network, including things like installing adblocker extensions and pi-hole and so on. But I also believe that no organization is obligated to serve their data to me in a way that makes it easy to block those ads.

They are wasting CPU hours and man hours on obfuscation features rather than real value to the end user. But nothing is really wrong with that, it's just a bit silly. If they think it makes them more profit overall than actually enhancing Facebook, they can take that bet. (I think it's the wrong bet, but they can still take it)
You’re accessing an internet service for the weather, therefore they get your IP, then there’s services out there that map IPs to locations. You can test this by using a VPN and visiting a weather site with GPS/etc turned off. It will show you the weather for the location of your VPN node.
Putting pay under emphasis does not add any value to your earlier comment.

It's a big world out there. Guess I shall reply with same.
The problem I have is the hyperbole and broad sweeping generalizations of the article which really reduce America and the world down to tech, SF, and New York when there is a much more to the world out there. Almost every line about the uniqueness of SF is really just a comparison to NYC. Is America really just SF and NYC? It is so myopic that it's hard to take it seriously.

San Francisco is a city with beautiful natural surroundings but so is Denver, Boulder, Seattle, Jackson, Honolulu, Kahului, San Diego, Los Angeles, Anchorage, Salt Lake City, Sedona, Carmel, etc. Even if by city they mean a large city or metropolis, I would still argue that Los Angeles, San Diego, and Seattle would be in the same tier of beauty.
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What if the company does not make it clear what the terms of use are - wich covers pretty much 99.99% of face book users.

They trick you - you trick-em back.
Why would it have been useful? The details of the Plan 9 system have remained the same: it's not web design.
Really? I've never considered it patronising.

"Have you tried x?"

"Yes, that's the first thing I tried."

"Hmm, how about y?"

"That too."

"Well that has me beat. Unless maybe you tried something crazy like z..."

"Actually, with a slight modification that might just work well enough for this!"
The most effective aspect of this disinformation campaign is that if you share the wrong meme on reddit or Facebook you can get accused of being a tool of the Kremlin, which is pretty grand and hilarious really. Americans have gaslit themselves into thinking the Russians are everywhere (again).
I was hoping this would be more comprehensive, breaking down the transformer architecture as well. Anyone got a resource like this?
Related to this. I write comments for TODOs that I want completed before I commit with a special prefix like:

//hhh I want this to be done before I commit.

Then have a git pre-commit hook that scans for "//hhh" and aborts if it's found.
This is 100% a function of your age and has nothing to do with the availability of reddit(?!).

Every teenager thinks "I know the real truth unlike the rest of the sheeple!" Usually they grow out of it.
I am the author of the post. I hope it's clear what I'm trying to achieve here (a plaintext file that can be contributed to from both terminal and iOS Shortcuts).

Please let me know if you have any suggestions :)
Very refreshing to read what I hold to be both a simple and material conception of present political currents. The internet is a complicated blessing.

Separate and beyond your point, which I very much agree with, I predict this will ultimately re-center a focus onto publicly ratified power. As it stands, corporations are effectively state institutions with no public ties. There are some striking congruencies with feudalism in modern capitalism, but technology makes it all virtually incomparable in the big picture. The internet transcends beyond physical empire not only for worse but ultimately for better in this case. If only the road to democracy from here were not so bloody nonetheless.
Thanks, but the parent seemed to imply one was a commercial offering and copied by the other as an open source project. That's the part I was looking to get clarification on.
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The Epyc devices are lower binnings though! That's exactly my point. They don't seem to have the 3.5+ GHz parts available in a reasonable quantity. When Intel was doing this with "1 GHz" Pentium 3's way back when, they got crucified for a paper launch.
Sorry. Didnt know it was against the rules.