skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I put around 15 minutes a day into Birdwatch for a couple of months before the purchase was finalized. This is purely anecdotal, so take it with a grain of salt.

The requirement for agreement seemed to work well at preventing weird factchecks from anywhere on the political spectrum. I saw a fair number of people trying to use Birdwatch to argue with each other, bad faith factchecks, and so on. None of them made it to general visibility.

I wrote 45 notes. I tried very hard to keep them unbiased, but I'm human and I have strong political opinions. 5 of them wound up approved. I suspect the requirement for agreement tended to keep anything that's more than a little divisive from getting approved; no evidence for this, though. I'd be curious to know what the average percentage was for active users.

There are way more Birdwatch notes getting written right now. A lot of them are terrible quality. However, they mostly aren't getting approved, so I think the system is working as designed.
"Problem is, a lot of CEOs in industry and the financial sector can’t tell a bra from a ket"

i do not know enough about quantum computing to judge whether this article is accurate or not, but it certainly is well written and entertaining
> Universities should stipulate in their technology transfer agreements that they would not use patents to prevent generic competition in places where the list price of the drug was unattainable based on average income

if a drug were to be profitably sold to someone else for 20% of the price i’m paying for it, then wouldn’t i feel taken advantage of (more than i already am) when i’m denied access to that better price?

i’m not saying means tested benefits are (or aren’t) all bad: just that in most places we use them it’s to enable transactions that very directly could not be profitable. a person buying food with foodstamps isn’t themselves paying the producer a profitable sum: each stamp has a direct “cost” that gets socialized, so it’s reasonable to believe that somebody well-off shouldn’t be eligible for them. but when the transaction is profitable at both price X and price 5X, the case to be made for why everyone shouldn’t be permitted that price of X is just a lot harder to explain.
I think that is a good thing. There are usecases being found for quantum computers, but nothing that can’t be done with normal computers yet.
True. But a very large number of dedicated physical transmission lines (ie, coaxial cable) allows you to re-use the same spectrum over and over for different groups. While propagating radio waves in free space means that everyone in line of sight has to share the one single spectrum.
It's pretty silly, I think, to claim weather and safety. The Australian stations are only about 67° south, just inside the circle, and about the equivalent of Bodø in Norway.
Reading these replies, it's surprising to me how many people think that constraining writing a linear sequence of fixed characters is somehow natural as opposed to a simplification made for cost and technical reasons by Gutenberg, typewriters, keyboards, and ASCII.

Writing is more than this. Writers can arrange characters in 2d space to convey semantic relationships in equations or among words. You can have multiple degrees of emphasis and italics. You can get a sense of which parts of the equation or prose were written quickly and which were written slowly and carefully. Often it conveys a bit of personality. You can even include small drawings or sketches embedded within the text like Gallelo's illustration of Saturn's rings.

I get that we have to strip out this kind of nuance for technical reasons, but claiming that writing ought to be constrained to only what can be represented in plain text feels like claiming that painting should be constrained to only what can be represented in a bitmap.
I know- we hate it too. But we had to double down on the browser our userbase uses. We’re working to get it to more browsers as fast as we can!
Same. I ask for a new one every Christmas!
Echo chambers can distort a person's perspective, sometimes radically. Only so many times you can hear from everyone that Clinton is drinking the blood of underage girls in the basement of a pizzeria before you are inclined to do something about it. That's how right-wing extremism, including QAnon works in the United States, thanks to the internet, and it's how the Third Reich worked in Germany, thanks to the radio.

The problem is not echo chambers as you see, it's the people with the agenda purposefully creating and taking advantage of echo chambers.
Unit tests are one of the many great ideas in our industry which have been undermined by people treating it is a set of rituals rather than a tool.
The impossible as opposed to the merely not plausible, isn't really alluring for art, as it's neither a depiction of what's there (art as mirror), nor a warning (artist as Cassandra or sensitive guard), and not even a call to arms (art as politics, utopia).

In other words, it doesn't relate to the artist and us. It only relates when there's a thread that connects what's imagined to where we are, where we might be, or where we want to go.
My first programming job was at a survey place. Once some high paid survey writer flew in to get one out in a hurry. I was told to sit with him and build it while he designed it.
Ever since then I've though about surveys differently. The level of thought that he put into not only each question, but every word. Considering how one question might influence another would cause a change in order, etc. Anyway, it was fascinating to see his thought process, compared to being handed the finished product like we normally saw.
Leica M lenses are not ideal for this size sensor, hence the reducing lens. 16mm cine lenses are C-mount and work nicely, maybe 8mm/super 8 D-mount not tried, it all depends on the sensor size you use and focal length you want.

I use Mokose UVC webcam https://www.mokose.com/collections/hd-cameras with vintage 16mm cine lenses, there are some nice lenses available.
It's free* with many caveats.

*Emergency services are free in Austria but only for valid medical emergencies. If you voluntarily drink yourself to death like my friend did, they don't cover that and will send you the bill.

You're expected to have private accident insurance to cover such incidents and various sports and free time injuries that are also not fully covered by the mandatory government insurance.
Yeah they are slowly going down the Eclipse path. Things don't work as naturally anymore, mess is accumulating (on a different level, more beautiful level though).
Not sure but none of these are terribly spicy. They’re actually quite flavorful.

They add a (slightly spicy) nice warm blanket of flavor to a bunch of things while enhancing the original flavor of the dish (which is likely what the msg is doing)
Moderation is fine, but what about secret moderation? The issue here is that users are being shown their removed comments as if they are publicly visible. I share my thoughts on the impact at 19:54 [1] in the video linked in this post.

> So at that time you have a choice: either you moderate, in order to keep the channel on-topic, or you accept everything, at which point the guys who benefit from science not being available to the general public have won.

There is another way to view this. I think there is a message in all of that hate speech you see. I'll paraphrase how I perceive it: "I don't see why this is wrong, and I'm frustrated that nobody will debate me about this issue from where I stand, so I'll get angrier and angrier until I get someone's attention."

We could debate over whether this is reasonable, but personally I find it harder and harder to see the merits in the secretive removal of any content. We do need mods to curate according to group rules and the law. I also think the removals should be reviewable at least by the author of the content.

[1] https://youtu.be/aCadmiIfbcI?t=1194
They are the same. I don't care, as I'll fix them one at a time, and if the fix happens to fix more than one great.
I agree, but the original article at dusted.codes hopes types will "prevent silly mistakes like multiplying $100 with £20".

I don't know what that author would think of multiplying $100 with $20, but my point is that this embrace of type systems is apparently not just about function interfaces; it also includes the operands of things like multiplication, and preventing that operation if the types are fishy.
The issue here appears to be imperative testing, with assertion failures as an early exit.

If all your assertions are always evaluated, you don’t have this issue?
I think bamboo is such an underexploited resource. You can grow it literally anywhere, even in places that see winter. A pub could have a stand of bamboo in the back that they cut pint cups from. Of course its invasive but at this point anywhere with human activity is so unnatural to begin with that it wont matter much.
>Priced at under 200 euro...

For a bit of flower-pot with a tealight inside. The phrase "more money than sense" springs to mind.
Not really, no.

I like to use Jest’s toMatchObject to combine multiple assertions in a single assertion. If the assertion fails, the full object on both sides is shown in logs.
You can easily debug tests that way.

The only way to make it even possible is to do some eval magic or to use a pre-processor like babel or a typescript compiler plugin.

But if you find something,
Lemme know.
Intel has an identity problem and greatly over-estimates its capabilities (or influence...or maybe they have jumped the narcissistic shark all together)?!?

TSMC & SAMSUNG have large backing and incentives from their respective governments....no publicly backed corporate entity can match those pockets.

Intel's designs (i.e., architectures), products and manufacturing capabilities are from the early 90s. They have failed to innovate partly because their manufacturing capabilities are pretty poor, which have a high impact on their architectures and product development. They need to decouple those two functions as AMD did when they split into GlobalFoundries and acquired ATI...which was probably the smartest thing AMD ever did.

Also, Intel needs to get off their highly egotistical perspective that chips can only be processed using PhDs and Postdocs...their entire mentality is elitist driven by a highly academic white castle mentality.
I think you and the other posters decrying my "oh so narrow" point of view forget that the subreddit is nothing more than a place to see interesting news about science and the clarifications that people in science can bring on those news.

What it is not is a place where laymen like me and (probably you) can debate the veracity of said science. I don't give a toss about which science articles are posted there and if they agree with my world view as long as the curation and moderation is consistent with the principles described in the subreddit's rules. In my opinion is fine to not have an opinion or comment even if someone on the internet is wrong - present time excluded. :P
this is true.
> That's a trendy synonym for group-think. There are plenty examples in history where group-think went sideways.

It's not what echo chambers / group think are per se, it's what they're not. They're not open to other possibilities. Blind spots? What can go wrong?
Yes, they can. If you piss off a moderator they'll just ask an admin to ban you, assuming it's not an admin's alt in the first place (admins have sockpuppet mod accounts on every major sub)
Ask HN: How can new LinkedIn features replace Twitter?
Find that use and appreciate LinkedIn so much more than Twitter. Curious how it could replace Twitter with a new feature or three. What would you add? Personally I’d love shorter form updates on problems and challenges that people are working on to crowdsource shared thoughts and collaboration.
I would be very grateful if you could explain. Do you mean missing some features? Or a need for better instructions for use?
"Free" means different things to different people. For instance, a free phone that records everything you do (not just phone calls) and posts the recordings to soyouwanttobeastar.com might appeal to some and horrify others.

If this free 3D product only required a DNA sample, the group who considers it free might change. Or if it required your signature. Or your corporate username.

It clearly is not free. It has a price. The question is how much different people value that price.
This article rant on the imperfect nature of our current solutions for plastic, ignore part of the problems (like the floating island of plastics...) and doesn't provide any alternative solution.
Zhang Yitang's latest results on Landau-Siegel zeros
The article is kind of hysterical, but has some interesting information in. I always wondered what to do with plastic bags and bottles and stuff in places where there is no rubbish collection. Burning seems popular, but despite looking up DIY home incineration it seems like not much effort is being put into this.

I also wondered why there aren't deposits on plastic bottles like there are on glass bottles. In the end it should probably be up to the companies who produce them, like Coca Cola to deal with them, but there probably needs to be an incentive to return them.
Articles like this bug me. You've given me a list of why types are awesome. Great. Now, tell me what the tradeoff is. Nothing is free in engineering. To get something, you have to give up something else. Even grug[0] understands this.

[0]: https://grugbrain.dev/#grug-on-type-systems
Your alternative that time is spent explaining in detail every action taken isn't realistic, doesn't scale and doesn't start to consider the fact that it's volunteer work. Especially when the reasons for 100% of the actions that are taken should be documented and publicly available (and we're not talking about mod abuse here, but actual moderation). But sure, it's a great idea; go ahead and enforce it at scale now. Reddit couldn't, Twitter can't, Facebook sucks at it.
There is also a larger percentage of the population in general that use alcohol, mostly due to drug scheduling
So easy for a government twitter farm to game, and amplify the "authority" of the opinions they care about after disagreeing on starcraft or cooking.
Thanks for this link; I think your reply is the one I saw and then couldn't see, but now it's back. I may be misunderstanding how HN works.
Decide Madrid, for the Madrid City Hall:

https://decide.madrid.es/

It was built on Ruby on Rails. There’s an Open Source white label platform generator project called Consul. I came up with that name (it comes from “consulta ciudadana”, not from an ancient Roman politician).

https://consulproject.org/

My last involvement with the project was 6 years ago. My understanding is that the site took a downward dive with regards to code quality after me and other founding members left the project, and with the change in government.
> Accessibility is important, but once you build a wheelchair ramp into a building, the ramp builders have nothing more to do

Okay, now see how well that wheelchair user can use the elevators and bathrooms. Do you have braille signs everywhere someone goes? Does your building have ambient features which are difficult for people with sensory processing issues? Are there controls which are hard for people with limited motor skills or only one hand? Did the market change and now people are using motorized wheelchairs which are larger than you designed the ramp for?

Accessibility is like performance or cost optimization: there isn’t a point where you’re done and everything you do affects it. An accessibility team should be working with the developers closely to make sure that their changes don’t impact accessibility and working with users to identify where they could be doing better. Some of that requires fairly deep skills (e.g. screen reader proficiency) where it makes sense to have dedicated specialists to help everyone else understand challenges and evaluate trade offs.
plastic are like cigarette butts. They get used one time for someone’s slight convenience and then litter the landscape for years.
The input does not do speech to text well. I would like to use this service. Let me type my prompt.

I tried 5 times and every time it messed up what I said. My os has a good speech to text tool and I would use that if I wanted to talk a prompt.

The site is cool and it’s a neat idea, but forcing microphone use is weird and ineffective.
Reading HTML with your eyes includes far more line noise than reading Markdown, though.
We don't. Here's a survey paper from quantum computing expert Scott Aaronson, posted to arXiv just a couple months ago: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2209.06930.pdf

From the abstract:

> I survey, for a general scientific audience, three decades of research into which sorts of problems admit exponential speedups via quantum computers -- from the classics (like the algorithms of Simon and Shor), to the breakthrough of Yamakawa and Zhandry from April 2022. [...] I make some skeptical remarks about widely-repeated claims of exponential quantum speedups for practical machine learning and optimization problems. Through many examples, I try to convey the "law of conservation of weirdness," according to which every problem admitting an exponential quantum speedup must have some unusual property to allow the amplitude to be concentrated on the unknown right answer(s).

I am very confused at how so many people are absolutely convinced that quantum computing is known to do, or already does, all sorts of things it is not known to do. There's a sister comment here saying exponentially superior quantum computers are available in AWS!

It's like an urban legend that circulates among software engineers.
People also forget that analogue computers, mechanical devices to perform calculations, can also be faster than digital computers in some situations. That doesn't make them commercially viable.

Seems to me that most all of the quantum computing community is trying to be in the right place when they can start cracking current encryption standards at a commercial scale. At that moment, anyone with a functional quantum computer will drown in money. Then a few weeks later new quantum-resistant algorithms will appear and the gold rush will end. All the other quantum projects seem like attempts to keep ones foot in the market while waiting for that day.
If all the private jets disappeared today, the impact on climate change would be negligible.

Wouldn’t it be better to start somewhere in the top half of the problem?

It we could actually delay the problem by a decade or so, technology would improve to help address climate change. Maybe fusion gets resolved in that decade, cheap hydrogen becomes possible, batteries improve, …
many places do not have open access to sinks or have it only in bathrooms were they are designed to be hard to use this way.
There's no purity test in the subreddit except being an acknowledged scientist in the domain the submission is about. Forgive me the snark, but it's like you don't even know what we're talking about.
A landfill is actually a great containment site. Its already fucked from an ecological standpoint so you might as well build the mound up higher and higher since the environmental damage has been paid already.
It's more like: focusing the marketing or intended audience of product on the smallest viable minority of potential customers with the intentional exclusion and or derision of other potential customers is not generally a profitable marketing strategy.

Exceptions that prove the rule are those that focus on exclusivity or rarity, such as products that truly only are needed/desired by a niche audience but at a higher cost to make up for the lack of broad appeal/availability.

Movies and TV shows (about which the "get woke, go broke" saying originated) don't fall under that sort of exclusivity-at-a-higher-price concept. Intentionally alienating 80% of your customer base to appeal to 20% is a risky strategy.
Look at where there were massive famines with people starving to death. Were those capitalist societies? How many people have starved to death in the semi-capitalist countries such as the US? How many starved to death in the Soviet Union, China, North Korea? When China pivoted to a kind of capitalism, did people start starving or did they start prospering? Allowing individuals to accumulate wealth by being of service is the key to general prosperity. This is the heart of capitalism.

The more a society is capitalist, the more wealth gets created and that wealth is spread out to all. The less a society embraces capitalism, the more desperate the poor become. Inequality does increase with capitalism which is a problem for stability, but the government exacerbates that issue by imposing laws that prevent competition and take from the poor to give to the rich. In a freer society than we have in the US, it would be harder for the rich to become super-rich. They have to keep being useful in such a society.
On a related note, what’s up with the plastic packaging in NA? Often vegetarian food has the plastic packed so tightly it is annoying to unpack. There is no easy way to open those packages and the plastic completely sticks to the food.

In EU, they just come in a plastic container without plastic sticking to the food.
> In fact, having depression is generally much worse than having diabetes

As a T1 diabetic, the fun part is that diabetes is highly correlated with depression. So it's very common for depression to follow diabetes. Sucks to have to deal with both. It's a vicious cycle, because depression makes it harder to manage your diabetes, and poorly managed diabetes is correlated with more severe depression symptoms.

Not exactly an "either or" problem. I'd rather just have depression, because at least there would be hope for treatment and remission. My diabetes will never be cured.
We are living in the future. In the next iteration, I expect direct connection from my Neuralink to the Creative gods of AI Metaverse.
Why speak at all. This is for babies.:)
I don’t mind using them, but this one doesn’t work. It makes for some comical images but this is not an effective voice prompt.
CoD, 2k,and Ark Survival, sure, but VERY few games are 200gb
How can territorial animals not be fighting each other all the time?

http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Academic/Property/Property.htm...
As someone who has spent a fair bit of time figuring out how to explain quantum computing to people I've come to the conclusion that there are only two possible ways for people to understand it:

(1) mathematically

(2) as a finite list of things quantum computers can and cannot do

and most people are not going to understand it mathematically, least of all money people who have to watch and evaluate 10 powerpoint pitches in a day or whatever. Without the math you cannot possibly explain how superposition and entanglement work, and even that explanation requires your audience already understand how classical computers work. So you are often reduced to saying "Here is what we think quantum computers will be able to do. The timeline for accomplishing this is at least a decade out. Here are some other things that people have said quantum computers can do which they definitely will not be able to do." But then you're purely relying on your audience believing you based on your credentials rather than following their own reasoning from a place of understanding. Someone else can come in with different credentials and say different things, motivated by money or simple ignorance mixed with hope, and now your audience is playing the credential evaluation game rather than the quantum computing capability evaluation game. Mix in low interest rates and a few people who have learned what to say to get attention, and you get the current state of things.

There is a quiet core of real quantum computing research happening, surrounded by a moat of noise and hype that is required to interface with investors and the public. My sincere hope is that this quiet core accomplishes real advances before the music stops.