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Ask HN: Is your IBM Quantum Computing account also blocked?
Shortly after creating a new account, it was blocked. I contacted IBMid Support but they couldn't help, I contacted Quantum Team Support, where I got this link: https://ibm.biz/BdfaME (Disabled Account Appeals, goes to https://airtable.com/shrSlrmHASV8wkVZY) but that did not help either.

At the moment there are two events happening in Qiskit/IBM Quantum Computing world: "Quantum Explorers" and
https://qisk.it/quantum-explorers and "Qiskit Global Summer School 2023", and this is basically why I create the account for in the first place.
On one hand, I see I got assigned to a group and a project and, on the other, I can't even log in.

On this site: https://www.ibm.com/quantum/access-plans IBM promotes the Open Plan as the Best for Educators, new learners, and developers who do not need to execute larger workloads.

I am a new learner and a developer, so I felt warmly invited. And then the face slap.

I am not related to any organization (like university or research institute) and I used my private email address (I own the domain). Just wanted to learn new skills in a funny but organized way.

I searched the Internet and it seems to be a bigger issue that just my case.

Did you have the same issue? Did you solve it and got your access back?
Obligatory reference to Finite and Infinite Games by James Carse [0] as some say, and I think it’s a pretty pleasant way of looking at it, that life is indeed a game.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite_and_Infinite_Games
Hello mathematics, meet philosophy.
Math is abstract. Very few to no other school level subjects are abstract.

That’s why you hear discussions about pushing algebra out, but not about pushing arithmetic out.

That’s why some schools replaced algebra with “data science”.

Abstraction isn’t easy.

But that’s precisely why math, especially algebra and the like, is so essential. It’s the only path to building abstract reasoning among students.
It is less safe than GC, BC, and RC. But it’s still more safe than malloc / free. And it has other benefits as well.
I've been using Mastodon for about a month now, and I've never had any issues with censorship, specifically regarding queer, furry, and nsfw content.
Interesting is understatement, it's a channel which is one of the closer ones to hard science on the hard science - pop science spectrum and still having more than a million subscribers.

Some outstanding videos IMHO:

The channel owner applies himself a gene therapy to fix his lactose intolerance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3FcbFqSoQY

How exactly the Covid Tests work:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_usIkrVQwE

Growing Human Neurons Connected to a Computer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2YDApNRK3g

Especially the Covid test video was eye opening against the conspiracy theorist propaganda during the pandemic because knowing how tests actually work on practical level makes you see through the claims effort free.
Not in Finland, there's some noise before the movie starts and during ads but pretty much everyone turns off their phones (or puts them into airplane mode) when the actual movie starts.
The purpose is to maximize hours played on civ6 as measured by Steam.
First, there was LiveJournal. Then there was MySpace. Then there was FaceBook. I was on FaceBook until .edu stopped being a requirement. Shortly after that change, my wall became a mix of soft porn and hightimes. Nothing wrong with that, but it isn’t what I want to see so I deleted my FaceBook account. I went over to Twitter. Over time, Twitter ceased to be interesting as it turned into people affirming their positions on things they usually didn’t understand very well. I deleted my Twitter account half a decade ago. All of it is actually useless, and it does nothing but eat time.
> It's whitespace. There's wayyyy too much god damn whitespace in modern UIs, and it's awful.

Maybe sometimes it is, but not in the article.

The article in fact has multiple problems.

1. The titlebar of the _host virtual machine_ is included in the offensive version. This is probably not a coincidence but to exaggerate the issue.

2. The ribbon bar that combines the title bar and menu bar of old in fact consumes _less_ precious vertical space.

3. The icon spacing is roughly the same in both screenshots.

4. The major "offender" in white space is the different layout being used but that has nothing to do with UI design but everything to do with giving plenty of space for header and footer editing, and showing "real life" page margins -- the print layout! The Word 9x screenshot doesn't use/have that display mode. It's not WYSIWYG. That display mode can usually be disabled, at least in the latest Word versions.

Case closed. It's a rubbish article especially because this CAN be a problem in modern UI's and there are plenty of better examples.
Python Power: How Daft Embeds Models and Revolutionizes Data Processing
It's not great but there is no alternative to Reddit
More or less the same in Switzerland with regulated, mandatory, private healthcare: https://browser.tartools.ch/#/tarmed_kvg/data/L/39.6040

Everyone must conform to these prices, rules.
Everyone I communicate with uses Signal now. In Europe using Signal costs the same amount as using WhatsApp, if not less because of the missing bloatware (backups etc).

In a lot of the world, WhatsApp is free (I assume some kind of payment from Meta to the telecom). There's no way Signal will compete with something that is bundled with every phone contract for whatever reason.
I don't think that's entirely fair. I was once dismissive of stuff other people got deep into, things like horoscopes, or fashion, or sport. They wereen't relevant to my life. But as I've grown I realised how much this limited me, meant I was essentially choosing to dismiss those people and the things they liked as unimportant, indirectly insulting their intelligence.

I consider it to have been a character flaw of mine, and I have tried to work on it. It's not and never will be cool to take pride in not liking something other people like. They like it for a reason, and it turns out if you just shut up and listen enough you will probably start seeing the intricacies and come to like or at least appreciate it too.
> Nvidia wants to have a word with you about gaming.

What year is this comment from?

> And this is another reason.

How? It's the same reason they stated. I just wanted to get specifics from them.
The incentives to measure this and to interpret measurements are completely perversed.

Of course, when everything takes 8 seconds to load, 2.4 seconds is "fast" :)
I don't think the UK government has ever wanted to terrify the population about the real effects of a nuclear war - quite the opposite. Protect and Survive was supposed to be a practical guide - the fact that it was actually quite terrifying was unintended.
Natrium and other substances of mineralic origin are required for the human body. Dinking water withoit them is an effective way to destroy vital organs, since the water will pull it from your cells via osmosis.
Kind of like Marquess Brownlee reviewing tech phones, recommending a ton of them, being asked constantly which one of them he uses, saying it's one of the phones he recommended.

And then seeing him in non phone review videos reading stuff constantly from... his iPhone :-)
You could have an extremely optimized text-only platform that would cost pennies to run and scale, but who would join?
I was always told that at the next level of school, I would finally meet a challenge. I got through a master's degree without its happening, and unfortunately that just drove the initial point deeper, that I was somehow fundamentally different from other people rather than just very luckily in an environment exceptionally well-suited to my aptitude (even though the rest of the world is not).
I don't think it does. In C++ taking a const argument just means that you can't change it. But since the caller can pass non-const as const there is nothing stopping them from mutating it.
> The question is never asked about any other school subject

Are you kidding? Every tech-bro on the planet makes their disdain for literature, philosophy, etc. extremely well known.
Frontend in Scala - very cool!
Julian Assange, long time no hear.
Wasn’t even obvious to me after a first glance at the web page on mobile.
In my opinion this is not a bug and there is no general fix for that without significant overhaul of the whole runtime and standard library.

In my opinion the author might need to read the vm and memory model spec and understand that such things are expected in Java.

There are real bugs in standard library singletons (e.g. concurrent Filesystem calls might fail during singleton initialization, while plugins are loaded). These bugs are being ignored for years.

The author must not expect any "fix" for this in foreseeable future, but they might expect being laughed at.
Milan Kundera has died
In Excel, I love the ribbon, as someone who looks to make use of some of the more advanced data manipulation and display features it has. If all I wanted to do was handle some basic lists with perhaps a formula here or there, perhaps I'd feel differently.

And this is why I DO feel differently about Word, which does take up way too much space with a ribbon full of tools that really aren't of interest. In word, I'm usually writing something, and then spending a small percentage of the time changing formatting. Quite different from Excel, where it's more often than not working with large datasets pulled either from a csv online or directly from a SQL server and the various tools and functions are central to the task at hand.

I guess the point is, it really depends on use case as for whether the ribbon makes sense, and it should be left to the user to decide to use the old menu based system or the new ribbon based system based on how much time is spent composing vs. manipulating the existing data. Right tool for the job.
I'm only in Telegram. And is also good because the family groups are only in WhatsApp, so I can have an excuse.
What are the storage and latency requirements?
> In most instances the correct position lies somewhere near the equilibrium point

Or, perhaps, these trends are less generalizable than we'd like.
UX is very important, but the somehow it seems that the result of UX folks getting involved often does not result in a better UX. There have never been UX experts than there are today, yet many people feel the quality of UX is going down instead of up.
I wonder how you deal with the usual problems of price fixing. What services aren't done because they pay too little? How do you lure doctors into fields where the pay is terrible? What about rationing of procedures that are costly but pay too little - is the scheduling delay so long it impacts your health?
For the longest time there was the theory that he died of syphilis, but that appears not to be the case, however, he did have an excess of mercury in his body and that was used back then to treat syphilis. So he may well have suffered from the disease and that in turn plus the mercury itself could well have resulted in him being less than rational.
If your dependency has a security update, how are you going to get that if you copy-paste the code? The thing these dependency managers do well is that they notify you about these types of issues.

.. That said, people need to be very careful about what they add as dependency. Having 1000+ transitive dependencies is just asking for security issues.
I don't understand that mentality. I'm a nobody-have-nothing and I dread the day somebody would link some of my Internet pseudonyms to my real-life identity. If I had a few billions stashed somewhere and it was of public knowledge, how could I ever know who is earnest and honest when interacting with me?
The censorship is mainly of people or instances which aren't left-wing.
I forgot it was a literal video and thought it was a CSS trick, where it randomly selected among text options and constructed the cycle forever, never stopping.

That would be amazing, by the way. Make it look like a video, and then the progress bar just slows and stops, and you're still there looking at new silly names and dumb stunts, hours later…
Yeah I feel exactly the same as you. I prefer JetBrains to VSCode because it gives me labelled icons and menus for the things I want to do. It's true, for the things I don't do often sometimes I have to search a busy menu, but that compares with trying to remember what the name of the command might be in the VSCode command panel, so it seems a lot more user-friendly. Do people actually like being confused? Do people like having to use Google to find out what words to type to use their software?
To be fair, standing next to a primary target is probably the best thing to do in a global thermonuclear war
You wrote 'lists' not 'arrays'.
I guess because Whatsapp provides a unified and standard way to communicate between people on different provider networks / countries for free? You get groups, text/images/location sharing, video/audio calls, cross-countries, that works very reliably, and you only need internet (which can be found almost anywhere even if that's just wifi).

MMS still don't work reliably for me (lost a message just last week that someone swear to have sent). And for a long time they were not free as well.
4chan was never good
This won't happen (unfortunately) for obvious reasons.
>My guess is that answering "what am I ever going to use this for" is easier for other subjects, sometimes almost intuitive.

How so? What am I ever going to use my skills in analysing 20th century literature for. What am I ever going to use my knowledge about Roman history for? What am I ever going to use my knowledge about the structure of our government for? Certainly no employeer of mine ever cared, my University didn't care, nobody seems to have ever cared, except my teachers.

The question is bad because:

- People ask it, but only of mathematics

- People answer it, as if mathematics alone has to face that challenge

If school is about job training the answer is simply "because it contains the broadest possible techniques to understand the world and is vital in basically any data-based scientific pursuit and a basic understanding is needed for any trade which uses measurements". Somehow I think ancient history does not have such an answer...
But that toolbar consumes more space than a hidden ribbon that only shows on hover.

A ribbon has tooltips too. But they aren't there to solve the space problem but the information problem.
Because an app is not the web. And the web is anathema to a properly walled garden.
If anyone would like to make up their own minds about this, it's available on archive.org. I still remember watching it first time round and it was definitely a formative experience for me. I had no idea it was being shown to kids - it was broadcast after the 9pm watershed (when the little dears should have been in bed).

https://archive.org/details/threads_202007
I don’t get your analogy having multiple messaging apps on your device is not forcing you to do anything. Just to get in the right messaging app to talk to your different communities. I mean my kids are doing that all the time between snap (their friends), whatsapp (family) or Signal (me) (and I’m pretty sure they use at least a lot more channels (discord, insta, etc.)
If the constructor here would take a const reference, it would have the same problem (the existence of a const reference doesn't preclude non-const references to the same object). If it took an argument by value, it wouldn't make a difference whether it was const or not, because no other thread could have access to the same object, because it would be copied.

In Rust, on the other hand, if there's a mutable reference to an object, there can be no other references to the same object at the same time.
This was a common take, and is the opposite one intended. Both "Threads" and "The Day After" had this problem. A contemporary take:

https://lifeinhellarchives.tumblr.com/image/176779648696

You see? The "Adult Version" is that after a nuclear war everybody dies. But in fact, that had been the received wisdom for many years. These 1980s movies were actually trying to impress upon people that after such a war, there would be survivors who would keeping suffering for a long time.

"Threads" however annoyed me in that everyone seem to regress to a pre-civilization mental state, even losing their grammar. In reality, much of the world (including most of the southern hemisphere) would be untouched and would be sufficient to get the supply chains sort-of working again (at least in a few decades).
In a public forum, I do mind it. Sorry.

It's nothing really embarrassing or wrong, but I worry that it might be taken out of context.
Needing money to eat is not a sign of hypocrisy, and hypocrisy is not a sign of being wrong.
They might not be your friend by the local hiking/diving/parent/whatever group. They don't owe you anything.
>You didnt understand my message.

Perhaps he didn’t and isn’t it a part of the problem to apply math?

>Then you basically not only get better tools to operate (model) in real world, day2day life, but also it opens you doors to highly paid careers.

can you elaborate on how “it opens you doors to highly paid careers”?
you miss the point, the problem isn't the message in itself but signalling these from a moral high ground in a patronizing manner.
Reference counting involves an increment every time a reference is shared. That's a lot more overhead than just on alloc and free - in particular, it involves going to main memory (or using part of the cache) a lot more in order to change the ref counts. Whereas on alloc and free, those frames have to fetched anyway (at least in my understanding of how memory allocators work)
I don’t see much adoption of Signal, but Telegram is inching forward in the UK and UAE, in my circles at least.
In my opinion the abstraction is leaky but everything works according to the spec.

I might tell you about another "bug" and "invariant violation" which is possible but is not a bug. Try to use Sets or Maps with keys having broken hashcode.
I like the idea, but find the color bands a bit distracting since they're obviuusly incorrect - actual travel times are going to be shorter to navigation hubs and longer the further out in the network you get. It'd be more complicated to implement, of course!
The WHY is because behind these tiny cute menu bar options lies kilometer long Microsoft Word 9x menus and submenus that became increasingly tough to navigate. It was clearly a UI element that was being pushed beyond its limits. This is why ribbons were innovated, combining the menubars and toolbars into one element -- a categorized toolbar with the flexibility of allowing common options to be larger than less common options, helping the eye in finding the most likely tools.

As for ribbons, you said it yourself "It just takes practice, which most of us did."
It is a dialect, written form is German.
It is like hearing French spoken in sub Saharan Africa, it is hard to grasp but eventually you get it
I moved my parents to telegram and I can't complain.
Check out the chapter on embeddings in this wonderful book:
https://web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/slp3/
Most vulnerabilities of anything do not affect all its users.

But it's bad enough if any do. (some do affect Qubes)

It is an architectural problem.

SeL4 is a good replacement, with excellent performance and strong formal proofs.
The more expensive Gigabyte RTX 3080+ cards had 3x DP 1.4, 2x HDMI 2.1, 1x HDMI 2.0, which was great even if you could only use 4 of them at the same time due to Nvidia limitations. Unfortunately for the 40 series they stopped offering it and now they're the same as stock Nvidia with 3x DP 1.4, 1x HDMI 2.1.

Luckily ASUS still offers a bit more with their 4080+ cards - 2x HDMI 2.1, 3x DP 1.4. I personally depend on the 2x HDMI 2.1 to even be able to run my 4K 144Hz monitors at full speed.
Eh, I don't think the author is to be ridiculed. We're all wrong from time to time, I'm wrong in most of what I say, I'm sure you've been wrong on occasions, this is fine.

The author's views on how concurrency works is very common and taught in schools and textbooks, but also quite inadequate.

Instead let's take this opportunity to talk and teach about the JMM and deepen the collective understanding of the many unintuitive behaviors of multi-threaded applications.
My impression is similar and that's why I asked the question.

Another thing that is not clear to me: Is there query directly fed into e.g. SBERT or should I ask an LLM to transform the query into something more suitable, like turning the question into a proposition?

Asked more abstractly: In a vector space like SBERT's, can I expect questions and answers about the same topic to lie near each other? Especially will the correct answers lie near their question?
It's not the point, but a lot of people are going on and on about the lack of need for calculus as a programmer. If you even touch how any machine learning works it's all basic calculus and intermediate linear algebra under the hood.

Sure most people can get a long way without understanding anything under the hood but I think I am better developer knowing assembly and architecture. The same for ML, you can get by most of the time. You can also make a whole career not doing hard things. That's not for everyone.
I mean there never will be if people don’t move. ActivityPub-based alternatives Lemmy https://join-lemmy.org/ and Kbin https://kbin.social/ are growing fairly rapidly at the moment.
I found Kurzgesagt has a very good ELI5 on how cancer grows in the body: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFhYJRqz_xk

I have lung cancer, stage 4.

My cancer has a mutation that is uncommon in lung cancers (< 2%), but common in breast cancers (> 25%). All of the treatments for my mutation are breast cancer treatments. It has been alternately not too bad and hellish getting insurance to agree to give me medications that could be saving my life. That plus a previous steroid-treated pneumonitis disqualifies me from about 90% of clinical trials, so the tip-of-the-spear treatments (CRISPR-T, CRISPR-NK) are unavailable to me.

So yes, lots of advancements are being made...in common cancers. Uncommon cancers, we have to wait and take the older stuff, or stuff that's just been approved.

And even through all of that, it's a crap shoot as to whether it will work or not. I took 2 conjugates, in the same class of medication - each had a slightly different chemo med. One worked fabulously, about halved the size of my main tumor. The other did nothing, and ended up giving me neuropathy in my feet (it can be numbness, but in my case it felt like my feet were on fire, 24/7. I am on a medication now to fix that, and my feet feel totally normal). Fun fact - the neuropathy chances for that med were stated as 0%. I guess someone rounded down from 0.1%, because I got it.
Danielle Steel still uses a typewriter! Got to be 70 years old at least.
So does Tom Hanks.
Nix.dev Moved to the NixOS Foundation
i have good memories of playing empire :-)
LinkedIn at least managed to retain its only useful function, a self-updating Rolodex. It would be nice to be able to disable the virtue signalling feed though.
> I'm curious why you aren't anti-ad.

Mainly because to an extent they are a necessary evil, or at least we'll never convince enough of the right people that they aren't necessary.

> Ads are psychological manipulation.

They are currently, which is why they get blocked by my anti-stalking-and-other-dickishness kick, but they don't have to be. A simple advert (image and a little text, not directly obscuring what I'm trying to read or bouncing around to break my attention from elsewhere artificially) for a product that might be relevant to what I'm looking at, doesn't seem evil to me. Unfortunately advertises are not satisfied with that and want full-page adverts with forced interaction and full user background tracking.
https://archive.li/1LJJy