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This is why I think silicon carbide based chips are going to be a huge deal: you can run them hot enough that you can actually run a heat engine off of the chip's waste heat to recuperate some of the electricity you spent on computation. Now if only I could figure out how to invest in companies developing this technology...

Is California still experiencing rolling brownouts?

You're more than welcome to launch a competitor, but the vast majority of Silicon Valley balks at the idea of helping the US military.

Dang, it's your choice. We can all learn something from this small scale experiment and come out a little more well informed on HN's community dynamics, or we can let it grow into something larger. Again, totally up to you.

All of my comments have been made to break through the HN echo chamber, and if I can objectively demonstrate my hypothesis that lopsided moderation is reinforcing that same echo chamber, then the entire notion of the restrictions being due to supposed violations of the guidelines is a moot point.

My initial thinking is to use a text classifier to assign political alignments, or lack thereof, to HN comments. From there I can compile statistics about each of the comment classes. This entire process can be done in an executable jupyter notebook for visibility and verification of results.

In theory I agree wholeheartedly, however in practice HN consistently allows off-topic far left political spam while marking any attempts to combat it as a "flame war". This phenomenon is more than a psychological bias: it's a self-reinforcing artifact of HN's demographics.

I offer you a challenge:

I will provide you with quantitative data that I am correct on this issue, and in return you remove the restrictions on my account.

Dang, I watched you single out all of my comments, and then later go back for a second pass to flag the other posters too after you read my profile description, so as to preserve the illusion of impartiality. Calling my posts "flamewar comments" implies I'm being uncivil, and this is how the HN echo chamber gets groomed. Please be more conscious of your own biases in the future.

In the last political protest of at least 250 people that you attended, do you think there was at least one person sympathetic to communist ideals?

Undoubtedly someone somewhere is doing that, but I believe this is largely a form of social projection bias.

It was live coverage on major network television.

That was the messsage being blasted at max volume by CNN, NYT, WaPo, and the rest. They were outraged when the capitol police responded to far left insurrectionists setting the national mall on fire. So yes, it is safe to say that was a mainstream viewpoint.

> And generally arresting looters and rioters seems quite popular on both sides of the political spectrum.

I beg to differ. Any attempts to contain the mass violence were decried as "Trumpist fascism".

> Solving competitive programming problems is essentially solving hard combinatorial optimization problems.

True, but if you relax your hard requirements of optimality to admit "good enough" solutions, you can use heuristic approaches that are much more tractable. High quality heuristic solutions to NP-hard problems, enabled by ML, are going to be a big topic over the next decade, I think.

Reinforcement learning and adversarial training can render both of those concerns as non-issues in practice.

The ride never ends.

I don't believe it's fair to characterize the actions of a larger group based on those of a minority. We were repeatedly told that the summer 2020 protests were 93% peaceful, and that the fires, pipebombs, and shootings shouldn't distract from the larger message.

Luckily, there are other means of performing computation than just silicon transistors.

Moore's law suggests it will be possible in 90 years if the historical trend holds true.

Does anyone else remember a time when different people could have different opinions without getting offended?

I'm immunocompromised because of some medication I take, but I don't agree with the idea of the government forcing people to undergo a medical procedure. I'm fully vaccinated and I hope that others get vaccinated too, but mandates under threat of consequences are a clear violation of medical ethics. (and yes, it is a medical procedure with demonstrable risks)

While I acknowledge that English is a living language and subject to change over time, I refuse to accept that "learnings" is a real word.

Alternatively, California could stop speedrunning a Somalia-style collapse of rule of law.

Unpopular opinion: it's not a social safety net if people stay on it as a lifestyle.

Agreed. Terrorism charges against antifa and affiliated "black bloc" extremist groups are long overdue.

Chasing after CEOs is a red herring. There should be more outrage directed at the financial institutions that really pull the strings.

Not all forms of discrimination fall along lines of race. You have no idea the kind of discrimination I have had to claw my life back from.

Edit: During my schooling I developed a rare form of progressive vision loss. It also makes me extremely light sensitive, and thus it's difficult to conceal. After 1500 job applications I wound up as a construction worker doing hard labor. Since then I have managed to work my way back up to a fairly successful ML engineer, although that never would have happened if I hadn't gone to extreme lengths to conceal the state of my eyesight from my employers.

Don't ever imply I don't know what discrimination is like.

Hot take: the current state of anti-racism is increasingly indistinguishable from regular racism.

I deliberately post against the consensus on HN, and what you see is the result. I invite you to email Dang as I have, but I will not post the transcript of what began as a private conversation.

Use the email link at the bottom of the page.

If you frequently vote against the prevailing opinion, then your votes get disabled and/or inverted. I have spoken with Dang about this multiple times to confirm. Some call it an echo chamber, others call it "consensus". There will always be a contrived justification.