skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This does not support your claim. Do you have something more recent?
The report reached the following conclusions:
• At approximately 6:00 on 24 March 2017, an Su-22 military airplane belonging to the 50th Brigade of the 22nd Air Division of the Syrian Arab Air Force, departing from Shayrat airbase, dropped an M4000 aerial bomb containing sarin in southern Ltamenah, affecting at least 16 persons.
• At approximately 15:00 on 25 March 2017, a helicopter of the Syrian Arab Air Force, departing from Hama airbase, dropped a cylinder on the Ltamenah hospital; the cylinder broke into the hospital through its roof, ruptured, and released chlorine, affecting at least 30 persons.
• At approximately 6:00 on 30 March 2017, an Su-22 military airplane belonging to the 50th Brigade of the 22nd Air Division of the Syrian Arab Air Force, departing from Shayrat airbase, dropped an M4000 aerial bomb containing sarin in southern Ltamenah, affecting at least 60 persons.
https://www.opcw.org/media-centre/news/2020/04/opcw-releases...
Anecdotally, I can say the opposite. The algorithms seem to work on me to a reasonable extent.
Nintendo fans aren't like that though.

They'll buy the new releases. And as a sample size of 1, I'd probably pay $10-$20 for each classic game if I knew it had indefinite portability. Same way I'm happy to pay for classic books.

I missed Metroid prime when it came out, and there's no real way for me to go back to it without getting my GameCube from my parents and finding a disk on eBay.

Just think of all of the kids who've heard about all of these classic games, love the latest version, and would gladly dive into the rest of the series, if it were available.

People are still getting excited because the source code for a 25 year old game has finally been stolen and leaked. 2401
I think both of your points are solving different problems that what I was suggesting.

My point is that an interesting scientific question is: "is the huge size of the GPT-3 model intrinsic to the problem of NLP, or is it an artifact of our current algorithms?"

One way to answer that is to apply the same algorithms and methods to mechanics data generated from, let's say, classical mechanics; and compare the generated model size with the size of the classical mechanics description. If the model ends up needing roughly the same amount of parameters as classical mechanics, then that would be a strong suggestion that NLP may intrinsically require a huge model as well. Otherwise, it would leave open the hope that and understanding can be modeled with fewer parameters than GPT-3 requires.

Your examples are still in this realm of engineering - trying to apply the black box model to see what we can get, instead of studying the model itself to try to understand it and how it maps to the problem it's trying to solve.
depends how good you are at reading maths proofs. Its like how hardware is magical to some of us because we're too spooked to grab a soldering iron.
I have been taught accounting along with micro/macro economics and bunch of other useful financial topics at equivalent of high school and I am really happy that I did even if I did not appreciate it at the time and went for completely different studies and job (studied theoretical mathematics, working as a software developer).

What I have noticed is that people who don't have any accounting background tend to think single entry when they look at their accounts and this frequently prevents them from understanding what is actually happening.
Also if an employee is disabled and needs adjustments to their work schedule, desk setup etc.
I think you are underestimating how large this problem is. It's one thing to not have a social security net when there are a "handful" (still too many) people whose luck betrayed them are on the streets. It's another when you have 11 million.

The problem is systemic. We are getting really close to the economic events that have happened during the Weimar Republic. We are going to see a huge increase in radicalization and instability if the article is correct. It won't end in a world war but it could get very violent.

People will start squatting in vacant buildings together. Groups that live together will create their own "pet" system of governance that will appear to solve these problems and then there will be rivalrous behavior among them like gangs fighting each other.

The best thing you can do is keep them busy with a job.
The reason why public sector jobs are so unproductive, imo, is because there are no real bosses. Everyone's an employee, all the way to the top. No one's remuneration is affected whether you do more or less, better or worse. The logical course for all concerned is to always take the path of least resistance. As long as the paperwork is in order there's nothing to worry about. And even if it's not, there are ways around that too.
Best quote I ever heard from an government employee was an unopened letter often answers itself
My heart also seems broken after a persistent cough that may or may not have been COVID. Now I take heart pills and feel very old and close to death.
I was not making a universal claim, so your experience does not contradict my point.
Well, if the lending institutions want to take on that debt, even if it would result in it being paid out in dividend and not recoverable in a bankruptcy, that's probably their right to do so - it's the lender's money to risk as they want in hopes of profit.
Nope. Still an unproven correlation.
Yes. We can also remember that Richard Stallman called Snowden a 'Hero' [0] for revealing the PRISIM programme was his strongest evidence around the NSA mass-surveillance and backdoors in general using internet services and companies. Without this, it would still be another 'conspiracy theory' which would have lacked any concrete evidence to support Stallman's claims.

[0] https://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2014/02/18/richard-stallman-calls-...
Researchers “Translate” Bat Talk (2016)
There are some coherent approaches without picking and choosing, though. For example, according to luck egalitarianism any major (dis-)advantage that someone has in life that is given by sheer coincidence is not deserved. The policy of the state should then be to make society more equal by reducing advantages and disadvantages that stem from pure luck.

To address your examples, the state should try to help people with abnormally low life expectancy achieve higher life expectancy, try to equalize different wealth and education levels by making education available/affordable to everyone, by severely limiting wealth distribution by inheritance, and so on, and help people with mental illness to lead a normal life as others (which could include all kinds of measures from tax-funded mental health care to changes in work law).

I don't really want to defend luck egalitarianism here, although I personally consider it a reasonable position. It's an example to point out that relative to a theory of fairness the solutions can be fairly clear. The "picking and choosing" is rather the result of disagreement about the respective theory of justice.
Thanks, guess if you're in a position where you're oversubscribed then you have the option. Out of interest, how would you look upon a prospective tenant from somewhere else who was evicted over non-payment during corona? I guess I am asking if all evictions are equally bad or if you would care less about the last few months?
You're relying on having texts covering all aspects of a language.

Here's a good example. Suppose I had a huge set of recipe books from a human culture - just recipes, no other record of a culture.

I might be able to get as far as XYZZY meaning "a food that can be sliced, mashed, fried and diced" but how would I really tell if XYZZY means carrot, potato, or tomato, or tuna?
The 870 is still fine (I must have at least a 1000 rounds through mine) and is still something you can buy with a modest panic markup. The more ubiquitous Glock 19, which I would argue is a much less effective home defense weapon, is pretty much gone. The causes of that are more interesting than than Remington's bankruptcy.
That sounds less hilarious, and more extremely useful free info and software.
As an European working with lots of American contractors in the tech field, I'm always impressed by their work ethics. The put in 10-12 hours, 6 days a week.

But from talking with them, it seems like their focus is on retirement - hopefully in their 50's. That's their grand plan, because that's when they'll start "living".

It's a bit of a contrast to us Scandinavians - as we really like to live in the present. No pie in the sky dreams.

Which is also why we guard our working rights and work-life balance like a national treasure.
> People have a lot of leisure time today, so much so that Americans, on average, watch about 4 hours of television/video per day.

You have a fundamentally different view of leisure time than what Bertrand Russel is talking about. In his view, leisure is something in which one has to be actively engaged in. Modern television, however, outsources much of this: laugh tracks are a prime example, but another example would be the BBC's Sherlock series which doesn't make it possible for the viewer to figure out "who done it", it only has Sherlock swoop in and connect dots that were never shown.
With the rising costs of living and low wages we have seen in the last couple decennia, making ends meet is troublesome for a lot of people, let alone the having the capacity to save for an emergency fund.

Personal responsibility is easy to say, but when you are born rich or advantaged you need minimal personal responsibility to get by and when born poor you can have all the personal responsibility you want and still get f*cked over. The problem is bigger than personal responsibility. Social security is very poor in the US compared to modern European countries.
I would consider it justice either to put people on the streets because the job that supports them falls away from underneath them, of no fault of their own.

Having a roof over your head, having shelter is a human right. Granted, that does not have to be in an expensive city, but transporting people to a cheap, rural place is not great either. In a big city, at least there should be a large opportunity to find a job.

But overall, the issue you seems to be having with this is that a person's worth is tied to their (having a) job.
The PETA thing also showcases another couple of behaviours I particularly enjoy watching:

* Distributed low-commit morality: tell other people to "do the right thing" without actually doing anything yourself.

* Proximity creates responsibility: the best way to avoid having to do anything for anyone is to pretend you didn't see it. The moment PETA admitted they knew what was going on, they had to redirect all their efforts to solving it or they'd get stick

It's pretty funny since it's so predictable. You can always do these things and the reaction means that the right time to do it is to seek attention through it.
I can't believe he wrote a whole article on the usability of footnotes, using footnotes, on a site without links to return from the footnote back to where it was used.
Is Data Science Just a Rebranding of Statistics?
Express. The whole idea is to not drag an expensive gun through a brier patch.
Not arguing your broader point, but heart rate variability is a better tracker of stress than heart rate itself, if you want to track it yourself.
How numbers are written down does not necessarily correspond to how you do calculations. Given that 499 was called 499 I’m pretty sure they thought in base 10, so subtracting 1 from 500 would be trivial. Writing it down took a few more symbols but so what?
They forgot how to make great products. See Macbook keyboard debacle and TouchBar irrelevance, AirPod rattling debacle, cancelled AirPower, etc.
I hate the buttons on that watch. They are prominent enough to always get stuck with whatever I slip my arm through. Especially backpack straps.

Otherwise love it. The battery lasts longer than the plastics. Has this timeless 80s chic of the original Walkman and Thinkpads.

I would love the calculator one more, but that is critically missing a light, which makes it impractical.
If the browser has me as their primary customer I feel it's a good gatekeeper to a web that wants to exploit me.
CloudABI is an attempt to solve this the right way: http://cloudabi.org/
Anything could end in world war, it's basically a constant struggle to avoid world war.
Just introduce it on a low cost airline, where the passengers literally don't care about a single other thing than price.
In the major European city I live in, 62% of people live in social housing. Most people still seem to want to work here.

Even if there were a few 'leeches' here and there I'd gladly subsidize them for the benefit of a social safety net.

Personally, I also wouldn't consider those people leeches at all. Your assumption seems to be that everyone who works is automatically contributing to society - with all the bullshit jobs around, I find this questionable at the least.
I think we are talking past each other. I interpreted the quote to mean, “if people had more time, they would be more involved in leisure activities, not simply consuming.”

As I said, I don’t think the issue is one of time. It’s more that there is a massive industrial complex pushing you to consume, click, engage, etc., while cultural movements that encourage creating things and active engagement are niche at best.
My old neighbour taught me a valuable lesson back when I was a teenager fixing his computer problems: you don't get paid for the time you spend on something, but for the time you save the other person.

For me fixing his computer was easy work, not worth getting paid for at all for the time it cost me. But he insisted paying me because I was saving him evenings of work if he had to fix it himself.

This does not apply to every sector though and you will need to spend a lot of time (eg: my entire childhood "playing" with computers) to be of actual value to someone else.

> I don't think this is true. In my experience a lot of work time is just wasted time. Often nothing is accomplished. A lot of extra hours for meetings are not productive at all. A lot of extra hours looking into that bug ("so we can fix it today") is not productive at all..

So instead of having all this time wasted being "your" time wasted, try to maximize the value per hour you can bring to the right person so you can use the rest of the time to do the things you love (which might as well be chasing after that bug).
My comment was part jest, part awe. I clearly read too much into what you were saying. Apologies.
I stopped using it once I discovered org-roam. It’s not a perfect replica, but manipulating text in a text editor is basic. Web based solutions can not compete, neither with speed nor the flexibility of an open source project, at least in Emacs’ ecosystem with org and everything else.

Most importantly offline first approach. My notes are stored on a NextCloud share so many backups and notes are searchable with ripgrep when looking for stuff not interlinked or tagged.

Also roam research used to mess up quite often until they built client side caching. Still very annoying and frustrating to have to look at the dot turning green or staying brown. Could have improved but they should offer a complete offline solution IMHO, at least for editing markdown in 3rd party tools and re syncing.
An interesting take on life extension is stimulant drugs. TANSTAAFL but if you live the crucial years of your life at 100% instead of 75% and you die at 60 instead of 80, you actually break even in how much life you led, even though you had 20 fewer years.
Considering the company is down to its last couple of developers and can't attract new ones because of the old technology stack, it's definitely a problem.
>>This results from the fact that their active energies are fully taken up with work

from the previous comment
Probably also there.. does this contradict anything I said?

That just means that doing more hours won't help more.. where ever you are (there are always exceptions).
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That's exactly the kind of stuff that I'm into. I'm not an authority but that sounds hella radical.
Plausible. Do you know if healthcare, higher ed, and housing are industries where cost trends are convincingly explained by neoliberalism, i.e. some combination of deregulation and promotion of free trade and free markets? Or are you saying that the problem of affordability in these sectors can and should be entirely resolved by higher wages?
V7 Darwin – A polished video annotation tool for computer vision
Paris subway uses rubber tires so that is not an apple to apples comparison.[1]

Did you mean the break squeal[2] or the rail squeal[3]?

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber-tyred_metro
[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brake_shoe#Railway_tread_brake
[3]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_squeal
All good. The back and forth of speech allows for lower-effort clarification so I'm sure this interaction would have done better in real life.
I recall multiple conflicting stories about how this is the future and how this is waste of money on a ill conceived giga-project.

I also recall a skunk works reactor that takes radically different approach (smaller reactors, instead of big) and was supposed to have results if few years.

[2014]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8458339

Then there are new stories about skunk works being on track.

https://aviationweek.com/defense-space/lockheeds-skunk-works...
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Yes, emotions- "how does one feel while watching the movie". This is missing from the traditional genre tagging - "whats the movie about"
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if you add tip of the finger you can easily work in base 16.
The browser back button works, at least for me.
Would this have been more secure in Rust?
If you had control over the ISA, and were jitting code as you would with WASM, couldn't you defeat Spectre 1 with an instruction that essentially introduces a masked region that the processor will not read or speculate outside of until the mode is disabled?

If the attacker controls the instruction stream it's game over (since they can disable the mask), but if they're just writing wasm that generates malicious speculative in process loads, it would prevent that.

Then an attack would have to trick library calls in to doing the same job, which is certainly possible, but much harder.

Of course this would negate many of the benefits of staying in the same process, so I'm not necessarily saying it's a good idea.
It says a lot that you think all tech workers likely earn more than £55k.
> The other solution is to ensure equality of outcome (make sure your employees are exactly 50% men and 50% women, for example) by setting hiring quotas. As is clear, this will be highly unfair to the advantaged class.

The issue I have with that is that is by far the worst inequality is coming from your social class, not your skin color or your gender.

Those quotas are thus trying to transform a social problem into a diversity problem.

Additionally, I prefer policies which attack the source of the problem (social inequality) than the symptoms (hiring). Of course that's harder to do and it cost much more money but that's really solving the problem instead of putting some rubber band onto it.
> and less on the infrastructure and syntax required to solve the problem

I do not think that this is true for python any more than it is true for haskell for example.
And if you want mental health that will be $600/mo out of pocket even when you are in network with your expensive PPO plan.
Yes, that's how most recommendations are being effected. I think we need also an explicit way of communicating our preferences, and getting scores against them. The problem with recommendations is, they are not transparent enough and can fail.
> The backlight is pretty weak

The reason for this is because the LED is mounted facing directly up, not facing the display. I've seen some mods where they replace the LED with a side-facing and it's far better.
What's the main attraction of org-roam over org? I had a look at it, but didn't quite understand how to use it. Seemed as if it wanted one file per note.
If you look down that thread there's a first valid argument against this : breaking down the "productivity increase" by industry shows the huge growth comes from software, also if you look at how they track productivity in manufacturing it's also misleading - if you account for stuff like outsourcing the only sector that's seeing huge real growth is computer related.

And software/computer economics are a story of their own.

Productivity growth is largely overstated.
Ah woops! (And thanks!)
This is a reasonable-sounding hypothesis that has been researched and disproved. Diverse teams perform better.
> Are we going to allow Trump to co-opt the anti-war position that’s traditionally been a tent pole for the progressive left?

Okay I’m gonna quibble with this. If I had to compare Trump to any previous political figure, it would be Pat Buchanan, who was and is a paleoconservative. Paleoconservatives are anti-war in the old isolationist sense. Ron Paul popularized a more libertarian spin on paleoconservatism but Trump is steeped in it—to whatever degree he’s steeped in anything beyond his own narcissism—and the American right has a rich legacy of anti-war paleoconservatives who once thought maybe FDR was doing too much to provoke Germany and Japan. That just got set aside for about a half century after Pearl Harbor, but they’ve been there this whole time and after the controversies of GWB and his “neocon” advisors, paleocon ideas had a resurgence.
> That had to stop. So a plan was put together ...

Others have already addressed these specific claims, and I'll add that this whole way of thinking (where anything and everything is the outcome of shady "plans" being hatched somewhere) does not generally lead to a good understanding of social problems. But this is not to say that progress in working-class compensation hasn't clearly stalled since the 1970s. Part of the issue is of course that a lot of that putative income has been offset by the huge increase in healthcare and education costs. And that's probably something where policy interventions are warranted, if only to reduce existing market distortions that put consumers at a huge disadvantage.
The public sector isn’t in general unproductive, except maybe in the US where one major party has been working hard to sabotage it for the last 40 years or so. What might surprise some people is that remuneration isn’t what foremost motivates , e.g., teachers or nurses.

Big companies are often as unproductive as the public sector, with whole departments often existing just to make some managers feel important.
Having worked in software industry for too long, I've come to conclude that the majority of the workforce today is spent on experimentation (i.e. "let's try project X" in corporate and "a new startup to try X"). There is so much money available in the hands of the rich (angel investment, venture capital) to fund these experiments.

Most of these fail but they keep us working.
Yeah it's rather easier to say (with no evidence) "yes but that doesn't help 100 % of people" than to do something.

Well done for doing something, DoreenMichele.
I've always wondered why there is no job guarantee today. Without it the minimum wage is worthless because employers can just deny you a job. It doesn't increase your bargaining power. It's the opposite. If you don't have enough bargaining power you don't get a job in the first place. A job guarantee fixes that.