skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Asking people to have less, experience less, and do less isn’t an argument that can ever win.

I think that's setting the bar very low, and I don't think it's necessarily true.

Most of us learn how to manage a finite resource (our own income) and how to maximize results within those constraints. This is not some sort of alien situation that humans can't identify with. We face questions like "Do we really need this?" and "Can we afford it right now?" all the time.

We need to get better at organizing ourselves in large groups/structures to do this at the global level, and make people feel equity in the decision-making and that they can afford this equity, and I'm quite optimistic we can in principle get there.

Whether we can do it fast enough is the worrying bit.
I think that the fact that this is a city state is a bit of a red herring here. It's like living in Manhattan/Brooklyn and cost of owning a car in such locations will naturally include cost of parking space.

So this is really a conscious decision to use taxes to limit cars for the majority of people while letting the rich have one but I suppose it'll always be that way.
Greens are already unpopular among that segment.
Singapore's fertility rate is 1.1
> Asking people to have less, experience less, and do less isn’t an argument that can ever win.

What needs to be done is cost the damage from unrestricted emissions. You can't just look at the benefits.

Consider the original Clean Air Act. Economists estimate the value of reducing harmful pollution due to that act exceeded the cost of implementing the reductions by a factor of 40. FORTY! It's like picking up free money. And the same is going to be true of CO2 emissions reduction.

Now, it's not true for those personally benefiting, like oil companies. Well, screw them.
https://archive.ph/oL37K
The planet is complex but not complex at the same time.

It's easy enough to break the natural environment by very primitive means.

So I agree with your point, it's just not that complex that we can't totally ruin it quite easily.
Benzene Toxicity in the Air
Token embeddings typically only attend to past token embeddings, not future ones.

The reason is to enable significant parallelism during training: a large chunk of text goes through the transformer in a single pass, and its weights are optimized to make its output look like its input shifted by one token (ie. the transformer converts each input token to a predicted next token). However, if the attention weights attended to future tokens, they would strongly use the next token they are given, to predict that next token. So all future tokens are masked out.
Same, we even had one where IIRC it was just that someone wrote "the bomb goes off at 3:00" in a bathroom an unknown number of days before they noticed. I think they made us turn in handwriting samples.
The way to filter out garbage is to download things with lots of seeds, and if you still happen to download garbage, to immediately stop sharing it.
It's around ~15 SWEs
It’s also uneducated to eliminate fossil fuels at the expense of all else. There is real impact to life by destroying economies[0]. This is not a one dimensional problem.

0 - https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
If it's an old microwave replacing the door seal would be cheaper and easier.
Seems to be plenty of decent second hand machines. I'm typing this on an ex-corporate T470 I got for £250. Spend another £120 replacing the battery and pushing upto 32G of ram

(I actually bought 3 of them, one for my son and one for my S.O. Those didn't need to last for hours at a time so they're on original battery+memory and work great)

I know it's in the industries interest to force E-Waste, but it's not in the public interest.
Model doesn't "know" "the right" answer. It is statistically guessing, like a bad student with good memory.
I wouldn't expect HN to gain much by moving to HTTP/2 or HTTP/3. Loading this page with a cold cache is just 60kB, divided as 54kB of HTML, 2kB of CSS, and 2kB of JS, plus three tiny images. And on follow-up pageviews you only need new HTML.

If the whole web was like this then we wouldn't need new versions of HTTP, but of course it isn't.
I always throw chewing gum in the bin. But I guess if only one in a thousand does not do that then you can end up with gum all over the asphalt (in a city state).
Criteria for a good real-world problem suitable for an exam
Tell that British car insurers. They think otherwise
When I wrote strictly software on computers, typically with a way to push fixes, I felt like it wasn’t really “real” engineering.

Then I wrote firmware for some devices that was fairly complex and the programming needed to be absolutely perfect to ensure various hardware issues (and product bugs/failures as a result) couldn’t happen.

You wind up creating remarkably stable and thoroughly tested code, both digitally and physically, and the end result is something incredibly precise due to rigorous design and execution both on the software and hardware sides.

That feels a lot more like engineering. I actually miss it a lot. I can’t help but bring a lot of what I learned to usual software development, but I find a lot of people dislike the same kind of rigour and precision. Like it’s in the way of getting things done, and fundamentally that’s all that counts.

I can see why pure software isn’t considered engineering as a result. The “we can push a fix” mentality can seriously undermine one’s care for the work as well as the overall design and testing practices.

In any case, I’d argue it can be engineering, but it often isn’t.
I like this, particularly their rules against cigarette smoking, that ruins my day and air outside
This is a red herring. It is a conscious decision of the government rather than a consequence of being a city-state.

Because of limited space owning a car will be expensive in any casem
So get a new number.

Nothing on your comment is a reason for you to use somebody's else number.
> If somebody wants to pay money, they will figure out a way. If they want to invent an excuse they will find one.

I think this is just not true. Reducing friction will increase participation.

I make donations to many organizations currently. I would donate to more, but it's a hassle to identify them and determine what/how I want to donate. It's just not a top priority for me, for better or worse. But if I could click a button right now and 5x my donations with the trust that they were supporting what I wanted them to, I'd do it!

edit: Also, this is a reminder to me that everything is a choice and I could be spending my time setting up donations instead of commenting on HN...
Crimes for which judicial caning applies seem like fairly serious ones to me: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caning_in_Singapore
Forget a few grams of bud in your suitcase while transiting through Singapore? Just get a handed a death sentence as a foreign national, hope you enjoy your holiday execution.
Look at what drugs can do to a place (SF) - if it works maybe it's worth it?
What a waste of taxpayers’ money! They should just pick one and stare at it. Why should we be paying for millions of them???
Most are trolling, but Delta spokesperson confirmed it last Monday according to article. Article is from Tuesday. Looks like there is at least one review from 4 weeks ago saying... "Famous purveyor of counterfeit parts."
> You can hardly justify this structure in most other places...residents will revolt

Those statements may both be true, but it's worth noting that people revolting against a measure doesn't mean it's unjustified. People would revolt in the US against any measure meant to control car ownership, but we definitely need such measures in our car-first societies.
Examples are here:

https://users.physics.unc.edu/~deardorf/phys104/rwp/
If the second fine is also low that would indicate the first was not a shot across the bow.
Kind of strange how it’s been something like 17 years and HN still doesn’t have useful search built in. But also I guess kinda cool that you can build something that is popular for decades with little up no updates.
It'd be so nice to have a super simple DHT crawler CLI tool, in both implementation and interface.
The Therac-25 disagrees with you.

Hardware interlocks were replaced with software. And people died.
Awesome, what year was that?
No need to get as fancy as some of the replies below would have you think. Believe it or not, Kirkland brand olive oil (yes, from Costco in the 2-liter jugs) is widely considered, even by many professionals, to be among the best olive oils on the market that you can buy at a reasonable price. I personally use it and love it, and i'm originally from a region of the world where many families had many generations spent growing their own olives and making their own oil.

A couple of references to back my claim

https://www.thedailymeal.com/1157209/what-sets-costco-extra-...

https://www.countryliving.com/food-drinks/a44246/best-olive-...

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/costco-olive-oil_n_5981e0abe4...
I wish I could ban weed smoke smell in NYC. One person smoking makes a 30 foot diameter smell like skunk. Just use edibles and/or vapes people!
It sounds like it gets the time from you.
While you're technically correct, the protocol is resilient to such attack, as the number of people participating in a particular torrent is a good indicator of its validity. After all, everyone who was fooled will delete and stop sharing such items.

New releases of something that just came out tend to suffer from this, though. Sometimes the counterfeits reach escape velocity - the rate of people joining in downloading the counterfeit exceed the rate of people realizing and stopping, thus giving the illusion of a legit torrent.

Currently this problem is being solved by torrent sites' reputation and comment systems. If we imagine a world where only decentralized indexes like Bitmagnet exist, your prediction is 100% accurate. This only works if reputation from a reliable site is bootstrapping the initial popularity of a torrent.
It's like inflammation, no?

If you stub your toe you should have inflammation for a short time as part of a healing process. A lot of people have chronic inflammation, however, for instance their lungs get inflamed from exposure to otherwise harmless pollen and develop asthma. Even if the trigger is removed the inflammatory process can feed on itself which is why someone like that is prescribed anti-inflammatory drugs.

As an acute condition I think anger is helpful if (1) you get mad, and (2) take action to not be mad anymore. If you are angry about something for weeks, months, years, decades, etc. is a chronic condition and no longer helpful even if it is justified, righteous, whatever. My take is that some small amount of anger online, say ε = 0.05 is acute and the remaining 1-ε is chronic and unhelpful.

There are other things that promote engagement (mastodonsters like my flower photos, I can't get enough of people consorting with foxes on YouTube shorts) but anger is one of the most effective of them and online platforms have commercial reasons to promote outrage.

So far as politics go it is just not helpful that anti-vax people are angry at the government because conspiracy theories fill the place that religion used to fill, even in religious people who've given up on the good word of our Saviour and now worship idols like The Donald. Somebody else gets angry because somebody else didn't wear a mask so they wear two masks and tell everyone about this. The story on Twitter was that these people inflame each other but Mastodon, Parler and such show that "one side" can keep itself angry about chronic conditions even when "one side" has been successful about excluding "the other". Thus my ℞.

See

https://www.amazon.com/Anger-Kills-Seventeen-Strategies-Cont...
How will governments police it when MaidSAFE and other systems distribute totally encrypted content?
I think we may have broke it. I get an "Unavailable" message. Kudos, nonetheless.
That opens up a whole apndoras box of whether a reduction is approach can lead to a complete understanding of complex systems. I'll leave that for another thread, that's a deep rabbit whole full of mostly theoretical debate (though an interesting one IMO!)
I wouldn't. I would write down the protocol in a good and extensible way, the first time. It's no good throwing something into the world with the assumption that you can fix the protocol later.
I posit that any deliberate misinformation by the oil and gas lobby can and will be equally matched by deliberate misinformation by the wind and solar lobby. There's no reason to believe that the former is composed of evil people who mislead for the sake of profit, and the latter of good people who just want the best for everybody.

If there are "better and cheaper" alternatives available right now, market forces will assure their dominance. The oil and gas lobby is not so omnipotent that millions of people looking out for their own best interests, despite the imperfection of their knowledge, will stick to an obviously inferior means of achieving their goals.

In other words, very few people will actually "maintain/increase fossil fuel usage just to stick it to their perceived enemies", as the GP said, if it hurts their pocketbooks to do so.
Not too surprising. It's built into gaming's history to work on and release a game purely woth in house tech. And then submit it to a proprietary console maker for a "seal of quality" (or what used to be that). And then other important tools (especially for artists, but a lot for programmibg) served this same mentality as AAA development grew. Support was more important than anything else as tools became more comple, and these studios weren't used to sharing to begin with.

The phenomenon of open source tools being able to even be considered by professional development is a very recent phenomenon (in the grand scheme of things). But for programmers it's still difficult because console support is so important and still extremely closed down.
Earlier this year, my child got to experience this. An anonymous tip led to a lockdown and police investigating an area of the school. During that investigation, one of the officers accidentally discharged their weapon. That, of course led to numerous calls to 911 about shots fired and a full-on response. The first I heard about any of this was getting a call from my child, who was running to the woods to hide.
Kagi has been nice, but their basic subscription plan doesn’t allow nearly enough searches. I might cancel until they raise the limit. The upgraded plan is unlimited searches though and I find them superior to google
A model of a training corpus is a model of a training corpus. Unless a system can read the corpus and understand what it says, it won't get any world model by modelling the corpus.
... so far!

people that point out these kind of messages are becoming the norm (hottest X ever) every month/year and are annoyed by this are _so close_ to get the problem.
I had a microwave that interfered with my 2.4 Ghz WiFi signal. If the microwave ran for more than 30 seconds any devices connected to the 2.4 Ghz SSIDs would "stop working". I assume is was due to too much noise caused by the microwave. Devices connected to the 5 Ghz SSIDs worked fine.
On the bright side, the LGBT community got some rights this year.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Singapore
What I want is a frame.work equivalent repairable and parts-replaceable smartphone. I know it's not practical right now because the commodity and consumer-purchaseable parts that go into a framework laptop don't exist for a smartphone analog right now, and the phone would probably be unacceptably large for most people. But I'd buy it if I could just replace the flash myself every 3-5 years, battery every 2-3 years, etc, and have security updates.
From their other comment:

> The poster was asking why certain things are omitted and only things the support an argument are surfaced

That's just not a helpful comment. It's like someone barging into a murder investigation and saying "Why are aliens being omitted? The narrative is omitting them!"
montjoie st denis !!!
That's a good year; TS had just added async/await.
TIL Terrence Howard is secretly a member of Pythagoras' math cult:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/terrence-howard-th...

"How can it equal one? If one times one equals one that means that two is of no value because one times itself has no effect. One times one equals two because the square root of four is two, so what's the square root of two? Should be one, but we're told its two, and that cannot be."
Russia's Wagner bought satellites from China
Same. Airprods Pro are the first product i've ever used that experienced microwave interference.
If I present links on my site and show phishing warnings on click, why would I warn users about sites I own or know to not be fakes. It just ruins their experience
Does that one (1) non-Photoshop artist prefer .xcf?
No, the point does not remain that “research” “shows” anything. Seems there is agreement that ‘meaningful experiments have never been done because it is too complex and expensive’ so there is no significant research data.

But the basic argument is that a programming approach — having a compiler and a type system is not a “style” btw — that employs development time tools to reduce the burden of runtime operational tools, afford greater application of a wider set of optimization techniques at runtime, and also add to the information bandwidth of source code via type annotations is reasonably expected to be more rigorous than the other approach.
Monaco is considerably smaller. Have you seen their cars?
Fairly comparable? Not even close
> It is a conscious decision if the government rather than a consequence of being a city-state.

Sometimes, drastic solutions like these are needed. Singapore strikes a good balance between freedom and responsibility IMHO.
I've read that it's very British to not all-caps acronyms that are pronounced phonetically. Only those pronounced by the letters, such as BBC.
I appreciate that "Just the PDF" actually gives me the PDF and not 10 more popups to subscribe to someones newsletter.
Yeah, incidentally recall campaigns for some companies are the same for software as for hardware, think medical device. But the software is constructed in the same Agile way as anywhere else in fortune500 world.
Right? I always feel worried about getting a contact high through the second hand smoke too.
Evernote web clipper does not work since yesterday
I have stuck with Evernote for the unrivalled web clipping functionality - together with millions of others. But I was worried that sacking all the employees and moving the operations to Italy might be too much to handle for a radically slimmed down team. Looks like those apprehensions are realized. I may be a demanding customer, but close to 24 hours seems way to long to be down for a service like this.
I think you need to review the history of science. Alchemy did indeed yield many things of practical value, all of which were systematized and rolled into chemistry. And besides, the fact that an alchemy of one kind might be more valuable than an alchemy of another doesn't invalidate my point. It just means that once our field changes phase, it will be even MORE valuable.
No screenshot of what it does on the homepage?
We worked with dedicated support on this, but I don't think they had enough knowledge to dig deep into it and just gave up. There is a huge backlog of critical issues at most AWS services. It looks great from the outside in, but the sausage making process is extremely messy.
They also have a well regarded healthcare system.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Singapore
Expecting an exported document to behave as close as possible as the hosted version is not exactly unreasonable in general.
Almost, not always. I'm personally terrified any braking mechanism is under any level of software control, for example.
Coincidentally OPEC is 38% of oil product based on a hasty google search. Their decisions have a massive influence on oil prices.
That list of questions rather epitomizes everything that I hate about 1:1s, to be honest. They're a minefield and the risk is that there will be adverse professional consequences for giving the "wrong answer".

I get where most of these are coming from, but real personal connections can't come from 1:1s. They come from actual, reasonably frequent, informal interactions over time.
The gall of that, especially at a time when all you did all day every day is turn in handwriting samples.
"Climate science debunked"
I haven't kept up since the drama, it's possible they did after.
It doesn't necessarily have to be done through further government intervention. Simply removing government protections and subsidies for industry would go a long way.

That's definitely not a complete solution (if one exists), but that could be implemented over night if we wanted to do it.
My guess is that it's a deliberate choice by the style guide. It's a frequent enough word to warrant its own acronym, but it's technically not a common noun, like "scuba." Hence the capitalization. Another example that springs to mind is "Covid" instead of "COVID-19."
yes! absolutely.

> I think interpretable is a overloaded term.

Author here, this is basically the tl;dr of the paper I kept referencing throughout the post. My take, I hope I was clear, is that understanding the inner workings isn't very helpful, except for ML engineers trying to debug a model.

I think I'd break the terms down something like

- debuggable: The traditional definition of interpretability

- trustable: What I talk about here
To be fair, it does work if you value security above both freedom and creativity. Singapore is one of the safest if not the safest city on earth when it comes to crime
The 'fees' are primarily in the form of high taxes on new gasoline cars, and especially high taxes on new cars with large/powerful engines. If you want, say a BMW M3 with the biggest and most powerful engine, then you're probably paying a $76k premium compared to the US. If you want to buy a small 30 year old piece of crap then the additional taxes aren't anywhere near that high.
Banks keep getting hit with (compared to revenue) low fines over and over again. This explanation is always given. Also the people who decide what the fine is going to be keep getting jobs at banks.

Curious. Willing to bet some of these regulators kids end up at Dish over the next few years.
That heavily depends on who you listen to.

CIA indeed defines Northern Europe as you describe, including Denmark, plus Iceland. [1] However the United Nations has a different definition, which also includes the Baltics, UK, and Ireland. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Europe#CIA_World_Fact...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Europe#UN_geoscheme_c...
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