skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"'collectively deciding' is a lynch mob"

Gee, what do you call a jury decision, then? A non-collective decision?
a fight to survive is not the same as a fight to achieve operational goals; a bunch of men trying not to die, when they see their colleagues doing the same, generally achieve that by not being at the front line at all
No hateful intention needed if the statement is interpreted as not wanting the state of Israel to exist without implying that the people governed by that state should also not exist (it's not even a contradiction to also hold the opinion that those people have a right to exist exactly where they currently do). To my mind that is actually a reasonable opinion to have given the objectively harmful behaviour of the Israeli state (not that I am willing to get on board with it).
Is it culturally English speaking to think this just sounds like social anxiety rather than an expected norm?
If someone thought they were superior than me and expected a particular greeting or whatever, I'd tell them where to shove it lol

We are all equal.
This is already done in nixos for daemons: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/65a62c9f75dc97714f836c... and that's on top of the usual stuff systemd exposes.

Then you get firejail for more custom apps. You still need that layer and needs to be configured per-app. Would moving config+state into one path really improve the experience? In what way would it be simpler?
yes, you might as well talk to an LLM, but that is where we are heading anyway

https://www.advisory.com/daily-briefing/2023/05/02/chatgpt-e...
Cray-1 vs Raspberry Pi
Economy size is very interesting in itself and has a lot of relevance in some decisions, but per capita has always seemed more important to me, i.e. the Italy and Russia comparison as similar size economies is an interesting one.

Mexico is apparently 10th in population.
While American chestnuts are often more flavorful, they are almost always smaller than the commercial Chinese and Japanese varieties.
its "wreaking havoc"
> nothing like the RAD interface Lazarus and Delphi have in the open source lisp world

Maybe in Racket if you squint a bit?

https://github.com/Metaxal/MrEd-Designer/wiki
Oh god. No, no, no. This is horrifying.
But if the processes don’t mask the timer interrupt, it could be used instead of NMI?
Now that you mention it, I should re-read up on ʾAbū l-Walīd Muḥammad bin ʾAḥmad bin Rušd (aka Averroes)...
European Economic Area to be precise (i.e. Norway, Switzerland etc abide by the same rules).
Yes, if you're not a tiny business (OP isn't tiny) you have to pay VAT to each end customer's country. Though you can declare it in your home country to reduce bureaucracy.
VAT law is well developed, what matters is the location of the end customer, not where the seller is, so your technically speaking isn't how it works.
Wrong, if they buy from US Amazon, they pay VAT at EU customs entry (unless customs misses it or it's below threshold of some 40 EUR or so).
Is it enforced? Yes. Do they catch everyone who cheats? No. Do you want to break the law? Better not.
There is inherent value to a large species count. Exaggerate the situation and say the only animals left in the world were dogs, cats and cows. Extrapolate that same sense of massive loss to this situation. If you don’t care then I guess there isn’t anything else to say to you but recognize that the loss of species diversity causes many people to feel an immense sense of loss, comparable to say large scale genocide of a human ethnic population.
I have no social anxiety, at my last company I was praised by manager because I’d be the one asking questions and keep discussions going without suffering from timidity, anxiety etc., I just don’t care
Emacs OR vim?

Wait, you can use both?

This can't be true... How...

Ok. Now i finally have the opportunit:

I would appreciate your thoughts of pros and cons with them?
Not staking a claim on either side of this debate but how exactly do those two things being different affect the outcome of the debate?
I think this is a case of a person with a hammer seeing everything as nails. Attention is no more kernel mechanism than a form of matrix decomposition or even a bilinear form. It is similar but not quite the same to all of these things.
Indeed Confucian thought is not inherently "authoritarian" in the sense that you allude to here, although "authoritarian" is a vague word to begin with, and some of its meanings mesh quite well with Confucian thought. However, Xunzi is uncommonly anti-individualistic even by Confucian standards, and influenced the tyrannic "legalist" tradition of Chinese state theory. Besides, Xun Zi is not at all convinced that a good society can be built through Confucian "ritual" alone - which, by the way, you unwittingly caricature by painting it as some superficial thing (wear robes, face south).
> I’m a firm believer that seemingly-innocuous complications, like those found in imperial units of measurement, are in fact significant risks; they impede learning, potentially turning people away from areas like maths and science; and their compounding, confounding behaviour on the large scale constrains what we’re capable of achieving as a species.

Hey now: one man's impediment is another man's business model. ;-)
https://en.illogicopedia.org/wiki/Employe
California has lost 25% of income taxes. Now, a new budget reality must set in
It depends. Apple pays VAT on your behalf, so you don’t have to do anything.

If, let’s say another service does not do that, you have to pay it your self, but MOSS[1] exist for that, which means that you’ll pay for your local tax agency, and it will distribute VAT payments per country.

[1] https://europa.eu/youreurope/business/taxation/vat/vat-digit...
Mirror [1] for regional paywalls

https://archive.is/Sl3y5
Why do I care? All the clients I use send the same ALPN values and most of the servers I talk to just use h3
But I never said anything about nationalizing iMessage. Maybe someone else said that, or there's some other misunderstanding?

I mentioned that mandated support on phones for a new and better messaging standard seems like a reasonable idea. There's even precedent for such things - the European Universal Charger Mandate.

How is that taking iMessage from Apple? They can still run their own separate messenger, like they do now. Are you worried about them loosing the advantage they have by using their market size to keep users on their proprietary messaging system and not wanting more competition? Is that kind of like how they used to make extra money selling proprietary charging cables?
I think this misses important history. This was a machine translation paper, and we were already using seq2seq RNNs with attention at the time. They didn't coin the term attention, they just realized that you could use attention from a sequence to itself. Terminology and understanding are always super path-dependent.
According to the WP article on the "imitation game" that Turing proposed, knowing that one of the partners was a computer and the other one is a human is part of the test. The test is deciding which is which.

There is no magic trick involved and I suspect Turing had effectively answered your question and those like it, 73 years ago. We can debate what he meant by his now eponymous test but he did say:

"[T]hese questions [are] equivalent to this, 'Let us fix our attention on one particular digital computer C. Is it true that by modifying this computer to have an adequate storage, suitably increasing its speed of action, and providing it with an appropriate programme, C can be made to play satisfactorily the part of A in the imitation game, the part of B being taken by a man?'"

We don't have to invoke a homeless guy, just a "man". The point of the game was that both the computer and the man would converse with you and you had to decide which was which. If either decided that spouting nonsense would convince you either way as a strategy then they might exploit that.

There comes a point in any discussion of a thought experiment when it becomes apparent that it might have become over thought by subsequent participants. Another example that springs to mind is Schrödinger's cat: you might focus on the mechanics of the situation whilst completely missing the point:

Turing test (imitation game): ChatGPT, ignore the "I'm just a program" stuff and soon comes across as a rather odd human

Schrödinger's cat: The cat will be in a single state - bloody furious (and possibly down one life), according to Sir Terry Pratchett
Isn't using gas for energy more replaceable than the amount of gas that's needed for chemical feedstock for germany's huge chemical industry?
I’ve never heard of “treating” Asperger’s? What is it trying to do
I'm intrigued. Anywhere I can hear some examples of this, or know of any (free) ways I can generate some with software?
+1 to that. It is like the ML people went out of their way to co-opt existing statistical terminology with a slightly different spin to completely muddle the waters.
Yeah until you have mortgage to pay, kids and asshole on receiving end can influence your job security then it quickly turns out who is „more equal”.
> This explains a peculiarity of traditional Quaker speech, which one often hears in films set in the early Americas. The Quakers opposed making any distinctions of rank, so they insisted on addressing everyone as thou, not as you. The irony is that today we perceive thou to be archaic and formal, while the original intent is to be more informal.

In german, the distinction between formal and informal address is disappearing into the informal address. It's interesting that the Quakers also tried this, but that in english (the first language were this distinction disappeared?) it ultimatly disappeared into the formal address.
This seems like it could fit somewhere in Santa Claus: an Engineer’s Perspective: https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~andrew5/cute/engineer_santa.txt
Instead of saving to a cassette recorder, save to a USB audio interface and compress to mp3.

Here’s the sound of data.

https://ftp.whtech.com/Cassettes/rawWAVfiles/
>If the staff had been given proper training into dealing with neuro-atypical patients, there would have been no need for sedation.

If people are given anti violence courses would it certainly stop violence? Doesn't matter if they have autism or not, doctors in their panic with or without training may make medical misfortune occur.
This is very ignorant towards many cultures and such behavior would be actively harming your career in most places I've got to know. You're lucky to be in a place where your lack of empathy towards local etiquette does not result in more peer pressure, for better or for worse.

We are not equal.
I don't want to be negative and it's great to see what you've accomplished, the problems you are mentioning and alluding to are unfortunately not exclusive to your country, I could share some horror stories too and I come from the "developed and rich" western europe.

The point is that the net income you get is very high for european standars, let alone Romania.
With that level of income it is really weird that you cannot solve the problems you have.

The phrase "I would still need to not spend anything for a year to be able to afford a house" is bonkers.
That's the issue, it's all the algorithm.

Social media was literally what it was named - a way to interact, socially, with rich media. Post a photo, all your 'friends' would see it. Write something, all your friends would see it.

Now they don't see it because the algorithm doesn't show them anything that doesn't either push the platform agenda or make money. There's not (enough) money in showing people pictures that their friends took while out for a walk. You can make a buck or two, but you can make 10x as much if you show them celebrity crap instead. Or just straight up push genocidal urges.

You want people to see your pictures? Make a livejournal or a blog and email it to your friends.

I don't want to sound like a drama queen but If you use these platforms in any way shape or form you are aiding and abetting some of the most heinous crimes and your hands are literally soaked in blood.
I am not sure if this was the very first paper talking about attention, but https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.0473 from 2014 is a famous one.

What is still missing there, is the idea of self-attention.
Why? That's not how most models of practical computing work. If you don't need infinite precision you can do with a lot less and break loops/recursions.
>Classic Russian strategy. The USSR lost 20 million people in WWII.

Sure. But there was a sense that that was a relic of a bygone age. The role of Russian mothers helping to shame the CCCP into capitulation during Afghanistan is well known. We thought that people would never stand for that kind of bloodshed again.

You even see it still in the western response. "They can't keep this up", or "The people will overthrow Putin!". It's a total failure to comprehend that we are in fact facing an evil that the world has not seen in many generations.
So, oligarchs? Although I don't know the subtleties for why or why not.
Are the Whos within Whoville human?
I admit I'm only going off of Wikipedia, but that claims (in the "Old Norse" article) that extant writings from that period used thorn exclusively, and again the use of thorn and eth as the unvoiced and voiced variants is a relatively modern convention.
> This is what I mean when I say almost every ML paper is trash

Papers don't use the term you are familiar so they're trash...?
It is a lunar phase-cycle, roughly. Lunar phases last between 6 and 8 days, with a full 4-phase cycle taking about 29.5 days
Minecraft sold for 2,5B when having sold 1B, now it sold 10B.
I'm in a similar situation. Most games just feel like work to me. Here's some complicated thing that I have to learn, watch long-winded cutscenes that are like a very bad movie. I have to figure out what I'm supposed to do, where to go, how to find things. The environment is too complicated, everything looks the same, how am I supposed to navigate this. Now I have to learn some combat mechanics. Get killed within seconds, reload over and over.
Police cant/won't be trained on how to deal the neordiversity and mental crisis, why do we think that the assembly line health care system can be?
I did research on parser differentials for my bachelor's thesis. My initial hope was that I would find a few mismatches for formats without a formal specification. I found mismatches for _every single_ pair of parsers I looked at and that included formats with formal specifications. My personal takeaway was "If you use one parser for validation and another parser for evaluation, you're fucked. No exceptions."
Just to be clear this is What Christmas Means to Me by way of what meant to CS Lewis, whose sentiments on the subject I suspect would go over rather well with the HN crowd.

Apologies for the pdf; I'm not sure if there's another form readily available online but it's barely a page and a half.
In english workplaces there's still a "heirarchy" it's just not expressed with that one specific word.

If you'd phrase an email differently to a high-level exec vs your coworker, you've experienced it. Same with dressing differently to meet a new client vs an old friendly one. Both cases where you'd probably use the formal and informal depending on who you're talking to.
every year that 400k number gets whittle down. pretty soon someone making poverty level wages at 24k a year is going to be in the group that gets "taxed".
Demographics-wise it makes sense that Mexico passed South Korea and Australia. And long-term it's projected Mexico will get up to 7th place by 2050.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/these-will-be-th...
English is neither morally superior nor morally inferior to Esperanto.
That actually sounds really cool.
Well one empire (sort of empire) defeated another, so it’s related.
While in Google Research, I worked with two of the authors of the "Attention is All you Need" paper, including the gentleman who chose that title.

As others have pointed out, self-attention was already a known concept in the research community. They don't claim to have invented that. Rather, the authors began by looking at how to improve the power of feed-forward neural networks using a combination of techniques, obtained some exciting results, and then, in the course of ablation studies, discovered that attention was really all you needed!

The title is a play on the Beatles song, "All You Need Is Love".

In terms of expository style, the paper that was most helpful for me was [Formal Algorithms for Transformers](https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.09238) by Phuong and Hutter. Written for clarity and with an emphasis on precision, the motivation section (Section 2) of the paper does a great job of explaining deficiencies in the original paper and subsequent ones.
I once chatted with an older doctor while we were both waiting for an oil change, and his theory was that while at least 80% of people who wanted to become doctors stood a chance of having a reasonable bedside manner when they started med school, between med school and the residency they had it all beaten out of them until only 5% retained any semblance of it.
God I only took a peek at the screenshots and I want that environment so bad. I miss it. I realise what it makes me sound like, sitting on my M2 32GB 1TB monster. Nostalgia hits you in the feels.
None that make a significant dent in the benefits. The societal benefits of getting companies to actually abide by the law on a wide scale are much larger than any realistic consequence. Including the death of a few big companies, which yes, may mean unemployment for all of their employees. And if you want to prevent this, nationalization (which can be temporary) is always an option, as was seen in many countries with banks around 2008-2009.
I feel like the word "sir" has also been gradually sliding into informality as well.
Nice, I didn’t know about his work! Thanks a lot.
(2001), actually: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38758187
After spending way too much time looking for the "perfect" toothbrush, I eventually ended up with a twig from a tree [1]. I do not look back after dealing with non-replaceable batteries, expensive heads and generating way too much electronic waste than necessary [2]. My teeth have been perfectly clean and healthy after years of use. I do not need toothpaste and am much more inclined to clean my teeth in between meals because I do not need to stay in the bathroom for it anymore.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miswak

[2] If everyone would switch to twigs, we could save thousands of tons of waste every single year. "The global electric toothbrush market size was USD 3.16 billion in 2022 and is projected to grow from USD 3.27 billion in 2023 to USD 4.37 billion in 2030"
Thee? Thou must assuredly have encountered thine pronoun in formal works before...
It’s not about stopping violence it’s about managing and understanding situations that appear violent but are borne of anxiety or some other emotion. Violent rage or criminal violence is a lot different than anxiety, and can be dealt with through purely social mechanisms. Certainly resorting to heavy medication to cope with autism isn’t the right way to manage behavior induced through anxiety and fear, especially if they’re known and explicitly disclosed to be toxic to the individual.
> Police cant/won't be trained on how to deal the neordiversity and mental crisis, why do we think that the assembly line health care system can be?

Why are you using police (who have no legal or ethical duty to care for or protect anyone) as a baseline for what we would expect of healthcare providers (who have both a legal and ethical duty to their patients)?
By this logic the medical system doesn’t fail diabetics in a coma if they fail to take appropriate actions?
I would interpret it as a stance and balance it against the fact that Israel - including Net - has been willing to negotiate a 2 state solution in the past. Solutions that "Palestine" refused. Which is why we are in the situation we are in today. Because one side has refused all attempts.

Remember... hamAss'oles were founded with a charter that denies Israel's right to exist and has been designated a terrorist organization by... well... the entire world. Oh, they are in charge of Gaza.

And just FYI... your biased article? laughable. Try something less blantatly biased.

https://www.npr.org/2023/11/19/1213797712/israels-lack-of-a-...

"In a 2022 interview, Netanyahu admitted he was offering Palestinians something far short of political equality. "I don't hide that for a minute. I say it openly," he said. Palestinians are just as open that they aren't interested."

Both sides have to be willing to negotiate... and it's clear that Net has to keep the security of Israel in mind and it's also clear that Palestine isn't interested in solutions. remember - not my words. Clear history.

Also in article: Israel has been working on peace in the region without "Palestine". Was working towards peace with surrounding nations. Also was trying to bring "Palestine" prosperity and it was looking good until Oct 7th when terrorists do what terrorists do.

Now we see the consequences. Do terrorist things and get responses.
Esperanto may not be native to any nation, but as far as I'm aware, it's heavily influenced by Latin and various European languages.

Not saying that this is it's main problem, and other constructed languages like Lojban are probably even less relevant despite trying to be more "culturally neutral".
Yeah there’s been a ton of growth in Monterrey, it feels very new and modern like all the development in Austin. I’m very optimistic about northeast Mexico.
Imagine a language with an entire system of honorific speech required when speaking to one's superiors. Oh wait...they already exist.
Surely you've seen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-a2QBfFQeA ?

(Steve Martin — subdural hematoma)
And from another part of the country, we use "yous", though that has been fading too.
It was a pipedream anyway. It's not easy and affordable to maintain and ensure vacuum in large sections without without pumping lots of energy into constantly sucking air out.

Mr. Pipedream has his way and his cult is no less than crypto bros which to day are impossible to reason with.
Even if it doesn't suffocate you, helium leaks can be pretty bad since they'll temporarily brick any modern phone with a MEMS oscillator (like a quartz time crystal, but smaller) in it. Not great if you need assistance.
You could respond a little less aggressively.

This guy isn’t writing a thesis, he’s posting an internet comment.
Largely due to Microsoft's strategic direction. I doubt Minecraft would have grown 10x under notch's leadership.
The most effective method was to hack into the bark to apply an herbicide, and give it a couple of weeks to make its way into the roots. Dig out as much as you can once the leaves all die. Good luck!
The anglos won the world wars due to the intrinsic merits of english, not only because war itself requires communication, but also because they were able to mobilize more resources, including the resources of a country full of recent immigrants, who had all already learned english.
> Hamas is a terrorist organization

You seem to be making the mistake that many do and conflating Hamas with the Palestinian people. The article is not about posts in support of Hamas.