skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not going to post this link to every post where it's relevant, but:

Trump returned to that theme in November 2022, when he officially launched his 2024 presidential campaign. "We're going to be asking everyone who sells drugs, gets caught selling drugs, to receive the death penalty for their heinous acts," he said.

https://reason.com/2023/10/24/trump-who-freed-drug-offenders...

You'll note there are comments here saying saying that he generally keeps his campaign promises. On the bright side I don't agree, but on the other hand I think he does often enough, especially for the "well of course he didn't literally mean that" ones.
Thanks to submit this link.
Nobody's preventing you from drinking raw milk, injecting disinfectant, and popping horse dewormer pills to own the libs. Go ahead, make my day!
All of the presidents pardon tons of people unpalatable to the other side of the political spectrum. They usually just save it for the end of their term so it doesn’t cause too much noise.
I used to work at a game company fresh out of college, and this is simply untrue. The company made roughly 40% of sales from cheater whales (one can imagine how much the chest makers made), and there were guidelines on repeated bans where we recognized similarities to make sure we wouldn't ban them again too early.

I left the industry because of thah and the other things like loot boxes and matchmaking for profit and to push micro transactions. It's a terrible place.
I am in London at the moment but I worked in Italy, Austria, USA before. I would never, for any kind of money, go back to academia to the USA for the reasons you listed.
I'd say steering wheels are "normally capped at 1"... although I recall one distinct occasion where I expected two steering wheels, in a training car for new drivers. Alas, it seemed the local school-district could only afford a car with a second brake-pedal for the instructor, which did very little to help my anxieties.

So my first time behind the (singular) wheel and they told me to pull onto a major street next to the school, without even doing circles in a parking lot or anything. I guess they just expected most students had already done some illicit/private driving? Anywho, it was more stressful than any rollercoaster and I had shaky legs when my turn was finally over.

(Then I put an onion on my belt, as was the style of the time...)
I remember removing the IR filter from a cheap webcam and seeing everything in a new light (haha, pun intended) was fascinating. One of my black coats that didn't get hot under the sun and appeared more reflective and. I remember some opaque things like Coke being much more translucent.

These winning photos are a bit boring my comparison, the ghostly effect of foliage in IR is cool but a bit overdone when there's so many and there were so many other interesting differences in every day objects.

I'd love to do the same with my mirrorless camera but it's a quite destructive operation.
Yes, alright, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what has the federal government ever done for us?
UTXO vs. Account Model in Bitcoin
>all people and institutions within a country, state, or community are accountable to the same laws

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Extrajudicial_killing...
why don't you spam the companies who want your data instead? The sites can simply stop gathering your data, then they will not require to ask for consent ...
This is why people only blame the DZOQBX brands that sell on Amazon for review fraud and not Amazon themselves, who are blamelessly hosting all those fraudulent sellers.
You're right that the main basis is the automation part. That being said they could have gone with a system that does not require a yearly 2K fee to just be a part of the peppol group.

That's my only negative point about this whole system is that money is being pulled away from freelancers and small SME's for every invoice they send.

The big guys just setup an access point and pay the yearly fee as it is nothing compared to their revenue.
Yeah, I remember the silk web being exclusively for cancer treatments not yet approved by the FDA. /s
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Legitimately and I say this was absolutely no shade intended. This is a reading comprehension problem, nothing to do with aphantasia.

He clearly states that he was reading an article, he uses past tense verbs when referring to Ross, and to the events spelled out in the article. If you somehow thought that he could be reading an article that ostensibly has to be describing a past event as he was seeing it in real time that is a logic flaw on you.

It has nothing to do with what you can or cannot visualize. All you have to do is ask yourself could he have been reading an article about Ross’s arrest while watching it? Since nobody can violate the causality of space time the answer is no.

This isn’t just you this is everybody in this thread who is reading this and going this is a little confusing. No it’s very clearly him speaking about a past experience reading an article about a past event.
Why is it not a bad idea? Isn't it then just an example of Tyranny of the Majority?

Taken to the extreme, we could have an impartial legal system putting in prison criminals from an even mix of society, and then the president pardoning everyone from the majority group, leaving in prison only the minorities.
Mmh - that's difficult. I should dedicate a blog article to that topic. Probably can't get to it until next month, though.
Did you give up a pension?
How Did This Soldier 'Grow' an Ear on Her Forearm?
It is an incremental process though. It's not like it's just happening, it's something you work towards to. The response may be random, but what you put in is not.
> How do the billion people in Europe do it?

Last I checked, they use government. Two governments, I think.
He made a fix in https://github.com/crazywolf132/evo/commit/2452bec536d9b4d60... but he converted the indentation at the same time, and does not PRs at all. It's dangerous amateur stuff.
The abstract https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762 explains it well:

"The dominant sequence transduction models are based on complex recurrent or convolutional neural networks in an encoder-decoder configuration. The best performing models also connect the encoder and decoder through an attention mechanism. We propose a new simple network architecture, the Transformer, based solely on attention mechanisms, dispensing with recurrence and convolutions entirely."

They did not invent attention, but while previous language models had used attention as an auxiliary mechanism, they removed everything but the attention and the models still worked. Really, the title already says it all.
Can someone explain, why this is needed and why ARM is involved?

I understand the desire for standardization in the Chiplet space, but why is this something ARM is concerned about? Does the transition to Chiplets impact ISA?
I would have assumed it being transparent from a system architecture's perspective, a mere technical detail, nothing within ARM's scope.
well, it also starts a fair share of wars, or lets say, "brings freedom and democracy in exchange for resources and power" and sometimes even decides to topple leaders in foreign countries to then put puppets into place.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...
The Day Instagram Blocked Democracy
In Italy we would translate "two 2s, zero 3s, and one 5" as "due 2, zero 3 e un 5". No plurals for the numbers. By the way "un" is the "a" article and not the "uno" number. Using the number would sound more than strange.

Languages are just what they settled down to be, until they change little by little every day.
This article takes a typically political and ideological view of the situation.

Rent controls never solve issues, in fact they make them worse by doing the opposit of what would help (they reduce supply and increase demand, while the opposite is needed).

Here the market is simply finding a way around rent controls because the demand is so high vs. supply.
Incidentally i see 'on accident' more from Americans. In British English we tend to use 'by', so 'on' sounds a little strange but I've grown to like it recently.
>So how do you do this if you have an oracle that answers the exact question you have without any struggle?

By that logic we should all go back to using an abacus and slide ruler for calculations.

Life is about making progress, not struggling with outdated ways for the sake of it. Struggle isn't a virtue.

If give people the task of banging nails into a wall and one uses his head to bang nails, the other use a hammer, and the third uses a nail gun, which is more productive and valuable, the one who struggles the most or the one who gets it done quickly and efficiently?
I'm afraid that the current administration is fond on this business model. Borderline criminal business models behind curtains.
> Hasn't the US decided to prefer nuclear and fossil fuels (most expensive generation methods) over renewables (least expensive generation methods)?[1][2]

This completely ignores storage and the ability to control the output depending on needs. Instead of LCOE the LFSCOE number makes much more sense in practical terms.
Honest question/thought experiment: if we only elected people who are qualified for their job (assume we can measure competence at least in some dimensions like we do for a myriad of other professions before we allow people to work in them) and if the election process was set up in a way where when casting your ballot you have to take a multiple choice quiz which tests for basic knowledge on what you will vote for and the country you’re in (as in “what is the household budget roughly, is this candidate in favour or against x, did the crime rate increase or decrease nominally” take these as rough examples of what I mean), to ensure that the people who vote for something have some clue what they are voting for and the broader context it’s embedded in (we require a license to drive a car, this would be akin to have a having a license to vote) would that remedy the situation a little? The idea would be that informed people would vote for informed people. Could you imagine this being a net benefit or not? I would assume it would make democracies significantly better than they are now. Imagine going to a doctors office to find out your doctor is a Plummer and he was voted into this job and that the people working for him and handling your prescription is a random assortment of people he seems to like.
Can't comment on the product, but the HN title does not link to your website. You have to copy paste it from the text manually.
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The point with Japan is that their economy is completely stagnant. It's entirely possible to see a healthy growing economy without having runaway inflation. Again, the US was the obvious example. The Campbell's Soup Index is quite a visible illustration of how radically things changed. But with our current system you get endless inflation that negatively affects vast swaths of the population to the benefit of a relatively small percent. Or you get Japan - which went from competing for the world's largest economy to having a dead economy.

As a side note, population age ratios are directly determined by fertility rates. And we went from a system where people were comfortably raising family on a single income, to one where full time workers living alone are, in many cases, not exactly thriving, let alone trying to raise a whole family on that income. Most developed economies are seeing fertility rates plummet and it's entirely possible that monetary policy is indeed playing some potentially significant role in that!
The US government does not have profit margins. It hasn’t run a balanced budget in decades. What are you even trying to say?
Go tell that to Amazon, Facebook and Microsoft.
Yes, but T5 is at least a normal acronym: Text-To-Text Transfer Transformer (albeit a bit forced)
NFTs couldn't pass the Turing test, something I didn't expect to witness in my lifetime.

The two are qualitatively different.
> There's still plenty of slop in there, and it would be a better gallery […]

Thanks for sharing your better AI gallery. It's awesome to see.

Your reply clarifies my point even better: I shared a gallery, you evaluated it and shared an even better gallery! Undoubtedly someone else will look at yours today or next year, and say, as you said, "You missed a slop! Here's a better gallery".

My point fundamentally is about basic capability of the average and even above average person. As a classically trained amateur painter, I frequently ask myself: "Can I paint a nude figure better than what you've called slop?" As I mathematician I ask: "Can I reason better than this model?"
> he knowingly pursued enormous risk in order to achieve outsized benefits

Like it or not, this makes him a heroic figure in the eyes of many people.

> we shouldn't have bailed him out

Bailing him out comes at no cost. Letting him rot in prison provides no benefit to anyone.
Apple’s on device models are
around 3B if I’m nit mistaken, and they developed some nice tech around them that they published, if I’m not
mistaken - where they have just one model, but have switchable finetunings of that model so that it can perform different functionalities depending on context.
> I find the "why" points not appealing to me

I yearn for Pijul every time I want to submit multiple dependent PRs to github and then fix any not-last one in the chain.

Actually I'm not sure if it'd help at all with the github part, but at least rebasing all this wouldn't be a horror.
Yes, but the moonshine part wasn’t part of the sport or its celebration. It was about racing cars regular people could buy: “stock cars”.
I think it's just a play on the fact that mercator distorts distances significantly, rather than actually being accurate. It's a 3-second website you open, exhale in hilarity and close.
Also his opsec was sloppy. If you want to believe that the spooks were doing full ipv4 scans to DDoS all his legit exit nodes that would make a better movie. But really, he was just in over his head.

Predictably, dark web market operators adapted afterward. The state got lucky and they knew it, so that also factored in to their sentencing recommendations.

Glad he's getting out.
I realised what was going on, but I did a double-take at:

> Then Ulbricht walked into the public library and sat down at the table directly in front of me

The problem is that two past events are being described, so tense alone cannot distinguish them. Cut the readers some slack; the writing could have been better.
The swiftness here really cements the notion of a useful idiot. Makes you wonder who crafted the details then the execution.
> No, fiat currencies are backed by the belief that the government will not abuse their ability to print money.

That's part of their value, but not their backing. This is one of the reasons something like a gold standard is nonsensical: the amount of gold a country has is wholly unrelated to its economic strength (I think we agree on this).

> Most countries in the world have been abusing their currencies as a 'hack' for growth.

I don't think there's any evidence for this. AIUI growth is entirely explained by technology (e.g. fracking) and natural resource discovery. From time to time something very bad happens and we dump money into the economy, and depending on what the bad thing was that can be a moral hazard or potentially inflationary, but we've only ever seen that on a very small scale (the COVID stimuli were responsible for a very small proportion of the recent inflation spike).

> Granted you still have the zillion other negative effects (as per the wtfhappenedin1971) site, but you can at least keep moving forward because the peasants (who are the most negatively affected) will just take it anyhow, so long as they have bread and circuses.

Income and wealth inequality aren't the result of printing money, and my evidence here is the robber baron era. This is something else goldbugs never want to reckon with: sure things were pretty good in the post-war expansion, but what about before that? Oh right, the Great Depression... hmm. Oh right the robber baron era... hmm. Oh right, the panics of 1819, 1837, 1857, 1901, 1907, and 1910, the Long Depression in 1873, the financial crisis of 1914, the depression of 1920, the recessions in 1949, 1953, 1958, 1960, and 1969. And that's just the US.

Overall the criticism of floating currencies is fully detached from reality. Countries that use them are super successful, there are no successful countries that don't, the dangers that goldbugs warn about have never occurred and there's no evidence they will. On the other hand, the ability to print money is wildly effective when combating crises. So from a policy perspective, you're asking us to 100% endure depression after depression to avoid downsides that have 0% occurred. Even if you're right and you elect people who think you're right, the first depression will kick you and yours out of power forever.

This is the core problem I have with backseat policy entrepreneurs: they rarely have any (usually zero) appreciation of the issue's complexity. As soon as you try and engage in a detailed discussion, you get mired in moralisms and a total lack of empiricism. This debate inevitably goes down to "debt" and "inflation is the most immoral of taxes" (what a lack of imagination btw; I can think of so many virtuous things to tax) and both are full on polemics you can't at all discuss. Debt bad! Harming wage workers bad! Never mind that between 1971 and now things got infinitely better.
Last I heard it was closer to 5 millions, which regardless of the amount goes directly into the pockets of some reactionary old dudes.

They don't make a rule book, but they often make blog posts in which they clarify how they want "proper french" to look like.
Salt Typhoon isn't a misinformation campaign on X-itter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_Typhoon

This directive is shutting down a broad range of advisories under the DHS, perhaps you might like to read more in order to make a better informed comment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Extrajudicial_killing...
"Isn't it then just an example of Tyranny of the Majority?"

And how would you call a justice system, so complicated and convulted and therefore expensive that poor people (from minorities) don't really stand a chance to get their justice there?

Obviously Ross was not in that group, but I see presidential pardon as a potential tool to counter the flaws of the justice system.
It is a weird term. Why not paddle feet. "Web" for a membrane makes little sense.
Did you say this about Biden pardoning his whole family for their crimes, or just the ones Trump issued?
Ohhh, cheers - replacing it now
I like unit tests, and I would happily adopt a CI system if my project included non-Python code and had to build multiple wheels. But formatting code properly in my editor is second nature by now; the functions I write are typically so short that it'd be hard to do anything a linter would object to; and type-checking doesn't just introduce busy-work, it works against part of the reason I'm using Python in the first place. I actively don't want to tell people not to call my code with a perfectly compatible type just because I hadn't considered it as within the range of possible compatible types.
Authors or their institutions don't get a penny from paywalled papers either. Oftentimes they have to pay to publish. Authors choose the titles, sometimes reviewers (not paid a dime either) can demand changes to the title, and the academic editor (paid ziltch too) can require the changes.

This doesn't apply to arXiv though, as it is not peer reviewed nor edited and is funded by various institutions.

Admittedly the academic publishing system is so corrupt that it's hard to phantom, so it's easy to misunderstand it.

Typically you do pay for the papers (and publisher profits), either through taxes or inflated product prices.
Well, the stories goes that's actually an Al Capone gift to society
Yep, time to dust off PrimeFaces.
Never understood why cocos doesn't get more love.
Which is exactly what we do have: a president pardoning everyone from the majority political group. It's not consolation that the majority/minority groups are roughly equal.
In the age of "game engines", it's so good to see projects like this continuing and doing amazing things. More gamedevs should try making stuff with frameworks like SDL, instead of full-blown engines.
Don't worry, it'll only lead to superstupidity.
I guess you worked somewhere where that was considered a good business strategy then. I worked at a large publisher for over 10 years on couple big competitive titles and the idea always was to get cheaters off our service asap and permanently, no matter their spend(in fact we couldn't see that and it never made any impact on our engineering decisions around the problem).

>>It's a terrible place.

Some companies sure.

And yes sorry I realize I said "no one does this" - let me correct myself to say that in my experience at a couple big publishers this isn't a strategy anyone pursues because it's not worth the losses to your legit playerbase and reputation. But there might be companies that do this, I concede.
I agree that inheritance does too many things and has too many degrees of flexibility. I think other kinds of polymorphism like typeclasses don't have this issue, and are better due to that. Automation is highly preferable to documentation.

I think the discussion would benefit from you concretely working through an example. What change(s) are you proposing to how inheritance is done in C++ or Java, and how would they prevent spaghetti code and nested upcalls/downcalls?
We should have never allowed tech companies to get this big. Nothing good comes out of media being centralised in the hand of the few.
TikTok owner asks Chinese staff in Singapore to pay taxes to Beijing
> I suspect that the idea originally was to give some safety valve

That reminds me of the early 2000s, where there were a lot of US debates around around terrorism and "harsh interrogations" i.e. torture.

A certain bloc of politicians and commentators kept bringing up a hypothetical scenario where there was a nuclear bomb counting down, and some guy wouldn't admit where it was hidden in a major city. My favorite response to that involved presidential pardons, something along the lines of:

1. "So what? If everything you say is true, then the authorities would simply torture the guy and seek a pardon afterwards. We already have an exceptional mechanism for those exceptional situations, meaning that's not a reason to change it."

2. "Conversely, any interrogator who isn't confident of a pardon is on who does not believe it's at ticking-bomb situation, meaning they cannot justify torturing someone anyway, they just want to do it to make their job marginally easier. That's bad, so it should stay illegal."
> On its own

The reality is in front of you. So, you can't look at this "on its own".