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by dvt 3y ago
I'm not sure what you mean. In California, at least, they do. But different states have different laws w.r.t. emission standards.
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by dvt 3y ago
As you might expect from such a polarizing issue and thread, doing some research shows that the JD Power and Associates stat (80% of sold cars are trucks and SUVs) is extremely misleading, and probably meant to just be a headline-grabber. I
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by dvt 3y ago
> It’s not a mapping of words. It’s a mapping of character sequences. This is plainly wrong if you read the word2vec paper.
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by dvt 3y ago
Most tokens are word or sub-word level. A token can be "find" or two tokens can be "find" and "ing." To argue that this isn't inherently using the underlying grammar rules is plainly wrong. To argue that a
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by dvt 3y ago
> This is not true and is easy enough to test. How exactly is this not true? Embeddings are literally a mapping of (English) words to numbers.
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by dvt 3y ago
> I'm not really clear what you're trying to argue here. Prohibition fell out of popularity, so to me it seems like it was a failure because it didn't significantly impact domestic policy in the long-term. As opposed to so
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by dvt 3y ago
> 14 years to repeal It took that long to repeal because it was an amendment (and thus needed another amendment to repeal it). The rest of your post basically says people drank less therefore less people drank (it's obvious that if
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by dvt 3y ago
Super cool, any pictures? I think the minute/second hands would probably be too hard to reliably see, but this would be a really unique looking watch.
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by dvt 3y ago
> That's not a good example of non-prohibition Yep, which is why I used the term "more lenient policies," not necessarily non-prohibition. Opium dens were getting more and more problematic in San Francisco[1] until they we
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by dvt 3y ago
True, though I suspect most people do this calculus: would I rather want a drug addict to be on the streets or in jail? (Especially if the crime is violent.) Keep in mind that I have no idea how to "fix" this, and it's a very
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by dvt 3y ago
> If a drug user actually manages to get clean... Ah, I was assuming the drug addict (or at least a signification portion) wouldn't be getting clean. A large part of Portugal's policy is focused on safe drug use (decriminaliz
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by dvt 3y ago
> Basically I think this is the right approach. Drug use at low levels in endemic. I don't think it makes sense for huge swathes of otherwise law abiding citizens to be technically criminals. While I do agree that prohibition is pro
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by dvt 3y ago
If you want all the details, I can recommend a philosophy degree :P
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by dvt 3y ago
Imo Stack Overflow has absolutely been destroyed by the moderators. I was (and still am) in the top ~%0.80 of users[1] but no longer contribute to the site (I stopped ~6 years ago) because of the moderators. It has been an absolute shitshow
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by dvt 3y ago
> More distant than that. It all comes from Euclid. Who, you know, was actually tremendously successful in that project. I of course know of his Elements, but is there any evidence that Euclid was an axiomatic reductionist? Was he trying
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by dvt 3y ago
Leibnitz followed very closely in the footsteps of the Neoplatonists and he was what you'd call a rationalist's rationalist. He would be later rebuked by Hume (the famous is-ought problem made moral— ought —problems fundamentall
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by dvt 3y ago
Twitter has been doing this for ages though. Plenty of other examples of handles being taken from people and give to famous people. For example, if you registered @snoopdog early or whatever, these handles were routinely re-appropriated.
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by dvt 3y ago
> raising the standard of living Ah yes, you must be referencing the Holodomor here. That sure raised the standard of living. Marxism-Leninism is, without a shadow of a doubt, a fundamentally evil ideology. > rapidly developing indust
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by dvt 3y ago
Your point is straight-up bonkers and the data you yourself cite disproves it. Comparing the UAE (one country, an outlier at that, due to their subsidized incentives) to the collective immigration to Australia + USA + Western Europe + Japan
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by dvt 3y ago
> and trying to force every country around the world to adopt their 'values'. Hot take: Yes. Because classical liberalism, the free market, and bottom-up government has done more for the advancement of humankind than sharia law
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by dvt 3y ago
Worldcoin is a terrible example imo, it's beyond DOA. Much like the rest of crypto, no one will seriously use it, unless we're talking speculation. I think that the riots in HK, the united front against Russia, etc. clearly show t
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by dvt 3y ago
Yes of course, this is also how people get around ageism (you're simply "not a good fit"). All in all, it still doesn't make it right.
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by dvt 3y ago
An employer cannot retaliate if you're running for office or have whatever political beliefs you may have. This is from the California Labor Code, but if I remember correctly, every State has this protection in place: > Labor Code s
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by dvt 3y ago
> It's funny, because posting that list of businesses is... also pretty petty. People boycott things all the time for all kinds of reasons. Some people boycott Israeli businesses due to the Israel/Palestine conflict, other peop
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by dvt 3y ago
As a UCLA alum, I always appreciate seeing Kareem's blog posts on here. I think their friendship was fascinating, and I wish I could have seen Bruce Lee grow old.
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by dvt 3y ago
> That said, AlphaGo went from "hallucinating" bad moves to the best player in the world in a fairly short period of time. If this is at all doable for language models, GPT-x may blow all this out of the water. I think the stat
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by dvt 3y ago
This is my hot take: we're slowly entering the "tooling" phase of AI, where people realize there's no real value generation here, but people are so heavily invested in AI, that money is still being pumped into building s
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by dvt 3y ago
> If you know anything about asynchronous sockets it should be that multi-threading a socket doesn't actually yield you more requests / second, and it can actually lower it... Re-read this a few times, and I'm fairly convi
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by dvt 3y ago
Not sure if this is facetious, but HN does have a rule that prohibits editorializing. From the Guidelines: "Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."
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by dvt 3y ago
The whole thing is red for me (the screenshot I took is from below the title). I use Brave, but I also checked it out on Edge and Chrome, and there it's only the title (so I do think it's a bug on Brave). To be fair, even the titl

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