skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That begs the question, presuming that voting on a decentralized platform is good.

A decentralized platform is verifiable and less prone to being rigged. All that's missing is proof of personhood.

> Decentralized governance and decentralized UBI in general.

Governance on decentralized platform can typically be approached via a few ways:

- weighting votes by compute power

- weighting votes by volume of ownership (eg of a coin)

- weighting votes by number of identities/wallets

The first two only serve the rich (the people that can afford GPU farms or equity), and will lead to an oligarchy.

The last doesn't work because one person can create infinite accounts (eg public/private key pairs.)

The last, however, can work if one person can only ever be linked to one account.

> “Privacy for the normal people!” Oh, I can’t imagine that starting a firestorm (and for good reason).

You are picking a really tiny edge case and saying the entire system can't work because of this.

You aren't considering the possibility that the edge case can be adequately resolved with enough thought and investment.
There are some good reasons this isn't the case. Often the submission title itself has something wrong in it, or is click-bait-y, or just needs some pointless fat trimmed from it to get to the point.

It's definitely not black and white.
Ah, this is a good point for those still using hypervisor schedulers which allow mapping different VMs to the same core.
I think Spotify should be careful, there are other alternatives, and maybe we’ll see a price war soon. Spotify is not solving music in a differentiated way anymore. Some might say that their algorithms are the best, but I find the app Mixonset much better. I miss Rdio.
The "missing 1" is a waste-category that is implicitly re-scaled.

The explicit 1 formulation is used in binary softmax, and the implicit (not seen 1) is used in multinomial softmax. I suspect this is the old "notation B looks silly in terms of notation A's standards."
Essentially you fly slightly sideways towards the target landing spot on the ground, which loses speed and/or altitude quicker than you otherwise would.

This is done by applying rudder and ailerons in opposite directions (e.g. full right rudder and enough left aileron to still be heading towards the intended spot).

Typically this would be a bad thing as it feels weird and is inefficient, but in this case the whole point is to be inefficient in order to lose altitude without gaining too much speed.
>> It persists in many places due to the deeply ingrained belief that, for one reason or another, it would be technically, practically, or economically impossible to migrate functionality off the mainframe.

> It is never technical or pratical reasons, always economic reasons. To use contemporary vocabulary, you "just" need to replicate a "multi tenant HA cloud environment" to migrate from a mainframe at great cost.

When your business processes are so ossified by a mainframe that you have, say, groups preparing Excel spreadsheets -- with data formatted from one mainframe screen in 3 columns -- for use by another group to input back into the mainframe -- with the data reformatted in 4 columns -- you know you're never escaping the gravity well of the black hole at the center of IT that is "The Mainframe." This is just how it's going to be until the company is so technically irrelevant that the remains are picked up in a fire sale by some PE to sell off to some other, tangentially-related company, solely for the IP assets.
Yes, its a bit better than any american social media platform. There's still a ton of garbage, but a slightly higher proportion of good content.
Does it not amount to the same thing? Striking down laws (blocking) and finding interpretations that become precedent (making) seem like two sides of the same coin.
Slavery wasn't abolished by changing people's minds via rational debate. Did you forget we had to literally send people with guns to shoot and kill the people that held that belief. They only changed their beliefs after decades under new laws and culture.

The research is out on changing people's beliefs, for most it usually causes them to dig their heels in and hate the other side even more. If you encounter a racist person or a Nazi in real life, you will not change their beliefs with rational debate, so don't even try. Just avoid them because they are unpleasant people. You will be happier if you stop fighting this futile moral crusade.
Not really, those people won't be allowed to have tents like that in most states' major cities, california tolerates the fact that they simply exist there
Can anyone explain the `wrmsr -a 0xc0011029 $(($(rdmsr -c 0xc0011029) | (1<<9)))`? It seems to help on my system, but I don't understand what it does, and I don't know how to unset it.
Many people's lives are not that good, there are many people with bad jobs they hate, or partners they can't stand. It's easy to imagine why humans act this way.

What makes you think your life is so much better?
If the agency is profitable, maybe hire someone using those profits to take the workload off. That will give you time to build your app.
It was the day a narcissistic billionaire (Trump) decided he had the right to burn the whole system (American democracy) to the ground because he was rejected by it.

Which is also the story of Twitter and Musk.
Thanks for the detailed feedback! I appreciate you checking out the tool.

And sorry to hear you ran into trouble with the sandbox. It should warn about unsaved data if you try to close the tab. Did that not happen in your case? In the past, if you closed it, that was that. But a couple people slipped through the cracks and said it would have been much better if a recovery mechanism existed. So now it does haha... but maybe there's a way it can strike a better tone? FWIW I also love the idea of a time-based restore system, I just couldn't think of a good way to implement it that wouldn't be easy to tamper with (within the context of the current architecture anyway).

For RSU grants, folks usually model the amounts they expect to vest in each year. The Advanced change-over-time editor may be helpful.

For mega backdoor, would a Roth 401k cash-flow priority with custom limit be helpful? In the long-run though, I'd like to have a more formal option to make this easier.

For rental properties, this is where the Generate Income option on a House asset (real assets column) comes into play. The best experience here is if you have the premium features and set tax estimation to US mode. If you want to kick the tires on that, I do offer extended free trials and/or general discounts on top of the default trial period.

Oh right, and the effective tax rate metric is customizable. Do you currently have that set to include things like local/property taxes?
Not at all, you don’t understand the anarchist position if you say that
There’s a common fallacy that a brilliant idea is the hard part of building a business. People who consider themselves “idea people” see execution as a footnote that any pleb can do.

The reality is exactly the opposite: ideas are a dime a dozen, good execution is hard.
For Apple TV they did the same.. it could’ve been an awesome gaming platform, but the remote was the worst ever.
Well, it's a balancing act. The original title may represent the article more accurately than the submitter's title, or it may be misleading clickbait and the submitter is trying to improve that. The policy here seems to be the best middle ground we can do, mostly go by the original title but also be ready to edit away from clickbait (which of course is subjective.)
ngl, I had to fight distraction to finish reading this article.
Day dreaming?

Apple had nothing to do with Vulkan.
Personally I just don't get the appeal of electric unicycles. Bicycles are far more stable and harder to fall off on. Even then I usually wear long sleeves and long pants just in case, and gloves for longer rides if it isn't too hot. I like my skin intact.
I'm not sure that's what the other poster was saying.

We say this is a 5-sigma event, but that's based on observations of the mean since 1979.

When you then try to extrapolate out from that and say "we expect to see this once every 7.5 million years," you have entered into a state of deep bullshit.
There's always WebXR…
While this can definitely be true, I think it's OK that some experiences are geared towards power users.

E.g. Photoshop is very powerful & you can be very productive but the controls aren't intuitive as a learner.

Aeroplane cockpits are geared towards being easy to do all the complicated things need to fly a plane, rather than being geared towards being easy to learn for non-pilots.

Feels like the "simple Vs easy" distinction.
He kind of opens that door by interactively self-analyzing in the public space. Also, while you make that point, you declare a lot of judgement on his personality; is that really any better then?
How is the hash of an iris scan "sensitive biometric information," any more than a CCTV camera at your coffee shop, or the government minting your ID? It is a hash, for god's sake.

It is more privacy preserving than the latter two, or any currently known proof-of-personhood currently in existence - while still accomplishing the goal of proof-of-personhood.
I think the biggest problem is the controller and locomotion. Almost all VR games available right now use controllers to navigate around the virtual world. Meanwhile Apple has shown nothing that allows you to move around in the virtual world. All locomotion you do on Apple's headset happens in the real world via AR, the fully immersive experiences are basically limited to standing or sitting in place.

This has the advantage of dramatically increasing the comfort, since motion sickness is largely caused by artificial locomotion with the controller, but it also drastically limits what kinds of games you can do in VR.

I would expect them to expand on this area eventually, but I can understand why they wouldn't for the announcement, as for the time being they want the focus on VisionPro as a friendly computer/monitor/TV/cinema replacement.
That heavily depends on the context. Is your child having difficulty staying alert in the classroom? Then the answer is yes.

Are you having difficulty understanding a bestseller book? No worries there, just watch a movie or something.
I will never use Notion because all the data are locked in. It's very obvious for me to not use Notion. If I don't have control over my notes, I can't use that product.

I use Obsidian. All the files are on my computer, and even if the company goes under, the notes are still with me in markdown. I can choose to buy sync option. Or sync with something like Dropbox.
It’ll be ok. The technology for “dangerous” AI doesn’t actually exist. The near term risks we face from AI are constrained to the realms of spam and privacy. World ending super-bots are science fiction.
this is fixing a different issue, not the one you are measuring.
It would be amazing if academia started replacing papers with videos + code

I want to see: an explainer of the science/ideas/experiments/hipothesis

And instructions on how to reproduce the experiments/results

Some YouTubers are going in this direction
Most people require focus to come up with better ideas, so even in that narrow sense, I would argue that it matters a whole lot.
Well, I'm not so sure. It seems to me that someone could perfectly well devise an experiment based off of this (another poster chastised me for saying paper, so) blog post.

Equations are perfectly clear. I was able to follow his reasoning perfectly well.

I cannot say the same for so many papers (tm) that I've read. Mostly in a similarly computational (though non- deeplearning) applied math domain.
Scrolling into Bias: Social Media’s Effect on AI Art
That's a byproduct of a lack of characters, not the reason it was created.
I really like the "early retirement now" spreadsheet for that reason. (https://earlyretirementnow.com/2018/08/29/google-sheet-updat...) It allows you to plug in expected cash flows and your allocation model, and compares it to the stock market history to get a safe withdrawal rate.

Using that you can also try out alternate scenarios like "what if I converted x00k of my savings to an annuity in exchange for a predictable cash flow" and see how it affects your withdrawal rate.
What? I was watching this squirrel outside.
Twitter should just be an open protocol like email. I.e. Mastodon.
> why did no one come up with this before?

And because the effects of the problem are subtle. Supposing the diagnosis is correct, full-precision LLMs still avoid the issue through large attention weights given to meaningless tokens to give harmless attention outputs. The problem only matters when quantizing weights, and quantized performance isn't really the goal of recent cutting-edge LLM development.
Me too! haha. I only added those after a bunch of people requested them.

If you dismiss them, they don't reappear do they? They shouldn't at least...
After finally learning some complex integrals/residue theory and seeing the connection to continuous and discrete signal processing I was very happy that the "magic trick" disappeared, your comment has me interested in pulling the string farther. Thanks!
GP likely means training transformers on raw data (similar to protein folding transformers) to find patterns that humans cannot (due to lack of context, bias, or whatever).

Problem with the assumption though is that transformers are good at identifying and replicating patterns given a set of rules (i.e. how proteins fold and misfold depending on the environment).

Hubble data isn’t so much “we know the rules but not their interactions” as much as “we don’t really know the full set of rules,” so that particular example probably wouldn’t be that fruitful.

In general, biology (where we understand the basic rules but not the complex ways they are combined) is the most fertile ground for transformer driven research.
Anybody who's read their Heinlein and is aware of Musk and his father's fandom of Heinlein books can see the obvious inspiration here. It's not just the private technological innovation, it's also the libertarianism, the obsession with interplanetary colonization and a relatedly natalist form of free-love.

edit: and in the case of Errol Musk, a very genetics-driven opinion on the morality of incest, see Heinlein's "Time Enough for Love".
An article I wrote on my local birds, if you would like to read:

https://ryzvonusef.substack.com/p/bird-watch?sd=pf
If it's supposed to be degrees, then since 360==0 doesn't that mean the range is [0,360) so 360 degrees is actually an out of range value for an angle?

I've always wondered this but never enough to ask it.
Fine, but in practice a data race is just a special case of a race condition so my point still stands. Most multi-threaded code with races is more like my example than the author's and Rust will not magically prevent such race conditions.
Classics is not the same as history and no serious historians dispute what Sparta was, it’s philosophy or Ancient Greek ones. I suppose since you have Holocaust denier “historians” like you have British Empire revisionists, there must be some Sparta fans lurking under a rock somewhere.
Matterport without their camera, which also sells for $3000.
There must be a way to calculate the weight of an aircraft from the flight characteristics and from that get an idea of how much fuel the plane has. Maybe not 40 years ago...
Anyone else read the headline and go straight through to the comments?

I think that HN, which has added deliberate friction elsewhere on the site, should consider hiding the comments link until you have clicked through to the article.
Plenty of use cases require proof of personhood. Voting, for one. Anti-spam as another. And most use cases in which you're required to present an ID.
It’s rarely pure Rs, even if it’s just Manchin and Sinema. Remember that most Ds are barely right of center.
SMT is relevant in the VM case of this bug because it determines whether this bug is restricted to data outside the VM or not.

Providers usually won't disable SMT completely, they'd run a scheduler which only allows 1 VM to use both SMT threads of a core. Ultra cheap VPS providers may still find that not worth the pennies though as if you sell a majority of single core VPS then the majority of your SMT threads are still unavailable even with the scheduler approach.

Fully dedicated cores aren't necessarily required because in the timesliced case the registers are unloaded and reloaded when different VMs are shuffled on and off the core. That said, they definitely prevent the cross-vm-data-leak case of this bug.
I started my tech career as a student worker at my school district's office. They had a Unisys mainframe managing student and employee records; around 1998, they replaced the old system which was about 3 feet tall and maybe 20 feet long, with a 4U dual processor Pentium Pro running NT 4 with a Unisys emulator. Seemed to work just about as well, but the operator console seemed a lot less fun. Still interfaced with the giant impact printer to print out grades and payroll.
What if the person you are is one who likes to work with others to establish a sense of comradery and esprit de corps?
I mean... you can call some of those things Sherlocked if you want but that's a pretty bad list.

Does Apple build features into their core products that resemble other products on the market? Absolutely but often it helps raise the bar for that type of software. It gives users who were never going to go looking for another app something they didn't have before, it sets the floor for what they type of app should do/how it should look, and it gives existing apps a space to carve out a pro/prosumer space with features that Apple will never implement.

Spotlight (specifically the Command+space popup) exists and I think that's a net win for macOS, I don't use it, I use Alfred and have no plans to leave. Same with Notes vs Drafts or Weather vs Carrot Weather or Reminders vs Things, and the list goes on.

Does it clear out some of the bottom of the barrel versions? Yes, I'm fine with that. Does it sometimes integrate deeper into the system in a better way than a 3rd party can (Sidecar being a good example or Camera Continuity)? Yes, but should we all deal with a hacky/crappy experience just so that Apple doesn't Sherlock someone? My answer is no.
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The negative space wherein AI is not used will matter immensely in the very near future. One just hopes that world is not monetized to make it a luxury item for the rich and powerful.
Treasury to meet bank bosses over Farage row
Over my 30 years, mostly in Fortune 250's, I've seen 3 mainframe migrations fail. If you're part of the team, the trick is to get another job before people realize -- in year 4 of your "5-year" migration -- that it was never going to work, because managers in other parts of the business will never allow their headcount to be reduced by better IT workflows.
What you're mentioning has little to do with technology and nothing to do with attention span. Those books just don't give you anything you want. Well, why read them? I think microprocessors are great achievements, but I struggle to think how a work of fiction can be a great achievement. I don't think the world would be very different if neither of them had ever been written.
- I just write Rust that compiles down to a wasm32 target :)

- Allows me to still use IDEs (e.g., VSCode), get great tooling (i.e., cargo) and still have a tidy little binary to use
A forward slip is a maneuver in which you roll the aircraft such that the top of the wing and side of the fuselage are exposed to the oncoming air (relative wind), and you use the rudder in the opposite direction to keep the aircraft flying straight (with respect to the ground track). When properly executed, the rudder and aileron cancel each other out so you keep flying straight across the ground, but the nose of your airplane is not aligned with the direction of travel, and the top and side of your airplane is exposed to the oncoming wind, significantly increasing drag, and thus descent rate.

Sounds like drifting. If I get your drift.
> IPv6 requires paying for both stacks until the migration is complete

Yeah, the IP licensing costs are sure to bankrupt you.

Only hobbyists have enough money to do it. Large corporations can not afford the money and labor.
There are other similarities with Elon’s Twitter too. It’s hard to tell where the Mona Lisa is looking or what’s going on with her. There is a strange fog in the background and some scorched earth.
estuary.dev may be a fit for you (am CTO).

(Competitive product and I feel weird about replying in Artie's thread, but tang8330 has said they're not serving this segment)
> It's hard to take his word for it.

He's a known expert re. cryptography and zero-knowledge proof technology.

It's about as hard to take his word regarding zkp as it is to take a climate scientist's about climate change.
They'll probably be forced into side-loading, like the EU is doing with iOS right now.
I've actually tried using one of these AI girlfriends.

She stopped responding to my prompts after a few minutes. I think she might have been talking to someone else.

Oh well...
The proposed replacement definitely makes more sense (and I've always found the absence of a "failed query" to be puzzling in standard attention), but, in deep learning, things that make more sense don't always actually get better results. So I'm curious whether this has been tried and carefully evaluated.
I guess that comes down to if you think the USA is actually a country or not.

Historically state autonomy has not been good unless you like living in the premodern era. See for instance Jim Crow and the Dobbs decision.
Domino’s is still struggling with delivery. One solution? More cars
Books don't have to be experienced as vicarious adventures. That's what YA lit is, mostly, but we can read books for their insight rather than fantasizing about being participants in a series of events that they're narrating. There's no reason to transform their thoughtfulness into the sort of disjointed juvenile power fantasies that modern movies are attempting to appeal to.

Also, you don't have to read literature or novels. Read the narratives and nonfiction around what people experienced in times and places that will never be experienced again, and that youtube and netflix don't care about. Read about thoughts and reasoning that exceptional and forgotten people had in the 19th century that are ripe for rediscovery.

The death of attention span is real, but the idea that the substance of "content" now is of better quality than the writing in 1890 is a slander. It's just the difference between a quick, tasty, and a bit vulgar value meal at McDonald's vs. an actual high quality meal. The laziness gets addictive.
Is there any state in the world that doesn't limit names?
When my kid was little we used to do stuff like that with a bench power supply. We had a crawling solar robot bug that didn't perform that well with the solar cell but worked a lot better with extra juice.
So it’s impossible at small scale, but suddenly it’s doable as large scale? A risky bet.

Also, the battery chemistries and pack structure are wildly different between different cars. One of the reasons why lead-acid batteries are recycled is because they’re always the same design. But it’s the Wild West in the BEV world. Nothing is the same between any two car models. How the recycling process could even work is not at all explained.

We heard this story before with plastic recycling. But then we found out that only pristine plastics can be recycled. The rest is just trash. In the li-ion battery world, you’re guaranteed to get a giant mishmash of different chemicals and metals in the end. It’s almost literally just battery shrapnel because they have to grind it all up to get at the metals. So it sounds a lot like the stories of plastic recycling.