skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is pretty easy to avoid NaNs when working with softmax, you certainly don't need any epsilons. Just subtract the largest value from everything, and you will have no rounding problems or catastrophic cancellation.

Clearly softmax is not too bad, if it is used extensively in all the most powerful models.
"Today’s IBM mainframe CPUs are based on a highly evolved version of the POWER architecture that IBM has been developing for over 30 years. "

I've heard a lot of largely clueless people who weren't aware of the differences between the zeries and pseries say something like this, but its generally been entirely false (especially 15-30 years ago which overlaps with some time I myself spent at IBM). Given the rest of the article I wouldn't presume the author is in this category.

So has something changed? or is the implication stretching the truth? I mean I guess you could strip a POWER core down so it only runs s390 microcode/etc, but that likely won't actually yield a performant machine and the process of evolving it would likely fundamentally change the microarch of whatever RISCish core they started with.

I mean they are entirely different Arches, in the past utilizing entirely different microarches. I can see some sharing of a RTL for maybe a vector unit, or cache structure, or a group doing layout, but that doesn't make the zeries processors any more derivative of POWER than Itanium was derivative of x86, etc.

PS: the bit about zos partitions supporting linux seems like a bit of confusion too, earlier its correct about the LPARs being capable of running linux directly, but ZOS isn't providing the lpar functionality, and is generally just another guest alongside linux, ztpf, and various other more esoteric "OSs" that can run natively. There is a unix system services in zos but that isn't a linux kernel/etc.
This is interesting, but said differently

'when we build models to do a really good job of representing 32 words/tokens as vectors, you can very easily backsolve for 28/32 words just using the vectors. These results are not robust above 32 words.'
Durable Incrementality
I appreciate Sabine Hossenfelder's take on MUH[1]:

"...the justification that we have for calling some mathematical structures real is that they describe what we observe. This means we have no rationale for talking about the reality of mathematics that does not describe what we observe, therefore the Mathematical Universe Hypothesis isn't scientific."

"...this is a belief-based statement, not supported by evidence."

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTpp0EChDbI
Sure, it would be great to chat! If you are interested in contributing to Koka at some point, there might also be opportunities there :)
Amazing progress in such a short time! Thank you for an awesome app and library!
In other news — it appears that the attention spans of goldfish have been increasing!

(Relative to humans that is :)

https://time.com/3858309/attention-spans-goldfish/

BUT:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/shanesnow/2023/01/16/science-sh...
Their audiences will move first, then either they'll move, or they won't have audiences, and will stop posting.
> I don't know what "Starting Cost Basis" is when adding a Roth IRA

Cost basis is irrelevant for Roth IRAs since you don't pay gains tax on them. I wonder why this is being asked?
Who is appreciating these bandaids? Are you talking about the fact that NAT has a defacto inbound firewall? It would be pretty easy to implement that firewall without a NAT.
I can’t get behind stuff like this. It just doesn’t seem easier to use than something like Whimsical or even Visio.

Who is the audience? People who want to draw but are afraid to use a mouse? Or can this be automated? But who really automates their documentation?

Dunno… just seems like a lot of work to avoid drawing a drawing.
Crows are very stubborn in their suspicion. More than most birds. Jays and Oak Titmouses (that looks wrong) have definitely warmed to us at home, since we feed them and the Crows. The Crows won't trust us at all, even after years.
What? The researcher that found it and wrote the article already posted a PoC that can be used to farm data from VMs in any VPS provider.
Better ways to read Hacker News
An alternative I saw not too long ago was an app with a sort of "discovery" button. By clicking it, anything you click afterwards will be explained and tutorialized a bit.

So if you want to jump in right away, you can. But if you go "What does THAT button do? What is THIS menu for?" it's great. It goes more at the users pace rather than bombarding them with info.
it's actually unicode?!
Are you sure? I have never seen an LLM that did not have a special token for start of text, I'm certain that llama had one and I don't remember anywhere in the llama-2 paper where they said they removed it.
That's a fine limitation. You can stand in one spot of your room and browse and look, move to another spot, see how it looks from that angle etc. Obviously you still want to account for all the stuff that's currently in the space you're in.
Hono and Htmx and Cloudflare is a new stack
> People not knowing some of the features is not really a problem, because it doesn't matter

It does matter. I started using a iPhone maybe a couple of years back, after using an Android phone for many many years, and I still find out stuff randomly by chance that they could have just told me about.

Biggest example when I just got the phone, took me maybe a couple of days before I understood that swiping from the top of the screen and down depends on if you're on the left side or right side of the phone, which decides if you see the notifications vs the "control panel" thing. Initially it felt random which one it showed.

And I'm a technical user, probably in the top 1% when it comes to technical knowledge compared to the rest of the userbase of iPhones. And how do you think things like that works out for the rest of the people who don't work with technology for a living?
https://www.xcorp.com
This is a forum. People will say stuff. You may or may not agree with the stuff they say. They'll do it anyway. Judging someone's mental state as an outsider is fine as long as you don't purport to do it from the perspective of telling them what to do next, that's pretending you're a doctor. But I've seen plenty of actual doctors do remote diagnosis of Musk's various mental issues (ditto: Trump, Putin) and I'm fine with it, I just take it with a grain of salt. If we take being a sad excuse of a human being as a reflection of someone's mental state then you are in fact engaging in the same, the only difference is whether or not you use terms with clinical relevance.
GPT Weekly 24th July Edition
After twenty years of hearing the same thing over and over again I believe the actual fallacy is that ideas are a dime a dozen, good execution is hard.

Now I learned ideas and execution are minimum requirement, good execution is common, great execution is hard, good ideas are hard, great ideas aren’t worth it.

Starting with a good idea can save you plenty of opportunity cost, money and tears; but many can’t explain nor tell apart what a good idea really is.

Then you have the metaphorical sand trap of great ideas. Don’t get stuck in those.

And, finally, it doesn’t even matter if it’s good ideas nor good execution, if people don’t know your story nor are they willing to retell your story then none of this matters in the market.
Yeah, you might be right. But I'd be less inclined to use a CC if I wasn't getting cash back, so they'd face more competition from debit cards, cash, etc. And, if they refused to lower their fees, I think some (more) merchants would just stop accepting credit cards.
Completely moot point. They are not selling a device. They are selling chip. It's on the device manufacturer to prevent it and it doesn't need to be in baseband chip.
The WDC 65C02 is a current product which you can buy for a couple of dollars direct from the foundry.

Most of the TTL stuff is current manufacture, although you may need to adjust passive components used around "straight" TTL if you use modern 74HCT-family chips.

It's a piece of piss to build 1970s computers with cheap modern jellybean parts that Farnell keep in stock by the million.
This is completely incomprehensible and very funny. It's also amusing how different this is to what Twitter has done. It seems incredibly unlikely that any consultants (overpriced or otherwise) were involved in Twitter's rebranding, whereas the Pepsi document seems like outsiders trying very earnestly to deliver to an executive they don't understand.
I believe TACA 110 did the same thing to lose energy on an unpowered approach. It's not normally done because the turbulence induced can cause one of the engines to flame out. This is not a problem when the engines are already not operating, of course.
> But as Solca observes, there are good commercial reasons why rationing by queue rather than price can make sense.

> First, it gives Hermès a buffer: even if demand drops, sales will not.

> Second, it creates surplus demand for the bags, which overflows into demand for other Hermès products. Much of the firm’s business consists of selling consolation prizes: wallets, belts, beach towels and so on. As J.N. Kapferer of the Inseec Luxury Institute in Paris observes, the wait induces “impatient buyers to switch to other products of the brand, to calm their hunger until the much-awaited object of desire is achieved.”

> Third, although market-clearing prices might raise profitability in the short term, in the long run they would drive French women away, leaving nouveaux riches from the developing world as the bags’ main buyers. If elegant Parisiennes lose interest, so, eventually, will women who aspire to be like them.

'economics' would make more sense if offered as a humanities course
I think it should be possible to ballpark it. Use some statistical averages as well as the different positions for the weight to come up with a probability distribution function.
RIPE-738 (European RIR's address allocation and assignment policy) says that home users should get at least /56.
Another little known technique to have proof of personhood is to ask your government for a passport
the Korean Air disaster was put down to a cultural subservience to authority

Here's my anecdote. My mother was born in Korea. At one point, she literally told me that it doesn't matter if I you are right, your duty to your elders comes first. (EDIT: I think it bears saying: A huge number of family arguments in Korean-American families have something to do with parents ruining their credibility with intelligent children by saying such things.)

Air safety is important enough to be given a woke pass!

Fidelity to objective truth is far too important and fundamental to ever be compromised on. In fact, I would go so far to say, that "compromises" on fidelity to objective truth are a red flag, that some form of power corruption is going on.

Another form of corruption, is a claim to be the ultimate or sole arbiter of truth. No being who is subject to the Laws of Thermodynamics and Landauer's Limit should be able to claim they should be treated as effectively omniscient.

No one is inherently right. The best we can do, is to always strive to be less wrong.
I have a few qualms with this webcomic:
1. For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software.

2. It doesn't actually replace a USB drive. Most people I know e-mail files to themselves or host them somewhere online to be able to perform presentations, but they still carry a USB drive in case there are connectivity problems. This does not solve the connectivity issue.

3. It does not seem very "viral" or income-generating. I know this is premature at this point, but without charging users for the service, is it reasonable to expect to make money off of this?
> 1/6 showed us how bad that can get.

I think it didn't even scratch the surface of how bad it can get. But it was already plenty bad.
You seem to really disregard the positions of this author. They seem to have invested substantial efforts in that specific area of research.

To validate the idea the author has, it would be required to train a LLM from zero. If the author is right, you would get similar results to the current generation of LLMs, but with (a lot) less space required for the intermediate layers.

The time to achieve that is still measured in kilo- to mega-dollars, why is it wrong to put that idea in the open to substantially criticize or adopt?
Advanced Performance Extensions (APX)
People have and did make that claim about Python. The creator of this very website wrote exactly that, in 2004: http://www.paulgraham.com/pypar.html It is one of the most famous and popular things he has ever written.

It turns out that people write posts about things they like. Sometimes they like things for good reasons, sometimes they like things for bad reasons. But that has no direct bearing on how good a tool is.
The 6507 is just a cut-down 6502 without all the address pins broken out. You could fit a 40-pin chip on an adaptor board hovering above the PCB on an Atari 2600, for example.

You may need to do some Grievous Bodily Metalwork to make the screening can fit.
I think capability-pointer machines like CHERI might need in-bounds-only variants of these functions, too.
Simply put, Twitter is a tool of immense political influence, and Musk has realized he needs to regime change the US and kill the "Woke mind virus" to ensure his Mars plans happen.
Even with the Epic situation, I'm surprised to see Apple buddying up with Unity after they've merged with a company that used to make Mac-targeted fake "Update Flash Player" adware installers.

https://www.sentinelone.com/blog/osx-ironcore-a-or-what-we-k...

https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/07/unity-and-ironsources-4-4b...
And more power to those who abuse it since college should certainly be free for everyone anyways.
I'm pretty sure that was a joke.
Maybe it's because, as a post next to this on HN tells me, attentions are off by one?
I'm guessing 200% to 400% margin on those ? PCBs are cheap and I'd imagine adding a bit of paint to on those isn't all that expensive in bulk.

Atari is a terrible shell of a company that should die already
Portugal’s drug policy may be an example for the United States
Or, just, governments and journalists will start using one of the million other applications where they could share those updates.
That's all well and good, but it's a plain ol' fact that it could all be from increased awareness. If someone is saying "no, it's too significant a change to be just awareness," it's kind of a nothing statement.

What's the point of bringing awareness to undiagnosed mental health issues if we brush off signs that it helps people get diagnosed as a WORSENING of mental health?
Calling someone a sad excuse of a human being sure sounds like an assessment of their mental state lol.
Related thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36829457
You're right, I definitely need someone to show up 15 minutes after the incident and tell me they can't do anything about it. That's more important than solving the root cause of the issue in the first place.
Bjarne is quite happy to admit that we made mistakes, but that wasn't my criticism was it? I'm saying that Bjarne doesn't like to admit that Bjarne made mistakes.
Electric Y Combinator – Electric Clojure
Romkan.el, an Emacs package that converts Japanese Romaji to Kana and vice versa
Romkan.el is an Emacs package that converts Japanese Romaji to Kana and vice versa. It handles Katakana and Hiragana with the Hepburn and Kunrei-shiki romanization systems. Perfect for typing and learning Japanese!
Out of curiosity are you espousing that differences in intelligence don't actually exist, or just that we need to come up with better ways to measure them?

I wonder how many Fields medalists score one or two standard deviations below average on the Stanford-Binet. If the measure is meaningless then roughly half should, right?

Also while I certainly respect Mr. Taleb's insights and the mass market appeal of his punchy authorial persona, based on various writings of his I conclude that he views intelligence very narrowly in the "good at trading options" sense, which coincidentally is an area where he has demonstrated ability. Funny that. And to be fair in my own trading I benefitted quite a bit from his maxim that the first goal is survival.

I'd bet that Fat Tony would probably score well above average on an IQ test too, he just wouldn't be caught dead taking one. And I don't blame him; the kind of people who mistake aptitude for achievement are generally insufferable.
I think most US states only require the name to fit in their database. They may also require Latin based alphabets or be even just English alphabet with no extra marks and may ban some punctuation or numerical characters. But probably no other restrictions
(Under Danish laws...)

I do the opposite: my main debit card is in my wallet, and is used for almost all purchases. Once it's done, I'm holding the groceries and my money is spent — I don't think about it again.

The credit card is at home, and also in my password manager. I use it for the riskier purchases, primarily airline tickets from non-EU airlines and small European budget airlines, and expensive concert tickets.
There's some fascinating class-based spending behavior I was taught in school decades ago. I have no idea how valid it still is, but I presume nothing much has changed.

What I remember finding the most curious on first glance is that people in the lower-upper income group are the most likely to be bankrupt within five years of hitting that income band. Bu the explanation made sense to me: at that income level, you begin to compare your lifestyle to those who are much wealthier than you are, so you feel poor by comparison. Therefore you're more likely to start spending at rates that the income level can't actually sustain, in an attempt to live like the wealthier people you have begun to compare yourself to.
In case you're not quoting from it anyway, I'd recommend the book "Class" by Paul Fussell. It's a bit outdated, and often not really serious, but it takes this kind of observation quite far.
Apollo 11 landed on July 20, 1969, so just over 8 years after the main speech at the joint session.
What browser/OS? (unless you'd rather not share, that's fine too). I just re-tested chrome, safari, and firefox on Mac OS and seems like the close tab warning works as expected. That being said, it's always possible there's some specific flow that's not handled properly, so I'd be curious to hear more details if you remember.

To clarify what I meant on the recovery mechanism, the current implementation is what folks had asked for. afaik it does work(?), but does currently require signing up for the free trial. No worries if that's not for you though; and FWIW you could be right that perhaps it would be better to have a non-tamper-proof time-based permissive restore system if it would reduce friction in the average case.

My guess on effective tax rate is it was likely including property taxes. Adding those to the numerator during retirement when taxable income is usually lower could drive up that number.
There are very few (close to none) WYSIWYG markdown editors that are full-featured and just work. This looks like it may be one. Would be great. Are there docs on embedding it?
A long time since I read it, but Michael Tonello's memoir "Bringing Home the Birkin" was a fun and easy read. Long and short, he figured out how to skip the waiting lists, buy the bags and flip them for profit.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bringing-Home-Birkin-Pursuit-Covete...
That's the point. Vision has to dictate itself as a general purpose device in the market, and so far they haven't done a great job at that. Their reluctance to lean into gaming is a huge part of this desire to present Vision as not some media consumption device but as something you should use daily for creation.

Which is why they are backed into a corner, they have to paint this picture while avoiding the largest 3d engine, ignore stiff competition with other (largely gaming which is important to note since your point about general purpose vs specific is kind of nullified when other VR headsets can handle non-gaming well too) headsets, and get developers on board to start making apps for the new platform before any sweeping changes to the app marketplace take hold.

It would have been nice to see Apple shift their weight behind O3DE instead, as Unity really has been struggling to capture an audience. Would have demonstrated a real commitment to creating 3D content. Those who ship on multiple platforms are really struggling to stick with Unity as it's made their lives harder the past ~5 years, when the same is easily achievable on Unreal or even Godot now.
Exactly. And sometimes you will enter a cave that is so full of terror it might knock you out for a while, but there are two things to this:

1) you actually made it that far. Life doesn’t treat you like shit when you are trying, it simply ups the ante and then you see how far you can go.

2) you now have an opportunity to learn from yourself. How did you end up in this place and how bad was it really? How would you feel about going back and how would you approach the situation this time?

And the treasure you find is wisdom that you can then pass onto other people, particularly those close to you.

I have been fortunate to meet people who have had a lot of experience with this but I consider myself an absolute apprentice even if I have dared to take a few big leaps.
Interesting, but I don't understand how it does taxes. I live in a completely different, much more income tax heavy nation than the US. It shows me large tax returns in the simulation which are orders of magnitude higher than what I'm actually getting. How do I disable or change these?

Edit: Found the taxes tab, but it seemingly didn't apply the income tax rate I provided in the plan creation "wizard"?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36848680 (> 170 comments)
I'd guess that the shocking "Yes, 65%" in the HN title is what catapulted it into the #1 front page spot -- but that bit isn't currently in the title on TFA (nor in the 2 archive.org captures).
> They have to face the problem that VR gaming devices are much cheaper and have similar effect/more studios dedicated to making VR games.

I agree but look at the iPhone - gaming on that is a massive market and Apple do well off it.

You can buy a different phone for a fraction of the price, but Apple are a market leader.
New movies are just long for no reason. I feel like 1.5hr was typical before. Longer ones like Star Wars 5 and Lawrence of Arabia were worth, but now everything is 2h at least. Marvel movies are the worst offenders, often 3hr with maybe a decent plot the first hour followed by filler action.

Also, somehow the art of making dialog audible was lost in the 2010s, to the point where everyone uses subtitles at home now.
The only time I use that gesture is when I drop my phone.
The best asteroid defense is colonizing the inner solar system.
Show HN: Browser extension replacing the X with the original Twitter logo
I know this unpopular and naive but I wish political self segregation was an option.

I want to live somewhere with liberal values, universal suffrage, same sex marriage, the right to change your gender, tax-funded healthcare and capitalist neo-liberal means of production but I cannot deny someone else's dream of a white nationalist state or socialist dictatorship or black ethnostate or Shariah theocracy.

I'd hope if people actually lived in a society that had those values and endured all the limitations it brings they'd change their minds about the rules they want to structure society, given the only rule would be for everyone to be free to choose where they want to live.

Yes I do think people should be free to ruin their own lives as much as possible if it doesn't infringe on others.