skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Society has become significantly wealthier, despite the absurdities of inflation and interest rates.

That is the issue with the absurdities of inflation and interest rates - how do you tell whether we're better off if the yardstick for measuring value is being purpose fully distorted? And the way we measure the distortion seems to be unreliable;I don't see how inflation is supposed to rise faster than wages but asset prices seem to be inflating substantially faster than the inflation rate making it harder to save. GDP also disassociated from energy use in the 1970s so I don't see why it going up means I'm better off either - I need cheap energy to be comfortable. All the stuff GDP measures is nice, but rising energy prices are a massive problem that we don't focus on as much as we did when they were driving GDP growth despite the fact that they are still a major part of existing.

Asia is better off in real terms. A friend of mine was talking about how he went home to his ancestral village and they had toilets now which is a massive QoL step change. So if "society" is global, yes.

If we're talking English speaking countries, you can tell me I'm better off, but I'm not sure what metrics you're using or why we believe they matter. I have access to much better electronic equipment than my parents, and our ability to cure ailments has improved markedly. But a bunch of people I know had to leave the city because they literally couldn't afford to live here. Debt seems to be out of control. We're seeing political discontent in the UK and US that seems to be linked to people who don't believe that they are becoming better off, and I tend to believe people when they say that.

TLDR; maybe. But you're making a claim that is vaguer than you might think. We're a much smarter society than we were 50 years ago, but it is less obvious who it is that is "significantly wealthier" and what that means.
How some tool providers describe OKRs it can be over-engineered I agree. You need to adapt tonyour context. E.g. startups can use OKRs but should be very lean about it. OKRs aren't really a framework - there's not lots of things you must do.

The only essential is can a team align on a sentence describing what is true if the goal is achieved and 2-3 measurable items of evidence of the goal being achieved or progress towards achieving the goal.

If things change, scrap the goal and write a new one. Presumably you learnt something that invalidated the previous one. If it's because of someone else's whim you've got a different problem.

The quarterly cadence is not essential but it is often helpful to periodically know when there is a great opportunity for alignment across teams.

When timing of goal setting is inconsistent across teams it's hard to be available to each other when you need support across teams e.g. maybe one team provides a service that another team needs to achieve a goal.
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You could embed JS into CSS in 1999 in IE5 so CSS has always been a lot of "you can do a lot of weird things."
> Which leads one to wonder if the tolling and gate keeping is such a hinderance

I don't know, perhaps you should ask that to someone who actually made that argument? If I recall, people are still buying cigarettes, are they not? Stuff doesn't have to be good for you to sell good.

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I don't dispute the facts you lay out here. I'll even cite game console as other general purpose computers that were (and still are) quite heavily locked down too. Apple however made one step further, and managed to sell a locked down general purpose computer for purposes other than gaming.

At the root of it all, I think, is how hardware vendors got away with selling their stuff without the full manual. Some instead provide a proprietary Windows driver. Others hide keys in them, don't tell users what they are, and then lobby to send heroic reverse engineers to jail. If I was the regulator I would probably start there.
> Starting from a point of outputting random gibberish, the only feedback these models are given during training is whether their next word prediction was right or wrong (i.e. same as next word in the training sample they are being fed). So, calling these models "next word predictors" is technically correct from that point of view - this is their only "goal" and only feedback they are given.

This is true for pretraining - creating a "base model" - but it's not true for instruction tuning. There's a second stage (RLHF, DPO, whatever) where it's trained again with the objective being "take questions and generate answers" and from there "generate correct answers".

I would expect there could be further advancements where we actually program algorithms into transformers (which can be done) and then merge models with proven capabilities together rather than trying to train everything by example. Or emit tool-running tokens which can do unbounded computation.

> so what magic is inside them that let's them learn so well?!

Funny thing is there _are_ known limits to what it can do. In particular, it can't do reverse association from anything it learned going forwards. This is called the "reversal curse".

ie, if you give GPT4 a line from a song it can tell you what the line after it is, but it's a lot worse at the line before it!
The oceans slowly filling up with the elderly? Eventually some people would complain that the policy of dumping the infirm into the ocean is contributing to rising sea levels, but many would insist that that's flatly impossible, and debate would rage for decades.
Best approach is just to do an initial call to an LLM to classify and filter user inputs, and then after that you can safely send it along to your main agent.
Thank you for the feedback. Yes, the initial use cases are explained on the video, I tried to condense all information in one minute, but I plan to add more key features. You are right, top page isn't catchy, I'll think about it
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You're right on one count: no library implements forward mode. Hence, you're correct that no autodiff library (including pytorch) implement autodiff this way.

However, *you're wrong* that forward mode cannot be written in terms of dual numbers. The point is that the addition and multiplication operation for dual numbers correspond exactly to rules of the derivative of addition and the derivative of the product.
You shouldn't actually build your entire website in CSS -- it's going to be inaccessible no matter what because CSS isn't really for content.

But it's cool to see what's possible, mostly because learning how to overcome these challenges to use a tool in a way it shouldn't be used often requires you to learn more about how the tool works. That the tool is ill-suited is the point.

Of course, not that there isn't value in you pointing out that CSS content isn't accessible :) -- I have seen developers get tripped up by that in production settings particularly when building things like hover labels, so a reminder is always appreciated.
At least as scary are the companies (company?) who allow you to do a facial recognition search over the entire crawlable web.
Consumption is concerned with your actual wants and needs. Investing is purely a financial measure with your excess cash. If you assess that it is financially savvier to not invest you will not invest. Investment is the concern of the large amount of excess money that wealthy people have that drive new projects.

But you’re still going to want and need things to consume. Much, much less sensitive to inflation.
I guess my criticism is high level because, in my mind, the timeframe they market and what they claim to be trying to do in it, is so beyond what is reasonable that touching on simple aspects of the project, such as all the steps they need to go through before getting to their goal, is adequate to highlight unrealistic marketing for what it is.

If you look at some of my other answers I go more in depth on specific topics to provide more technical content. If you are curious to learn something more you can always ask? Alot of my posts are questions.

Edit: I wrote this and then saw there was more to your post I missed (or got added? maybe I'm having a stroke, do you smell toast?), will respond in below.
Free File Fillable Forms is offered without limitation, and should handle any situation. The problem is that this is still too intimidating for most people without a guided wizard or a human advisor because of the intrinsic complexity of our tax code and the amount of data entry involved.

https://www.irs.gov/e-file-providers/free-file-fillable-form...
> Online reports say commercial operations as soon as 2027, but there’s no timeline confirmed on Radia’s website.

Yeah that ain’t happening. From renders to flying in three years for an aircraft larger than the A380? Nah.
If a < b then a^2 < b^2. This is not true if you let a = 0 and b = h. The dual numbers do not have an ordering. You should provide sources and proofs next time because it seems like you are just making things up.
i didn't say it cannot be, i said there's a natural reason it's not: the same reason the rest of analysis isn't.

> You're right on one count: no library implements forward mode

there are plenty of CFD type libraries that implement forward mode. they also do not use what i'm calling "magical" dual numbers i.e. these nilpotent ring elements.
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I was 10 when stay came out but I can still remember the music video clear as day. Only other one from that time I remember that clearly was earth song.
I don't need flood insurance and yes if you do that is separate and covered by NFIP the government program because private will not cover at all here. I brought that up due to the parent comment referencing building in a swamp.

All premiums are going up do to wind coverage not water, now define unknown and unlikely vs known and likely. Again Tampa hasn't been hit by a hurricane in 100 years, I am sure it will get hit at some point which is known but is that likely or unlikely?

All insurance runs on actuarial science, likely or unlikely are not an actuarial term afaik, all covered risks are known at this point it's just a matter of their statistical probability.
Dreamliner prevailing over the A380 already disproved that.
Can you make this list a GitHub repository called “Awesome classless CSS”
Why don't you ask Google to remove pages, while you wait for the perpetrators to honor your page removal requests? I believe Google recently added tools to make this possible.
And before he was California's governor (and later POTUS), he was head of SAG-AFTRA (the actors' union) and even led them on strike in 1960 to protest how movie actors weren't getting any money when old movies were shown on TV (similar to how in the recent strike the issue was about actors not getting money from streaming). His views on unions were pretty hypocritical to say the least.
Ah, but if inflation is underreported with a 2% target, it's also likely to be underreported with a 0% target.

On the other side, fiscal hawks have an incentive to overreport inflation.
Even if the user is aware, it can be very annoying when stuff changes.

It's like someone comes into your house and changes the furniture.
> A generation who spends nine hours a day on their phones has no time for books.

Incorrect. The linked source only claims Gen Z averages "around 9 hours of screen time per day", not phones specifically.

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The article presents a graph of "books finished per year" by generation as evidence that reading is declining. It doesn't address whether or not books read increases with age within a cohort. An obvious possibility is that GenZ and Millennials are busy with school and work, while GenX and especially retired boomers have more time to read. Note this also excludes audiobooks, which anecdotally seem popular with Millennials because you can listen to them while commuting to work.

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I'm unconvinced by the argument the blog makes.
I can’t take an article that starts with a SBF quote seriously.

Anecdotally, all 3 of my nephews (ages 8-13) are bookworms. The youngest is reading at a 6th or 7th grade level, last I heard. The oldest always has his head in a thick book.
Ok. That is cool. You were not kidding about gauging though. Geez. I might need to shop around and hope I can grab one at a reasonable price. Amusingly, kid got super excited about the arm.

I am starting to think we may be able to get into this together.
And that’s why is beyond should call them out about their blatant lying instead of shrug it off
Nobody will do that anyway. Once the app stop working most people will stop using it.

It may sound pessimistic but that's how things are.
So are NASA and Lockheed. The restrictions are based on noise pollution. If aerodynamics can be developed that reduce the boom then the restrictions can be relaxed. This is consistent with existing subsonic flight noise regulations.
FYI, Romotive became Zipline, and is now (one of the) most successful drone delivery companies. It's a wild pivot story.
Your personal site is so minimal, that it doesn’t even load on my phone. Is the URL right?

(Also, that would be a good domain name for myself ;)
The PKWare Zip file spec is reasonably detailed.

If you're not sure what the spec is trying to say, then either the PKZip binaries or the Info-ZIP zip/unzip source code is your usual source of truth.

When one unzip works but another unzip app doesn't, then you can usually point the finger at the last zip app that modified the zip file. There's some inconsistency in the zip file.

Running "unzip -t -v" on the zip file in question may yield more info about the problem.
Context is Journalling app.
Not Mozilla; the silly "hmm isn't it actually good he ran it? whats the difference between that and black hat hackers?", except its slow drip one at a time one sentence comments that don't acknowledge his interlocutor at all.
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With error correction?
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It's even worse at it varies from distro to distro. My laptop had battery life issues and some graphical issues[1] in Ubuntu but worked fine in Pop!_OS, even being an Ubuntu based distro.

In my experience, those "for dummies" distros are the best to not have those kind of issues, like Pop!_OS, Linux Mint, or Elementary, but with so much closed source in hardware manufacturers it's normal to the community to don't be able to give a solution in a short time period.

[1]: It has dual Intel and AMD hybrid graphics, so it's understandable to some degree.
Facebook had a paper about "system 2" LLM attention, where they identified which parts of the input would be distracting for the LLM and just deleted them.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.11829
For your latter point I find branch prediction to be even more egregious (from a computational ambiguity perspective). The processor is executing code just in case it discovers that it needs to have executed it.
I guess it has an advantage that it doesn't have to take off fully laden from such a short runway.

It reminds me of visiting the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, where there was a bike path on an old rail line, and the grade was surprisingly steep. But I realized that the trains would only carry a load when going downhill -- from the ore mines to the shipping port, and would climb the grade empty.
This sounds fine to me if "your own wealth increases 1.5x" means an increase in purchasing power as opposed to the 1.5x being wiped by inflation. E.g. if housing costs quadruple you can't use that extra cash to buy a nicer house/rent a nicer apartment than before, and probably you want to save the extra money as a result of the higher housing costs rather than buying better food (assuming it didn't also rise significantly in price)

We like to hand wave and approximate costs via a single "inflation" number but smart phones are infinitely more cheap than 20 years ago - they didn't exist back then - whereas they don't solve basic needs like food & shelter. So we need better metrics.

So I have to hand wave a bit but if the economy grows such that everyone has better purchasing power, but the top 5% or 1% benefit 100x more than everyone else, I think that's a win; it'd of course be better if the new wealth was spread closer to equally, but the main thing is to make sure as much as practical that everyone is better off.

I'm not actually sure we know what the right economic policies to promote this sort of goal are.
is turkey culturally aligned with europe? not really.

actual continents are too big, that's why in news you get more detailed breakdowns into areas like middle-east
Household debt has gone up by trillions of dollars.

https://www.newyorkfed.org/microeconomics/hhdc
The ease of dropping in a "useState" and high-ish performance js engines has made high-level CSS wizardry a bit of a lost art.
> The only new factors have been the things you listed - supply shocks, war

You overlooked the incredible increase in government spending.

> I just don't think it's the only factor, like you do.

For the other factors, you'll need to account for where all the extra money comes from.
https://archive.li/VL5t7
It's in Settings > Privacy & Security > Journaling Suggestions.

I guess it could be useful to keep enabled for your friends. That is, if they're too lazy to enter "I met with Joe and Mary today" in their journal app.
Doesn't make intuitive sense to me why you'd need a whole new airplane for this. Can you not rig something up to let one of these blades ride on top of an existing plane like the space shuttle transporter? Or would Sergey Brin's giant dirigible work? Or two helicopters flying in formation? Or just make the blades come in two pieces assembled on site?

Just seems very hard to believe a project as massive as a whole new airplane is the best solution to this problem.
Nice! I love seeing stuff like this on HN.

Using a solid border for the cursor instead of having it in the text content is a nice touch; because it's separated out you could probably use another animation to get it blinking, too.
Is it typical for these frameworks to link to Google fonts in them?

It seems like a privacy/tracking issue, or am I offbase?
GDP says almost nothing about what individuals lives are like, just look at the various petroleum states. As to poor people’s lives in the US, it’s basically flat with wage growth or loss depending on how you calculate inflation over the last 40 years.

The median income earners in Q1 1990 made 408$/week, one inflation source puts that at 951.17$/week in Q1 2023, vs 1095$ so is what the actual dividing line was. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881500Q https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/ So 0.3% annual growth over that timeframe with many ups and downs so numbers also look different depending on what exact dates are chosen.

The line between 1st and 2nd quartile is again basically flat, though the data doesn’t go before 2000. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LEU0252916100A

Though again there’s many ways of calculating inflation, and many of them show that hypothetical person worse off. And of course individuals aren’t going to stay at exactly the same income band so many many people really are significantly worse off.
GOOD point!
Heck, I drive most places (disclaimer: I mean "actual cities" here) in my own car, but I'll just leave it at the hotel and get around via Uber primarily, but I'll happily use subway or light rail or something like that when it's available and the end points are close. I have somewhat limited mobility these days so I can't just trek 10 or 12 blocks at both ends of every journey like I know some of y'all do in places like Seattle, but anything up to 4 or 5 blocks I can manage unless it's extremely hot.
This likely isn’t true for the genuine, bonafide, geniuses. Everyone I knew in that category gladly plowed through even the most abstruse textbooks.

There may be a chicken and egg problem here, as those who weren’t already a genius beforehand probably couldn’t figure out which parts of the textbook to ignore and which parts to remember for the course, and which parts to actually remember.

e.g. Even a poorly written chemistry textbook, edited by hacks and so on, still contained many pages worth of valuable information.
I took it to mean safety (it doesn’t do anything to your data without showing you what it’ll do first, e.g. an initial dry run.)

Seems like a cool tool; I’m looking forward to playing with it.
Here a list of tiny CSS frameworks shared recently:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39793513#39795288
Submitted a week ago too. I really had a fun time running the numbers & trying to scope what they're trying to do against existing planes & existing windmills.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39690182 80 points, 7 days ago, 131 comments
Narrator: "Not very."
Not sure I understand what you mean by “doesn’t scale”. Are you trying to say you would like to see a tiny model performing as well as a large model?
America is rigged to benefit the business owner. This used to make more sense where in the first couple hundred years the end goal of a profession was being the head of your own shop.

But it is still true that a lot of people, including all stripes of middle class, are self employed or have income other than wages (I shared a chairlift recently with someone who spent 1/3 of the year ranching his cattle, 1/3 of the year farming a crop with his grandfather and a hired hand, and 1/3 of the year as a ski bum - 3 types of seasonal hard labor that gave him the freedom he wanted)
Geoffrey Hinton describes dropout that way. It's like you're training different nets each time dropout changes.
The previous "chapters" on steam already covered the metallurgy extensively. And this is only part one. It hasn't even gotten to gasoline.
Mean GDP per capita, real or nominal, is a useless metric for almost all purposes. When we're talking about average people's lives, it's worse than useless.
7 days ago | 131 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39690182
US marriages back to pre-pandemic levels while divorce rate falls
Jury-rigging one of the A380s would be cheaper and faster, in my opinion. Also there is an unfinished An-225 somewhere in Ukraine, so that is another option.
Ah, you’re concerned about person using js to execute the side channel portion of the attack, not the bit creating the side channel :)
Melbourne’s airport is very annoying when compared to Sydney. To get to the CBD you have to go and stand outside to wait for a bus that comes every ~15 minutes and takes half an hour to get there (or pay an exorbitant price for a taxi or Uber), whereas in Sydney you’ve got a direct train that gets to the city in 15 minutes.
> Extremely authoritarian / communist take.

What's authoritarian is Apple's lockdown of the iPhone. I should be able to run whatever application I want on my own device. Not the governement telling Apple, "Hey, people should be able to run what they want on their own device".
For Tripadvisor, I see that my negative reviews from years ago (not that many - I am pretty easy to please, but occasionally a hotel or restaurant falls below even my low standards) are up and visible. It could be the owners just don't care but I also see a number of negatives on other properties I looked at. So I don't think this is the same.
He was head of SAG it hadn't yet merged with AFTRA. As leader of SAG he helped break the CSU strike and served as a friendly witness for the House Committee on Unamerican Activities.