skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry. You do mention a linear systems response, and that's what I meant.

In that setting, the eigenvectors work as a generalized forward and inverse fourier transform, and the eigenvalues form the transfer function you allude to in the bold sentence

"The attention mechanism’s role is the same as that of a transfer function in a linear
time-invariant system, namely it calculates the frequency response of the transformer
model,"

Specifically, it seems to me that this requires a _symmetric_ attention matrix. Which you get from the self-attention mechanisms (two of the three places where they're used in transformers), but not all of them, notably not the one that combines the output of the first two attention mechanisms (one input, and one output)
> I'm writing this post to put closure on the project before moving on to new work and in the hopes that this experience may be helpful to any others interested in this space.

Thank you, as someone that has struggled trying things in new spaces I'm sure I've missed out on learning from others who came before me, hit a wall, and then walked away taking their knowledge with them.

I appreciate you sharing your story and work for others.
I don't know where you're from... but in US and a number of European countries - IKEA doesn't even come close to being the "garbage option".
Another way of looking at karpierz's comment is through the incompressibility of pure noise at scale.

As soon as some infinitely generated sort of noise is from some subset of possible noise, there is indeed (AFAIK) some kind of an ideal estimator that appropriately compresses that noise source with no bias and less entropy that the full space of possible noise.

I hope this shines an additional alternative light on the topic.
The irony is that what you describe is pretty much the traditional OO way of doing things. In C#:

var process = new Process();
process.StartInfo.FileName = "foo.exe"
...
process.Start();
Local manager says they have room on the shelves for 4000 products. If something new comes along their customers might like, something has to go.
A better way to convince the IRS is to give them real money under the table. This method works better than ANY other method. Which is basically what intuit is doing.
> We are eating more. We are eating higher calorie foods. We are also eating more sugar.

So lab animals on controlled diets are sneaking out to the grocery store?
My wife sells a lot of stuff used and has good luck dealing with the flakey-nickel-dimers (the same people are typically both) by giving them a price concession of $N if they show up in M hours, where N is typically 5-10 and M is 1-3
You and I I believe are the same type of user.

I barely ever used databases. I have a journal with my daily work todos, notes about technology, company, people I want to keep. It's god for that I can share content with my friends/coworkers, it does already way too many things for me.
It’s not even like meats getting cheaper. They produce it for cheaper and keep the extra margins. Yay monopoly?
Thanks for your comment.

I've always loved the movie her, and this started out as an idea to be as close to that experience as possible. But I landed in this chat and more graphical style because I think it fits people better, unfortunately. But I loved having longer conversations with the AI when prototyping. There is actually a long form style in the settings that makes the AI write longer, more philosophical messages.

And in regards to the name, I will probably rename it down the road.

Regarding video speed on the landing page. True. However I speeded it up because it is a video on a landing page, it is hard to know what's more important—providing the right, human feel, or get the chance to show of more functions.
I recognize your value system but I feel compelled to point out we are Hacker News. The hacker ethos is flexible open general purpose computing spirit. The hacker ethos is breaking systems & pushing limits.

I don't recognize your values as contributing the the computing universe. I don't recognize them as hackerly.
This is old news. Smartphones have been using A-GPS for many years. The izatcloud.net domain was registered in 2012. The gpsonextra.net domain was registered in 2006.

Here's a decent summary from 2013:

https://forum.xda-developers.com/posts/41576274/

One could just as easily download these A-GPS files ("GPS almanacs") oneself instead of letting Google Play Services or GrapheneOS or whatever do it. There's no need to send any data to any server. Just send a minimal HTTP request.

GET /xtra3grc.bin HTTP/1.1
Host: xtrapath2.izatcloud.net
Connection: close

It's really easy to block A-GPS when using Location. NetGuard can certainly do it. Not using A-GPS might mean GPS is slower to start up in some instances. But it's not very long IME.

In those instances, I use an app from F-Droid called GPSTest to let me know when GPS is ready.

It would be nice if we compiled our smartphone OS ourselves, then we could edit configuration files, like the one that enables A-GPS, and/or remove code we do not like. XDA seems to be the closest to that ideal.

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/hardware/qcom/gps/...
> You can’t “sell off” after the buyback as a buyback is mechanically neutral to share price. Cash holdings of the company go down such that NAV per share is the same after the buyback. It may go up due to sentiment or technical reasons, but not for fundamental reasons.

You're right, but you're also wrong, you can't sell off after a buyback because the buyback is the action. You can, however, sell off after a buyback is announced, and in that case the value more or less does go up for fundamental reasons, not in the company, but in the market for the company's shares, since you know there's an increased demand. The idea I was getting at was that you'd target owning the same percent of the company before and after the buyback, which you can calculate at least as of the announcement. Obviously since share prices fluxuate over time, you can't know it in general though.

> If the company shrinks, as it did with BBBY, then the buybacks were dilutive.

This is equally true with dividends though. If a company bankrupts itself by paying too many dividends, that's also equally bad for shareholders in the long term.

Like fundamentally, there is zero difference between the following two situations:

1. A company announces and implements a 1% dividend

2. A company announces a 1% buyback, and every shareholder sells 1% of their holdings to the company.

In both cases, the exact same transaction has taken place. Everyone owns the same percentage of the company before and after, and everyone has the same increase or decrease in cash holdings.
If you're talking about what I think you are, I was just noticing the same bug earlier today. It seems to be fixed now, at least on my browser. In any event the carousel control arrows are supposed to be on the vertical edges of the frame. If they disappear, you can click, hold, and do a slight drag motion on the image, and the carousel controls will reappear.
What a strange word to use in that context, why would he need to be forgiven by you? How has he wronged you? Seems at worst, an honest mistake in a complicated topic.
This is pretty invasive then. That means the government will have eyes on everything you do.
Resisting Deterministic Thinking
Hmm…

LTE stands for 4G and they use 128-EEA2 (AES-CTR) or 128-EIA2 (AES-CMAC) which are kinda same as TLS 1.2 and TLS 1.3. Where the latter suppors chacha additionally.

GCM on TLS gives greater performance and the integrity can be confirmed earlier, but there are no serious security problems on algorithm side.
Cloud is Google's first serious source of profit that's entirely unrelated to ads, so yes, it actually is a pretty nice.
> It’s the United States of Mexico

No, the official name (in English) is the United Mexican States. (In Spanish, its structurally the same as the Spanish name of the USA (Estados Unidos Méxicanos vs. Estados Unidos Americanos, but the English names do not follow the same structure.)

> which everyone shortens to Mexico but for some reason you’re not okay shortening the United States of America to Americans?

People in American States [0] that are not the United States of America have very good reasons to prefer to distinguish the adjective for “belonging to the Americas” for the one for “belonging to the United States of America”.

> Honestly United Statesian is more confusing because that ambiguously could refer to Mexicans.

Yeah, that would be a problem if we also needed to distinguish the adjective referring to association with México-the-country from some supranational uses of México but were already using Estadounidense to make that distinction for different uses of “America”, but…that problem doesn’t exist for México, to start with.

[0] see, e.g., the terminology used by the OAS https://www.oas.org/en/about/principles.asp
Yup. This would be big enough that a control moment gyro would be "worth it," too-- and could store a whole lot of momentum and allow less frequent desaturation burns.
It was an interesting read. I don’t really have anything to add, but wanted to kick off a pedantry argument here.

> I wanted to recreate a canceled MMO called Exteel in an .io style.

I think it should be “a .io style,” since the next letter pronounced is d.
I'm confused, people have said Notion is a relational database. Is that not the same as "trees of lists"?

I thought a relational database like MySQL or whatever is formally more powerful than trees and list structures.
When you say make it up on the spot, I'm hearing they can answer questions when you ask. If you ask them to describe how they'd process input and send it to a database they can just as easily tell you what they generally do. If they don't mention any of the things you're looking for, then you have your answer. If they answer some then you can decide to probe about what's missing, or thank them for their time. You haven't explained why a take home test is needed for that.
My classmates in university worked part time at an IKEA subcontractor. They had probably the best working conditions in the market.

Your "knowledge" of IKEAs business practices is "lacking"
No, it's one of those that comes up with unconvincing results in alternating directions every six months, and whose press releases everyone in "light" news reports on.

IIRC, that last negative one (of course I might be a year out of phase with you) proved that alcohol consumption doesn't do anyone any good at any amount by redefining "anyone" and "good" and telling us what we already knew about esophageal cancers and alcoholism.
For me the thing that made me give up using Notion was the “feel” of the basic text editing. There was a latency and lagginess to the way it responded that made it so unsatisfying and, at worst, irritating to use that I couldn’t go on.

Typing this, it feels weird to give up because of such a subtle thing, but there were probably a dozen more details lacking in this way that eroded all of the goodwill won by the flashy features.

In something as seemingly simple as a text editor it turns out that if it’s not built on a solid foundation of usability then I very quickly sour on the rest of it.

Currently using Obsidian and am very pleased. I’m happy with how “light” it feels.
I'm curious what you think about Ada; from what I remember, its memory management facilities have this basically as a first-class thing directly in the language.
Notion is a greatest common denominator of the general form on how to make a successful company out of nothing really new or groundbreaking.

It's no better than the alternatives, but invites a sort of appetite for using it that keeps it afloat and to any company mired in the complexity of their enterprise productivity solutions, offers a simple, one-stop-shop to everything, even if its promises are vacuous.

> Create an "ecosystem" generic enough to potentially offer unlimited tacked on features and unlimited scope creep

> Make it very minimalist and user friendly so there's no adoption cost

> Create the impression that there's some ideal harmony of workflow available to any user who uses it the "right way". Apple heavily leans into this in their marketing. If it doesn't work for you then you must not be using it right
Stadia was an incredibly impressive technical product. It failed because of terrible product and business vision, not its engineering.
Galactic rotational velocities are on the order of 100 km/s, which, though blazingly fast by human standards, is so slow compared to the speed of light that special relativistic effects are completely negligible.

Moreover, it's not just the absolute magnitude of the velocity that is the problem, it's also the shape of the curve. Newtonian mechanics (even with the extremely tiny relativistic corrections taken into account) predict that the rotational speed of a galaxy would decrease the further you go out from the center, and we in fact find that this speed remains more or less constant.
Elon Musk's most fantastic/unrealistic prediction for Starship cost to orbit is $10/kg. To get to GEO roughly doubles that cost because the cargo Starship needs to rendezvous with a tanker for the fuel to GEO then back home. Intermodal surface freight reaching most of the planet is about $1/kg on the high end.

To even begin to make sense, space freight to would need to be 1/10th of Musk's overly optimistic $10/kg. You could ship the panels air freight and still beat those numbers by a huge margin.

That says nothing of the construction costs. Which for SBS will cost orders of magnitude more than day laborers in t-shirts assembling arrays on the ground.

Every aspect of SBS is ridiculously expensive and requires as-yet entirely undeveloped space-based construction technologies. There's no near-term horizon where it's anywhere close to competitive with ground-based solar. This holds even if you assume over-building surface solar to 3x to match the duty cycle of SBS.
The IPA vowel chart does show lip rounding - the positions in the chart have pairs of vowels, the first is unrounded (e.g. /i/) and the second rounded (e.g., /y/). And, tbh, it's a binary feature unlike tongue positioning.
Here's the background: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27424195
You don't think you might be seeing some selection bias in your sample of "people who paid to be somewhere quieter"?
The firmware on the SOC does not connect directly to the 'net, it interfaces with Android to do so. Android uses the Linux kernel and the Linux IP stack. That IP stack uses Netfilter [1] for filtering and packet mangling. The firewall uses iptables to define Netfilter rulesets which control which data gets sent where, which application is allowed to send data - this includes the kernel (and modules) itself. Block all outgoing traffic - which I do by default - and no data goes out. Try it if you don't believe this, you'll find out it is how things work.

So yes, Android - or rather the Linux kernel on which Android is built - is going to "save me" in that I am in control over which application (including whatever Qualcomm uses) gets to send data. Apple users are out of luck since iOS does not allow this type of filtering but Android does.

[1] https://www.netfilter.org/
> Users generally have no idea what they want, especially related to novel things.

This gets uttered like a mantra, and there is a kernel of truth to it, but people often take the idea too far -- so far that it becomes false.

People generally know what they want to accomplish. People generally know what workflows work for them. Around the edges, they may not be aware that a particular change will improve their lives -- but in the main, they're pretty good at telling that.

> If you waste time listening to the masses and have no initial vision of your own

You need both.

> Build something great and they will come.

This is not generally true, and I've seen many, many ventures fail because they believed this. History is jam-packed with objectively great things that were build but were rejected by the masses.

I think this mostly happens because the great thing did not address what people really wanted, and the company did not properly determine what people wanted. You can build the greatest doohicky ever made, but if it doesn't actually meet a real need in people, nobody will come.
"Now [Uber] employs ex-cab drivers at half their old wages to drive passengers at twice the old fares."

At least for where I live (New Jersey) this is completely untrue. Uber fares today are still far cheaper then Taxi fares were even in 2009. A 12 min ride home in a taxi from my local train station was $20 in 2008... Today in Uber it's $12.
Yeah I've seen old boats turn to dust. UV utterly destroys fiberglass given a little time.
I think looking at it as a 'failure' or 'deficiency' is the wrong mindset. OCaml makes a different tradeoff than Haskell. In exchange for not having ad-hoc polymorphism, OCaml's functor system allows much quicker compilation and easier-to-understand type errors. Like everything in tech, it's a tradeoff.
Good catch! I thought I changed all < and > into \langle and \rangle.
After hearing $35k for a while, I crept my offer up to $20k, then asked the AI to split the difference since we are friends, which they accepted. I was really trying to get it for no money, but couldn't find a way :)
Pedantry activated: in my game dev circles, I've only ever heard .io pronounced "dot i-o" when talking about itch.io. The style, however, I usually hear as "i-o style" or an "i-o game".
Here's the thing everyone seems to not understand or deliberately ignore: The Good Samaritan can't be compassionate if he isn't sufficiently well off first. No one can be.

Whether the Good Samaritan wants to be compassionate to someone is irrelevant, he could be compassionate because he could afford to. Without the means, his desire to be compassionate would end as just a desire and we wouldn't be here talking about him.

>were you intentionally referencing Nietzsche there?

No.
$2,000 for a queen sized mattress? No thank you.
So the only thing you can say in response is giving excuses why people must dance?

Sometimes you’re desperate and will do things you otherwise wouldn’t. That isn’t and should be thought of as the norm
It doesn't take much of an imagination to see how poorly such a world would end up.

We don't need parallel highways built just so corporations can compete on who has the best roads.

And I'm imagining a scenario where one company sells their road network to another, and the new one decides they hate SUVs and so won't allow SUVs on their network, and suddenly my neighbor can't leave the neighborhood because he drives an SUV for work.

Not to mention the extreme number of tolls booths you might have to set up.
I think the connection to monoculture is that specific pathogens could decimate homogenous populations (see Irish potato famine), making widespread antibiotic use necessary in a much more preventative way
Can you do buybacks forever or just a few decades or so?
/y/ is the rounded version /i/, so that makes sense
You are correct.

Public companies can change their depreciation schedules at any time and accountants use that fact to change their "losses" in a way that is most beneficial to the company. Too much profit so have to pay taxes? Depreciate things faster. Not enough profit to appease the investors? Depreciate things more slowly.
Can you please suggest other books similar in spirit to the Nagel book? Would love to read some over summer
I think there's a lot of variation within Ikea products, and it tends to be reflected pretty clearly on the price. In a lot of Ikea's furniture lines they now offer a pretty significant range of price points and there is a corresponding range of quality and durability, with the lower end being trash and the upper end pretty impressive for flatpack.
According to the doppler telemetry analysis on Twitter, it entered free fall 90 seconds before loss of signal. So presumably the engine cut out and they have telemetry data to determine why. Most likely explanation: insufficient fuel.
Yeah it's great! I tried every trick in the book to make it happen :) so I just lost the hostage twice... unfortunately, but managed the third time to rescue them pretty fast in the end which I was pleased with. What's your future plans for the negotiation game?
I have a few funny analogies that I think kind of work.

1. "gradient descent" is like tuning a guitar by ear and listening to the beat frequencies ("loss") and then decreasing these by tuning a string up or down.

2. the best I can come up with for "backpropagation" is to imagine a clever device that can tirelessly optimize a Rube Goldberg machine for you but as a science, not an art.
Gröbner basis methods do not scale well as the number of variables increases. The computational complexity becomes too high. Numerical Algebraic Geometry methods give the correct answer in many cases where there is a practical reason to solve the equations, but not a provably correct answer.
https://archive.md/ZIPkI
I inherited Vitra furniture and Artemide lights. Decades old but still fashionable and they hold their value well. I will likely pass these down to my children one day.

The right furniture is timeless.
Amazingly, you can probably get a reasonable GPSDO from eBay for a couple hundred dollars. I was running an Ettus B210 off of an eBay GPSDO and had about a 1Hz frequency offset relative to an LTE tower at 1800MHz. Pretty cool!
I don't like opt-out telemetry but I get it. I hate and do not get local vault elimination. I've been using 1P since 2008 and I'm out once the 1P7 browser extensions stop working.
Maybe GP is a non-native English speaker? This construct would be pretty common way for a native French speaker to say they are angry at something. Not sure if it's common in English as well.
All of which are, incidentally, either directly or indirectly inspired by OCaml or its ancestor ML :-)
It's how literally all engineering in this country was done a single generation ago. When I studied mechanical engineering it was all units like slugs and foot-pound-second.
> Weird how it turned out that formatting my stuff like a book would be the best format as opposed to all the super cool different ways of thinking that are possible with new-gen apps.

BookStack dev here. When originally building BookStack, I did initially built it with infinitely nestable pages since it seemed like the "technically better" approach that didn't limit user content, but in use it just made UX and discovery a pain, especially for the mixed-technical-skill workplace environment I was targeting, which is when I landed on the book > [chapter >] page setup (With shelves being a late awkward addition based upon demand). Good to hear that works for you. Is often the love-it-or-hate-it factor of the platform.
I mean no disrespect, but with nearly 20K "karma" points on HN, I know the rules, and when I'm flouting them a bit. I rarely do, and not the more serious ones. But this whole discussion is such a shit show, filled with so much "of course they're all bad" nonsense that I sacrificed some of that pointless karma to agree with someone in that regard.

I recognize your username from this thread, you were one of the accounts that came to mind as a big bandwagon offender of the "it's all bad and there can be no nuance" rhetoric :).

Have a good day! And I mean that quite sincerely. It's a beautiful spring day here and I'm just visiting my desk momentarily after spending the last hour waking up the swimming pool and preparing it for this weekend. Time to go back outside and forget about the Internet for a while.

Other than this reply, I've ceased posting in this discussion and hidden it to avoid the temptation.
That's the sort of blue sky research I'm glad exists.
How can you possibly claim the income tax is on shaky legal ground when there's a Constitutional Amendment that explicitly makes it legal?

How far to the right do you have to go when you start considering the Constitution is shaky? I mean, yeah, people quibble over interpretations, but the 16th Amendment is pretty explicit.