skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't have a focus/attention problem. None at all. I am better than others at maintaining focus and concentration.

I already meditate almost daily. I exercise every day and also walk ~4 miles each day.

I am sure you are well meaning, but I disagree with you on the motivational speeches part. I find those guys to be awfully filled with themselves, and annoying. They are in the sole business of selling motivation. If your life's biggest achievement is selling motivational speeches as events/books/courses, then I am going to pass. I found motivational speeches helpful when I was maybe 12.

Many people also suffer from survivorship bias and lack nuance and extremely hot-gas-full for my taste.

I am more motivated by people I know achieving highly, or true stories of people fighting adversity to make it big in life. E.g. the project head of India's moon lander mission supposedly didn't have electricity growing up (according to an HN comment a few days ago).
English, by the English, for the English, as it is supposed to be used?
> The for profit industry has been very happy to integrate the fruits of the FOSS labor.

Of course they are. They get free labour and their profits are therefore higher. which is the entire purpose of any corporation, to maximise profits. Being upset about this is futile, it's the artefact of living in a capitalist world. The free-software movement just isn't going to move the needle on that. They can either come up with a licensing model that pays, or get over it.

But really, this isn't about FOSS, it's about engineers everywhere (whether in FOSS or working 9-5 in a software company) making ethical decisions and understanding the impact of their work, on potentially billions of people. Critically, I think having something to point at, "this is the oath I swore to", when talking to a boss, could be just the thing we need.
Can you supply some suggestions for further reading? That makes a lot of sense, I've had the same nagging question for some years now. I would be more relaxed if I could just blame the aristos and it wasn't something innate to our culture...
The thing about math is that developers live in a well specified world. The moment they have to deal with mathematical notation, not only is there no way to look it up, it is inherently ambiguous and arbitrary and nobody tells you that. No math teacher on this planet is going to tell you "alpha beta gamma usually refers to angles, by the the way this is completely made up. In fact, it is the result of a popularity contest. If you see anyone else use the same symbols it is sheer coincidence as all mathematic notation is made up on the spot. The moment you read another book, they are free to do things as they see fit."

But here is the thing. As a software developer, there IS a "higher being" aka a designer for the programming language or library and they try and try and try their best to maintain "rhyme and reason". With math? There is no such thing, or rather, everyone pisses in the pool of math notation but nobody wants to admit that and so you get confused people, people who mistakenly look for the "rhyme and reason" and they find none, they find no pattern.

So the first lesson about math notation that you need to learn is that there is no such thing. There is this chicken scratch that makes it easier to write on the blackboard or on paper and that is about it.

Math isn't "hard..." it is abstract.
I’ve used credit card for more than 10 years and I’ve never paid any interest in those 10 years. If you pay your bill in full every month then there’s no interest charged.
What are you all looking for? I only see a technical account manager and a finance director position on your site
I haven't been on the Eleuther Discord in a year or so but the last time I was there it was bustling and thriving on some really hard topics

So while I'm not sure that the RWKV movement will see more widespread adoption than the corporate LLM implementation movement - I think there's probably still more goodness to come out of Eleuther community
Ask HN: Shopping for yourself or someone else online?
Do you shop for yourself? Or someone else? Or both? Or neither?

If you shop for someone else, who is it? Why? How do you find the right things for them?

Would you be willing to tell the websites you're shopping on who you are shopping for?
I don't know about Sweden in particular, but things have moved very quickly in this space, especially since Covid.
It's very common that things that used to be cash only (food trucks, car parks, ...) have moved to $local_system since then.
it seems very politically motivated is all I saying. are there corroborating articles by official press like CNN, or even local print news or local tv stations?
I think it's obvious that Asian countries will be the source of most epidemics because that's where most of the world lives.

I wouldn't be surprised if the next major epidemic comes from India, as that's the most populous country (though Indian's relatively large percentage of vegetarians and selective meat eaters should help prevent common infection patterns).

The Spanish flu (misleadingly named as it was first recorded in Kansas and only later reported in Europe) is kind of an outlier here, as was the Mexican swine flu.
Location: Oslo, Norway

Willing to Relocate: Yes

Technologies: Natural Language Processing, machine learning, Elasticsearch, Google Cloud Platform, Python, some Java and Javascript

Resume: Sent on request

Email: nwalk92 [at] gmail.com

I'm a computer science PhD candidate originally from the US finishing up my thesis at the end of December. I'm looking for a new, exciting position for next year where I can use my experience and tackle interesting problems. My specialization is in NLP, but I have experience with general machine learning approaches (e.g. SVMs, clustering algorithms with Scikit-learn) as well as current deep learning methods. From before my PhD program, I have 4 years of experience as a data scientist implementing practical solutions for business-critical applications.

I would prefer to remain in Norway but I am open to opportunities elsewhere, particularly the US.
Glee for Ghost: Why we abandoned the Web Editor and Adopted Markdown Files
Probably a German word that snuck in (the author appears to be from Germany), autark would be one of the intuitive terms in that language.
They have a webapp you can run in its own sandbox.
There is nothing special happening in the background. What exactly are you worried about "forgetting"?
Amen. The classic screw-up is charging more for security features.
I offered a very bird's eye view of what a newbie understood from the language, not a "unique selling point" because, like I keep failing to make you see, Blow is not trying to "sell it" to anyone.
I really don't think discord is special here. This happens with Google. This happens with Valve. This happens with Microsoft. I could go on...

Since the US doesn't seem to care about the life breaking powers these companies sometimes wield your only option is to never, and I repeat, never rely on this companies without an easy to use escape hatch.
I agree that is the usage of "Cannot be overstated". I don't understand why you would apply a separate scenario from what was written.

"Cannot be understated" is a phrase used to emphasize the importance or significance of something. I think that applies. (Google - ludwig.guru summarizer)
Paying via QR code is irrelevant, the receiver will see the UPI id you paid via, and 99.9% UPI ids are phone@<some_alias>. The QR code just is a shortcut to typing the UPI id.
Autark might be a more common word in another language the author speaks.

It's a well defined word. Nothing wrong with using it.
However in RO there's one slot per person and no name change. The system is simply overwhelmed because they don't have enough people.

With all this talk of intermediaries and reselling of slots, the UK system looks like the corrupted one this time.

Interestingly enough, even in RO the driving school books the slot for the student. Still no reselling of slots.
How many people cared about those schematics? Most people would say "Gee, instead of this paper of things I don't understand, having a list of the radio stations in this spot would be more useful"

As someone who found computing in general through the joy of taking broken electronic things apart and trying to fix them, it does sadden me too when I see a black blob over a circuit board but most people are just happy they're cheap and easy to replace and toss em away. Most developers I know today can't understand basic electrical circuits, even though they are the very foundation of everything we do. But like my previous analogy, most would rather just see the magic happen when they install something, write a little bit of code, and see results.

Some of us do value privacy, security, and even the underlying things that make stuff work. We're in the minority. The vast majority of people simply don't even care. I've tried explaining it to my wife, or my mother, that some piece of software might track them, know about them, restrict them, whatever, and the opinion I usually get back is "Oh, it doesn't already do that?" People joke about Facebook ads being something they just talked about all the time and it doesn't even phase them that the reality is very near to that.

People simply don't care enough to make a change in the laws that would prevent things like this.
I'll start: usually shop for myself, plus shop for gifts for others.

I do, however, share links with friends and family when I find something that is an amazing product/service at a good value.

I'd love to tell websites who I am shopping for if it means I'll get better recommendations/have a smoother experience.
my point is the entire site feels shady. also I'm not talking about left wing publications. I'm talking about major news outlets like the ny times, local news papers and tv stations, CNN, etc. I'm also curious what stories you think right wing tabloids got right.
In computer science, I read log as levels. n log n is n time levels(n, 2). levels is the number of time n can be repeatedly halved until result is less than 2. levels has something to do with recursion of problem into 2 smaller sub problems.

levels(n, 10) is approximately num_digits(n).

knowing that levels(10, 2) is approximately 3.32, I know that to represent 1000 (3 digits) needs 3 *3.32 approximately 10 bits. 1 million (6 digits) needs 20 bits. 1 billion needs 30 digits. bits are just binary digits.
This works for philosophers too. Try Schopenhauer (already easy to read in comparison) in English translation.
I have a friend who is an NCO in the army.

It's definitely not the life for me. Extremely harsh living conditions, idiotic bosses, chain-of-command, blind following of orders, zero place for innovation, intellectualism, or individuality- these are not really my cup of tea.

He went simply because he had no other means. His family is extremely poor, and unless he wanted to be poor like them as well- he went. While he is smart, he is no intellectual.
To add more color - it's the pressure to show continued growth QoQ (to prop up valuation) that leads to wringing money out every single way they can
Yet here we are on a site called "Hacker News" with the current top story being about a consensus algorithm with a load of implementations and real world usage, libraries in multiple languages.

The original term comes, afaik, from journalists who would hack on typewriters, hence hacks.. it's another evolution, but I'm not great with etymology.
I don’t remember when was the last time I’ve paid my credit card, I’ve set it on auto pay. Plus I accumulate enough points at the end of the year for one way trip to India.
Finland Government Has Admitted the Failure of Finland Education
>My theory is that if everyone always added in that foundational knowledge to each paper etc

Except once someone did that, you could literally just cite their paper or book.
It's a cool name for nerds. It's weird for everyone else. And is going to be consistently mis-spelled etc. in half the news stories written about the company.
>I had this watch about 15 years ago.[...]Checking the bus schedule on your watch before smartphones looked like a James Bond move :)

To be fair, the first iPhone was launched 16 years ago, and smartphones that could store a bust schedule have been around even before the first iPhone. I would store the bus schedule as an SMS draft on my Siemens phone over 20 years ago.
> No, that's not what superposition means a priori.

The word was originally used to describe the decomposition of waveforms into sums of sinusoids, which is as canonical an example of a linear system as you can get.

> the idea of a system being in "two states at the same time", apart from vector addition.

But that's not what's going on. A system is only ever in one state at a time: the ability to treat it as a sum (modulo the norm) of other states is linearity of all operators. This has immediate observable consequences: nonlinear operators can distinguish between different ensembles realizing the same mixed state.
For the uninitiated:

https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html

There are good reasons that ed is the standard text editor.
Ah yes http://pconhand.com
I drooled over it as a teen. But the price was to high for me.
Which one of those donors are on their board?
I always viewed my manager(s) as people with the authority to get what I needed to do my job, not as people who needed to constantly monitor my work.
Think databases which run across many different machines.

Distributed databases are often conceptually modeled as a state machine. Writes are then mutations on the state machine.

With a starting state (empty database), if everyone agrees that on a fixed list of mutations which are executed in a rigidity defined ordering, you will get the same final state.

Which makes sense, right? If you run the following commands on an empty database, you would expect the same final state:

1. CREATE TABLE FOO (Columns = A, B)
1. INSERT INTO FOO (1, 2)
1. INSERT INTO FOO (3, 4)

Which would be:

```
FOO:
|A|B|
|-|-|
|1|2|
|3|4|
```

So where does "consensus" come into play? Consensus is needed to determine `mutation 4`. If the user can send a request to HOST 1 saying 'Mutation 4. should be `INSERT INTO FOO (5, 6)`' then HOST 1 will need to coordinate together with all of the other hosts and hopefully all of the hosts can agree that this is the 4th mutation and then enact that change on their local replica.

This ordering of mutations is called the transaction log.

So, why is this such a hard problem? Most of the reasons are in [Fallacies of distributed computing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacies_of_distributed_compu...) but the tl;dr is that everything in distributed computing is hard because hardware is unreliable and anything that can go wrong will go wrong. Also, because multiple things can be happening at the same time in multiple places so it's hard to figure out who came first, etc.

RAFT is such an algorithm to let all of these hosts coordinate together in a fault tolerant way to figure out the 4th mutation.

Disclaimer: The above is just one use of RAFT. Another way RAFT is used in distributed databases is as a mechanism for the hosts to coordinate a hierarchy of communicate among themselves and when a host in the hierarchy is having problems RAFT can be used again to figure out another hierarchy. (Think consensus is reached on leader election to improve throughput)
> When starting a decentralized movement, the naming is crucial as it affects positioning long after it has become bigger than those who began it.

Like your Qbix? https://qbix.com
I withheld using UPI through the pandemic and a long while after that because of the no. of fraud cases I kept reading about and my reservations about UPI’s origins. But gave in and got in after moving to a new city and getting stuck in multiple places for the want of 5/10 rupees in change that somehow nobody seemed to had.

I mostly just use it my grocery store and vegetable store or in those no-change situations. Yet, in the last week alone I have blocked at least 3 WhatsApp chats from unknown numbers about offers, business deals, one even very friendly female hi.

Now I know from where
I'm hugely thankful someone highlighted this conflict - that our property law has largely been eroded by contract law - in a nice pull quoting from Web scraping for me but not for thee.

The seller/person getting money gets to set whatever terms they want. It cited Mark Lemley as having made the connection two decades ago.
https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2023/08/web-scraping-f...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37264970

It's abhorrent in extreme to strip away the rights of the citizens like so. Our ability to experiment with the world & explore the things about is fundamental to maintaining the human spirit, to keeping us homo sapiens.
> I cannot overstate how common the erroneous "understated" variant has become

personal pet peeve of which i’ve written about before:

loose vs lose

two completely different meanings and pronunciations.
Your statement may be more believable if they didn't resell them...
Obviously other solutions could be implemented if the bank chose. But if the bank does not choose to implement those other options, and instead requires the use of their app, then that explains for the OP’s sake some of the interest in running the bank’s app instead of solely using the website.
The first time I heard the term "plussing" was in connection with Walt Disney and his theme parks:

https://stanphelps.com/walt-disneys-idea-of-plussing/
Wow, I can't believe no one though about this when the system was created. Here in Poland if one wants a driver's license (or an extra endorsement) one registers a "candidate profile". You then use that candidate profile in a number of ways. For example to register in a driving school, then once they mark your profile as "having done enough hours of driving" you can use it to book the test. You can only book 1 test at a time, then if you fail, you can book another and so on. There is no way to give your slot to someone else. You can cancel of course and rebook providing you do it 24h before, if you're too late they charge you an exam fee anyway.

I always thought this was a needlessly complex and bureaucratic system, but having read this I'm not so sure any more.

I've got my drivers licence over 2 decades ago. Back then the system was exactly the same, but paper based. ~2 years ago I decided to add a (big) motorcycle endorsement. This was right after covid and at the very beginning of the season (they don't do motorcycle tests in winter). I waited about 2 weeks for the test which I considered acceptable. However this was in a fairly small town, perhaps in a huge city this would be very different.
I am one of the authors. The most critical aspect is that transformer is a "different kind of SVM". It solves an SVM that separates 'good' tokens within each input sequence from 'bad' tokens. This SVM serves as a good-token-selector and is inherently different from the traditional SVM which assigns a 0-1 label to inputs.

This also explains how attention induces sparsity through softmax: 'Bad' tokens that fall on the wrong side of the SVM decision boundary are suppressed by the softmax function, while 'good' tokens are those that end up with non-zero softmax probabilities. It is also worth mentioning this SVM arises from the exponential nature of the softmax.

The title of the paper does not make this clear but hopefully abstract does :).
Great article! I think missing a bit of framing. When I got really into watches, this is how I came to think of it. Fundamentally, a watch has three parts, and you can play with all three, which results in fun combinations and unique/dead end lineages.

1. a power supply - the most common are either a mainspring (mechanical) or a battery (electronic). You can play around with how you power both - mainsprings can be manually wound, self-winding through wear (a weight moves around and winds it). Outside of the wristwatch world there are other cool winding mechanisms, such as air pressure variation. With electronic ones the basic options are replaceable, self-charging through motion, self charging through sunlight, or directly rechargeable.

2. an oscillator - the most common are a quartz crystal (electronic) or a hairspring (mechanical), but there are some other oddball ones out there. Most of the innovation here is around making the performance temperature/humidity/position agnostic, but at the high end there is a lot of play with new materials and architectures.

3. an interface - the most common is the 12 hour clock face (mechanical) or the LED digital interface (electronic). Although both can immediate the other, for example a jump-hour mechanical interface can resemble a digital clock. Here I think the fun stuff is mostly on the mechanical side - there are many, many cool "complications" which through some series of gears can allow a watch to also keep track of the day, month, moon cycle, day of week, year, leap year, tide (set locally), an alarm, or a a chime every hour. Of course you can do all of that digitally but I guess it feels less special

What's really fun, which this article is focused on, are the combo watches. My three favorite lineages:

Seiko Spring Drive watches are in the article - mechanical power supply, electronic oscillator.

Bulova Acutron - electronic power supply, mechanical oscillator. This one is pretty special as the oscillator was a magnet-driven tuning fork. It was far ahead of its time in terms of accuracy, but of course a dead end as far as practicality goes. It has a cool but annoying property of audibly humming.

Citizen Cosmotron - an electric power supply, mechanical oscillator. This is a more tradition hybrid, where the oscillator is a balance spring. This lineage has some neat engineering for setting the date+day of week - the orientation of the watch actually controls which complication you are working with, using the same button. Also this has a time-sync feature where you can snap the second hand to 12:00 with a press of the button and the watch pauses until you let go of said button.

New mechanical oscillators: https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/the-silicon-powered-speed-... https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/zenith-defy-lab-oscillator...
Yeah, that was the widgets screen rather than the new widgets sidebar.

The change to the sidebar required widgets to be static images now, from my understanding (with a seeming exception for clocks). There's no way to provide interactivity.

The plus side is they display instantly because they're pre-rendered in the background. The downside is, well, no interactivity.
Pentax K-3 III Monochrome: A DSLR Just for B&W Photo Lovers
No worries, I am aware of my biases. What I said is: the stories right wing truth warriors tell me are "constantly" happening at universities like mine, aren't happening, period.

This is not about fish and water, this is about people who aren't there telling me that my floor is wet and every day I check it is dry as a bone. As someone who grew up rurally I always hated it when the city folk told me how it is to grow up there — they had no idea. This is the same.

Btw.: your username doesn't inspire neutrality on that topic, as it reminds me of a certain political figure that ran my country into the ground with his megalomania and insanity in the first half of the past century.
Riiight.. there’s a problem with money exchange at the airport so the solution is to completely write off an entire subcontinent that’s the home of one of the oldest, richest human cultures.
Interesting article, but I have little reason to believe the Cartels would provoke further attacks with indiscriminate murder in Texas. It's also questionable to claim the majority of Cartel members, most of which are street gangsters and untrained affiliates, would have the resolve to fight a guerrilla war.
Not only BestBuy; at the Apple store for an iPhone repair, they made me turn off "find my iPhone" and reset my password, so I guess it's SOP.