skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Being able to type out messages is hugely helpful while debugging and developing

You are only a small fractional part of the entire life of the protocol. Protocol designs largely impact hardware design and requirements. A binary protocol will safely work on a micro-controller without too much effort while a text based protocol requires some serious CPU juice, code storage space and volatile memory to get it off the ground.

Sure, text will work on most devices, but the parsers for those text based protocols become excessively complex. There is some ideas floating on in the field of "green" computing where its becoming increasingly imperative to do more processing per watt. Text parsers will certainly not fit into that bill.

> new fields myself without having to write code to do it.

Then what's the point of that new field if there's no code to handle it? That said, CBOR and TLV is similar too -- in that, you can add new fields without any code to handle it. But what good is it?

> An unexpected field value/type, and a generally malformed payload.

Content-Length: bad-string

Your parser will break the key-value pair and hand it off to a call-back or something that makes sense of what key means, perhaps a semantic analyzer? And when it reaches that point, you have irreversibly wasted enough CPU time already only to discover that the whole message is invalid. Not that I am unaware of the difference, just that differentiating them is often pointless.

Continuing the hilarity...

> That's hard to read so lets use specialized

Is it CR? Is it LF? Is it CRLF? Did I configure my text editor to use the correct line terminator? Does my clipboard reset the CRLF to CR or LF? Oh, wait is that a space (0x20) or tab (0x09) there? Hmm.. never mind.

Also,

From: 1234<1234@example.org>;branch=abcd1234

vs

From: 1234<1234@example.org;branch=abcd1234>

Which is the right way? Should my parser expect `branch` in URI or should it expect only when parsing `From` and `To` address? Should I make it part of the URI sub-parser or should I make it part of the top-level parser for endpoint addresses? This was a real inter-op problem between two big vendors.
> In reality deposits only cover around 10% of the loan. This is called fractional reserve banking and it means that a bank loan is actually a money creation event!

That's not how fractional reserve banking works. If I deposit $100 in a bank, they're not allowed to lend out $1000. In fact given a 10% cash reserve ratio, the limit is actually $90. The other $10 has to stay at the bank "in reserve", at least in theory. (In practice there's additional complexity because banks can borrow money to fulfill their reserve requirements.)

When people talk about money creation from fractional reserve banking, what they mean is that someone has $90 from the loan and someone else has $100. Which sums to $190: more than the initial deposit.
Yeah, yeah. We always get the inevitable apology. Actions not words, please.
I don’t think a lot of these characterisations are fair.

Chinese culture does elevate hard work, I think that could be a factor. 996 is a thing, but I’m not sure it exists across the entire workforce, it’s more a tech workforce culture, even then not ubiquitous.

The copying trope is frustrating to keep seeing. Who did they copy the space station off? It’s just not true at all.

Your point on privacy sounds closer to the truth. Culturally they view privacy differently to say American culture. I think this is more related to Chinese historically have always been socially/community minded, America by contrast has championed the individual.

The humanitarian point is pure propaganda. The west does not fear condemnation… they literally invaded and occupied two countries, and committed war crimes in them (see Australia’s SAS involvement). Modern day Chinas closest resemblance to that is it’s forced take over off Hong Kong (20 years after it’s hand over, but it promised 50). It’s just not even in the same league of humanitarian breaches as “the west”
If I understand things correctly, it didn't start out with such insane yields- that merely happened once it lost its peg. Even with my skepticism when it comes to stablecoins in general, I'd first put money in something that's overcollaterized so it has greater chances to survive "black swan" events (Such as DAI) or that has been properly audited so there's a guarantee $1=1 token (None yet- USDC is far less dodgy than USDT, but it too has only been merely audited, not attested.)
You are correct about techno. I didn't mention MC5 (one of my all time favorites) because only boomers know them. Iggy Pop is an Ann Arbor kid though he came to fame at Detroit clubs.
Looks like some very expensive chips got stuck in the machine.
Great reminder that Android manages to have a third party app store or two run by giant companies (there's a Samsung one as well I believe) and it doesn't water down the Google Play Store or lead to important exclusive apps being restricted to those stores. A lessons for those who believe Apple opening up their apps would pose a threat to the App Store.
Fusion power plants are certainly not the only thing we have that makes neutrons. You can buy neutron sources suitable for irradiating fissile material without having to build a fusion power plant.

Fusion power plants would also be a terrible place to irradiate uranium. Getting material in and out would be a total hassle and you wouldn't necessarily be able to control the reaction.
ArangoDB is multi-model though. It's not JUST a graph db.
I have no idea what Triplebyte gets or even what their business model is, but typical recruitment companies get a lot more than that -- on the order of 15-20% of the first year's salary, so on the order of $15-25k. I suspect Triplebyte is less than that, but could be an order of magnitude more than you've guessed.
"we don't have anywhere near the resources required to build all that storage."

Sources?

There are lithiumfree batteries, made from cheap metals. Saltwater batteries for example.

Airpressure as energy storage.

Hydrogen or more processed into methanol ....

Etc., etc. all working technology as of today.
And sure, sure, storage comes with lower efficency, but there is no reason, we cannot transform the various deserts into big solarplants.

Fusion would be awesome to have. But I see no indication, that it will be ready anytime soon, when we need it, to produce clean energy at scale. And if it is ready, we probably still need resources, like Helium-3. Ready to mine the moon?
So, under the old model, order 200k engineers applied to us. Because we were exclusive gatekeepers, around 3% of those were "accepted" onto the platform. Around 2/3 of accepted candidates received an offer, and around 1/2 of offers were accepted.
Could you provide two statements with equal Gödel numbers and the same characters in different orders, and a detail of how you compute the Gödel numbers?
I had a great experience with Triplebyte's quiz and interview. I suppose I'm in the category of people from "nontraditional backgrounds"; I majored in English in college. Getting past resume screeners was an enormous relief and an important boost to my career. That boost will have compounding effects for the rest of my life; I love the job I got through Triplebyte.
https://biserwp.result.pk/
This is an actual apology that unambiguously admits he was in the wrong, and that's not at all inevitable.

An apology is only the first step, but this is a good example of what that first step should look like.
>In cryptocurrency, the perpetrators are honest and transparent about it being a ponzi scheme, but surround it in so much techno-babble that they make it sound like a ponzi schme is what you WANT.

I think this isn't quite right in all cases. I think some people know it's a Ponzi scheme and genuinely do want a Ponzi scheme. They just want to get in and out quickly. It's gambling. Sometimes you're a victim and you lose money, and sometimes it works out and you make money.
> economists think that we need central bank policies to control the whole thing (...) but it just doesn't work in the long run.

Roughly speaking, a central authority might work in certain scenarios, for a short time, to prevent situations where market participants might otherwise panic.

In the long run, the problem is the same authority does not have to all "local", decision-making information available to the individual market participants, and that might prevent the economy from reaching an optimal configuration.
Fair enough. Your decision to focus on one platform first, while still maintaining a relatively generic / flexible codebase, is definitely the optimal one. My interest in Vue stems from me selecting it as a front-end framework (FEF) of choice for my startup (work in progress). I have selected Vue after doing some relevant, but limited, FEF research; however, I might change my mind and go the React way at some point in the future. I'm certainly technically minded, but not an expert in JavaScript and Vue/React. So, while I love helping others, where possible, I'm most likely not the best person to help you explore the potential Vue support for your product. I might be a future user, though. Good luck!
Without getting too technical, if AI must run on a computer, and there are
programs that computers cannot compute, then there are limits to what AI can
compute, or in other words think (because it's an AI; so to think, it
computes).

As a very crude example of this kind of limitation, I'm sure I've read a hundred
Sci-Fi stories where the humans defeat the AI by posing to it an unsolvable
problem, usually a variation of the "liar's paradox", e.g. "this statement is
false" (which btw is used by Gödel in his proof). So a human traipses over to
the superintelligent AI and blurts "I always lie". Then the AI spends an aeon
processing the sentence and then blows up.

Even worse, intelligence itself may turn out to be an uncomputable program that
cannot be executed on a computer. In that case- no AI.
Uniswap, the decentralized exchange. Is it decentralized finance?… up for debate (but at the very least, it’s a critical component of the DeFi ecosystem). But I can plop $x of Ethereum and $y of tokenized BTC onto it, providing a valuable service to anyone who wants to exchange the two for any reason (e.g. tuning their price exposure to those assets), forget about it for a couple months, and come back to see that it’s earned me a few % in fees. In many cases it’s easier to use than the traditional equivalents because there’s no registration system and it’s instant. It falls short in some comparisons because of Ethereum transaction fees, but there’s a lot of work happening to address that.

Runner ups are Compound and Aave — two large overcollateralized lending platforms. And the Maker: the USD-pegged “stablecoin” which gives anyone who doesn’t want ETH price exposure access to these DeFi tools. That’s the area where a lot of people think there’s room for improvement, hence all the experiments like the project this article is about.
It's the sheer aggression in their advertising that they introduced recently. There are memes that you have 2 ads every video, and that is closer to reality than parody these days.

My touchstone for excessive advertising is a Polish TV station called Polsat, which often had very good programming but also lots and lots of ads. We often joked that Polsat programming was "all ads, sometimes broken up by a few minutes of actual TV". It wasn't quite that bad, but it was true that you would get just under ~10 minutes of adverts per every 15-25 minutes of programming.

YouTube exceeds that ratio, these days. And when that happens, I'm almost positive it's time to start packing your toys and looking for a different source of entertainment.
If your AI uses a classical computer, then everything it's doing is reducible to the Boolean algebra of its component logic gates.

All of the training you've done on the GPU; all of the coordination done by the CPU; everything… it's all one (absurdly long) boolean expression.

Like all algebraic structures, Boolean algebra is built from an initial set of axioms. Under Gödel's incompleteness theorem, it is therefore true that if Boolean algebra isn't inherently broken (inconsistent), then we can craft questions that cannot be answered using Boolean algebra alone, but this is all your classical computer is capable of doing!

Now, if you're training AI using an analog system or a non-classical computer such as a quantum computer, then this opens up a totally different discussion.
apology?

nothing of what I read sounds like an apology.

You basically said that your friends told you that what you did looked bad, and based on that, you feel sorry that he "felt" hurt. Then go on saying how good and gracious you were to him?

c'mon...

edit: typo
Not a central planned economy. The fed sets interest rates to attempt stabilize the economy in terms of unemployment rates and price stability. The congress spends money in a Keynesian fashion to smooth the business cycle. Other than that, the economy goes where the actors in the economy, the corporations and consumers, want it to go within the rules.
Go ahead be my guest and nitpick ;<). Obviously I meant techno not electronic music. I am a fan of Kraftwerk and I believe they are one of many German electronic music bands.
Yes it is. It’s new information to most people though.
Neo4j's entire pricing model, even in cloud, is built around the idea that you'll have one centralized very large graph.

Many companies, like the one I'm at, have the opposite use case -- many, geo-distributed, tiny graphs and multiple (read: 3-5) pre-prod environments. They simply don't have a pricing model that supports customers like us.

They wanted to charge us something like 10% of our ARR for something that was just a component of one microservice.
"An off-by-one error or off-by-one bug (known by acronyms OBOE, OBO, OB1 and OBOB) is a logic error involving the discrete equivalent of a boundary condition."

And these are discrete numbers, so I don't see the problem.

A huge fraction of off by one errors are > vs >= or < vs <= in a for loop.
There was a huge women's liberation movement. The reason ccp got women on their side was by campaigning for equality between men and women. The slogan was "women can hold half of the sky". ccp pushed for women to get access in education, be free from their husbands, from traditional family roles. Why women can't do what a man can do? Why women can't learn how to read? Why women can't make decision in the house? Why women can't handle money in the house? Why women have to have their foot bound? Why women can't be industrialized workers (In 1950s, working as industrial worker was the cool job), Why women can't become soldiers? My grandma was born in 1931, she had her foot bounded, didn't learn how to read, and was arranged married to my grandpa. After the PRC was founded, she was in her 20s, a young woman, She joined ccp. And went around in her village to talk about women's rights. Why couldn't women do this, why men are so privilege etc. She got a lot of illiterate women to join a study club, learning how to read, telling the women how to standup, grow a spine, not be weak.

I am surprised people didn't know there was a women's movement. If you look at the movement just by itself, the transformation of women's standing in the society and culture before and after is massive. Comparing across the global, it is still one of the largest transformations. But prephas it is all buried in the ccp, communism, and mao, all that bad rep. What actually caused, triggered, happened in the Chinese revolution between 1930 to 1960s is never talked about, never being looked at objectively. Only those who lived through that history, personally experienced it, knew the good, the bad, the legit and craziness. The world is not black and white. Things always happen for a reason. Before my grandma passed away, she had a portrait of mao in her home. And talked fondly of what ccp meant to her and the changes it brought to her life.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25544397
Precisely. I want to compensate content creators for their content, and YouTube for their bandwidth, discovery and video storage with some markup on top. YouTube wants too much for what they do.
Biochemical Pathway Maps
The US prison system is an ongoing act of violence. Destroying and replacing them with humane systems should reduce violence.
tldr: "I barely remember the specific incident you cited merely as an example of an ongoing pattern of absuive behavior, but it sounds like I was a jerk that day. Oops! We good?"
What you're describing lines up well with recent research[1] on multi-agent models of mind. You might be interested in internal double crux[2] and internal family systems[3] more generally. These are techniques for managing mental health very similar that which you describe, and they build primarily upon the idea that the mind is best treated as a collaboration among multiple subagents.

[1] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/i9xyZBS3qzA8nFXNQ/book-summa...

[2] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/mQmx4kQQtHeBip9ZC/internal-d...

[3] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5gfqG3Xcopscta3st/building-u...
I've had a lot of success with this for things like closing doors and taking medication, as my memory gradually wanders off into the misty lagoon. Especially the “as needed but at most once every 24 hours” kinds of medication that can't be handled with a pill organizer—with the timing information included in the call. Point to the bottle (or if out of range, hold the pill up, or otherwise physically emphasize the object), say “Taking a symptomstoppidine on Thursday morning” or such.
I’ve had a pretty good experience using Hired the past few months. After getting a lot of small startups, I put that I was only interested in larger companies with 500+ people and I don’t see as many now. There seem to be a fair amount of large companies hiring remote after the pandemic WFH experiment, which is great for me outside of a major tech hub. Most places meet or exceed my salary expectations. I’ve gotten interviews with a few companies I’m quite interested in and would have never thought to apply at. This has required relatively little effort on my part as I usually write a cover letter and tailor my resume only to get rejected without reason, but with Hired I just set up my profile and get hits. I definitely would recommend it to anyone looking around for another job.
"My account is older than yours so you have to put up with whatever mindless nonsense I post"

No thanks. Enjoy your older account. I can't possibly care any less about your actual identity and any perceived significance you think sharing a username across websites gives you. It's also not my opinion that totally unqualified individuals cannot take the place of legitimate doctors.

Best of luck. I won't be continuing this thread. I really am glad that book helped you and really do hope that you someday seek legitimate treatment.
To be charitable, I think it’s more likely that this is an entire area where regulation hasn’t caught up so we don’t have any common names available.

These coins are ponzi-like in that only the earliest of adopters have any chance and only if they know enough to get currency out without hitting an inflection point that brings down the whole thing. But that’s where the similarity ends - the mechanism is different, they don’t operate like a Bernie Madoff and they’re honest about the whole process.

This is something else and while it’s Ponzi-like, it’s a different beast. I don’t think there’s anything particularly wrong with expanding the definition of Ponzi scheme for now, just so we have something to educate some irrationally exuberant retail investors…
How did you determine they couldn't program and what made the resumes look so appealing?
Wikipedia is your friend:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_United_States_debt_...
> There are no time constraints

Even ignoring the fact that you keep moving the goalposts and are taking my "marathon" analogy way too literally, the argument that any kind of real-world coding involves "time constraints" akin to a 30-minute stress-ridden whiteboard interview is just bonkers.
Amongst all graph databases I tried, Neo would land third and last. Dgraph and ArangoDB would definitely be ahead in terms of developer experience from data loading to regular transactional use.

But I do appreciate all the effort Neo4j put for years in educating us all on graph databases, use cases, and just drawing attention and awareness.
What the other comments said, but keep in mind that it's not very precise in normal circumstances: you have an extremely rough estimate of direction (along all axis) and distance.

You can increase the accuracy if you are afforded the opportunity to concentrate on the sound.
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As always with posts about employment, the idea that there's higher demand than supply for engineers is a lie. The demand for highly experienced cheap engineers is high, the demand for junior developers is almost non existent. New CS grads struggle to find employment, there are tens of thousands of very capable devs in open source that cannot find employment. Nobody hears about it because only those that succeed are actually spending time on forums like these talking about it.

We have a big problem in the culture of employing developers that is closely related to how the startup market operates. The market is willing to shovel money at a problem rather than spend time, therefore the market will pay someone with specific experience in their problem far more than pay someone less and have more time to learn the domain. This results in siphoning of experienced developers away from new developers, which artificially reduces the number of experienced devs. The market is creating the problem for short term profit, and then turning around, lying and saying "there's not enough devs".
It isn't really that central to TFA's main points, but I find it very disappointing that the audio tech world seems to be settling for Dolby Atmos. Once again the choice is made to use licensable technology in preference over non-licensable, libre technology (Ambisonics). Both have their pros and cons, but only one of them is associated with a licensed-based revenue stream.
> I wonder if we're ever going to see a 8wide decoder RISC-V.

Considering there are 6-wide x86 cores on the market, I wouldn't be too concerned about RISC-V going wide. The instruction length decode is a 2-bit dependency chain; whereas the renamer-dependency logic builds off of 5-bit register values, which will be the bigger bottleneck.

Note that RISC-V's compressed instructions are trivially decoded with the first 2-bits; there is no further wonkiness about needing to decode the whole instruction before you can know it's true length that can be seen in other ISAs.