skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I wish there was a book/resource that explains when you should NOT use a graph DB( or any technology for that matter). And the pitfalls of using the wrong technology.

This is complicated by database companies, in particular, often marketing their products as suitable—or even best—for every situation, even when it's not true.

Graph databases are doing this now, but we saw the same thing with document-oriented databases like Mongo.

With graph databases I'd say the key things to look at are: data integrity / correctness guarantees (this one goes for any DB, really), and which graph operations and combos of operations they're best at. Nb that, depending on what exactly you're doing with a graphdb, your general data size & shape, and which one you're looking at, sometimes e.g. PostgreSQL actually outperforms them at graph-oriented operations.

[EDIT] General advice? Think about them if you've got a densely-connected, large graph and need to answer questions that mostly involve traversing the graph, but not fetching or inspecting much of that data as part of the queries, a graphDB might be a good idea—bearing in mind that using it as a supplement to an RDBMS is an option. Otherwise, it's less likely to be the right call (though it might be—various graph databases may perform very differently under the same workload, a query that runs like dogshit on one might do OK on another, usually this is due to their making different optimization trade-offs at the data structure level)
From the paper, it's four people from the NSD:

«
We analyzed data for four of the eight subjects who completed all
imaging sessions (subj01, subj02, subj05, and subj07
»

P3 here:
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2022/11/21/202...
I use my desktop and perform searches every day. I am constantly nagged with targeted ads and bulk promotions when doing so on Windows and when using Google.

I search for apps in the App Store once every few months. Perhaps others do it once or twice a week if they like exploring and trying new apps.

Does that not seem qualitatively different to you? Even if Apple makes some revenue as a result of advertising inside their fully segregated marketplaces, it's hard to think that those ads are a big part of one's experience with Apple.
I'm INXP and type 5, and one thing that's helped me get around this is improvisational comedy. Probably more easy for me because I'm on the cusp of T and F so I'm used to not thinking all the time, but I imagine it'd still help someone farther on the T side of things.
"Value" is a very personal thing, though. You may find something is great value for money, and others may not, and neither is wrong.

Personally, I don't find that the streaming services are good value. I don't complain about it, though. I just don't subscribe to them.

Also, buying services doesn't satisfy the "shopping as a recreational activity" itch. A big part of the recreation is the actual shopping, and coming home with physical stuff.
I would put it even more simply: just knowing Engineering isn't enough if you want to excel past a certain point, unless you're going to go extremely deep and become a subject matter expert in something (storage, hardware, etc). That is something most people are not going to do, because it requires dedication and to be extremely intelligent.

Instead, you can go very far by understanding a job one "hop" from your own - sales, marketing, finance, you name it. People who can understand the domain and translate that into code are worth 10x more than people who need to be told what to do and have it spelled out to them. If you haven't actually had butt-in-seat time understanding that domain, you probably know less of it than you think you do as well.

I see plenty of people who assume they could do the job of a sales engineer, marketer, whatever. I'm confident that many people are smart enough to do so, but having the capability does not mean having the knowledge to do a job well. Learn that knowledge.
Real question is how is reddit's own search still so utterly useless despite sitting on a treasure trove of high quality info (comparatively speaking)

I'm literally navigating away from reddit, then doing a site:reddit.com google search to go back to reddit
But the account is 8 years old.
YMMV.

Was a big fan of the one in Chicago (I'm now remote). Never had any issues. Great selection of food/snacks/drinks. App always worked flawlessly.
three out of four were totally readable.

This is probably fine for writing emulators, but it is not quite the reliability I expect from aviation!
We all have to sift. No matter if the content is text, video or audio. If I'm undertaking a project of some magnitude - like cooking a new dish or changing my brakes - then I don't mind spending a little time to find the highest quality information. And for many things, that will be inside a YouTube video. Even if you have 100 million low quality content creators, you have at least a million high quality content creators.
Try to understand business first and what's your role in it.
The characters here are processed with Stable Diffusion. This is an impressive progress in the field of video generation with help of AI, considering how consistent the generated characters look like across frames, in my opinion.

Also here is another video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9LX9HSQkWo "Did We Just Change Animation Forever?" where they demonstrated how it came to be.
It was similar with me, and turned out I had social anxiety and depression. Just because I didn't want to upset anyone. I avoided saying anything, and soon it became a habit.
> It's kind of like the "r/cscareerquestions" effect.

I canceled my ACM subscription in my late 20s because I got tired of ACM basically doomposting about careers. Last night I was going through my Gmail folders and found a bunch of old ACM doomposts I never deleted from their CSCAREERS mailing list.

So, it's not just reddit that doomposts- Industry veterans are just as paranoid and can also serve as Chicken Little.
I remember picking up floppies from the stack of "ok to erase" ones, and having one not formatting being a common occurrence. Certainly we were using them quite a bit and it was a while back, but still, reliability was nowhere near a USB stick as long as you don't buy the cheapest ones
I am curious as to your take on what the paper posits, if you have the time to explain.
Yes, I actually do need a faster dishwasher, thank you. Last 3 dishwashers I've owned have taken between 2 and 2.5 hours to do a load. Between my large family and frequently hosting people I am constantly waiting for the dishwasher to finish.
In this thread there are people saying the person in the article is INTP and people who are saying they're the opposite and they're INTP.
How about learning about other roles instead of consuming content? Seems faster and more efficient.
Because the $30+ Billion they spent on voice recognition research won't make itself back if you only use Alexa as a voice kitchen timer or glorified radio / Spotify station.
> Literally anything google values will be abused and ruin the internet.

That is true to the extent that the "anything" is only a proxy for quality. Keywords, reputation, etc are all proxies.

But now with these AI models Google should be able to assess the true value of a page. Does it provide useful information? In what area? Etc. Then invert that in order to answer queries. I really hope this is where page ranking is headed.
> Trawl industry representatives say that bycatch, which the industry is required by law to discard, is not the driving force behind recent crab, salmon, and halibut declines. They point to climate change and warming waters as well as natural population variability as the primary culprits.

I don't think they are wrong here. I think blaming trawlers is looking for rounding errors. But there are still a litany of reasons to start sensibly restricting trawling.
For one Full Self Driving is shaping out to be one massive bit of vaporware after being just around the corner for about eight plus years now. For the task of actual autonomous navigation Musk's gamble on going camera only looks like it's not going to pan out any time soon, the only groups getting close have LIDAR plastered all over their vehicles. That was something people at the time were saying too so it's not just the benefit of hindsight letting us say that. There were loads of people at the time saying camera-only was not a functional path to early Autopilot.
Appears you did a “Show HN” for Olvy almost a year ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30695628

Would it be possible for you to clarify your role at the company?
Slow down, I'm only made of straw here. I'm saying that something being cheap to do/make isn't enough to ensure it's actually affordable equitably.
Yes you're correct, certain ruling psychopaths wanted the future to remember them forever and as a result used slaves and domination to create long term artifacts with extraordinary narcissistic effort.

I wouldn't call that being "smart as a group"

However I think Ozymandias is a good reminder here
I worked summers in Homer, Alaska at the cannery (four decades ago, before it burned down).

Herring season was interesting since all the herring roe went, apparently, to Japan. A Japanese inspector would arrive and test the herring that the cannery had stored in large brine vats, stacked around the facility. Only when he said it was "ripe" would we begin processing (separating) the roe from the herring.

The non-egg part of the processing was, I was told, to become crab bait or cat food.
I've been bringing my own since I started at this in 1998.
I love our Echo. It's in the kitchen. We use it for shopping lists, timers, reminders, weather forecasts, translating measurements, and answering questions. We use it as a Bluetooth speaker from our phones, and listen to music on it from Spotify. I get news updates from NPR and Marketplace.

My wife got one for our bedroom, and my daughter got one for her apartment.

It's a fantastic device, given how little we paid for it, how much we use it, and how it doesn't cost us anything beyond our Prime and Spotify memberships.

Also? It's also a terrible business. I'm not surprised that Amazon has been losing billions on it, and is trying to figure out how to make it profitable.
The sound of a disk II digesting a 5.25 floppy is even better.
OpenTTD sadly does not simulate passengers as unique agents. Transportation demand can be very unidirectional and not make logical sense.
Letting the industry set caps is insane.
Great analogy and this is the challenge of humanity
Sigh. “You don’t need unsigned types, just these annoying workarounds. Why use unsigned types when you can cast and bit fiddle!”

The proof is in the use. If people create and use libraries that abstract for a primitive that every other compiled language has, then the primitive is missing from your language.
It's so bad someone wrote a Chrome Extension to just give you the dang recipe. It was posted here a while back.
This helps mitigate correlations over time but doesn't do anything to mask the identity of the node within a given refresh interval (default one day).
> .. but the solution must be unique

The solution is not unique, I just found one puzzle where I have

8----8
| |
| |
8----8

Everything is solved except the 8s.
I work on an application that's probably about as large as Cars.com and we've never run into an issue that was caused by phoenix or elixir specifically. We've had to write a few things in house that may be available off the shelf in other languages, but it's never been especially difficult or time consuming. Most of us are average devs, and it the tools just work. We love how easily we can run things in parallel and we have a lot of soft real time problems that the language makes trivial.

We also onboard a lot of people with no elixir experience, and most of them are committing code within a day or two. The docs are great and the surface area is pretty small. On boarding just isn't an issue.
I feel like I've been reading this same article again and again my entire life, from the collapse of the cod fishery in '93 until now, we continue to learn nothing and make the same mistakes.

Depressing.
My favorite example of this: by default, the Windows remote desktop client will present an "are you sure" dialog when closing a connection… If just once you check the "don't remind me" box, there is literally no way of undoing that preference except for manual registry hacking. If only Microsoft were so respectful of their users preferences in all other cases!

https://superuser.com/questions/1617750/how-to-restore-remot...
While watching her complain I kept thinking, "publish or die".
It's not "no" to the job. It's "no" to the interview(s) process.
Yep. And given a significant problem and a placebo, would you rather:

1) Not use the placebo, because even though it seems to work for you, it's been scientifically shown in trials to do nothing

2) Use the placebo, because it seems to work; somehow get good results

A huge number of people will choose #1. They are extremely close to cargo cult without even realizing it.

I'd say that if there's a pos/neg polarization to cargo cult, they are on the negative side, looking for things to reject in culty ways. But whether you're consuming product or rejecting it, the same shaky mindsets apply.
don't forget fishermen blaming seals! lol
It's a good rule of thumb that if EA buys something, that thing is effectively dead.
Let's go revisit some USB sticks that hasn't been touched in 10-20 years though. Flash memory can also get unreliable if you don't access it for a prolonged time. SSDs should be powered on regularly to keep the data alive.
Sadly, the industry is already "blowing up their own pipeline" so to speak.
I remember around August 8, 2022, YouTube added support for automatic Ukrainian subtitles.
I don't think this anecdote proves anything.
Author here - Totally agree. Service based businesses like an agency is a much better way to start out. If I was starting over, this is the approach I would take.
Eh it was great value when it was just Netflix or just two services but now I feel like there's often only 0-1 shows on a given platform that I'm interested in at any one time. It isn't "good value" to pay $15+ a month each for Netflix/Prime/Disney/HBO/Hulu/AppleTV and only use one or two of them in a given month. Because Prime Video is bundled with regular Amazon Prime I keep that active and activate and deactivate the others based on when they come out with seasons of shows I care to watch. I also think a lot of complaints are about the platforms increasingly making the experience worse like making me pay to remove ads when I'm already paying for the service, or what Netflix is pulling with their family plans.
> Graphs, for example, can have cycles while trees can't. A cycle means that there is only one way to go to a node by following relationships from another node.

Typo here, that's the opposite of what cycle means, isn't it?
Are the chinese examples as legible as the english ones? The english transforms are comprehensible because only one letter was changed, if more or all were it would get difficult to understand.

To me it looks like proportionally more of the content-carrying form has been modified in the chinese. But I can't read chinese and so can't evaluate.
I played around with them during the promotion period, put them in line with what other recruiters were telling me (now that base salaries are posted publicly in most(?) job listings)
You're just hiring people who care to do these types of tests or are good at them, they don't mean they will be good at the job.

I'm not saying you don't do ANYTHING to hire someone. Obviously there needs to be some judgement of skill. But take home projects where you're judged essentially against how much time you put into them (I've personally had projects where they asked me to build an entire web app, it's insane) because ... it's a race to the top in a way here, if you spend more time it's going to look good, because the best projects are from people that spend a lot of time on them...

It's just ridiculous. You end up doing 8-16 or more hours of work for a job you likely won't get (it's free for you to ask me to do this test, so you ask everyone to do it).

It's not expensive to hire and fire someone. Not that expensive. It's probably worth 20hrs of 100 candidate's time, that's for sure. If you don't think so, I have a bad opinion of you.

I'd like to ask you, how many candidates a year do you have turning in take home projects?
Anecdotally I used to think he was actually pretty smart and at the least good at building businesses around good ideas back when Tesla was relatively young and SpaceX was his only other really large venture. In the decade since though my impression has really soured. I'd hesitate to call myself a fan-boy of Musk ever though.
Are you saying sushi roe gets fermented (or cured) while still inside the fish carcass?
The reason I disagree with the framing is I can do the same thing and I just find that rhetorical way of discussing an issue unproductive.

For example:

“Are the minor issues of working in the office so bad that you’d force everyone to isolate devoid of human contact during a period of increasing loneliness and depression?”

“When you’d hurt a fresh graduates career prospects further cementing people already established in their careers in positions of power”

“By having people spread out instead of together we increase the carbon costs of supporting all these areas inefficiently instead of all in one place and that’s bad for the environment!”

Etc. Etc.

I find the useful way to discuss is to narrow in on the core issue (is working from the office an advantage or not) vs. ancillary effects that we can debate unproductively forever depending on who can rhetorically make shit up that sounds better.

Ultimately it’s this: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/PeSzc9JTBxhaYRp9b/policy-deb...

And ultimately if it is a decisive advantage to be in the office (not obvious to me, but I suspect it is in most cases) then the market will force it anyway.
Could definitely see this being used instead of lie detector tests/interrogation. Obviously not perfect but the utility def seems there
I think it depends. All else being equal in terms of your daily commute, owning a big and expensive car is often seen as better than owning a more affordable smaller car.
maybe they should try to improve user experience with their own applications before telling others what to do?

Finder on MacOS: probably should be renamed to Hider. Just a horrible file explorer interface. I couldn’t imagine something worst. I ended up training my family on how to use the Terminal and mdfind command instead.

Apple Photos and the shared album interface is such a pain to work with as a user. I hope it’s not just me!

I could go on but I’ll stop here.
This is what the Waluigi effect is, since it isn't described at the top:

> The Waluigi Effect: After you train an LLM to satisfy a desirable property P, then it's easier to elicit the chatbot into satisfying the exact opposite of property P.

Basically, the chatbot will often do the opposite of what you say.
Thanks so much! That's an interesting idea. I'll think about it!
Yeah it sucks.
Rewarding accuracy instead of partisanship reduces political divide over truth
Google could get me to come back if it:
1. Offered a paid version without sponsored results
2. Let me block sites from my results (bonus points if it penalizes sites with lots of users blocking their results)
Note the word “active” - it’s actually just more training, not spending time with your kids or whatever we think of rest
Indeed, this is happening:

https://www.statista.com/chart/2280/the-global-fish-farming-...

China's being smart about it too - they are farming fish which are ubiquitous and easy to farm (Carp and Tilapia):

https://thechinaguys.com/aquaculture-in-china/

China could do a much better job at regulating their fishing industry though...

In the West we eat Tilapia, but we probably should learn to eat Carp. Unfortunately as a family of fish, it gets a bad rap for a few reasons (Americans don't like bones, Carp has a low-class association, Carp can be "muddy" if not raised and prepared right).
#2 didn't help Europe - it's the exact same story over here and housing close to mass transit disproportionally shot up in price.

If anything it's the places unreachable by anything but a car that remained affordable.

Case in point: one couple I know bought an apartment(so not even a detached house) in a place without any public transport whatsoever because it was roughly half the price per unit area comparing to the equivalent in the city. They now need a car to do even the most basic things, but at least they have their own place to live.

As long as real estate is seen as an investment opportunity, this will continue.
Statement of Commitment to Academic Freedom and to Intellectual Merit
RA (Router Advertisement) handles announcing the prefix for SLAAC addresses and DNS.
Except this game is different. It's similar but different.

Your game involves addition. chatGPT is using subtraction.
For herring, yes. I can't speak to salmon roe.
It's the bottom trawling that's the problem, that should be phased out.
When I saw this title, I had to ask.. a decade ago? I swear I saw SimCity 30 years ago.
No, these are explictly not "verifiable cases".

Hypochondria is a thing. Triggering many with hpochondria is possible.
But they won't all be in one class of the same school.

If you have half of all girls in a class hospitalized, it's downright ridiculous to claim hypochondria as the cause.
I think the point is that there’s plenty of ways in which Alexa could have been useful besides ones requiring LLM and if Amazon couldn’t deliver on these simpler use cases then it’s optimistic to think they’ll be able to do any different with LLMs.
the thing is that this pattern of pushing to unexplored energy levels did work before. Unicorns were found in the unexplored forests of Congo. In fact an entire zoo of unicorns of all shapes and forms was found, an incredible achievement that stands among the most important stuff our gray-tinted gel has managed to internalize about the universe. You can't blame modern day particle physicists for being born late for the Unicorn chasing party...

so the argurment now is, for how much longer is it reasonable to be roaming difficult terrains in the hope that we might have a repeat miracle? Its practically impossible to answer. "All Unicorns have been discovered" has been a scientist's cry as far back as Laplace.
> Kagi Search requires an account only because it is a paid service which requires an account for the transaction.

Right. Definite "no".
Like all startups, it’ll be in a new field. If it’s an advantage some sort of AGI/LLM remote company should be able to out compete non-remote variants.

Though I wouldn’t bet on it.
Sounds like a "just so" story than a convincing explanation.
> ... last year Amazon had $38bn of ad revenue, more than any traditional media company and bigger than the entire (now much reduced) global newspaper industry.

> $38bn is a small percentage of Amazon’s overall $502bn 2022 revenue, but it probably had well over 50% operating margins, which would mean it brought in as much operating profit as AWS - $20-25bn, and without anything like as much capex.

Fascinating analysis. Ben also makes an interesting argument that Amazon uses ads as a price discrimination tool, allowing the store to extract more wealth from brands willing and able to pay for ads vs other sellers.
You could certainly play it single-player, but it wasn't good as a single-player game. It sacrificed far too much. It was meant to be a multiplayer game, and it showed.
Something has been done about it, just not what one would hope.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ag-gag