Yeah, you got it! After 30 years on the internet I should know by now whats understandable for others and what's not (I honestly just realized that English speakers don't say 'tja'), but alas.
We have a sound we usually spell “yeah”, which can also be an informal “yes” but can also server roughly the role of a “Well, “. The same spelling is sometimes employed for a cheer that might otherwise be spelled “yay” and sounds very different, though.
I can think of at least one regionalism or dialect that has something that I bet sounds similar to yours, that might even be used the same way yours is: “valley girl”.
The real tell was the spelling. We don’t usually use “T” to harden a phoneme at the start of a word—we do later, though, as in “itch”—and we don’t use “J” that way. “Ch” is probably the closest we’ve got to what you were going for with “j”. If a native English speaker were trying to reproduce the sound you’re going for in text, they’d not have spelled it that way unless trying to make it appear foreign.
American hourly rates in IT are truly nuts. I wonder if the value-add to hiring American is really worth it, in German-speaking EU you'd get real top-notch engineering for 120€/h. Even less further eastwards.
> German-speaking EU you'd get real top-notch engineering for 120€/h
No disrespect to German-speaking engs, but Colin isn't merely "top-notch", he's "the top".
Huge salaries (like those paid to "top" athletes in "top" professional team sports) aren't unheard of in Tech anymore. For instance, Google paid $2b+ to acquihire Noam Shazeer of c.ai back. Meta was rumoured to be paying $20m+ salaries to poach OpenAI researchers based in Zurich.
The going rate for 1099 work tends to be higher than this to account for risk, unbillable work, and increased tax rate. Agencies that lend out their developers to clients charge 2-3x this. Remember that engineers can work remotely now which makes regional rates much fuzzier.
You mean absurdly high compensation for very comfortable, low-stress office work? People work to feed their families, not just because working is 'cool'.
I have become oversensitive to this, and my brain is probably generating a lot of false positives. I don't think it's necessarily the case here, but I've wondered if people who use LLMs a lot take over some of its idiosyncrasies and in a way start sounding like one a bit. A strange side effect is that I've come to appreciate text with grammatical errors, videos where people don't enunciate well etc because it's a sign that it's human created content.
I think part of it is that some of us are not used to reading (or writing) praise, apart from seeing the over-praising of LLMs, such that seeing praise in the wild makes us think of LLMs. This being used to lack of praise is partly reinforced by certain tech cultures (e.g. keeping ego out of code review, this implies not wasting time on personal praise/criticism but keeping remarks focused on the technical, and keeping in mind the distinction between technical and non-technical critique).
I think it's more people being fascinated by this curious architectural detail.
I imagine it's fascinating to people who are not exposed to the intricate details of computer architecture, which I assume is the vast majority here. It's a glimpse into a very odd world (which is your day-to-day work in the HFT field, but they rarely talk about this, and much less in such big words).
TBH, I didn't watch the video because the title is too click-baity for me and it's too long. Instead, I looked at the benchmark results on the Github page and sure, it's fascinating how you can significantly(!) thin the latency distribution, just by using 10× more CPU cores/RAM/etc. Classic case of a bad trade-off.
And nobody talked about what we use RAM for, usually: Not to only store static data, but also to update it when the need arises. This scheme is completely impractical for those cases. Additionally, if you really need low latency, as others pointed out, you can go for other means of computation, such as FPGAs.
So I love this idea, I'm sure it's a fun topic to talk about at a hacker conference! But I'm really put off by the click-baity title of the video and the hype around it.
You're absolutely right to call this out. No humans, no emotion, no real comments - just LLM slop.
In all seriousness, agreed. The top comment at time of this writing seems like a poor summarizing LLM treating everything as the best thing since sliced bread. The end result is interesting, but neither this nor Google invented the technique of trying multiple things at once as the comment implies.
No, something is funny here. In the previous submission (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47680023) the only (competently) criticizing comment (by jeffbee) was downvoted into oblivion/flagged.
Well he veered off of the technical and into the personal so I'm not surprised it's dead. But yeah something feels weird about this comment section as a whole but I can't quite put my finger on it.
I think rather than AI it reminds me of when (long before AI) a few colleagues would converge on an article to post supportive comments in what felt like an attempt to manipulate the narrative and even at concentrations that I find surprisingly low it would often skew my impression of the tone of the entire comment section in a strange way. I guess you could more generally describe the phenomenon as fan club comments.
There are a few glazing comments there too though.
> Well he veered off of the technical and into the personal so I'm not surprised it's dead.
I don't know what he posted, but it is easy to see how a small fan group around Laurie can form?
She is an attractive girl not afraid to be cute (which is done so seldom by women in tech that I found a reddit thread trying to triangulate if she is trans. I am not posting that to raise the question, but she piques peoples interest) plus the impressively high effort put into niche topics PLUS the impressively high production value to present all that.
it was flagged because it was unnecessarily rude. nothing "funny" going on (with that comment chain at least).
i would note that it also appears to be wrong, reading laurie's reply, though i am not an expert. rude + wrong is a bad combo.
the next comment by jeffbee is also quite rude, and ignores most of laurie's reply in favor of insulting her instead. i dont think it is a mystery why jeffbee's comments were flagged...
Almost everything "new" was invented by IBM it seems like. And it goes by a completely different name there. It's still nice to rediscover what they knew.
As another poster said, the impressive part here is the work on lining up all the technical features to implement this simple concept. Though I'm the end Laurie realized that essentially brute force worked well.
One thing that I'd think about improving is the boundary search. It seems to me at mere first glance that binary search would usually be much faster. Also, knowing what architecture is used, e.g. channel width, could further optimize the search.
I'm not sure you fully grasped what was said in the parent comment. It literally does not matter anymore if we can all agree on the previous blocks, it would be impossible to identify who owns which wallet anymore. The seed phrase would be useless.
Ah, then yeah, in that case, it'd be basically over.
Maybe large exchanges would try to step in to make a fresh chain based on their combined account data, and just drop the people relying on self-custody. But I doubt the market would go for it - the uncertainty would crash it hard enough that it would never recover.
The only endgame I see for the region is sadly the complete and utter annihilation of all civilizations there, possibly through nuclear means.
I do not say this lightly and I say it with a deep sadness in my heart for the people of the middle east, but also with the sober realization that this is the only end of the path that is currently walked.
There's a much less grim end, probably coming at short term:
If the US stop giving unconditional blank check support to Israel, then the nuisance power of the Jewish supremacists there disappears overnight. The US popular support for Israel is now at an all time low, and the recent war may be the straw that breaks the Camel's back.
All that's needed to stabilize the region is some amount of pushback to the destabilizing country here. Iran have been a destabilizing force for the past decade, but since 2023 Israel is by far the biggest threat to the region, and it's mostly due to Netanyahu's political survival relying on the state of perpetual war he's put the country in.
Should the US put even a modicum amount of pressure to Israel (or even just declare they wouldn't support them should the EU put economic sanctions on Israel), then the current cabinet collapse, Netanyahu ends up in prison for corruption and the middle east is stable for a decade.
All of this madness is happening because the US enables a madman to escape his own judicial system through foreign wars.
As an outsider here's the point of my fear . Looks at democratic countries and muslim unification during gaza issue, this is a threat but as far as Jews are concerned they don't have this type of threat to democracy
It's interesting that these days any treaty that the US hasn't signed is probably a decent one, especially if hundreds of other countries have signed it.
It's usually the US and a bunch of garbage regimes on these lists, I guess there was a message being sent over time.
Although i think they mostly recognize it as customary international law.
Nonetheless international law isn't really worth the paper its written on. The bigger thing is there are a bunch of other countries dependent on the strait that might have something to say about it.
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