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I was not getting good cache utilization when including dynamic context in agent threads. After a lot of experimentation, I found a good pattern that minimizes how often long lived…

I was introduced through his "Boundaries" talk [1] and had a very similar experience. I think a lot of programmers develop this methodology without really formalizing it. But pract…

My first thought was that it was part of Google Fiber's efforts to make running cable cheaper. Looks like another moonshot though.

It's true that the columnar inhibition is not the best supported part of the theory but seems a very strong deduction based on many papers that don't directly support but show the …

Compared with cash, digital currencies are much harder to launder. It will be obvious when you try to cash out that the money went through a tumbler. With cash, you always have pla…

"We’re looking for one researcher who wants to work full-time... who are driven and talented but come from poor backgrounds." (please read the entire paragraph to understand the co…

I bought the TechMatte 2x USB-C to Micro-USB item that he gave two stars for use with my 5X. At least one of the items I got was actually defective. The other worked but charged ve…

I think the right avenue is to keep the license GPL but provide a permissive as-is use license. The idea is that you want people making improvements to the algorithm to contribute …

Yes same Scott. Unfortunately my first installation attempt for NuStudio was unsuccessful but I will try again soon. David has been very involved and it is great to see projects li…

I am a bit surprised to see this on HN without context. This was originally an email from Jeff to our mailing list and was a pretty good overview so we dumped it into a wiki page. …

This is a Bitcoin-like, distributed, secure payment system WITH a federated protocol for gateways/exchanges. A federated exchange network allows anyone to participate, similar to e…

This is not a particularly informative article but I see great value in owning a Twitter botnet. As one example, imagine negative news about a major public company starts trending.…

Those ideas would both lose valuable aspects of the buses. Uber/Lyft/cars would have a much bigger impact on traffic on 101, which is already terrible congested during rush hour. T…

I doubt Google wants to keep this Chrome-only. Just like SPDY, there isn't initially support on all platforms/browsers so you have to have a fallback. But if it catches on then you…

Anyone know if NFC emulation will let me create an app to replace my Clipper card and work key fob? I would have guessed that NFC chips would have an embedded secret that you can't…

I found this quite useful since he mentioned useful apps I hadn't heard of and some OS features I wasn't aware of. And I really doubt that many iPhone users are aware of many of th…

Many bitcoins have been lost permanently or are in cold storage. Only a small percentage are available on exchanges.

I am not sure how the logistics work with participating stores but I would really like to see them make this an easy way for small local businesses to compete with Amazon. Basicall…

I had the same impression. I have been working on a very early prototype of something very similar to this and was curious the know the general architecture of the system but there…

It is great to see more interest in neural networks, but the types of neural networks the author describes are missing some key aspects of what the brain is doing. I work with Jeff…

It isn't an oversight by Facebook - it is by design. Facebook was a part of the decision to use Facebook login credentials to log into Spotify. Additionally, Facebook does not list…