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by aduffy 2y ago
Thank you for the close reading! That’s definitely a mistake on my part, I’ll fix it shortly.
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by aduffy 2y ago
The dictionary quality was definitely highly sensitive to some of the tricks that the original authors implemented in their C++ code, many were documented in the paper but a few were not: 1. Always promoting single-bytes by boosting their s
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by aduffy 2y ago
German strings are cool, and we're also using them in Vortex! They're also commonly referred to as "variable-length view arrays", which is what Arrow calls them [1]. They were first published by folks at TUM as part of t
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Random access string compression with FSST and Rust(blog.spiraldb.com)
87 points by aduffy 2y ago|13 comments
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by aduffy 2y ago
Probably the right choice. Go open the YT comments for just about any video and count how many high-quality discussions are being had. I'm usually surprised to see even one well-thought out question or comment.
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by aduffy 2y ago
Article version: https://www.computerenhance.com/p/zen-cuda-and-tensor-cores-...
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by aduffy 2y ago
This, 100%
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by aduffy 2y ago
As someone who got their first drivers license in California, I can say with certainty that there are in fact speed limits.
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by aduffy 2y ago
Very cool! At first glance this looks a lot like SpiceDB, which is also a Go service based on Zanzibar. Excited to see more entrants in the space, can you talk a bit about what makes Permify special?
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by aduffy 2y ago
Yes, the popular fork is called Postgres. You can find many vendors who will let you run it on one node cheaply. It’s also free to self-host.
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Twitter 95(twitter-95.com)
2 points by aduffy 2y ago|0 comments
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Dr. Mengele, USA Style: Lessons from Human Rights Abuses Post-World War II [pdf](cosmosandtaxis.org)
11 points by aduffy 2y ago|0 comments
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Project Bob: Building a droneship to circumnavigate the world(projectbob.xyz)
1 points by aduffy 2y ago|0 comments
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by aduffy 2y ago
I’m very curious, are you running the JDK inside the app? What difficulties did you run into trying to embed an external runtime?
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Forcing master to main was a good faith exploit(world.hey.com)
7 points by aduffy 2y ago|6 comments
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by aduffy 2y ago
From October: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-dropped-work-...
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by aduffy 2y ago
If OpenAI had GPT-5 they would’ve released that instead of 4-Turbo. OpenAI was allegedly working on their Arrakis model last year that didn’t end up panning out. It’s clear they’re hitting some sort of limit in the scaling laws, or cost eff
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by aduffy 2y ago
It’s really ORC++ as they mention in the video. I have a thread with Andy Pavlo on the salient bits but basically it grew out of ORC modifications https://x.com/andreweduffy/status/1778054712517857458?s=46
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Nimble: A new columnar file format by Meta [video](youtube.com)
121 points by aduffy 2y ago|30 comments
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by aduffy 3y ago
I remember using GitHub as a teenager, circa 2010. I, not understanding git because I was an idiot, accidentally force pushed and deleted my history. I emailed the support email explaining the situation, and within a few hours got a reply f
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by aduffy 3y ago
Facebook invented thrift and gifted it to Apache
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A definitive guide to sealed traits in Rust(predr.ag)
2 points by aduffy 3y ago|0 comments
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by aduffy 3y ago
The quality of discussion in the NYT comments is exceedingly bad. In our industry it’s easy to forget that the average person doesn’t understand what’s happening currently in AI and fears the worst, based on the FUD being shouted by mouthpi
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Cloudflare bought the rights for "The Network is the Computer" from Sun(en.wikipedia.org)
5 points by aduffy 3y ago|0 comments
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by aduffy 3y ago
Looks like this coincides with seed funding[1], congrats folks! Did you guys just bootstrap through the last 5 years of development? [1] https://www.saltwire.com/cape-breton/business/code-testing-s...
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JEP: Primitive Types in Patterns, instanceof, and switch(openjdk.org)
1 points by aduffy 3y ago|0 comments
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When did humans first learn to speak? (2022)(theconversation.com)
3 points by aduffy 3y ago|0 comments
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Java Project Lilliput(wiki.openjdk.org)
2 points by aduffy 3y ago|0 comments
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37c3: Recovering Critical Data from Tesla Autopilot [video](youtube.com)
2 points by aduffy 3y ago|0 comments
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by aduffy 3y ago
The "coup by MSFT" conspiracy theory made no sense. Microsoft has an insanely good deal with OpenAI: * Exclusive access to resell OpenAI's technology and keep nearly all of that revenue for themselves, both cloud and se

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