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by ahofmann 1y ago
It does. But scaling to billions of users (or billions of requests per day) is still not easy and you really need high performance for that. Laravel scales to a certain point, where their design decisions (eloquent, the queuing system etc.)
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by ahofmann 1y ago
Build something with symfony or laravel. In this space PHP is used in the modern way. Don't look at WordPress, Pimcore, WooCommerce et al. They're pretty much stuck with old PHP. That said, you can still shoot yourself in the foot
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by ahofmann 2y ago
What do you mean? What is huge to you? For me a static blog on a small vps would start to crumble at around 30 to 150 requests per second. This number is broad because the are a lot of moving parts even in this scope. This results in 2.5 mi
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by ahofmann 2y ago
I'm not necessarily sharing that view, but that is the answer for all the posts, who claim that criticism of trump/musk/Tesla/USA etc. is censored on hn. Enough people are sick of all that politics and want their old hn
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by ahofmann 2y ago
I don't know what you want to say with those screenshots. I think you get backlash here, because you tried to promote your own work with the argument that the work of other people is bad. Since you attacked potentially a few thousand d
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by ahofmann 2y ago
"PHP is in decline" or "PHP is dead" can be happily ignored. People saying this based on “data” pulled out of someone else's butt. This is going on since almost 10 years, and it is wrong since ever. PHP is chugging
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by ahofmann 2y ago
Found the arch user ;-)
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by ahofmann 2y ago
Well said!
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by ahofmann 2y ago
I write bog-standard PHP software. When GPT-4 came out, I was very frightened that my job could be automated away soon, because for PHP/Laravel/MySQL there must exist a lot of training data. The reality now is, that the current LL
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by ahofmann 2y ago
Ok, I'll bite. I predict that everything in this article is horse manure. AGI will not happen. LLMs will be tools, that can automate away stuff, like today and they will get slightly, or quite a bit better at it. That will be all. See
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by ahofmann 2y ago
You numbers are way off. They posted the initial cost of the storage. Also the support costs. The facility opex of 50k a month is just wrong for one rack. Whatever LLM you used, it told you good sounding bullshit. Like LLMs do.
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by ahofmann 2y ago
Here in Germany triple pane windows are very much a luxury.
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by ahofmann 2y ago
There are not many hints that the whole video is AI-generated. The voice sounds mostly excellent (only the harsh sibilants are annoying on headphones), the visuals are great and most imperfections look like deliberate decisions. It is impre
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by ahofmann 2y ago
Yes! Please tell me _why_ the commit happened. The _what_ is in the diff, so almost no need to tell me in the commit message. Often I get commits with some LLM-generated slop in the commit message. It always looks good and always tells noth
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by ahofmann 2y ago
While this is technically true, it is almost every time false in this case. The network traffic scales with the CPU resources, you use on UpCloud. I know that, because I used their services. But it would have been enough to just read the li
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by ahofmann 2y ago
You're misrepresenting UpCloud's offering. Their "zero-cost egress" is completely truthful - they don't charge extra fees for data transfer, unlike other providers. The fair usage policy you linked sets reasonable b
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by ahofmann 2y ago
Your argument oversimplifies the issue and ignores critical nuances. While it's true that Equinix is a US-based company, the physical location of the data centers and the legal jurisdiction they operate under matter significantly. A da
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by ahofmann 2y ago
You are right, that I assumed a few things. That wasn't right, I'm sorry. But: this doesn't change the validity of my points. Also: I assumed good faith, when I engaged with you. That was a mistake. After I posted my stuff he
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by ahofmann 2y ago
Big accusations require strong evidence. Please provide them, if you have them. I'm not an expert. 99% of my “knowledge” about ultrasound is from the posted article. Your thought process around AirPods makes no sense to me. I would be
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by ahofmann 2y ago
This is kind of a duplicate of this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43443494 and I don't know what nobunaga is trying to achieve here.
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by ahofmann 2y ago
Yeah, the whole concept sounds to me like "let's fire a lot of high energy beams into a crowd, it will be fine".
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by ahofmann 2y ago
First of all: I'm not using Zen browser, I don't know what it is, what it sells etc. Frankly I don't care about Zen browser and I've not read the other links, you provided. I wrote my post, because there is a strange thi
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by ahofmann 2y ago
“security problems are just bugs” - Linus Torvalds And he is 100% right on this. The whole thread, or even that it got posted here on in shows the problem. It was just a bug. The maintainer fixed it. Open source works. It makes no sense to
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by ahofmann 2y ago
“security problems are just bugs” - Linus Torvalds And he is 100% right on this. The whole thread, or even that it got posted here on in shows the problem. It was just a bug. The maintainer fixed it. Open source works. You can't throw
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by ahofmann 2y ago
Just a nitpick: OpenAI is on "3 9s" according to your own post. The nines left to the comma get counted. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_availability#Percentage_c...
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by ahofmann 2y ago
Most of those patterns are usable in any SQL database like mysql, sqlite et al. So read the article, even if you're not using postgresql.
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by ahofmann 2y ago
I'm going the exact opposite way. I provide all important details in the prompt and when I see that the LLM understood something wrong, I start over and add the needed information to the prompt. So the LLM either gets it on the first p
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by ahofmann 2y ago
I vouched for this post, because I don't understand why it was downvoted. Maybe someone can enlighten me?
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by ahofmann 2y ago
As far as I understood, the attack vector is different. Entering the ship is useless, there are no controls for humans.
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by ahofmann 2y ago
There is also MongoDB, which is also doing fine despite the very unfortunate name.

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