beoberha

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by beoberha 2y ago
I work in the SQL Server org at Microsoft, though on the service side and not the databasey side. The reverence with which people who knew him talk about Jim Gray is truly awe inspiring. I don’t have much more to add beyond that. It’s one t
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by beoberha 2y ago
That’s great for you! However, what a sad state of affairs that it took effort on your part to uncover your own diagnosis like that. I wonder why. There’s a few levels to it like 1) why didn’t doctor not even think of it 2) why was he so he
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by beoberha 3y ago
Yeah feels a bit disingenuous to title the article “70%”. While correct, it elicits the thought of a much more interesting migration than what actually happened.
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by beoberha 3y ago
Seems strange to have used CockroachDB but not leverage any of the distributed nature of it? I was looking forward to some interesting database problems in this article, but it was quite anticlimactic.
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by beoberha 3y ago
I’m more curious about the effectiveness of this question as an interviewer. I’d have to imagine you get a fairly strong signal to noise ratio as whoever takes the time to get a working solution must be pretty qualified for your role. That
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by beoberha 3y ago
I don’t think there’s going to be much change if any in the next 5 years. I feel like I’m taking crazy pills when I see people say LLMs can replace software engineers. Maybe if you’re writing basic CRUD web apps, but most systems have enoug
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by beoberha 3y ago
It’s an awesome mentality, but I think it comes out of Netflix being a company that sells to consumers and not enterprises. I work at a big cloud company. We don’t have enough engineers to do the work our customers want us to do. Each piece
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by beoberha 3y ago
I don’t understand your point. The natural progression of things is how we got to this point. You’d need some massive shock to the system (like a legislative law) to change it at this point.
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by beoberha 3y ago
I think at the end of the day the economics of streaming just aren’t there. Rights holders saw how much Netflix was making off their content and realized they could get way more if they cut out the middle man. But the cost of creating quali
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by beoberha 3y ago
Good for them, but sounds like there was a gun to their head. I didn’t realize any law like that had passed. I guess it’s nice of them to extend it to the whole world ;)
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by beoberha 3y ago
Awesome! I’ll eat crow for my opening comment. I had no idea something like that existed.
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by beoberha 3y ago
This is unfortunate to see. I remember when these alt-Ed startups were all the rage and there was a genuine belief that we were on the cusp of a paradigm shift in how we learned. Would love to hear some success stories if anyone has any!
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by beoberha 3y ago
I was just looking into a “server” PC to start a homelab of sorts and these beefy Chinese mini PCs kept popping up. I assumed they were mostly junk, but the reviews were surprisingly pretty positive but ultimately I went cheaper and got a r
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by beoberha 3y ago
Couldn’t agree more. It’s a hard, maybe impossible, problem to solve. You can’t make everyone happy and this is seemingly the result.
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by beoberha 3y ago
> Although this is from Google, we're a very small team that wanted such a codebase to exist. We have lots of plans to use it ourselves and we hope other people like it and find it useful. This is really cool, Austin. Kudos to your
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by beoberha 3y ago
Gemini - maybe, though I find it pretty unlikely it’ll happen anytime soon. Not sure what you mean about Gemma considering it’s not a service. You can download the model weights and the inference code is on GitHub. Everything is local!
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by beoberha 3y ago
Man this is really cool. The transparency is awesome. Shipping a hardware product as a bootstrapped founder sounds (at least) an order of magnitude harder than a software product. Edit: oh and congrats on the success this year! I’d have to
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by beoberha 3y ago
I very much enjoy my career as a software engineer, but man there’s a side of me that wishes I had studied something where I could even begin to build something like this. Super super cool!
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by beoberha 3y ago
I really wish HYC was more articulate and less egomaniacal. He makes a lot of claims and doesn’t really flesh out great arguments. Would be really interesting to have him discuss with Andy Pavlo :)
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by beoberha 3y ago
I wonder how much of the IPv4 space is used for infra that could just be privately addressed with some reworking of network topology. I find these articles on HN focus much more heavily on consumer use of IPv4 for simple things like web bro
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by beoberha 3y ago
I don’t disagree :) I’m just explaining to OP why someone would reach for it over PG
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by beoberha 3y ago
I had never heard of it until today, but a quick Google tells you it’s a Mongo-like JSON database with multi master capabilities. If you really really want those (I’m not sure it’s a good idea), then this seems way better than PG.
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by beoberha 3y ago
I probably shouldn’t take the bait here, but this reads like someone took intro to ML and thinks that’s all there is to know. “Just” fitting a curve couldn’t be more reductionist and discount the work of a ton of incredibly intelligent peop
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by beoberha 3y ago
When I tried last, it couldn’t be run on M-series Macs.
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by beoberha 3y ago
This has all the makings of the original “Dropbox is just rsync” comment.
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by beoberha 3y ago
I don’t mean to discount this work, but this particular model is the product of a few months of work tops. It’s effectively LLava with different training data, targeted at a specific use case. While I’m sure there is a significant effort at
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by beoberha 3y ago
There’s hacks and workarounds because billions of dollars have been poured into transformers by the biggest tech companies in the world. Your assumption that the same effort could be given to MAMBA or RWKV isn’t necessarily true. I’m sure t
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by beoberha 3y ago
I work at Microsoft now, so Hyper-V
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by beoberha 3y ago
Vagrant is such an awesome tool. It’s been about a decade since I’ve used it in any capacity, but remember being wowed in my first internship when I could just spin up a VM like nothing. Best of luck, Mitchell!
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by beoberha 3y ago
Hyperscale is awesome. My point is more for vector search. Once you’re at a large enough scale, the simple algorithms for similarity search break down. You’d need something that implements HNSW and designed their database indexes around it.

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