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by bfeynman 3y ago
Having multiple services talking directly to the same database is without a doubt an anti pattern, for >99.99 cases so that is why it is considered one. Functionality aside it increases complexity for managing throughout and makes secu
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by bfeynman 3y ago
LLMs constantly show most promise for work that really has very little value add, and I wonder given just economics if this will guide behavior towards not even bothering with its applications. Starting with cover letters, and then towards
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by bfeynman 3y ago
Kind of disagree with this, which seems outdated given that it becomes easier and easier to implement best practices. Setting up CI/CD for a basic MVP is trivial, making it super easy to contribute makes iterations faster than just wo
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by bfeynman 3y ago
Not exactly IMO, it's more about the orchestration of micro services w.r.t quasi physical boundaries.
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by bfeynman 3y ago
They don't have luxurious insides, but the overall design I find is still nice. Seems odd to spend resources and thought into making really neat interior design with dashboard and screen and then default to the cheapest materials for
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by bfeynman 3y ago
... You seriously just tell people to deploy a stack with your IAM role that "has the least permissions possible" good luck lol. Another thin wrapper around open-ai that doesn't even do the heavy lifting (deploying a secure
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by bfeynman 3y ago
Again, just a trivial wrapper over open ai, which already does this very well. But seems to not have any real benefits other than not needing to move mouse. You don't need to send data to OpenAI, and in a business you wouldn't w
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by bfeynman 3y ago
What do you mean separate authorization logic? There are many layers to auth and usually they act as interceptors in request that go very fast. If you have blanket permissions to list, you are able to list resources you have access to... t
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by bfeynman 3y ago
I said level not speed, obviously something sending solve request back less than a few milliseconds later is not human.
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by bfeynman 3y ago
Amazing how people can be elevated to such high positions without any acumen or business knack. Almost all amazon devices have been a failure in terms of generating profit. Somehow this guy got to keep his job despite all that, instead of
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by bfeynman 3y ago
CAPTCHAs are supposed to tell humans and robots apart, if robots are all doing better than humans, maybe we should flip the acceptance criteria to make sure you are not performing task at superhuman level, (until we train bots to do this).
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by bfeynman 3y ago
Having some marine background the first sentence confused me, I didn't realize people use the crab mascot for rust so much to use evolutionary terms. But there is already a term for the "opposite" of carcinization, it's
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by bfeynman 3y ago
I find this type of writing compelling, so if you write a blog I think you would get people to read it. One thing I've seen after the fact is the schism between media and evidence which adds an extra dimension here with the air traffi
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by bfeynman 3y ago
the brevity with which you describe the life trajectory for millions if not tens of millions of people is ... sigh.
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by bfeynman 3y ago
not really. Companies pay more in expensive cities where they locate offices because they need to attract local talent, and they have to compete against other companies. Many national companies have cost of living adjustments baked into
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by bfeynman 3y ago
This behavior of legal loopholes to discount workers should be made illegal. The definition of sub-contractor has got to change and/or have laws/policies in place that actually make sense in a sub contractor relationship. These a
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by bfeynman 3y ago
I think people miss this point, Vegas is a spectacle. If they are going to do something it has to be an attraction not just a rote tool that serves a purpose. They literally want it to be a place you have to go to because you can't ex
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by bfeynman 3y ago
Using this as a basis for urban planning and study is bizarre. Zermatt is basically a resort, yes there are full time residences but dominated by winter ski population, (and it's served by very good Swiss rail services). As it's
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by bfeynman 3y ago
exactly, the most frustrating type of behavior for any colleague (esp jrs) is those who just default to consistently ask for help instead of diving deep. That behavior is costly in slowing down others. People need to learn how to learn, o
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by bfeynman 3y ago
as an analogy, consider that renovating often is much more difficult and complex than new construction. As you build up you're making some irreversible moves, i.e. you build a door or a set of trusses, now you can't move a large p
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by bfeynman 3y ago
this is just PR newswire hype, calling it foundation model is a stretch. People have been training nets on satellite imagery for a long time, I don't even see anything here that would need a foundation model, most of them are vanilla C
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by bfeynman 3y ago
That's not an LLM problem, there's a physical divide between a physical stores operation and whatever its representation online is. Google tries to do this by tracking people and activity in locations to see if people are at a pl
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by bfeynman 3y ago
I didn't even read article, and my point was entirely fulfilled by your response and other comments here. There are plenty of places where things are sub optimal but the amount of attention received by this is disproportionate. All I
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by bfeynman 3y ago
HN seems to be chock full of people who have vendettas against so called "elite" schools probably because they didn't get in. Which is weird since there also is large number of people who were self taught and didn't eve
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by bfeynman 3y ago
Exactly, I never said it was a good thing that housing is an investment, only that that is the current state of affairs, and to alter that would have ramifications that would cause huge problems. Best thing we can do is stabilize what we c
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by bfeynman 3y ago
Many people have mortgages on their home, being underwater on a mortgage (i.e. the LTV spikes because you are now borrowing more than the home is worth) would set off a bank/debt crisis, that is what I meant by catastrophic.
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by bfeynman 3y ago
I think at this point that would be catastrophic, the average persons most valuable asset usually is their home (for better or for worse). A all encompassing reversal would economically cataclysmic. I would think we need better incentives
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by bfeynman 3y ago
they are already doing that with XLA, google has TPUs, amazon has tranium/inferentia. common interface in future that you basically just cast model to `.toDevice` of an enum of accelerated computing types seems to be the goal.
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by bfeynman 3y ago
how can you finetune gpt-4 or 3.5? The shell/wrapper around a request to open AI is not any worthy piece of software, It'd be more impressive to vend those services. Otherwise it's basically just a few scripts.
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by bfeynman 3y ago
This article was also from a week after he bought it. The most obvious conclusion is that the number of bots on the platform has skyrocketed as they removed probably most the people working on bot prevention right as chatgpt and the like to

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