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by fizx 2y ago
The Everettian multiverse is a bit like seeing some bubbles and foam in the surf and concluding that there are "many oceans." Yes, there are many surfaces of water, but calling each bubble an ocean is a bit disingenuous. Like the
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by fizx 2y ago
Much like Javascript, the problem isn't Kubernetes, its the zillions of half-tested open-source libraries that promise to make things easier but actually completely obfuscate what the system is doing while injecting fantastic amounts o
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by fizx 2y ago
The error correction itself requires qbits, but reading out the final answer apparently becomes more probabilistic and complex, to the point where a neural net is a reasonable solution for interpretation and denoising.
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by fizx 2y ago
Prices always go up. Sometimes faster, sometimes slower. We can slow it, but it's a fool's errand to make them go down. When I was a kid, I could get an ice cream cone for a 50 cents. That's never coming back. Now that we
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by fizx 2y ago
When you're a scientist, you'd assume the calculus is the most useful thing you learn in high school, but actually its the 10 page essay on deadline for grant writing.
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by fizx 2y ago
Don't think of an H100. Think of the factories, the tooling, the datacenters and the power supply needed to light one up.
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by fizx 2y ago
I think that's true for e-bikes, but that's perhaps to be expected in a newer market. Over in analog mountain bikes, we have the new UDH standard, and basically everything else was standardized except some bearings. All mountain
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by fizx 2y ago
My dream here is probably webassembly transactions with bounded resource consumption
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by fizx 2y ago
Redis's transaction api is terrible, and doesn't work across shards. Any reasonable transactions are done in Lua, and because Lua mostly works well, there's not a lot of pressure to fix transactions. However, if you're
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by fizx 2y ago
I'm curious how well a o1-like model thinks, given minutes instead of seconds and the temperature set relatively high.
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by fizx 2y ago
It might be better by now with the newer GC options (ZGC, G1, Azul). For a while those had their own problems, but I'm a little out of the loop. Tuning the older options wasn't really all that beneficial. We tried tuning, then r
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by fizx 2y ago
Seems like he fell on his own sword.
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by fizx 2y ago
A problem here is that ES (and Solr too) are pathological with respect to garbage collection. To make generational GC efficient, you want to have very short lived objects, or objects that live forever. Lots of moderately long-lived objects
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by fizx 2y ago
It got a lot better in the ~7 series IIRC when they added checksums to the on-disk files. I don't know if you still have to recover corruptions by hand, or whether the correct file gets copied in from a replica. The replication protoc
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by fizx 2y ago
Whenever I see these google SRE articles, I kinda reduce the message to "don't be a hero in a cost center in an org with nearly unlimited resources." If you're in a profit center, you might get rewarded for your risk.
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by fizx 2y ago
Writing a protoc plugin would have been 5x easier, but its harder to get a blog article out of it. Also, this reads like they might not have seen the newer proto3 optional keyword, or know about the well-known wrapper types.
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by fizx 2y ago
No one will notice the bike's exhaust!
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by fizx 2y ago
I think we're alluding to making private property ownership more accessible, by making it more favorable, tax and otherwise, to own one house or small-business-zoned property, but less favorable to own many.
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by fizx 2y ago
So true. The advice of "commoditize your complements" is working out great for amazon. Ironically, AWS is almost a commodity itself, and the OSS community could flip the table, but we haven't figured out how to do it.
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by fizx 2y ago
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." ~ G.B. Shaw To make progress, you have to keep the op
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by fizx 2y ago
I think we have ok generalized value functions (aka LLM benchmarks), but we don't have cheap approximations to them, which is what we'd need to be able to do tree search at inference time. Chess works because material advantage i
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by fizx 2y ago
Most people choose themselves ;)
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by fizx 2y ago
Fun story time: I was at twitter for a few years and tended to write quick hacks that people wanted to replace with better engineering. We never had scala thrift bindings, and the Java ones were awkward from Scala, so I wrote a thrift plug
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by fizx 2y ago
I was tech lead on that subsystem for a little while in 2010. A lot of smart people thought about the hybrid approach, either by using the search index to drive the timeline or building a custom ring-buffer-based index of all tweets. Ulti
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by fizx 2y ago
Hi, sometime middle-manager here. The goal isn't to have me make decisions, its to let people around me make decisions quickly and well enough that most of the time it works out, and when it doesn't, we can roll back easily. If t
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by fizx 2y ago
Ehhh, there's pros & cons, just like anything else. Maybe some VCs want you to dig to the bedrock, but not all, and everything in life is a negotiation. I look at YC as grad school for entrepeneurs. You'll learn a ton, build
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Shopify Employees Go Head to Head for Raises in New Ranking System(theinformation.com)
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by fizx 2y ago
There's a million paths, but here's one I like. Use ElasticSearch. It will scale more than Postgres. Three hosted options are AWS, Elastic, Bonsai. I founded Bonsai and retired (so am partial), but they will provide the best hu
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by fizx 3y ago
> There is a (literal) speed of light limitation with this approach: your server can only be so close to your users. The next step is to compile your server to WebAssembly and ship it to your clients. You can then use it to optimistical
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by fizx 3y ago
It's worth noting that if you're messing around with large text files from the CLI, awk, grep, etc will be an order-of-magnitude faster if you opt out of unicode parsing. I'm pretty confident adding LC_ALL=C to the awk soluti

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