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by gregw2 1y ago
AWS should provide features where you are prompted to set a hard budget limit when you first signup and services fail once that's exceeded, so you don't get surprised, but they don't. That should be opt-out. (recent thread o
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by gregw2 1y ago
I love Hanlon's razor. Super-helpful in certain contexts: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." But, having known about it for a dozen years now, I also find it inadequate alone as a r
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by gregw2 1y ago
Not just loosely, SGI itself made the core graphics chip for N64.
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by gregw2 1y ago
This is way more complicated than it needs to be, or at least the author fails to clearly articulate that a ton of complexity here is just to support ragged hierarchies and if you have a fixed level hierarchy, its /way/ simpler
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by gregw2 2y ago
The right ("as intended", in my view) functionality would be to support a manifest with, say, five apps, and if as a dev you wanted more youd apply to google for an exception (like aws limit increases) with a list of reasons for e
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by gregw2 2y ago
is there any ability for us to log centrally the SQL queries executed from multiple laptops against our s3 iceberg store?
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by gregw2 2y ago
Thanks for the pointer. What a /great/ article.
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by gregw2 2y ago
Three thoughts. 1) To be slightly annoyingly contrarian, there is money to be made in secure telecom; Skype founders made a bundle, no? 2) This article conflates freeswitch with major telecom carrier infeastructure. My impression is that 30
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by gregw2 2y ago
Onesweep paper (Nvidia 2022): https://research.nvidia.com/publication/2022-06_onesweep-fas... Onesweep GitHub repo: https://github.com/b0nes164/GPUSorting
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by gregw2 2y ago
The TL;DR is the implementer was able to get use GPUs to get merge sort speedups that exceeded CPUs once the number of elements being sorted was >10,000,000. thrust::sort is an Nvidia C++ library; I am not clear whether it is related to
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by gregw2 2y ago
Swapping LLM models isn't hard, but if you build a production app or business process around it, how much time/effort is the testing to have confidence? Which is easier when maintaining an LLM business process, swapping in the lat
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by gregw2 2y ago
I'd love it, but I feel like there is another horizon that Iceberg hasn't tackled to truly get us there. Iceberg (and Delta Table format) is really OLAP-optimized, being built on a columnar datastore, Parquet. This means it will
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by gregw2 2y ago
This, I think. I also didn't see how your solution 2 recovers from worker crashes, although I was sympathetic to distributing the retry to workers.
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by gregw2 2y ago
Not your original question, but you should add some random jitter to your exponential-backoff-like delay intervals.
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by gregw2 2y ago
Selling yourself as a Cybersecurity dev from Iraq will probably be harder than selling yourself as a frontend engineer. So I would focus on improving frontend skills and marketing. You didn't mention it as an option, but if you are ti
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by gregw2 2y ago
Pro Amazon Insider Tip: If you visit each of the four original URLs four times in a row, and then go to Amazon.com, all items are priced at $0.00! Just kidding.
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by gregw2 2y ago
Err. I think you meant Amazon planned to be named "Relentless" (and then Cadabra). Bezos did register "Relentless.com" and it redirects to amazon.com to this day. Other early name alternatives were: Awake.com (still work
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by gregw2 2y ago
What I noticed missing in this analysis of distributed systems programming was a recognition/discussion of how distributed databases (or datalakes) decoupling storage from compute have changed the art of the possible. In the old days o
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by gregw2 2y ago
Yeah yeah, I was joking about leaded gas refining/distilling. :-)
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by gregw2 2y ago
I spent years thinking about this at the time, and wrote up a crystalized super-long "why?" in an SGI retrospective comment on an earlier thread, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39960660 which you might find
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by gregw2 2y ago
I completely agree with you that (unlike/despite the Supreme Court ruling), database table/column schema design (and other system designs) should fall under the Illinois statute as "documentation pertaining to all logical and
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by gregw2 2y ago
Re-looked. One small reference from 1998 about this language, about the war for eyeballs: https://www.eetimes.com/infighting-is-enemy-in-war-for-eyeba... The language of "war for eyeballs" in the wake of social me
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by gregw2 2y ago
I seem to remember in the ?late 90s? Intel execs talking about how their market's growth opportunity was all about capturing eyeballs (attention). Eyeballs, eyeballs, eyeballs. At the time I thought it was a weird way of talking about
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by gregw2 2y ago
Sounds like outsourcing/offshoring!
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by gregw2 2y ago
Plumbing? I think of it a /refining/ the presentation of the argument. Or /distilling/, if you will...
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by gregw2 2y ago
I'm not yet sure whether they are even doing data science. Anecdote time (pinch of salt required): A relative of mine studying accounting went to the Doge site to see the "audit" and "analytics" records that some ac
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by gregw2 2y ago
The core counts shown seemed grossly wrong (low) to me in all respects, from desktops to laptops to high end datacenter CPUs, so I looked into the assumptions. The chart is from the perpective of CPUs going into HPC clusters, not high end S
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by gregw2 2y ago
The superiority of TikTok's recommendation algorithm outcomes over youtube should have been a clue. BTW, who in China is doing the best AI on goods shipping since you mention it?
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by gregw2 2y ago
I implemented a data access permissions layer in SQL stored procs with setbased logic with allow/deny and include/exclude functionality and some 'security rules composability'. Implementing it definitely took some of the
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by gregw2 2y ago
Regarding "can't immediately think of how I would have worked bulk processing in a way that maps to this article think of how to map composibility" ... I believe stored procedures where you construct dynamic sql and execute t

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