hobofan

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by hobofan 2y ago
I know it seems unintuitive but actix-web is largely unrelated to actix nowadays: https://actix.rs/docs/whatis/
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by hobofan 2y ago
> or if your average developer/architect isn’t finding enough use cases that can’t be done with more traditional RDBMS Graph DBs are not magic. If you drill down into their query/execution plans it becomes very obvious that the
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by hobofan 2y ago
What? The humanoid robot in the video is walking on the most even surface possible. Boston Dynamics has a more impressive walking video from 11 years ago (obviously restricted by the hardware at the time): https://www.youtube.com
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by hobofan 2y ago
Yeah, this seems to be a common theme with Google's open source projects. Bazel feels very similar in many points. It obviously wouldn't exist if not for Google putting resources towards it, but Google's (and google3's n
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by hobofan 2y ago
No, that is Pete Hudgson on martinfowler.com. Most articles on martinfowler.com haven't been written by Martin Fowler himself in years. It's best thought of as a publishing venue for Thoughtworks.
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by hobofan 2y ago
In it's simplest incarnation, yes it could be just a single DB table with boolean flags. However there are a lot of connected needs that most real world-usages run into: - Per-user toggles of configuration values - Per-user dynamic eva
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by hobofan 2y ago
I think it's first important to note that there is a huge difference between -o models (GPT 4o; GPT 4o mini) and the o1 models (o1-preview; o1-mini). The -o models are "just" stronger versions of their non-suffixed predecesso
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by hobofan 2y ago
> Yeah, I mean that's why we're both here and why we're discussing this very topic, right? :D That wasn't specifically directed at "you", but more as a plea to everyone reading that comment ;) I looked at a
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by hobofan 2y ago
> Which ones are you looking at? Since the benchmark comparison in the blogpost itself doesn't include Opus at all. I manually compared it with the values from the benchmarks they published when they originally announced the Claude
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by hobofan 2y ago
Yes, you will find similar things at essentially all other model providers. The older/bigger GPT4 runs at $30/$60 and peforms about on par with GPT4o-mini which costs only $0.15/$0.60. If you are currently, or have been integ
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by hobofan 2y ago
> I don't understand why this seems purposefully ambiguous? I wouldn't attribute this to malice when it can also be explained by incompetence. Sonnet 3.5 New > Opus 3 > Sonnet 3.5 is generally how they stack up against ea
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by hobofan 2y ago
With UIPath, Appian, etc. the whole field of RPA (robotic process automation) is a $XX billion industry that is built on that exact premise (that it's more feasible to do automation via GUIs than badly built/non-existing APIs). De
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by hobofan 2y ago
I think as of this announcement that is indeed outdated information.
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by hobofan 2y ago
Opus hasn't yet gotten an update from 3 to 3.5, and if you line up the benchmarks, the Sonnet "3.5 New" model seems to beat it everywhere. I think they originally announced that Opus would get a 3.5 update, but with every pro
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by hobofan 2y ago
I took a brief look into Drasi and it looks like it doesn't do any of the differential/timely dataflow stuff (like Materialize does), or any other sophisticated incremental view maintenance methods that are rooted in Microsoft Res
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by hobofan 2y ago
Yeah, they don't say it out loud on the website, but the project has strong crypto roots and connections. Only one or two steps removed you have associations to: "Join Edge City" (pop-up city organizers that AFAIK directly wo
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by hobofan 2y ago
> The German rail system has been cost-saved to death Yes, because the the traffic ministers allocate the spending of their resort to the Autobahn instead of the Deutsche Bahn.
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by hobofan 2y ago
Yeah, it also always catches me off guard how late they reignite, while at the same time I'm always surprised by how slow the liftoff is even though all the boosters are on full throttle. Of course both things make sense given the resp
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by hobofan 2y ago
Given the fact that this at the core relies on the `rayon` and `wide` libraries, which are decently baseline optimized but quite a bit away from what llama.cpp can do when being specialized on such a specific use-case, I think the speed is
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by hobofan 2y ago
Yeah, Kagi is fine without it, but if they would spend all the effort they pit into AI into normal Kagi search, Kagi could possibly be amazing without it. E.g. Kagi could spend their time on improving deep site search (Stackoverflow/Gi
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by hobofan 2y ago
> I've been wondering for well over a decade why Hetzner didn't get its ass in gear and start offering AWS-like services. Because unlike the hyperscalers, they are not natively a software company but a sysadmin company.
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by hobofan 2y ago
While Rocket was one of the earliest Rust frameworks that really pushed for good UX (via proc-macros), I think it has largely fallen out of favor in many parts of the community. For a very long time it required nightly Rust versions to buil
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by hobofan 2y ago
I think the article should be called "How do Go standard library HTTP servers figure out Content-Length?". In most HTTP server implementations from other languages I've worked with I recall having to either: - explicitly defi
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by hobofan 2y ago
Not sure why you are being downvoted. You are generally right. Most of their new product rollouts were acoompanied with huge production instabilities for paying customers. Only in the most recent ones did they manage that better. > They
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by hobofan 2y ago
> but eventually VCs will realize that they're getting bad returns from their investments I'm not saying that they are necessarily bad returns. It's just that for many reasons there is a strong opportunity for a disconnect
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by hobofan 2y ago
Liquidity event != exit. While an exit (= aquisition, IPO and similar) is obviously always the optimal end-goal, every round of fundraising is a potential liquidity event for all existing stakeholders. It's very common to have partial
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by hobofan 2y ago
Sure, that would be a theoretical failure mode. But that's not really what's happening right now, is it? YC doesn't look to have a problem of people joining just to get the stamp on the resume and then "half-assing"
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by hobofan 2y ago
I don't think that's really connected to the topic here? What you are describing here just sounds like one of their portfolio companies taking full advantage of one of the perks that comes with YC? I don't know what the limit
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by hobofan 2y ago
> You don't want to attract founders who figure YC is a low-risk alternative to grad school Of course YC would want that (in the short- to mid-term). The only thing YC has to do is produce a portfolio of companies that looks good en
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by hobofan 2y ago
1. This is pure whataboutism. Just because Sony doesn't contribute (I don't know whether they do or don't), doesn't make it right. 2. There is obviously a difference between "selling products that include OSS"

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