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by mgraczyk 4y ago
They don't, they got fired already.
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
In cases where you can't predict the future appropriately, sometimes it's better to make prudent decisions that help everyone instead of attempting to punish the sinful. Keep in mind that bank shareholders and senior management ar
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
It may be trite to even mention it at this point, but for fun I gave all the example code in the article to ChatGPT and it correctly explained the problem in all but one case (the whitespace one). Pretty cool!
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
Because the nearby pixels are not clipped.
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
I watched the video and in this case the "recovered" detail is clearly natural to me. The original case does look like some kind of moon-specific processing, but this one with clipped highlights seems natural and can be achieved u
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
Thanks for the explanation!
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
There is a line in the constitution that says "The validity of the public debt of the United States, ... shall not be questioned." Some interpret this to imply that the courts could intervene in any case where legislative action w
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
Looks great on my Android phone. On my Linux desktop with a 4k screen, it renders at ~2 fps and looks absolutely horrible. Hopefully this will be fixed!
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
On the other hand, the servers at restaurants in SF make more than most software engineers in Western Europe now. So probably good to focus a little more on economic growth.
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
A better analogy would be if you were hiring rapists at your company and it turned out that they had themselves been victims of sexual assault, then you may want to know what's going on. Your analogy is completely missing the entire po
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
Yes, but it's not realistic to believe people will use apps like Briar. The user experience is not good enough.
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
The point of the paper is that there's more to it than that.
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
IMO the most realistic way to improve this situation is to get more people using E2EE chat apps, and fight against any attempt by government to weaken or ban encryption. Meta the company hates this and is spending money on ads trying to get
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
This is not quite right though. In objective collapse theories, there is an "us" to do the observing, and there is a collapse event which samples randomly from the possible outcomes. Both the "us" and the sampling are ad
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
What's your ldap? I can look you up and see what you were working on, and whether it required making design decisions around reduced average system latency. And yeah this is exactly my point. If you present a "standard and common&
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
You are talking about minimizing the expected or average latency, which is very rarely important. The actual goal will depend on the broader system but typically you want to minimize the latency of the worst 95%, 99%, 99.9% etc of requests.
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
I do, but I don't interview SREs. "Production down" situations are hopefully rare, so the purpose of the interview is to understand if the engineer can plan ahead by adding monitoring, logging, and knobs, and to know how to d
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
Well for my own startups I don't do system design interviews. I don't think they're perfect and there are better ways of measuring the same thing if you have more time per candidate. Big companies like Google have to sometime
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
If they bring up graphql, I expect them to say something like "none of the advantages of graphql are applicable in this case, so it may make sense to use if it's already well supported. All else being equal it's probably not
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
What I am saying here is that it's not true in all cases, so candidates should avoid blurting out rehearsed sentences like that. Caches usually reduce load on the thing behind the cache. They can sometimes reduce latency in ways that m
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
In practice, "latency" is too vague to be what matters. In many systems it's the worst 1% or 0.1% of latencies that matter. Adding a cache will improve latency in those cases only in some situations. Usually adding caches hel
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
As an interviewer, my job is to differentiate between people who have experience vs people who have just read books and articles. I interview mostly L6+, so I will not recommend people who I don't believe have real experience building
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
This might be true of SRE roles, but not really true for most engineers, particularly not where I currently work. I wasn't completely clear but what I'd be asking for here is how to predict and design for bottlenecks, not how to m
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
It's possible in those cases that the candidates were really good. The main tells are a mismatch between apparent practical experience and apparent knowledge of the design space. I always dig into a few specific technical aspects of th
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
I am on the interviewer side of ~1 system design interview per week and have done probably around 100 of them at Google and other companies. Most of the advice here is good, although it could be condensed quite a bit. The biggest red flag f
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
What if you do this with no fine tuning?
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
My guess is that the primary strategic motivation here is recruiting and maintaining a competent org of people who know how to build large models. I don't think that the actual release is as calculated as all that. It's more about
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
But these videos were not part of the ChatGPT training data. This is most likely caused by the code on GitHub. The claim in the blog post that "ChatGPT has picked up that content" is false.
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
I think this is just an incorrect assumption on the part of the blog authors.
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by mgraczyk 4y ago
This uses a government ID for the actual identity and most of the "verification". I'm not sure what more you're looking for? Facebook can't use zKP because existing government IDs don't support that. And there

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