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by phyrex 3y ago
You don’t need to trust Meta, there’s tons of regulatory oversight
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by phyrex 3y ago
Apparently “selective undo”: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Un...
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by phyrex 3y ago
That’s pretty much how meta does it, so I don’t think scaling is an issue. What you do at a certain scale is sampling.
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by phyrex 3y ago
It exists in emacs. Blew my mind when I first saw it!
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by phyrex 3y ago
That’s not what he said at all. He says he uses it as an indicator whether there are news or not
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by phyrex 3y ago
Thang’s, that’s good to hear. I’ve been incredibly disappointed with diablo 4 for that reason!
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by phyrex 3y ago
I have never once heard the fans in my Mac Studio
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by phyrex 3y ago
I thought you meant the other one :/ https://xkcd.com/931/
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by phyrex 3y ago
You could look at any of the other threads where that has been discussed to death
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by phyrex 3y ago
There’s good evidence against that. All the easily mineable resources that a civilization needs to build more advanced technology will be used up by the first civilization. I’ve heard it said that if we destroy our current technology there
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by phyrex 3y ago
I know that’s the general feeling on HN, but the numbers don’t seem to bear that out. Facebook has over 3B monthly active users, and instagram and WhatsApp are getting up there too
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by phyrex 3y ago
What do you think Twitter did that Facebook didn’t do?
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by phyrex 3y ago
I’m sorry to single you out but I’m seeing more and more knee-jerk responses like this, similar to what’s common on Reddit, and I don’t like it. I come to HN for thoughtful discussion, and this adds nothing to the discussion but only sets a
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by phyrex 3y ago
Ooooh that’s where it comes from?? Thanks!
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by phyrex 3y ago
> At Meta, 0.1% and 1% of the largest services consume 40% and 80% of the total fleet capacity, respectively. from https://www.usenix.org/system/files/osdi23-grubic.pdf
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by phyrex 3y ago
It's homegrown. This paper talks about it: https://research.facebook.com/file/877841159827226/holistic-... It also mentions Gatekeeper, which is the rule-based engine I mentioned built on top of it, but there
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by phyrex 3y ago
that's exactly what it is
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by phyrex 3y ago
No, the deploy mechanism is separate from a code deploy. The rules themselves can get very complex and are distributed in the same way
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by phyrex 3y ago
I find this highly misleading, Facebook is famously a big monolith, and I think so is instagram. There’s plenty of services and a couple micro services as well, but I don’t think anybody would characterize meta as having a micro services ar
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by phyrex 3y ago
At my job feature flags (and other configuration) get distributed as static files that replaced by config updates, so if there’s ever a disruption the hosts still have the last valid code configuration values
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by phyrex 3y ago
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2019/07/...
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by phyrex 3y ago
It’s easy enough to do as a website. I posted mine in a comment in this thread
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by phyrex 3y ago
I implemented one of those for myself a couple years ago: https://s3.amazonaws.com/max.public/bestplates/index.html It’s optimized for phone input, so put the weights of the sets you’re going for in like ‘135*225*
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by phyrex 3y ago
It’s fully typed and nothing can be merged that doesn’t pass the type checker
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by phyrex 3y ago
It’s just running on the shared meta infrastructure which is built to handle that scale
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by phyrex 3y ago
I think meta makes much more per customer, and few people would be willing to pay, say, E100/yr to pay for Facebook without ads
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by phyrex 3y ago
PyTorch is a meta project, I think tensorflow is from Google. Both companies maintain their own programming languages (which they later open sourced)
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by phyrex 3y ago
Google describes theirs in their software engineering at Google book. It’s available for free online
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by phyrex 3y ago
It's also doing a lot of good. It's in the nature of any broadcasting and communications platform
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by phyrex 3y ago
What a shortsighted view! Do you think Twitter operates out of the goodness of their hearts and will continue to let you keep up on Ai and new space in the face of losing money? Do you think what’s there will just do to help working withou

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