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by pphysch 1mo ago
I believe I first deployed VictoriaMetrics almost 5 years ago and have had zero regrets. Was also evaluating Thanos and InfluxDB at the time. The lead dev is super passionate about straightforward software that just works, and it shows. Lat
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by pphysch 1mo ago
OAI/Anthropic shareholder? Speed and intelligence are not "every way". Cost is essential. Hence the Pareto boundary illustrated in TFA.
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by pphysch 1mo ago
Are you implying that getting $MEGASaaS to implement a feature for you is faster than doing it in-house? Because that is absolutely not the norm.
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by pphysch 2mo ago
Both of you are right. There is demand for tailored (fine-tuned) models; almost every enterprise would theoretically benefit from them. But there are also a lot of prerequisites, namely does the enterprise have its sh*t together on a techni
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by pphysch 2mo ago
LLMs have only been really good for a couple years. You can bet that the remaining AAA studios are working hard on figuring this out in current unreleased products.
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by pphysch 2mo ago
Yes, Grafana seems to be the best free querying frontend across multiple data sources right now. But each Victoria product has its own built-in query GUI as well.
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by pphysch 2mo ago
There is, it's called VictoriaMetrics/Logs/Traces. https://victoriametrics.com/
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by pphysch 2mo ago
Assuming they (and militaries broadly) do this +more, like actually using vision models trained on billions of geolocated landscape photos.
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by pphysch 2mo ago
Installing & maintaining a Postgres extension is vastly, vastly simpler than running Elasticsearch and Kafka. Like, how could you even compare these things if you know what you are talking about? Or maybe you are looking at it from &quo
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by pphysch 2mo ago
Anyone resisting ethnic cleansing is a "terrorist", and so is anyone that happens to be standing next to them, as well as their nearest kin. We know the playbook.
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by pphysch 2mo ago
This is a wiki article about something that allegedly took place over 2 decades ago. Still waiting.
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by pphysch 2mo ago
IIRC the first or second chapter of Bernays' Propaganda (1928) talks about sophisticated influence campaigns in the fashion industry. Conscripting "influencers" to induce demand, and so on. As you said, literally 100 years
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by pphysch 2mo ago
Chinese solar was a big deal globally long before Trump's Iran blunder
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by pphysch 2mo ago
Again: identifying possible solutions to a problem is not "solving" the problem.
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by pphysch 2mo ago
Not everyone is going to school for engineering.
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by pphysch 2mo ago
Ideally, but this is not at all taught or incentivized in (American) schools. We're taught to "hack it" which means getting to a solution without much regard for how we got there.
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by pphysch 2mo ago
I wonder if it was (ironically) coined by non engineers who don't understand how engineers (or other high-stakes professionals at Pareto boundaries) solve problems: by decomposing problems and identifying optional solutions and weighi
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by pphysch 2mo ago
Was the original concept generated by Claude somehow? It gives me Claude UI vibes with all the extraneous small-caps text elements.
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by pphysch 2mo ago
Something definitely was lost with the addition of ranked ladders and global skill-based matchmaking systems. It was quite a long time, maybe 10y, before TF2 even got one. And yet it had a healthy, if unhyped, competitive scene long before
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by pphysch 2mo ago
This is a step in the right direction. Everyone hates public surveillance until they become the victim of a crime, but it's critical that the surveillance is owned and controlled fully on an appropriate level. You should fully own and
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by pphysch 2mo ago
No!! That is the Front of Pareto[1], a totally different group. Our Pareto Front only causes 20% of the casualties. [1] - http://montypython.50webs.com/scripts/Life_of_Brian/8.htm
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by pphysch 2mo ago
Yes, thanks. Corrected.
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by pphysch 2mo ago
The core tradeoff here is "Push vs. Pull". Webhooks are a model for pushing data to subscribers. A traditional API allows clients to request and pull data. The data flow is in the same direction, but control flow is opposite. Pu
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by pphysch 2mo ago
Why? Science is wildly unprofitable on the scale of an individual private firm.
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by pphysch 2mo ago
Right. What about the scientific hardware (instruments, sensors, robotics)? Partnerships with existing research institutions? Dealing with restricted data? Modernizing science is a lot more complicated than just optimizing the inner experim
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by pphysch 2mo ago
It is a fact that Kushner (plus Witkoff) has been playing the role of primary diplomat of the USA in critical matters of peace and war. In many cases, Rubio is not even present at these key foreign meetings.
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by pphysch 2mo ago
This comment might hold water in 2006 or 2016 but it rings hollow in 2026. Who elected/congressionally-approved Jared Kushner to run US foreign policy?
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by pphysch 2mo ago
> The goal of ClickHouse Labs is to establish a best-in-class industry research organization focused on databases. It will not operate as an isolated research organization that throws ideas over the wall to engineering. Instead, we will
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by pphysch 2mo ago
I think it comes down to some people having a strong aesthetic aversion to imperative programming and the practical value of side effects (including exception bubbling), often manifesting in vain attempts to write 'perfect code'.
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by pphysch 2mo ago
Nope, negative feedback is dampening and stabilizing. Antitrust enforcement represents a healthy negative feedback for the natural runaway concentration of wealth and power.

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