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by ramraj07 9mo ago
They literally answer that in the post. They started with a single instance and realized sharding the existing tables will be too much work (they'll slowly migrate to new tables instead).
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by ramraj07 9mo ago
It has one piece of useful info: their main data store even for 800M users is a single instance of postgres (for writes) without sharding.
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by ramraj07 9mo ago
Dont even need that podcast. Anyone who's done real research in any field, if they try to sit down and read the paper (if you can call it that), can immediately see that its just self aggrandizing, unscientific, biased garbage written
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by ramraj07 9mo ago
I have foregone our take home for exceptional candidates, but let me ask you, do you also demand compensation for in person or zoom call 1-1 interviews? Surely thats the same time of your life.
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by ramraj07 9mo ago
I recently pasted an error I found into claude code and asked who broke this. It found the commit and also found that someone else had fixed it in their branch. You should use claude code.
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by ramraj07 9mo ago
Yes, but the immediate equivalent scenario to me is how people treated other people as slaves merely using them like machines. Sure you got use out of them, but was that the best use?
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by ramraj07 9mo ago
Its not clear to me that LLMs hallucinating is because of they are extrapolating beyond their training data. Is that proven? Or are you extrapolating? Even acknowledging it is interpolation, models can extrapolate slightly without making th
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by ramraj07 9mo ago
The fundamental idea that modern LLMs can only ever remix, even if its technically true (doubt), in my opinion only says to me that all knowledge is only ever a remix, perhaps even mathematically so. Anyone who still keeps implying these ar
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by ramraj07 9mo ago
E2ee meaning what? Im assuming for compliance reasons any company needs to be able to access all of their internal chats?
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by ramraj07 9mo ago
Not coding agents but we do a lot of work trying to find the best tools, and the result is always that the simplest possible general tool that can get the job done always beats a suite of complicated tools and rules on how to use them.
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by ramraj07 9mo ago
I literally have this monitor already and these pixels are humongous. Even at 3 feet away. Also the viewing angle degradation is too much, so much so that it irritates to look at the edge of the screen from the center. A very poor monitor i
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by ramraj07 9mo ago
The bottom 50% has indeed gotten better (kinda sure but not everywhere) but technological progress is not guaranteeing they'll save everyone _anymore_. Fewer nations care about climate change and taking care of the poorer parts of the
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by ramraj07 9mo ago
Part of humanity will be sure. But what about the rest? Climate change will not kill humanity off, but its likely to cause suffering we haven’t seen since WWII (or worse). Unfortunately I've seen a glimpse of how the bottom 50% of peop
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by ramraj07 9mo ago
You want a spray that converts dog poo into dog diarrhea, and you think thats better?
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by ramraj07 9mo ago
The purpose of these reviewers is to flag the bug to you. You still need to read the code around and see if its valid and serious and worth a fix. Why does it matter if it then says the opposite after the fix? Did it even happen often or is
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by ramraj07 9mo ago
Do you have actual experience with bugbot? Its live in our org and is actually pretty good, almost none of its comments are frivolous or wrong, and it finds genuine bugs most reviewers miss. This is unlike Graphite and Copilot, so no one&#
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by ramraj07 10mo ago
As the other person said, Deep Research is invaluable; but generating hypotheses is not as good at the true bleeding edge of the research. The ChatGPT 4.0 OG with no guardrails, briefly generated outrageously amazing hypotehses that actuall
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by ramraj07 10mo ago
Whoa. Finally someone I relate with! Thanks for such amazing intel! In my opinion forays into biology by moonshot hopefuls fail for one of two reasons: either they completely ignore all the current wisdom from academia and industry, or they
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by ramraj07 10mo ago
Should google have involved though? Calico, Verily, isomorphic etc seem like theyre destined to not succeed.
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by ramraj07 10mo ago
If someone can write something to convert between json and xml ill bless your offspring.
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by ramraj07 10mo ago
I don't buy this narrative (notwithstanding that great commencement speeches are almost always hyperbole). The way I see it Sergey HAD to come back or risk the poorly managed mess that is google completely drop the AI leadership . It p
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by ramraj07 10mo ago
The irony is that light mode is objectively the correct way to use things.
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by ramraj07 10mo ago
Part of growing up is also knowing WHEN to do the extra, thinking about whether this will undermine people who dont like to be undermined, and then more fundamentally, what the hell am I doing in such a politically toxic place? Its not just
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by ramraj07 10mo ago
Lookup the Mitch Hedberg bit about hotel lamps with 3 way switches
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by ramraj07 10mo ago
Your usecase is different then. Some of us actually want to browse through the entire json.
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by ramraj07 10mo ago
I dont know if you spend a fraction of your life scrolling vertically through megabyte sizes json files, but if something can reduce the height of the file thats welcome. We dont need to read every single line fro left to right, we just nee
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by ramraj07 10mo ago
When I read the predictive tip based fee reduction I went, "yep thats what I would do if I was unscrupulous and worked there."
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by ramraj07 10mo ago
Always possible, but the points here are too good to be out of a random brainstorm of what an evil company would do. It sounds very plausible as an exhaustive list of the most important dastardly things an evil delivery company would do.
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by ramraj07 10mo ago
It used to be the case briefly (I think) that drivers choose your order after seeing the tip amount so as the poster mentioned, you would get only the truly desperate drivers if you dont tip. If whats written here is true (I honestly have n
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by ramraj07 10mo ago
This comment was replying to someone asking "how could engineers possibly write such malicious code" so a more glaring example from a more mainstream company seemed quite appropriate.

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