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by sixdimensional 5mo ago
I second the idea to use a zip. In fact it's what a lot of vendors do because it is so ubiquitous, even Microsoft for example - the "open Microsoft Office XML document format" is just a zip file containing a bunch of folders
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by sixdimensional 6mo ago
A few thoughts from instant gut reaction: - you're on HN, so you have an opportunity to tell us the name of the thing - marketing - perhaps consider your marketing budget to be the area you need to invest in now, and indirectly how tha
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by sixdimensional 7mo ago
I have a bunch of TI-99 hardware in storage, have been thinking to donate it to a computer museum potentially. I had one in my hand when I was 5 thanks to my grandpa (it made me what I am today!). Anyone up for a rousing game of Pole Posit
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by sixdimensional 8mo ago
I still don't understand what happened to using Apache Avro [1] for row-oriented fast write use cases. I think by now a lot of people know you can write to Avro and compact to Parquet, and that is a key area of development. I'm n
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by sixdimensional 8mo ago
I concur. Also, it was paid for by US taxpayer dollars - the entire content should have been released somewhere for free, maybe even someone would have started up a new project to maintain it, for example, something under Wikimedia or some
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by sixdimensional 8mo ago
I would enjoy discussion with whoever voted this down - why did you? What is your opinion and did you vote this down because you think it's silly, dangerous or you don't agree?
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by sixdimensional 8mo ago
Half serious - but is that really so different than many apps written by humans? I've worked on "legacy systems" written 30 to 45 years ago (or more) and still running today (things like green-screen apps written in Pick&#x2F
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by sixdimensional 11mo ago
I like Fastmail with my own domain for personal email, but the reality is nothing is a complete replacement for a Google account, given how tied in it is with auth and the whole Google ecosystem. I still have to use Google for work. Proton
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by sixdimensional 11mo ago
I do. Not selling anything, but I am trying to figure out what to do to help support solo and micro entrepreneurs, very small businesses (2-3 people) and very small nonprofits. I feel like there are a lot more people in this position now (m
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by sixdimensional 11mo ago
Thank you for your response! I agree that spending time on inference or compute every time for the same LLM task is wasteful and the results would be less desirable. But I don't think the thought experiment should end with that. We ca
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by sixdimensional 11mo ago
I totally agree. The reason I asked before offering any solution ideas was I was curious what you might think. My brain went to the concept of memoization that we use to speed up function calls for common cases. If you had a proxy that sat
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by sixdimensional 11mo ago
Have you tried the thought experiment though? I agree this way seems "wrong", but try putting on your engineering hat and ask what would you change to make it right? I think that is a very interesting thread to tug on.
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by sixdimensional 11mo ago
I think your last comment hints at the possibility- runtime generated and persisted code... e.g. the first time you call a function that doesn't exist, it persists if it fulfills the requirement... and so the next time you just call th
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by sixdimensional 11mo ago
This brings a whole new meaning to "memoizing", if we just let the LLM be a function. In fact, this thought has been percolating in the back of my mind but I don't know how to process it: If LLMs were perfectly deterministic
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by sixdimensional 1y ago
Maybe something here might help with masonry stuff: https://css-tricks.com/piecing-together-approaches-for-a-css... I stumbled across it looking for CSS flex masonry examples.
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by sixdimensional 1y ago
There is a good solution to concerns over this... Use UUIDv7 for your primary key but only for large scale databases and only for internal keys. Don't expose these keys to anything outside the database or application. Use UUIDv4 colum
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by sixdimensional 1y ago
If you're writing out data for analytical read only use - go with DuckDb all the way, over SQLite.
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by sixdimensional 1y ago
I'm not sure quantum computing is the solution, but it strikes me that a completely new compute paradigm like quantum computing is probably what is necessary - which is orders of magnitude more efficient and powerful than today's
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by sixdimensional 1y ago
I feel like the fundamental concept of symbolic logic[1] as a means of reasoning fits within the capabilities of LLMs. Whether it's a mirage or not, the ability to produce a symbolically logical result that has valuable meaning seems r
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by sixdimensional 1y ago
I'm not sure I totally agree. Personal profit maximization only works to a point - for example, if you get too old, sick or the system rejects you early and curtails or limits your ability to make money. I don't disagree that mone
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by sixdimensional 1y ago
Sorry to here about your bad experience. I do understand it, as when the hype cycle causes perfectly good things to be thrown away or messed up for no practical reason, it really bugs me too. In this case, it's so easy for some to say
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by sixdimensional 1y ago
I somewhat agree with you, especially that one could identify a common abstraction that later an LLM could piggyback on top of. Genuine question though - have you implemented an AI assistant/chat interface recently using LLMs on top of
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by sixdimensional 1y ago
Cool! Yeah, that's the kind of UI/UX I meant. I agree with the right abstraction and it's tough to find the balance- in our data pipeline app, what we did is make key core functionality of the app exposed so the assistant ca
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by sixdimensional 1y ago
I agree with you. I used to work in green screen text based UIs from the 80s (TUI). Power users didn't need search or anything else - they memorized the keystrokes to navigate the text UI and could just type key combinations to blaze t
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by sixdimensional 1y ago
No, I mean, like a copilot style AI assistant, the user can chat with to ask what they want to do, and either the assistant can operate and navigate the UI to the right place, or perhaps even shortcut the steps for the user by asking for qu
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by sixdimensional 1y ago
Give users an AI assistant they can ask to navigate them to the right screen or section of the application? In a previous job, we built our AI assistant so that it could operate our UI in the front-end and it was very powerful.
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by sixdimensional 1y ago
It wasn't an ad. I used to work for the parent company of PWS years ago, and their weather model was really awesome. I thought the TAMDAR tech reference might be if interest to those following and reading comments here. I'm not a
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by sixdimensional 1y ago
An interesting anecdote from a past job - Flyht [1] acquired the assets from Panasonic Weather Solutions (PWS) some time ago [2]. The weather model from PWS was incredible, using TAMDAR sensors mounted on commercial aircraft, which recorded
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by sixdimensional 1y ago
Is 2001 the stone age now (the year YAML was conceived)?
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by sixdimensional 1y ago
IMHO, modern society critically undervalues the importance of open-ended play in all aspects of work and life.

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