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by sporkland 2y ago
I'm sure you've seen teams that have bad leadership / a culture of dysfunction. They're always asking for more headcount and no much how much you add they don't get any better. I assume parent was pointing out that
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by sporkland 2y ago
Good response to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40521518 Covered a lot of things I was thinking reading the original article.
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by sporkland 2y ago
I came on to say much the same thing: a lot of authorization policies are very basic "is this a request by an authenticated user or service." But I also think the fact that they both get abbreviated to "auth" also causes
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by sporkland 2y ago
They run k8s on borg. From what I can tell as someone that worked a lot on early k8s and a large GCP customer they still use borg mostly internally. k8s is their path to creating cloud portability and neutralizing AWS "network"
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by sporkland 2y ago
Yeah looks like they misused the word "train". And instead meant context stuffing.
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by sporkland 3y ago
In my mind, the more generic rule underneath these rules is you want to be able to comprehend what a unit is doing without jumping between a massive number or files or contexts. Inheritance hierarchies with shared state and overrides means
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by sporkland 3y ago
I don't know how the challenges with cooperative (no-preemptive) multitasking keep needing to get rediscovered. Even golang, which I consider a very responsibly designed language, went with cooperative at first until they were forced
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by sporkland 3y ago
Inspired by the title my two top ideas from theoretical compsci: 1. Move to front lists are at most 2x the optimal list order search time (and are often much better than any static list order). [1]. A similar conjecture exists for Splay t
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by sporkland 3y ago
I found his interviews on Lex Fridman to be interesting: https://youtu.be/G4hL5Om4IJ4 https://youtu.be/Nb2tebYAaOA
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by sporkland 3y ago
As someone that got a lot of value out of client side load balancers as a language neutral network library (e.g. we ran envoy under synapse for a while) From the start the Istio design choices tended to address problems we didn't have
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by sporkland 3y ago
I started at "oh boy this is gonna be bad for docusign" but after thinking about it I assume Docusign is removing any filled form fields / actual values and just training on the contract structure sans actual values. So all
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by sporkland 3y ago
Sounds like a simplified form of the generic idea of a rules engine.
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by sporkland 3y ago
I wish the concept of dev mode and prod mode were baked deeper into all language runtimes/libraries. e.g. before going to production with real users these cases should error as hard as possible, including potentially logging crashing t
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by sporkland 3y ago
Let me help you: "While I'm excited about the potential improvements to traffic safety, congestion and waste of life that self driving cars can bring. I still yearn for improvements to public transit and micromobility that can el
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by sporkland 3y ago
Your comment is a misguided attempt to point out that even if we have safe cars we still have cars with all of their challenges around noise and other inherent dangers and problems. Hope you do better next time.
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by sporkland 3y ago
OP was saying the native apps look good but screen sharing is bad. How does this explain that?
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by sporkland 3y ago
I'm pretty sure that is a property of the word2vec embeddings. I'm not 100% sure if the embeddings/hidden states in LLM's have the same property but my guess would be they do.
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by sporkland 3y ago
Windows during the longhorn timeframe tried to create a database/FS hybrid. I think the interface differences matter in terms of optimization offered by the storage layer. I'm sure you know all this and you were trying to make a h
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by sporkland 3y ago
I assume any small companies that were on the fence will no start doing more as it's easier to pull off in an environment where other companies are doing layoffs. Also a lot of smaller company outlooks are trending downward which unti
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How the Sys:All Loophole Allowed Us to Penetrate GKE Clusters in Production(orca.security)
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by sporkland 3y ago
Illegal but not enforced in California. I say we let these people run a few more years and then basically revoke the license of anyone that has done this for a year. The front dark tinted window is nearly 100% correlated with reckless, agg
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by sporkland 3y ago
Previously: "FoundationDB: A Distributed Key-Value Store" [ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36572658 ] "FoundationDB Record Layer" [ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18906341 ] &quo
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by sporkland 3y ago
Depending on the language it definitely has some "over engineering" issues. I love the API/SDK split and I think folks undervalue that. I dislike: 1. Context/Scope: super complicated and too much abstraction/genera
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by sporkland 3y ago
If they layoff it restricts them in a few ways: 1. Usually you have to pay severance. 2. They can't rehire into the roll for 6-months.
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by sporkland 3y ago
I think Britt is in the right here calling out Cloudflare for doing a layoff dressed up as performance management. It's a super scummy move. On the flip side I worry for Britt that you can't record people in California without th
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by sporkland 3y ago
It becomes so hard to reason about isolation issues that most things below serializable consistency will lead to you getting bitten in various ways, so I would argue most developers shouldn't even consider isolation levels. And tha
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by sporkland 3y ago
That's just not true. Costs can go up. Somewhat tangential point: Imagine extracting resources from the ground and at first it's cheap but as it gets deeper and scarcer it takes more and more person/machine hours to extract
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by sporkland 3y ago
> I'm not sure I understand why AI is supposed to make anything better It's probably because you don't understand how the world works. Most things aren't revolutions they just allow us to good things more often and c
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by sporkland 3y ago
Grue is a fascinating concept and it's much more pervasive than Japanese: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%E2%80%93green_distincti... Especially the fact that it tends to impact the speakers ability to perceiv
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by sporkland 3y ago
Stephenson's sex scenes and endings are always a lot of build up for a rapid unsatisfying release. He seemed like he really tried to have an extended goodbye in Seveneves which made me more grateful for his shorter unsatisfying endings

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