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by tveita 3y ago
The front page could do with a simple example of a Pijul session to show how you would actually use it in practice. Maybe whatever would be the Pijul equivalent of a clone - branch - commit - push workflow.
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by tveita 3y ago
> Two approaches which immediately spring to mind are passing desired items as query parameters or passing a template item as a query parameter or request body. I've implemented this twice, you quickly end up at something resembling
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by tveita 3y ago
Mixtral is a pre-existing model that was released by Mistral AI in December: https://mistral.ai/news/mixtral-of-experts/ It was discussed on HN at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=385
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by tveita 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-trust_and_low-trust_socie... Trust is a technology, the transition to a high-trust society unlocks so much potential that was previously used on "basic" tasks like guarding
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by tveita 3y ago
> The 10M context ability wipes out most RAG stack complexity immediately. The video queries they show take around 1 minute each, this probably burns a ton of GPU. I appreciate how clearly they highlight that the video is sped up though,
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by tveita 3y ago
Each execution by design has a record of all calls with side-effects, with input and output. If you replay history up to the newest call and all calls are identical, that specific execution instance is compatible with the new code and can b
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by tveita 3y ago
Your requirements are very close to Starklark - an embeddable programming language intended for configuration with an available Rust implementation. https://docs.rs/crate/starlark/latest
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by tveita 3y ago
Rolling a task over to a new version should be "safe" in that you can detect conflicts and roll back if the sequence of calls does not match the old version. For a post about "solving" durable execution I would expect bo
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by tveita 3y ago
I've been surprised that a lot of developers have no idea how to use a queue effectively. I think you are right to be suspicious of any "established patterns" you come across, and even more of fancily named queue-based paradi
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by tveita 3y ago
The endpoints can also be smarter about it by using a buffer-aware congestion algorithm like BBR, which should avoid filling up the buffers to available capacity.
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by tveita 3y ago
Looks like HikariCP is also awaiting fixes for this https://github.com/brettwooldridge/HikariCP/pull/2055
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by tveita 3y ago
There are ways to find problem sections without having to trigger a full deadlock: https://openjdk.org/jeps/444 The system property jdk.tracePinnedThreads triggers a stack trace when a thread blocks while pinned. R
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by tveita 3y ago
I'm guessing you're imagining an entitled person sitting around and demanding things. But the advice is targeted to the kind of people who would pass up a job offer they want because "I'm not clever enough", or brea
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by tveita 3y ago
I assume you would drive differently if you noticed the driver you were overtaking was looking at their phone and their hands were not on the wheel? Like the article hints at, a true self driving car lets the driver behave in ways that woul
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by tveita 3y ago
There are good reasons to split embeddings off from your regular DB load. Embeddings can be quite large (kilobytes per item), and querying is CPU and IO intensive, so they are good candidate for scaling separately. The embeddings are not pr
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by tveita 3y ago
There's a variant called "header bidding" that got a bit of positive PR during an antitrust investigation of Google last year, e.g.: https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/11/cma_ec_blue_jedi/
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by tveita 3y ago
A different way to state the claim may be "whatever LLMs do, they do it all the time" There are no separate modes of operation when GPT-4 is telling me about Javascript's "console.log" method, and when it's tel
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by tveita 3y ago
Things you don't already know? For any topic you already know the basics of but want to explore some particular thing, the first answer will be vague and if you ask followup questions will start making stuff up, IME. For programming th
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by tveita 3y ago
That the box starts out empty is an assumption based on shared cultural context, not a hallucination. If you give someone that question and then say "wrong, there was already a ball in the box!" they're not going to say &quot
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by tveita 3y ago
In one of your reproductions of the results from the paper it would spit out random other names from the dataset. But from your description of the Tom Cruise dataset, there were no other names included. Why didn't you give it the possi
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by tveita 3y ago
Somewhat related, a survey of how Norwegian people visualize time: https://nrkbeta.no/2018/01/01/this-is-what-the-year-actually...
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by tveita 3y ago
How do you even put together an open evaluation benchmark without it being slurped up into the training set the minute someone puts it on Github? Maybe it needs to be obfuscated, or all the questions should be obscene so they don't pas
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by tveita 3y ago
If it's fake, could it be a snake? Or if it's not, could it be a Scot?
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by tveita 3y ago
The idea of big.LITTLE is that processes can be transparently moved between different cores by the OS, so any differences in ISA would need to be virtualised away by the operating system - or else you get crazy bugs like https://
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by tveita 3y ago
It's great for performance, up until you reach the point where a single device becomes a bottleneck, at which point it's terrible for performance. As a sibling comment says, you ideally want to shard on some other key to get &quot
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by tveita 3y ago
> But not too fast: If you can hash too quickly you can launch parallel attacks to find duplicates or break entropy-hiding. For unique ids, the fastest runner loses the security race. > Cuid2 has been audited by security experts and a
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by tveita 3y ago
It says the complaint was based on the report "Out of Control" ( https://www.forbrukerradet.no/out-of-control/ ) The technical report lists the following information being sent for Grindr: MoPub (ads.mopub.
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by tveita 3y ago
It looks like a fairly thin wrapper around Docker, Heroku buildpacks, and this template file: https://github.com/cuber-cloud/cuber-gem/blob/master/lib/cub...
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by tveita 3y ago
> That prediction didn’t pan out because TV manufacturers latched onto a loophole in the EU rule: While it grades TVs on the electricity they use in their default setting, it lets them offer other settings if the set warns the user about
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by tveita 3y ago
FoundationDB has published some informative content on how they test their actor based distributed system in C++, might be worth a watch for inspiration. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fFDFbi3toc

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