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by why-el 3y ago
I've been asked this numerous times, and similar questions. Most of these questions boil down to "are you, the interviewee we are about to give a job to, a crazy person". Most likely you are not, so find some plausible scenar
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by why-el 3y ago
of course, SQLite does not even lock rows, it locks the whole DB, only one writer. Most of the conversation in this article does not apply there.
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by why-el 3y ago
what about support for Windows?
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by why-el 3y ago
I don't know, you said isn't trivial then you said it's not trivial! :D It's a colossal effort if you are at Netflix size, they support probably the largest number of client devices on the planet.
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by why-el 3y ago
> First, the fact that language models can be trained on large amounts of text data and can generate human-like language without any explicit instruction on grammar or syntax suggests that language may not be as biologically determined a
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by why-el 3y ago
This is a new rephrasing of an older mantra, which is to use fewer words when possible. The writings of the greats in our field exude this quality, for instance those of Dennis Ritchie. Mind you, he does use the aformentioned words, but the
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by why-el 4y ago
My favorite sentence on free will comes from Chomsky (who I think was probably quoting someone else): "if we don't have free will, then why are you arguing the point?"
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by why-el 4y ago
It's not the number of cases, it's the possible litigation that's at stake.
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by why-el 4y ago
It's also conceivable that companies running LLMs might consider various tweaks to popular questions as they appear in media so as to inflate the model's answers. No way to learn for sure, but competing companies where PR spells s
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Steven Pinker – Will ChatGPT supplant us as writers, thinkers?(news.harvard.edu)
5 points by why-el 4y ago|4 comments
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by why-el 4y ago
Under some elementary scenarios (and using some Postgres offerings), you can do a full major upgrade using logical replication (even with replicas). It depends on your situation, generally I agree, any sophisticated use of Postgres (lot of
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by why-el 4y ago
When one reviews another person's PR, it's as if you are reviewing your own. This is not a mere superficial verbiage; a few times, I'll review someone else's code, and actually block on small modifications and comment on
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by why-el 4y ago
Oh yeah, it gets even more interesting in large refactors, say an involved rename that requires you check the context before you do so (like not just global search and replace). I do a search, this opens a buffer with all results, with file
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by why-el 4y ago
Golang runs some pretty serious software (docker, K8s, stuff at google, hashicorp, etc, all software that's functional and makes money). Rust is kinda the same, but not there yet, it has some benefits that are yet to materialize, but s
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by why-el 4y ago
At first I thought this was about how Netflix arranges movies for you to select, where each movie repeats down a horizontal line and you are forever scrolling right in cardinally equivalent but combinatorially different sets of movies. :D T
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by why-el 4y ago
The top comment in HN is one where the poster is not 100% is using the thing we are discussing.
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by why-el 4y ago
It's covered: > If a player only has one move available, that move will always be the top engine move, which loses the game.
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by why-el 4y ago
He wrote his "Concrete Mathematics" book specifically to address your first point. I admit its the only book of his I read cover to cover and it wrecked me.
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by why-el 4y ago
You are hung up on the wrong thing. Parent writes: "[clear consensus that] there was absolutely nothing unusual about it", I quote one of the greats saying the game is "more than impressive", which, at least we should ag
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by why-el 4y ago
This is not true at all. For instance Nepominatchi commented on game saying Niemann's play was "more than impressive"[1]. Not commenting on the situation per se, merely your "clear consensus among other top chess players
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by why-el 4y ago
Interesting. Transactionality is implemented via a regular thread lock, this means in a concurrent Rails app where this library is used in a hot path you might suffer some contention. Best is to use for marshaling data in non-hot paths such
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by why-el 4y ago
Now that you opened this forum for Spotify feedback: If I do "like/heart" a few songs and then go to the Radio based on one of them, please don't show the songs I already liked in that Radio. I mean, I already "like
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by why-el 4y ago
The app is currently non-functioning, I suppose the HN kiss of death (I assume the whole graph was too big to store in the browser?)
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by why-el 4y ago
You used the word "GOAT", I gave you an example of another GOAT, showing that your argument that Carlsen is "not one of the goats" does not hold water because "he did not beat people convincingly" (itself quite
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by why-el 4y ago
Both Jordan and Carlsen won championships. Many of Jordan's games were very tight, down to the last second. I can find another player who won more handsomely, that does not negate Jordan's achievements. That's the analogy.
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by why-el 4y ago
"Did Michael Jordan win all six championships convincingly? All series went 5 games or more."
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by why-el 4y ago
The book is that boring? :joy:
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by why-el 4y ago
What about RDS Proxy? I believe it's still only supports 13 which means if you use both the Proxy and Aurora you will have to wait? RDS Proxy does still mention only support for v13[1]. [1] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/A
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by why-el 4y ago
How do people square climate change and violent currents across EU rivers with Nuclear installations so close to such rivers (for instance the Blayais power plant)? I am genuinely curious. Is the idea that we will build stations that can wi
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by why-el 4y ago
I suppose tracing becomes more important in that new architecture, assuming of course that each service is logging the unique identifier for the trace (for instance the request ID or some system-initiated event ID), but of course that presu

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