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by winwang 1y ago
Congrats! How do you guys deal with SOC2/HIPAA/etc.? Or are those separate concerns?
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by winwang 1y ago
I've seen shops (e.g. Netflix I think) use Datalog for certain query types.
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by winwang 1y ago
This might unironically be a reason for me to finally try Clojure!
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by winwang 1y ago
Sorry, I was just trying to make a joke (about both insane systems and interview questions) since the question you answered was a bit unclear. Guess it didn't land, haha.
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by winwang 1y ago
how would you do it if your logs were printed on paper with a printer, each line printed with stochastic timing (due to a bug), with an ink containing a chemical tracer with halflife `h` (after being put to paper), but the ink is randomly s
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by winwang 2y ago
> the need is to be able to provision access after the relationship is established Could you go into more detail? At a base level interpretation, this is how it works already (you need a principal to provision access for...), but you pre
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by winwang 2y ago
Slightly disagree at least for GCP. It will error with a detailed permission, but you're not just going to add that -- you're going to add a role (standard, unless you have custom roles), which you technically have to map back to
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by winwang 2y ago
What do people think about pixi?
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by winwang 2y ago
Couple of reasons. 1. You can use vram when you don't have massive amounts of ram for a ramdisk (or /dev/shm) 2. Depending on implementation, you might have faster random seek/write than normal ram. 3. You could
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by winwang 2y ago
5. steganographic subliminal messaging :P
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by winwang 2y ago
Hard to argue against engagment being good overall, but I think we need some kind of "regularization".
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by winwang 2y ago
There is always an algorithm, explicit or not, "malicious" or not. For implicit algorithms, outside of the issues/misincentives of time-sorted feeds, there's also game theory and behavioral economics.
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by winwang 2y ago
Are they really too specific? https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.01139 Well, it's not that the results were good though, lol.
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by winwang 2y ago
The domain doesn't seem to be available?
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by winwang 2y ago
Having talked to many engineers using distributed compute today, they seem to think that (single-node) parallel compute haven't changed much since ~2010 or so. It's quite frustrating, and exacerbated by frequent intro-level CUDA b
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by winwang 2y ago
With my minor dabbling in game theory, I've considered funny angles like secret-ish internal metrics and punish those who simply game the incentives. Example: bot detections and banwaves in MMOs. Instead of instantly banning plausible
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by winwang 2y ago
Thanks for the share (and reminder)! Turns out I had this bookmarked somehow, lol.
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by winwang 2y ago
That's wild and inspirational. Like the scene in Rush Hour when a stack of bills saves Tucker from a bullet. Though I'm moreso tempted to just create a `.1111aaaa-antidumb` directory and store my caches and backups there. This has
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by winwang 2y ago
Personal opinion: it's the software (and software tooling). The hardware is good enough (even if we're only talking 10x efficiency). Part of the issue seems slightly cultural, i.e. repetitively putting down the idea of traditional
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by winwang 2y ago
Unless you make the candle out of better materials.
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by winwang 2y ago
What I mean is that isn't the temperature of "space" -- if we're being pedantic. Such a temperature would presumably be measured by the blackbody radiation of... space, if space were a blackbody.
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by winwang 2y ago
Is that really "space" as opposed to "the lingering effects of the big bang"? (or less interestingly, the temperature of the CMB photon gas)
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by winwang 2y ago
Are there benchmarks you can share? Not discounting Rust, just wondering if you're already seeing some obvious numbers.
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by winwang 2y ago
Sounds similar to Haskell "do" notation where it can look procedural, but backed by FP principles and tools. (Something something monads are sequentialness)
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by winwang 2y ago
"A sufficient smart compiler..."
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by winwang 2y ago
Thank you, this type of info is pretty much exactly what I hoped to learn :D
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by winwang 2y ago
Love your notes explaining some of the GPU thread-indexing concepts! Shameless plug for my own little post going a bit into the performance benefits of "vectorized" sorting, even vs. programmable L1 cache: https://winwa
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by winwang 2y ago
Not a database engine, but I'm processing distributed dataframes (~400TB). We're seeing a perf/price ratio around 3x~4x, though it's only a limited sample of workloads/datasets. (Note: we are not sorting, yet) As fa
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by winwang 2y ago
I don't use it because it didn't seem stable for CUDA when I tried it out. As for number crunching, I'd probably use CuPy (outside of the typical ML stuff).
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by winwang 2y ago
As much as I dislike their Chrome practices, I am rather against the idea of forcing them to sell Chrome. For one, they simply have had a better product, at least in the past. Part of their large monopoly is due to just being better outrigh

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