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by 7qW24A 1y ago
I’m a database guy, not an OS guy, so I agree, obviously… But what is the micro-kernel angle?
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by 7qW24A 1y ago
Yeah but that’s an interesting technical point, more suited to 2015 HN - in 2025 we can’t let technical matters get in the way of our Sinophobia…
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by 7qW24A 1y ago
It’s an interesting rabbit hole to go down. If you use the BLS’s definition of productivity, then computers seem to be a net drag on productivity: https://usafacts.org/articles/what-is-labor-productivity-and... Even mo
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by 7qW24A 1y ago
This is a pretty weird hill to die on, boss. Are you suggesting that all of the software written over the years by emacs users (eg gcc) is “ivory tower”? As a community of practitioners we should embrace the idea that not all tools have to
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by 7qW24A 1y ago
Corporations that over-hired over the past 10 years needed an excuse to cut the layers of fat and bureaucracy out, and AI came along at just the right time. It doesn’t matter if AI is increasing productivity; what matters is that people thi
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by 7qW24A 2y ago
More accurate to say that VC and the “startup ideology” has always been at the core of HN - it just so happened that aligned with OSS ideology during the ZIRP era.
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by 7qW24A 2y ago
The “external index build” idea seems pretty interesting. How does it work with updates to the underlying data (e.g., new embeddings being added)? For that matter, I guess, how do incremental updates to pgvector’s HNSW indexes work?
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by 7qW24A 2y ago
Marc Brooker’s blog on the topic is good: https://brooker.co.za/blog/2021/05/24/metastable.html
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by 7qW24A 2y ago
Two questions: 1. What’s the best place to research FTC win rates? 2. Given that Khan is taking an “aggressive” approach to what sorts of cases the FTC should pursue, wouldn’t it make sense for the win rate to be lower under her leadership?
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by 7qW24A 2y ago
RA’ing people at the top of their band means that they’ve topped out skill-wise. These aren’t senior people; it’s people who will never get promoted past 7 or 8 (which are quite junior) but have been accruing comp adjustments for a long tim