Atreiden

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by Atreiden 4d ago
This was a very interesting exercise that offered me some new perspective, thank you!
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by Atreiden 6d ago
The top concern I've gotten from dev teams when proposing HA distributed postgres (e.g through RDS Aurora global) is that eventual consistency is not suitable for many workloads. Does Neki solve for this, and if so how? My understandin
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by Atreiden 9d ago
I read through it and had a few things I've flagged in my head - the ego fluffing, repeated usage of "Millennial" to the point of redundancy, and the framing of things in terms of "big picture", but can you elaborat
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by Atreiden 17d ago
To me, this is the correct focus. Look at the current state of the world. "What were the humans doing in all this?" applies to so many of our contemporary failures that it should be assumed the default. Nobody is at the wheel, and
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by Atreiden 19d ago
Nice one, Poe would be proud
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by Atreiden 19d ago
I'm encountering the same behavior. I've tried 4-8bit quants and get 14-17 tok/s with one run that achieved 19. I'm eagerly awaiting dflash2 support in Unsloth or LM Studio, as allegedly that should increase throughput t
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by Atreiden 2mo ago
Thanks for sharing, this was lovely
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by Atreiden 2mo ago
A little bit of JavaScript might have been nice. Tapping through a dozen ramens required me to then hit back a dozen times to return.
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by Atreiden 2mo ago
Leverage. Some of those people will turn out to be significant political figures. We live in an information-driven world. Our economy is driven by information. Geopolitics is driven by information. War is driven by information. An historica
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by Atreiden 2mo ago
"I think that AI will probably, most likely, sort of lead to the end of the world. But in the meantime, there will be great companies created with serious machine learning." — Sam Altman
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by Atreiden 2mo ago
What about it reads to you as low quality? The intention seems to be to convey alarm through description of catastrophe, which was effective for me.
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by Atreiden 3mo ago
Through the lens of information warfare, it's hard not to view those comments as an astroturfing campaign from the exact organizations who would want device attestation
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by Atreiden 3mo ago
Ignoring the whataboutism here, what about it was distasteful? Please see HN rule #1, this is not the community for that kind of discourse.
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by Atreiden 3mo ago
I took those distance estimates to mean "as measured by the instruments". The longer they're in it, the larger the estimate, and they've hypothesized that it will approach the size of the universe itself.
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by Atreiden 3mo ago
But then private shareholders are able to extract shareholder value from the subsidiary, so the "nonprofit" component is utterly meaningless here. How is this not illegal? What prevents any nonprofit from doing this to sidestep it
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by Atreiden 5mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes
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by Atreiden 5mo ago
I think the point is that it takes very few data points to effectively deanonymize someone. And the less common a data point is, the greater the information gain. "User is male" eliminates ~half of users. "User actively reads
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by Atreiden 5mo ago
Creating PRs, reading PRs, creating/reading Issues, triggering actions, to name a few
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by Atreiden 5mo ago
I don't like the idea of a central authority determining what "my child should be kept away from" and then implementing Orwellian surveillance laws to enforce it. "For the sake of the children". Seeing something sca
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by Atreiden 5mo ago
Or maybe it's that our archaic system was designed so that some people's votes literally matter more than others, and more than half the country does not have a meaningful voice in our Federal elections.
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by Atreiden 7mo ago
Anecdotally, pretty often. Whenever there is an engineering org failure, whether it be missed deadlines, unreliable software, missed KPIs, etc, there is no such thing as a truly blameless org. Somebody will be accountable in the eyes of lea
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by Atreiden 7mo ago
Why are we gauging our ethical barometer on the actions of existing companies and DoD contractors? the military industrial apparatus has been insane for far too long, as Eisenhower warned of. When we're entering the realm of "ther
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by Atreiden 7mo ago
They already understand the current system and status quo is going away. They understand, on some level, the consequences of the technocapitalist system they've built and perpetuated. They're making their own accommodations, rathe
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by Atreiden 7mo ago
Are you under the impression that the planet has effectively infinite carrying capacity and ability to support an "optimal market" indefinitely?
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by Atreiden 7mo ago
The revolution will not be televised But it's seeming like the trigger for it will be
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by Atreiden 7mo ago
This is why the ultra rich have been building out heavily fortified, private, self sustaining compounds. They know the potential consequences of their choices, and are fine with them as long as they can leverage technology to insulate thems
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by Atreiden 8mo ago
We don't need "more" government, we need the government to do its job. We need the regulators who have been legally appointed to oversee these areas to actually respond to these behaviors. Regulatory capture is the issue, but
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by Atreiden 8mo ago
SplinterNet is inevitable
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by Atreiden 8mo ago
If you had tried Ubuntu, KDE Neon, CachyOS, ElementsryOS, or really any other distro, this would not have been your experience. Arch is a Manual experience designed for power users. It is not a good choice for even your average Linux user,
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by Atreiden 8mo ago
Do you have a source for that? Being a 503c, they're required to disclose their expenditures, among other things. CN gives them a perfect score, and the expense ratio section puts their program spend at 77.4% of the budget https:&#x2F

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