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Show HN: Game to see if you're over-/under-confident in your own knowledge(est.alejo.ch)
3 points by afc 22d ago|0 comments
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by afc 26d ago
+1. This is a very real problem in practice. A technique we've used to deal with this situation: in the overloaded backend (that has to reject some percentage of incoming requests), group the incoming requests by the parent request (th
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by afc 26d ago
Haha, tell me about it! I spent more than a decade mostly just deploying these systems across just one company. It's far from trivial!
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by afc 26d ago
Google's (or any similar large company's, really) efficiency requirements would never allow for such levels of waste. It would be incredibly irresponsible to allow just any random small server to unexpectedly use the entirety (or
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by afc 27d ago
> Both incidents were capacity failures at their core. We failed to scale critical components before demand exceeded their capacity. This is the wrong way to think about this because there's no such thing as infinite capacity. A lar
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by afc 28d ago
+1. I also felt this huge gap between knowing (intellectually) what parenting is and actually experiencing it. It really changes you, to the point that now, when I talk to childless people my age, I feel like we're fundamentally differ
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by afc 28d ago
Interesting perspective. Your first paragraph also describes my experience, perfectly. However, even though I also think nothing comes even close to parenthood for me, my perspective is that society strongly encourages —I'd even say
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by afc 1mo ago
Thank you for taking the time to type that, I found it informative and interesting. Like we like to think of it as a single idea that worked well, but it's actually a ton of work to get a million details just right, and failure in just
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by afc 3mo ago
Per Wikipedia, in 2018: * Median household income in Mississippi: $44,717 * Median wage in Germany: €5,370 per month, equals $73,565. So even the individual median wage in Germany is more than 50% higher than the median household inco
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by afc 3mo ago
I went back to a senior IC role after managing for 5 years and I think there are big differences. Yeah, some aspects have to do with leadership (regardless of whether or not you manage) and there's overlap, but... there are also huge d
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by afc 3mo ago
The approach we're taking to deal with this very real context rot is using a bunch of related techniques which we call transposing the agent loop: https://alejo.ch/3jt In essence, we run many short agent loops, gener
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Fail loudly: a plea to stop hiding bugs(alejo.ch)
3 points by afc 3mo ago|0 comments
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by afc 3mo ago
Oops, you're right, I put the wrong url (Android auto complete fail, oops, suggested a link and I assumed it was the right one). I meant to link to https://alejo.ch/3gk I guess I'll hide this submission and do ano
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AI juries(alejo.ch)
2 points by afc 3mo ago|2 comments
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by afc 3mo ago
Good luck! In case you find it useful, I wrote what I learned in my first year of fatherhood (the little guy is now 17 months): https://alejo.ch/3hj As you can see, I never found anything as scary as the possibility, howeve
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by afc 5mo ago
But filtered coffee is the most flavorful! No other method extracts the subtle nuances as well! P.s. I know it's subjective, just cringe on this claim of "the most flavorful" starting with espresso. :)
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by afc 5mo ago
You're literally saying "an airline, booking a flight 6 months out, 6 days out, or 6 hours out" is not "charging two people for the same route differently", completely missing the point of alex43578's excelle
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by afc 5mo ago
You're probably thinking of Walter Gropius, the founder of the Bauhaus school.
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by afc 5mo ago
> by someone who maybe isn't so great at clear communications I don't think that's fair. If you're familiar with the programming language, his writing is fairly clear. If you're not, maybe you're just not in
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by afc 5mo ago
She has a cool blog, I liked her articles! How does she keep track of what row she's on, as she knits? I wonder if she'd be interested in specifying her patterns in a format my knitting software (visualization) could consume. Anyh
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by afc 5mo ago
This is indeed much better. I couldn't really follow the original, but this one made it click. Pretty cool!
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by afc 5mo ago
That's exactly my understanding as well. This is, essentially, the LLM hallucinating user messages nested inside its outputs. FWIWI I've seen Gemini do this frequently (especially on long agent loops).
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by afc 5mo ago
I don't know if it's niche, but I like making granola for my friends and family. I give them a big jar and tell them free refills are included ("just bring me the empty jar"). I get pretty good nuts and tend to make larg
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by afc 5mo ago
I got into designing my own knitting patterns. I enjoy that I can customize everything — the yarn material, color (including marling, helix knitting, double knitting), yarn weight, needle size (e.g., resulting in "airy" vs "p
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by afc 5mo ago
I was also baffled. "No formal specification"? Two minutes of browsing is enough to find it: https://github.com/sqlite/sqlite/blob/master/src%2Fparse.y
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by afc 6mo ago
Looks pretty cool. I think it's great that you support light/dark mode. FWIWI, I'm also a huge fan of Excalidraw. I wanted to ask you: is there's a reason you use a separate svg file for each (light/dark) mode? A si
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Show HN: Minimalist library to generate SVG views of scientific data(github.com)
47 points by afc 6mo ago|4 comments
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by afc 6mo ago
Waiting for a few days of design review is a pain that is easy to avoid: all we need is to be ready to spend a few months building a potentially useless system.
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by afc 6mo ago
How long have you been tracking? Can you share an insight you've had from your data? I've been weight lighting for ten years and initially tried to track things (down to how many reps I did of which exercise, with how much weight)
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by afc 8mo ago
https://alejo.ch/

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