arconis987

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by arconis987 9mo ago
next time, have the LLM alternate between these two steps: - Do some work - Critique the work it will converge better
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by arconis987 10mo ago
would like to see work like this, but for datasets in the hundreds of TB or single-digit PB but i definitely agree about this point > Cluster fatigue is real imo, the concept of “extremely ephemeral query workers” is under-explored state
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Scanner – The Team Accelerating Log Analysis with Rust(filtra.io)
8 points by arconis987 1y ago|0 comments
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by arconis987 2y ago
I live in SF, and I take it daily. It's cheaper than paying for the parking garage near the office. And it's cheaper than Uber: the base rate is similar to Uber's, but there is no need to add a tip. Waymo sometimes does weird
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Ask HN: How to cheaply use a vector DB to detect anomalies in logs at 1TB / day
3 points by arconis987 3y ago|2 comments
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by arconis987 4y ago
Is it just me, or is the language in the essay strangely hard to parse? > But insofar as it is the passing on of second-hand knowledge about being, it is itself a form of imposture that reproduces and impersonates without meaning or sens
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by arconis987 5y ago
I think this is why people believe 10x developers exist. They are just developers who actually work a full work day consistently.
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by arconis987 6y ago
The NYT vs. SSC episode reminds me of a conflict in Mormonism, the religion I was raised in. A Mormon named John Dehlin criticized the church, and Mormon apologists published a hit piece about him, taking quotations out of context and claim
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by arconis987 6y ago
Count me as another data point. I deleted my Facebook and Twitter accounts, and it has not affected my social or professional life in any noticeable way. I was worried I would lose access to my Oculus purchases, but I did not. The straw tha
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by arconis987 6y ago
Figma is written in C++, compiled to WebAssembly. Probably the most advanced web-based design tool in the world. I think they have like 4-5M users, and a $2B valuation. https://madewithwebassembly.com/showcase/figma&#x2
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by arconis987 6y ago
This is my go-to implementation, but I make one little tweak. It’s very unlikely that you will overflow a long, but you can you guarantee that you’ll avoid overflow like this: mid = min + (max - min) / 2;
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by arconis987 6y ago
We went through a brutal battle with Postgres bloat recently. Indexes were composed of 80% bloat, 20% useful data after years of heavy write activity. Vacuuming indexes was getting slower and slower, bringing us precariously close to transa
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by arconis987 6y ago
This is fantastic! Love the parallel vacuum feature, which should help my team’s sanity with a write-heavy workload. Does anyone know when the zheap storage system will be released? This system will apparently obviate the need for vacuums a
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by arconis987 6y ago
The 50% tax that pg dislikes for startup founders is basically what I experienced during our startup’s liquidity event. I imagine that a fairly large number liquidity events are the same. The acquirer paid us out in cash, which meant we wer
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by arconis987 6y ago
Agreed. Seems like a bit too much self-aggrandizement. This sort of lofty rhetoric is fine if you have developed a COVID vaccine, but perhaps not if you’ve made a useful tool for system analysis. The teams that built Linux, Redis, Postgres,
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by arconis987 7y ago
Happy middle: subscribe to one or two high quality sources of news (eg. NYT, WSJ). Less clickbait overload than something like Google News or Facebook, and you get acquainted with the journalists’ styles, beliefs, and perspectives over time
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by arconis987 7y ago
I’m very curious about spiritual confirmations of truth. What was your spiritual witness of the Book of Mormon like? How do you know that the spiritual experience came from an external source and was not just generated by your brain? [Edit:
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by arconis987 7y ago
If you’re interested in crypto currencies, I know that Coinzoom, based in Holladay, is looking for mobile developers.
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by arconis987 7y ago
Might seem stupid, but I found the following thought experiment interesting. Discovered it on Reddit. The OP was working in the finance sector surrounded by people whose values conflicted with his. He wrote something like this: If you are i
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by arconis987 8y ago
I’m so grateful to have worked with older colleagues who did not care about using the framework du jour. Influenced by their experience, we made some unorthodox tech choices as a web startup, including the choice to use C++ and Lisp-like la
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by arconis987 8y ago
The generational index idea was exactly what I needed for a search index project I’ve been working on. Makes it much easier to safely insert and delete from a memory arena. Also, fascinating that Rust’s borrow checker sort of encourages you
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by arconis987 8y ago
According to Steven Pinker's Enlightenment Now, younger people have emancipative views at a higher rate than older generations. They tend to support their LGBT friends and family, same sex marriage, gender and race pay equality, immigr
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by arconis987 8y ago
I suspect it’s better with most Christian religions, but when I left Mormonism, I felt a huge burden lifted. It is difficult to be obedient to every last commandment in Mormonism. I would feel guilty for a multitude of small things, like fo
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by arconis987 8y ago
Someone please correct me, but here's my best explanation. When you first connect to the Bitcoin network, how do you find out what the true blockchain is? You connect to other nodes and ask them. They may tell you anything. However, it
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by arconis987 8y ago
A similar problem was in Google Code Jam 2009 :) https://code.google.com/codejam/contest/188266/dashboard
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by arconis987 9y ago
Have you tried Sciter? https://sciter.com/ It's a lightweight HTML and CSS renderer for native desktop apps. Used heavily in the anti-virus industry. Not open-source, unfortunately.
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by arconis987 9y ago
It was from a video where Don Knuth recreated one of his first lectures. https://youtu.be/jmcSzzN1gkc At one point around 20 or 30 minutes in, he says something like, “We’re going to start easy and slow and then work harder
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by arconis987 9y ago
This approach is immensely helpful to me as well. Started practicing problem slicing after watching a lecture from Don Knuth. He started by writing down a problem and underlining it. He then solved small bits of it and worked through many e
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by arconis987 9y ago
I wonder what kinds of communities will replace religious communities. I worry that people may tie their identities to political tribes more and more. What communities provide a healthy sense of identity and belonging that are not religious
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by arconis987 9y ago
Thrash metal, like Metallica or Anthrax. Nothing too dark though.

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