eightnoteight

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by eightnoteight 20d ago
learning some vocabulary had been eye opening for me like the stories behind when those words first appeared in the software engineering like quiescence the most recent one i learned
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Saturated ARC-AGI-2(ycombinator.com)
3 points by eightnoteight 7mo ago|1 comments
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by eightnoteight 7mo ago
exactly this, verification should always been on the code if someone fresh wants to contribute, now they will have to network before they can write code honestly i don't see my self networking just so that i can push my code I think th
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by eightnoteight 9mo ago
for the workflow DAG, what type of backend are you guys using? is it like temporal or self-built durable workflows
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by eightnoteight 11mo ago
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by eightnoteight 1y ago
first i thought the website would say how many elephants left in the world (like white rhinos)
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by eightnoteight 1y ago
seems obvious in hindsight, but never knew CT scans are used in manufacturing QC
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by eightnoteight 1y ago
Zenact AI | Founding Engineers & Interns | Full-Time + 6-Month Internships | Onsite Bangalore | Location flexible for internships (India) Tech: Golang • Python • AI Agents At Zenact AI, we are building AI agents that test apps like real
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by eightnoteight 1y ago
one thing that is getting clear is that the gains from model enhancement is getting saturated thats why we are starting to see a programming of ai, almost like programming building blocks if there is a pathway for models to get smart enough
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by eightnoteight 1y ago
being on the developer side, the realtime dashboard for admin ui is really useful for end to end testing so many of the eventually consistent stores reflect so late that its a pain to work with their SDKs out of curiosity, what kind of metr
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by eightnoteight 1y ago
credit balance api is pretty cool always liked the v0 feature where they notify to top up when the balance runs low when do apps invoke the credit balance api? before sending events or they poll asynchronously and keep a local cache about t
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by eightnoteight 2y ago
most of the current systems that need a reliable managed service for distributed locking use dynamodb, are there any scenarios where s3 is preferrable than dynamodb for implementing such distributed locking?
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by eightnoteight 2y ago
> The problem is that sentinel errors, as typically and idiomatically used, in fact are special, and are more expensive to deal with than other values. My suggestion to use boolean values outperforms them by a lot, 30x in fairly common i
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by eightnoteight 2y ago
people who need to monitor a lot of channels are usually in senior/leadership layer, but one technique usually they follow is focus on a specific problem and consequently some set of specific channels for few weeks or a month and shift
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by eightnoteight 2y ago
controlling the producer is such a hard problem, even with exponential back off and backoff times in the response headers, you still get at minimum 2x throughput increase from the producers during a retry storm problem is that the most comm
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by eightnoteight 2y ago
I think of it as different companies helping at different stages of mainstream adoption for any open source project, the initial adoption during its initial stages would have been that project itself, later on it will be someone with financ
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by eightnoteight 2y ago
> Nowadays I open Aegis and I have > 20 services there, and trying to look for my code between all the running numbers is a pain. exactly :( I wish passkeys get rolled out quickly across all sites, most people use just 2 or 3 trusted
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by eightnoteight 2y ago
I took a high enough number to showcase the problem, for a fresher it doesn't change much even if that number is as low as 15 or 20, or even if 5 people that they don't know or at higher levels also I feel like, the number of peop
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by eightnoteight 2y ago
> “Oscar, do you mind sharing your screen so Deepak and Deanna can see the weird log messages too?” it seems so obvious from an Incident Commander perspective but so much goes into this workflow during an incident * what if the person is
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by eightnoteight 2y ago
websockets and sse are a big headache to manage at scale, especially backend, requires special observability, if not implemented really carefully on mobile devices its a nightmare to debug on frontend side devices switch off network or slow
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by eightnoteight 2y ago
I never focussed much on sleeping postures, but one day I read this article about how acid reflux goes away if you side-sleep on your left hand side i.e stomach is at a lower height than when you sleep on your right hand side that really ch
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by eightnoteight 3y ago
> here they explain why they had to betray their core mission. But they don't refute that they did betray it. you are assuming that their core mission is to "Build an AGI that can help humanity for free and as a non-profit&quot
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by eightnoteight 3y ago
> it keeps the intangible benefits it accrued by being ostensibly non-profit but there would be no different to a for-profit entity right? i.e even for-profit entities get tax benefits if they convert their profits to intangibles this is
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by eightnoteight 3y ago
I don't believe non-profits can have investors, only donors i.e an investor by definition expects money out of his investment which he can never get out of a non-profit only the for-profit entity of the OpenAI can have investors, who d
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by eightnoteight 3y ago
once it converts into profit-seeking venture, it won't get the tax benefits one could argue that they did R&D as a non-profit and now converted to for-profit to avoid paying taxes, but until last year R&D already got tax benefi
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by eightnoteight 3y ago
> The best tool in this space should eliminate the need of specialized PM. exactly this, having a project manager drive tasks just erodes the sense of ownership in the team. the sense of ownership that comes from giving the responsibilit
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by eightnoteight 3y ago
* changelog feature is pretty great * one other feature I have always wanted at my previous company is about transparency of how many tasks a person is doing, that way I don't have to bother him multiple times on whether a certain task
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by eightnoteight 3y ago
> "these systems have to be fully automated because no one could afford to operate manual systems at our scale", what's really being said is more along the lines of "we would not be able to generate as many billions a
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How Cheap is AWS Graviton2? 20% or 40% or 50% or 60%(optiowl.cloud)
1 points by eightnoteight 3y ago|0 comments
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by eightnoteight 3y ago
I don't think it would have reduced the bill much, but generally RDS is 2x costly than EC2, but I'm guessing most of the improvement the article speaks about came from ephemeral disk i.e nvme storage its a recent feature but I thi

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