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by xer 5mo ago
Our of $60B, what does that make VSCode priced at?
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by xer 5mo ago
Endless, we offer SemQL to query in high-dim space using distance, direction and contrast predicates. It enables anyone to retrieve events that align with a predicate in global vector space.
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by xer 5mo ago
The fundamental assumptions of distributed systems is having multiple machines that fail independently, communicate over unreliable networks and have no shared clock has the consequence of needing to solve consensus, byzantine faults, order
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Show HN: Semantik, a vector broker that routes by semantic meaning(noetive.io)
1 points by xer 5mo ago|0 comments
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by xer 7mo ago
Lesson learned: If your recovery plan requires calling any API in the dead region — to detach an IP, describe a route table, launch an instance, read an S3 object, or decrypt a volume — it will fail when you need it most. Every dependency o
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by xer 10mo ago
This is great! But what if the US invests 1% of GDP in GPU datacenters and then those are not needed becaues someone created a much more efficient architecture?
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by xer 3y ago
I share the view that nobody avoids an exit or migration because of egress fees. In fact, for online migrations the period of replicating data between providers might go on for months. But all cloud providers leverage The Principle of data
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by xer 3y ago
The elephant in the room: Will Spotify survive the coming wave of generative AI audio content? Wasn't any mentioning on that in the letter. Seems to me like they would need to ditch a lot of silly investments like original content, pla
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by xer 3y ago
Correct. It's also the case that human generated requests will lose their relevance within seconds, a quick retry is all it's worth. As for machine generated requests a dead letter queue would make more sense, poor engineered back
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In 1979 Vela incident suspected undeclared joint nuclear test(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by xer 5y ago|0 comments
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by xer 5y ago
AWS is growing faster than they can staff, luxury problem.
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Welcome to Distributed Systems Engineering at Amazon.com (2008)(web.archive.org)
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by xer 6y ago
I think there is another side to this story which is that referral marketing is having a bad name these days. It's considered fraudulent by many sellers since sometimes these referral sites rank higher than the sellers themselves. I su
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by xer 8y ago
PDI is just one tool in the toolbox. It's never gonna die.
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by xer 8y ago
Read hacker news once every day and you will after a few years of reading be above the average software engineer.
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by xer 8y ago
It should say "Thanks to cuts"
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by xer 8y ago
Wow nice works. I was working on the exact same project https://www.coinmarketattack.com/
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by xer 8y ago
It's called SIEM, Security Information Event Management, there is a lot of companies doing this and providing cheap and expensive solutions.
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by xer 8y ago
This is corruption.
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by xer 9y ago
From my experience you can increase your luck in life by exposing yourself to more choices. This can be something as simple as having saved up money so you can quit your job whenever you want to. That in turn gives you the "luck"
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by xer 9y ago
Bubbles are everywhere, one you probably never heard of is called humanity, yes our species. One significant fuel of blockchain tech is the distrust in the current financial systems. If central bankers and governments could regain trust the
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by xer 9y ago
No mentioning of straightened proofs of 9/11 plot...
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by xer 9y ago
Just saying learn ramda
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by xer 9y ago
Can't read the article...
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by xer 9y ago
Only problem is that you need to install a Browser Extension, much bigger problem is that browsers are not secure.
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by xer 9y ago
At Annsec we are all out on serverless infrastructure and use Lambdas and Step functions in two development teams on a single backlog. Extensibility of a well written lambda is fenomenal. For instance we have higher abstraction lambdas for
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by xer 10y ago
Lol
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by xer 10y ago
I reviewed pfSense around nov 2016, it failed on many basic security best-practices, and was rejected for our purpose.
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by xer 10y ago
I believe there are three good indicators to look at: - Infrastructure, these can also be called enablers. E.g. fiber accelerates Internet usage, AWS drastically accelerates SaaS businesses. Over time this acceleration will also happen in e
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by xer 10y ago
The examples lack the elegance of RxJS. I'm gonna stick with the Channels for a further while.

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