zinodaur

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by zinodaur 4d ago
> Not building the technology deprives humanity of benefits or simply places AI in the hands of authoritarian powers Can someone clarify this for me? How far along would the open weight models be without the frenzied pace of the frontier
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by zinodaur 9d ago
I'm pretty new to choosing compression libraries - I started with zlib and was delighted at how much faster and smaller zstd made things. Since we kind of need a default "Need to compress something? Use this!" setting - would
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by zinodaur 27d ago
Great read - the main takeaway I had was “Spokes has an insane replication protocol for a database (Git) with such low write rates”. Leader/follower + LSN Binlog, WAL, whatever - just not their distributed systems nightmare coordinatio
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by zinodaur 1mo ago
For beings with finite lifespans, time is precious
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by zinodaur 1mo ago
Yes, but much more slowly. And if they realize halfway through implementation that there is a better way to do it, but they are under pressure to deliver, they wont have time to rewrite it and will live with the consequences of that decisio
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by zinodaur 2mo ago
> The query planners have diverged between MySQL and MariaDB; which one are you talking about? Both have received improvements in recent years, so the specific version is relevant as well. And at least both systems have supported index h
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by zinodaur 2mo ago
- Its query planner is ancient and broken - it comes up with very bad plans. Every time we rely on it, we regret it eventually - you have to use locks to prevent mangled write transactions, instead of the db handling it. Jepsen report is sc
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by zinodaur 2mo ago
As a big user of MySQL - moving off of it does seem like a good idea, if you can. The longer you wait, the harder it will be to flee
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by zinodaur 2mo ago
Sibling post has author answering questions in comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48925420
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by zinodaur 2mo ago
Very interesting piece! Does Vitess support xshard joins? How does it compare to things like TiDB?
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by zinodaur 3mo ago
Oh no, someone is profiting off of their work without proper attribution!?!?
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by zinodaur 5mo ago
> posts graphs without way to determine scale of y axis Now that’s the kind of excellence I expect from the GitHub engineering team
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by zinodaur 5mo ago
> Any government, organization, or individual can abuse any technology. But you haven't made the case why opposing technology itself would prevent that, versus holding those individuals accountable directly I think we should hold th
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by zinodaur 5mo ago
> AI doesn't exist. It is a marketing term used by grifters to sell their snake oil. They've claimed the term, this is not a useful objection to make at this point. And everyone was fine with calling our shitty little computer
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by zinodaur 5mo ago
> why start with Sam Altman? Well Zuck has that big scary hedge, and I’m sure people have been going after him for ages. > I despise Mark Zuckerberg, but I don’t want to firebomb his house: I want his company neutered and/or bro
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by zinodaur 5mo ago
Sibling comment already said it, but yes I was specifically alluding to Altman's decision to allow the US government to use their AI to choose bombing targets without a human in the loop - perhaps this is why the US government double-t
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by zinodaur 5mo ago
Is it okay to profit off of a machine that kills innocent people? Would it be immoral to attack the builder of that machine, if it stopped the operation of the machine?
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by zinodaur 6mo ago
Since 1985, Hezbollah has killed approximately 600 Israelis (if you count IDF soldiers during the occupation of Beirut). Israel has killed 5x that number of civilians in the last two weeks, if you count Lebanon as well as Iran. If you count
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by zinodaur 6mo ago
If Canada and Mexico started letting Iran launch bombing sorties against US cities from within their borders, would the US consider them neutral? 2 Million a ship seems like a pretty cheap price to pay for the damage the us and Israel have
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by zinodaur 6mo ago
I think what we should have learned from this is that it's extremely hard to "make a lesson out of" Iran if you depend on moving oil past their borders... the gulf states are much more exposed to this than the US is, and much
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by zinodaur 6mo ago
The whole world is hurting pretty bad right now when it comes to tech jobs - America seems to be hurting the least. I'm not saying the tech job situation in America isn't bad - but the world dances to America's fiddle, and it
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by zinodaur 6mo ago
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by zinodaur 7mo ago
> You're assuming things I didn't state. I don't particularly want mass AI surveillance at all That's fair, sorry for that. > considering how much more dangerous a government's mass spying is to its own citize
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by zinodaur 7mo ago
Sibling comment summed it up pretty well; my country is considered an ally of yours, but even left leaning Americans seem to take it for granted that we deserve mass AI surveillance/blackmail/manipulation if there’s a chance it co
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by zinodaur 7mo ago
It’s nice that Americans are being so open about how they feel about other countries these days.
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by zinodaur 7mo ago
Using AI to write your code doesn't mean you have to let your code suck, or not think about the problem domain. I review all the code Claude writes and I don't accept it unless I'm happy with it. My coworkers review it too, s
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by zinodaur 7mo ago
I wonder if we can trust Gemini to do its job well here? Whoever is being protected in those files obviously has the power to compel governments to do what they want - if Gemini started being a threat, I bet it would get some "alignmen
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by zinodaur 7mo ago
Eh, if I'm paying someone to host my git webui, and they are as shitty about it as github has been recently, I'd rather pay someone else to host it or go back to hosting it myself. It is not absolutely required, but it's a di
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by zinodaur 8mo ago
All the same financial rails apply to crypto - enforcement is just lagging a bit. E.g., you could do what World of Warcraft does - Gold can be earned/exchanged in game, and can also interact with the real world in nebulous ways. Using
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by zinodaur 8mo ago
i'm sure they can still scramble our brains pretty good by exploiting ranking, but if they aren't allowed to customize it per person (e.g., if the same searches have to return the same results for different people), I think it wil

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