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I have worked on teams that have both sharded and partitioned PostgreSQL ourselves (somewhat like Figma) (Postgres 9.4-ish time frame) as well as those that have utilized Citus. I am a strong proponent of Citus and point colleagues in that direction frequently, but depending on how long ago Figma was considering this path I will say that there were some very interesting limitations to Citus not that long ago.

For example, it was only 2 years ago that Citus allowed the joining of data in "local" tables and data retrieved from distributed tables (https://www.citusdata.com/updates/v11-0). In this major update as well, Citus enabled _any_ node to handle queries, previously all queries (whether or not it was modifying data) had to go through the "coordinator" node in your cluster. This could turn into a pretty significant bottleneck which had ramifications for your cluster administration and choices made about how to shape your data (what goes into local tables, reference tables, or distributed tables).

Again, huge fan of Citus, but it's not a magic bullet that makes it so you no longer have to think about scale when using Postgres. It makes it _much_ easier and adds some killer features that push complexity down the stack such that it is _almost_ completely abstracted from application logic. But you still have be cognizant of it, sometimes even altering your data model to accommodate.
It was definitely a highly-experimental time, pulling old tapes and recordings in too, and the result was flat and dull to me on a high-end Walkman even at the time, because I had cut-glass quality recordings from folks like Quincy Jones to compare with. But it was an amazing album and would be even if it was recorded on a Sony Walkman. As for New Jack Swing, Jam and Lewis were from The Time, right?
What is your exact question? To me it makes sense that you’d not want to use NoSQL if you’re dealing with data that’s already relational, and heavily leveraging features common in relational DBs that may not come out of the box with NoSQL DBs.

They’re saying basically that NoSQL DBs solve a lot of horizontal scaling problems but aren’t a good fit for their highly relational data, is my understanding. Not that they can’t get NoSQL functionality at eg the query level in relational DBs.
>Does anyone know a secret that makes that site tractable?

Its basically just a repo for models. Most original models are uploaded in fp16 format, with different parameter counts - higher parameter count = better performance. If you were to fine tune the model on your own data set, you have to keep the model in fp16, because gradients need higher resolution

On the flip side, inference is pretty much statistically most likely token which can be obtained without such resolution. As such, these models are usually quantized with GPTQ (GPU first), GGUF (CPU first, born from the llama.cpp project, but supports ), and AWQ (new method, supposedly faster than GPTQ).

Primer for quantization https://archive.ph/2023.11.21-144133/https://towardsdatascie...

When using the model, you generally want to use the model with the largest parameters, with the highest bit quantization that fits in your system if you are running this on personal hardware. Easiest way to do this is with ollama, because its basically just does what pytorch or llama.cpp do in terms of loading models onto gpu (or ram for apple silicon), and executing them with whatever hardware you have. It can auto download models (usually 4 bit quantized) as well, and integrates into vscode with Continue extension.

>For an example of a question, for which I cannot find an answer, I am aware of a startup that has developed a chat client that, the startup says, can entirely replace a company's customer support team. Among the claims made by the startup is that when their chat client makes a mistake, it can be easily adjusted so it won't make that mistake any more. I am curious, what approaches are the engineers at that startup probably using to fix mistakes?

Highly likely some form of prompt engineering. Langchain is a popular tool to utilize for this. Most companies pay for api access rather than set up their own hardware.

>how are you keeping up with advances around LLMs and associated tools?

Wait for a model to drop on ollama, try it out.
Interestingly though.. there is a lot more upside than most folks realize. Look at the execs at some medium sized enterprise software shop - they are making a lot of cash.
I mean concierge policies are fine, but for what?

Not for core health care competencies. That wouldn’t be universal coverage.

When I say “quality would go down” in talking about actual health care.

Having a system where you have to pay extra to have a good doctor sound suspiciously like the current system, except it’s usually your employer paying extra.
No there isn't, any more than there's irony in white people not building thatch-roofed huts. Every culture evolves over time.
I think that while labor regulations like this can sometimes create little bubbles of prosperity for a middle and working class, they will inevitably pop. It's just too weak a lever with which to correct the disparity in power between individual workers and their employers, increasingly giant monopolies or ostensibly separate collectives of companies orchestrated by vast networks of capital and obsessed with extractive efficiency

If we can't act to break up companies and diminish their power, we should act directly to remove the threats of destitution that form the alternative in a negotiation where workers are offered a bad deal, create a strong social safety net, including a basic income. These well-resourced actors have been figuring out how to work around the fiddly little rules about how their arrangements with employees can work for decades. A salaried employee won't work 32 hours any more than they currently work 40, workers will continue to be misclassified as contractors, etc
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Very nice! I'll have a look. Thank you.

As a French, language is an additional barrier and I implemented some facilities in PyKidos to allow for translations of built-in global variables and functions (color names etc). But the Python keywords are still in English. Happy to see that Hedy supports full localization.
As sibling comment says: survivorship bias as a heuristic is useful.
It's the not the cost of obtaining the water that makes water less viable, it's the cost of storing superheated water. Water has this pesky ability to expand 1600 times larger when it goes over 212 degrees Fahrenheit. That means that if not handled carefully you get deadly steam explosions.

Hot sand / crushed rock doesn't have the same problem. If you read in the linked article it says

> with the sand heated to somewhere around 500-600 degrees Celsius (932-1112 °F).

That would be extraordinarily hard to do with water as you'd need significant containment and safety measures.
MoAI: Mixture of All Intelligence for Large Language and Vision Models
Show HN: Chess-LLM, using constrained-generation to force LLMs to battle it out
As I was playing with the Outlines library (https://outlines-dev.github.io/outlines/), I discussed with my friend Maxime how funny it would be if we set up a way to pair LLMs in chess matches till one wins. The first time I tried it, it required substantial prompt engineering to get some of those LLMs to propose valid moves. Large language models can mostly stay focused and even play rather well; see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37616170 for example. However small language models aren't as easy to convince.

Some of those LLMs have seen very little chess notation and so after the first few opening moves there aren't any valid tactics, let alone strategy, so they would end up either repeating the same move, or hallucinate moves that are not valid (Kxe5, but there would be a queen on e5!)

Then Outlines came along and we could force them to pick valid moves with little cost! Maxime worked super fast and got a first version of this idea as a gradio space.

I think it is pretty fun to see the (mostly terrible, but otherwise valid) chess that those LLMs play. Maybe it will even be instructive to how we can create small LLMs that can play much better than the ones on the leaderboard.

Anyway, you can check it out here:

https://huggingface.co/spaces/mlabonne/chessllm

What is interactive about it: you can pick the LLMs from available models on HuggingFace (within reason, small LLMs are preferable so that the space does not crash) or push one of your own small models to HF and have it fight with others. At the end of the game the leaderboard is updated.

Hope you find it fun!
Probably a reference to employee complaints about a list of "funny" customer names and the culture surrounding that list, the CEO in response trying to flatly shut down all discussion of the subject (after having previously encouraged internal discussion of other politics), and in response to that tone-deaf treatment more than one-third of the company's employees deciding to quit.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/3/22418208/basecamp-all-hand...
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Susan Rogers on Prince:

"It’s really important. I think that’s a really important question. People have asked me, or they’ve prefaced questions by saying, “Prince was known to be a perfectionist.” I always have to correct them. He was not a perfectionist. He wouldn’t have had that output if he’s been a perfectionist. What he was was a virtuoso player and a genius with melody, a genius with rhythm, a genius at writing songs. It just poured out of him – he couldn’t wait on perfection. The important thing was to have the sound serve the ideas, not the other way around. Working quickly was fine with him and only a beginning engineer would have no bad habits to break. Only a beginner would be willing to go that fast."
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That’s what AppEngine customers thought.
Errata: as the decimal separator, not as the thousands separator.
> The time lag is a problem. A command from Earth takes 22.5 hours to reach the probe, and the same period is needed again for a response. This means a 45-hour wait to see what a given command might have done.

Astonishing!
Given the list of authors and acknowledgees, what I'd really like to read is the differences between this solution and Dropbox's.
> Wait, I knew about the comment stuff. They edited the /r/place DB as well?

Yeah. At risk of making a drama/flame thread...

https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/tv2lmx/redd...

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/marsey-the-cat

Please have mercy dang.
California and all the other US states AFAIK have no standard license whatsoever for their works.
> However, while cicadas are easily heard, they hide in trees, making them hard to observe. As such, seeing a cicada pee is an event.

Here in the tropics, a tree that is full of cicadas will reliably have a steady "mist" of pee underneath its canopy, the ground will be damp, leaves of understory flora wet/shiny, and the air noticeably cooler than outside of the pee zone. Put a camera in the tree and I bet you can get footage easily.

Also observable in the US: https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/05/25/partly-clo..., https://www.thecut.com/2021/05/bad-news-cicadas-pee-a-lot.ht...
A few years ago there was a controversy where it turned out some staff at Basecamp had been passing around a list of customer names they thought funny. So gutter highschool humour.

Apparently the people or person who did that had left some time ago, someone else found said file and made a big stink, leadership apologised, but not in the right way(?), there was some expressed "outrage". Then the leadership, obviously out of frustration, said no more politics allowed at work and offered redundancy to anyone who disagreed.

Seems all forgotten now which is good because the whole thing was dumb. Someone thought having the surname Wang was funny. Ok it's childish but they left already so who gives a shit? One side asking that we all be outraged by this behaviour, sorry no. Another side saying employees can't talk about politics, sorry that's stupid.

Anyway, that was my remote reading of the story, I'm sure I missed the important nuances. It shouldn't have been a public thing anyway imo.
Power Flows: Transmission Lines, Allocative Efficiency, and Corporate Profits
Paper: https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w32091/w320...
Basically any kind of encryption. It was considered munition by the US government and fell under that category of export control.
Are they trying to gaslight people or are they really this stupid? If you don’t have any viable ways to reinvest then invest profits in bonds and index funds, that would truly be financially responsible and reduce risk for the company. The reality is they ARE reinvesting the money, in their personal accounts... What complete nonsense.
I think they're equating relation database with databases with ACID guarantees, as thats basically a full overlap on a venn diagram.

And we all know that acid has to go at some scale, even if that scale keeps getting pushed further out as our hardware gets better.

(Same with the relational guarantees that eat performance... But only once you've reached a certain amount of throughput and data)
Starlink works in those conditions, so maybe it's ok.
I don't think the meaning is anything terribly sophisticated. I read it simply to mean that if you invest money in the company, that's money that is at risk of going poof if the company folds.

If you take the money out of the company, that money can never be impacted by anything that happens to the company in the future, so the total amount "at risk" in the company is decreased.

This is, IMO, an overly simplistic take and I'm not endorsing it by explaining!
> escape the cohesive attraction of their friends

Hmm, could you call this mysterious "cohesive attraction"

> the bonds which hold water molecules together.

...? If not, then please do describe this cohesive attraction.

I've come to realize some people just like to complain on the internet.
How is it off topic? This guy is surviving in the good graces of his former employer. Off they pulled the contract, he’d be pretty fucked. In America, this is because without a job you don’t have healthcare unless you pay out the ass for it. My comment was very on topic.

I agree it’s complex, too bad no one is smart enough to solve it.
Their customers aren't willing to pay it, Valve prevents you from selling your game for less elsewhere. So it's Steam and Valve gets the 30% cut, or another store that charges the same but they only take 12%.

So some developers only sell on that other store, and then people boycott them for not being on Steam.
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Who is asking them to? The US has an enormous supply of such housing, after decades of restrictive zoning codes which make it difficult to build much of anything else. Some fraction of the US population live in single-family detached suburban-style homes not because they value those features but because that was all they could find. People who might prefer city living often can't have it, because the old forms of development which used to cover the spectrum between the single-family detached house and the downtown high-rise have generally been banned.

In order to solve the housing crisis, we must fix the zoning codes to allow a much greater variety of development patterns, allowing gradual small-scale infill. Nobody is going to stop building single-family detached housing so long as there is a demand for it - but relaxing the zoning codes would mean that the existing, unmet demand for other types of housing could also be satisfied.
> when Reddit inevitably crashes and burn like Digg did.

The lesson of 2023 with Reddit and Twitter is that they've grown so large that they're immune to consequences of enshittification. The eternal September is staying where it is this time. It's been shown that only a small number will move on to better places.
Awesome work! I’d love to see how this could be integrated with existing tools like InvokeAI.
Hilariously the emails have started up again after this conversation.

"Reminder: Your account is in violation of our free account limits."

So, here is my question... is it easy to locate AND change the privacy settings?

The instructions suggest that I can't search for my private images AND simply remove or change the privacy of them.

https://www.flickrhelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/4404078163732-C...
As long as the charging stop is less than what you’d stop for anyway then it doesn’t really matter, but there is the issue of charger availability so shorter times would benefit this.

Electric car sales are still growing large amounts year on year so this puts pressure on existing charging networks. When I stopped at a regular stop the other week there were multiple new cars in the charging bays. Still lots of spaces but they need to start making more chargers to keep up with increasing demand.
I suspect based simply on number of musicians, it's opposite. Many popular-music performers and songwriters have classical training, and take on classical themes. Classical music is single-digit shares of total music industry revenues, around 1--3%.[1]

That said, music is a form of communication, and there is and always has been a tremendous amount of cross-fertilisation and inspiration from other forms, whether you're talking traditional melodies adopted in classical composition (Dvorak's Slavonic dances, for example), Gershwin adopting jazz (Rhapsody in Blue) or western music (Copeland in Rodeo), or popular music taking up themes from classical works (Sting's "I hope the Russians Love Their Children Too" quoting Prokovief's Lieutenant Kije, the Beatles quoting Beathoven's "Ode to Joy" in "All You Need is Love", and Led Zepplin's quoting from Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition" in "Kashmir").

As well as, of course, wholesale popular adaptations of classical music and vice versa, and performing and composing in different genres.

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Why does the health of a company matter at all, independent of the people who comprise it? It matters if there are investors, because then "the company" is shorthand for "the investors". If there are none, and its just a literal "company of people" doing stuff, then the right thing to do is the thing that makes those people happy. The corporate form is a tool we invented, not a god to be worshipped.
From watching the trial, it does seem to be an innate behavior for him, effortlessly spinning "plausible" stories to account for everything he's challenged on, that would sound convincing to somebody without the technical knowledge to understand what he's talking about.
It would have a better chance of passing if it offered some financial benefit to employers. Maybe a reduction in payroll taxes?
Avoiding making money on this is just a total red herring, it has zero bearing on copyright law in general or the DMCA. Though if you're careful, not accepting money has the useful side effect of making you much more difficult to identify.

Ideally you would consult with the Yuzu guys and learn why they quickly decided to settle. The encryption keys are perhaps the most plausible explanation.
Why do companies do that? Shouldn't it be enough that you have experience contributing to a large project long-term and you can program decently? Is it that modern programming just requires different/additional programming skills compared to most old codebases, like writing asynchronous code?
500W TDP (in practice) here we go...
Imagine its a treatment rather than an expensive suite of continual treatments. Your proposition seems fairly US centric wheras most places would give it away and rejoice in the savings implied by not having to pay old age related costs.

Even here why wouldn't you just force your government to make enough for everyone at cost and string up the owners front trees if they object strenuously enough?
Not people's perceptions of said cultures. Africa is over 62% Christian as it stands today, and yet the Wakandans of hollywood practice ancestor worship (representing ~2% of Africa). There's irony wherever you look. We can't seem to move past the past when it comes to minorities.
This is just a phase. The Internet went through this. It was criticized in the early days as requiring "too many PhDs per packet". Eventually, with standardization and automation, we got past that. Now anybody can connect.

Rethink Robotics went bust because they couldn't solve this usability problem.
It's a problem at a much higher level than the author is talking about. If you're driving your robot with positional data, that's easy to understand, but a huge pain to set up.
Usually, you have very rigid tooling and feeders, so that everything is where it is supposed to be. If it's not, you shut down and call for a human.

What you'd often like to do is an assembly task like this:

- Reach into bin and pull out a part.

- Manipulate part until part is in standard orientation.

- Place part against assembly so that holes align.

- Put in first bolt, leave loose.

- Put in other bolts, leave loose.

- Tighten all bolts to specified torque.

Each of those is a hard but possible robotic task at present. Doing all of those together is even harder. Designing a system where the end user can specify a task at that level of abstraction does not seem to have been done yet.

Somebody will probably crack that problem in the next five years.
There are over 10k Boeing airliners in service. Incidents like this happen all the time it's just that right now it makes a good headline.
Having read the book that term came from, I recall that being more about the developers of the first system feeling overconfidence in their abilities on a version two, rather than an outsider looking in (as is the case here).
Obviously they want Schrodinger's criminal. You must get them before their wave function collapses.
Like beer, consumers of propaganda should have a choice in foreign or domestic.
That's a reasonable concern, but in practice the likelihood of the product being killed by malicious counterinteroperability games by Apple (and the other proprietary backents too) is far higher than the chance you'll be screwed by the manufacturer.

Beeper isn't in a business that's every going to make them significant money. Their core value proposition is, ironically, that reverse engineering iMessage is "just hard enough". If it becomes too hard, they fail.

But if it becomes too easy, they fail too because everyone will launch Apple-compatible chat apps! In fact the worst case is that the protocols end up standardized, in which case they'll have to compete with genuine open source implementations.

Basically, I'm absolutely in their corner in this fight, but I'd never bet on Beeper as a product.
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