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Location: Mumbai, India

Remote: Yes, I can work in Asia/EU timezones and early east coast US timezones.

Willing to relocate: Occasional visits only.

Technologies: Python, PostgreSQL, Docker, Ubuntu.

Email: vijaykumar[dot]tater[at]gmail[dot]com

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Hi, I am database reliability engineer who works on all aspects of keeping the databases (100s of them) up and running. I have used configuration management tools like puppet to deploy complex postgresql architectures and have experience with databases as big as 60TB and 50+ shards, backup of those shards, upgrades etc.I had a good reputation on not leaving any incident open which was due to sudden bump in traffic, bugs, system issues etc and ensured minimum or no involvement of app developers in issue resolutions. I help answer queries on postgresql slack and citus slack. I have experience working in all the timezones in the world across my 14+ years. I have exposure to on prem systems/ bare metals, self managed virtualisation and microservices but using mesos/docker and AWS using theforeman. I read all code and test cases to troubleshoot incidents and expert at RCA. I am passionate about postgresql support and architecture for resilient large scale systems.
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Yes but with a reverse perspective, in "Three body problem" the villains are the aliens, and here it's us. Or it's a question of point of view, after all, Trisolaris sees us as "bugs" in the novel.

I grant this "zoo hypothesis" is old, with many variations like those of Charles Ford or 1939' "Sinister Barrier" of Eric Frank Russel:

This book frightens me every time I re-read it!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinister_Barrier
You're lazily mixing metaphors here. This is the problem in all such discussions, it often gets reduced to some combination of hand waving and hype training. "AGI" means different things to everyone, okay? Then it's a meaningless term.
It's like saying hey with a quantum computer of enormous size, we could simulate molecular interactions at a level impossible with current technology. I would love for us to be able to do that- but where is the evidence it is even possible?
I don’t think you understood my point? Why did you type all of that, when it’s basically what everyone else has said. I know about max speed of information and causality and have for decades. I was talking that light in a vacuum speed is basically “fast” since nothing is fast, in both and absolute and a relative sense, at least in my take :)
That doesn't make Musk any less of an egomaniacal idiot in my eyes.
Your post is a good summarization of what I believe as well.

But what's interesting when I speak to laymen is that the hype in the general public seems specifically centered on the composite solution that is ChatGPT. That's what they consider 'AI'. That specific conversational format in a web browser, as a complete product. That is the manifestation of AI they believe everyone thinks could become dangerous.

They don't consider the LLM API's as components of a series of new products, because they don't understand the architecture and business models of these things. They just think of ChatGPT and UI prompts (or it's competitor's versions of the same).
I use a similar nasal spray for allergies (Becodefence). Basically a physical barrier coating the nasal passages. For me and my allergies, it's super effective.

Never thought about using it to block viral infections, but it makes sense: coating the nasal passages with artificial "mucus-like substance" so particles don't reach the membranes. Makes total sense that approach also work for viruses.
Printed this out and pasted it into my journal. Going to come back to it in a few years. This touches on something important I can’t quite put into words yet. Some fundamental piece of consciousness that is hard to replicate - desire maybe
I'm not Russian. But I'm not insulted because you think I am. It's just weird.
When you're taking in money it's not blind optimism. They sold gullible people a feature that was promised to be delivered in the near future. Ten years later it's clearly all a fraud.
Znalezienie uczciwego kasyna spośród setek kasyn online nie jest łatwe. Najlepsze rankingi kasyn online w Polsce w internecie pomagają w wyborze dobrego kasyna online i stają się narzędziem do monitorowania. Gracz może śledzić nowe promocje, turnieje i gry na pieniądze złote w kasynie online z maksymalnym procentem zwrotu.
I think complicit is a poor choice of words in this case. I think compliant is better.

The behavior of the captured woman would be:

- do everything possible to ensure her young previous children are not killed, but accompany her in captivity;

- don't try to escape, which would probably be impossible anyway;

- don't fight or assassinate her new captor 'husband', it would mean certain death;

- try to make the enslaved relationship work as well as possible; please the new master;

- seek to have successful children in the new context;

- marry-up in the new society, if at all possible, such as on death of the first 'husband'.

Many women would have already had arranged marriages out from their home village, to a new husband in another location, even within the same tribe or society. They may never have seen their original family again.

They would be dominated by their new mother-in-law, and treated like a slave in the new extended household. Being captured and enslaved again was probably not so different - unless it was by different and abhorrent barbarians.

For example, China had arranged out-marriage of daughters, and many of their lives were totally miserable (e.g. foot-binding so they couldn't run away). But being captured by the Mongols was probably extremely unpleasant (I mean, they never washed :)
Wouldn’t they want to hire people who give useful answers to questions related to the company?

I can’t imagine a company that uses interviews as a way to solve problems for free would be in business for very long.
Can't wait for a similar paper on Othering in American politics.
This has been around for ages. I only read the contents briefly to know what the minimum components of Linux is, that too years ago. When you install any distro (even Debian) so much gets installed which newbies wouldn't even know exists or use.
What if I'm watching TV and use the AI to control it ? It should only react to my voice (a problem I had that forced me to use a wake word).
How does solving a logic puzzle imply a theory of mind? I don’t mean to say that LLMs don’t have a theory of mind, just that deductive reasoning does not amount to empathetic evaluations of how someone else thinks and feels…

…unless you’re a programmer.
Does anyone take him at face value anyway?

The other issue is that AI's 'boundless prosperity' is a little like those proposals to bring an asteroid made of gold back to earth. 20m tons, worth $XX trillion at current prices, etc. The point is, the gold price would plummet, at the same time as the asteroid, or well before, and the promised gains would not materialize.

If AI could do everything, we would no longer be able (due to no-one having a job), let alone willing, to pay current prices for the work it would do, and so again, the promised financial gains would not materialize.

Of course in both cases, there could be actual societal benefits - abundant gold, and abundant AI, but they don't translate directly to 'prosperity' IMHO.
That's why we had to bring in the Ponzinscheme Generals.
Sure, and the end of biotech is perfect control of the human body from pre-birth until death, but innovation has many bottlenecks. I would be very surprised if the bottlenecks to LLM performance are compute and model architecture. My guess is it’s the data.
when I saw them live ~18 years ago they made heavy use of gradual fade ins (swells) with an ernie ball volume pedal, it does have a similar sound to a reverse delay effect.
All knowledge is incomplete and partial, which is another way of saying "wrong", therefore all "vision" is hallucination. This discussion would not be happening without hallucinators with a crowd sharing their delusion. Humanity generally doesn't find the actual truth sufficiently engaging to accomplish much beyond the needs of immediate survival.
You're probably right. I'll wait until it gets better distributed. It's just that personally, it's been hard to reconcile the grandiose talk with what's actually around me, that's all.
The problem here likely is, that your first expression was not well defined for x=0 and seemingly the poor approximation code stumbled over it. Shame on it!
A CEO has a fiduciary duty to lie.
You can't possibly give that much value to a single answer to a question that would be considered 'suspiciously useful'.
Why is everyone referring to this one single post all of a sudden
People complaining that only one edition seems to meet the specs: Why not print up a run of Bibles that meet the specs and offer them under the name of whatever cause you want to promote, then?
Thank you for the reply! But to elaborate more, I feel like even for stuff I definitely would have not looked at my phone for before. So I'm afraid my brain has been "rewired" into not sticking with something for long
Banks can and sometimes do reject transfers for risk reasons (though holding is more common).
Fisker's abandoned HQ has hazardous waste, clay models left behind
How do you suggest CloudFlare "cure" DDoS? Wouldn't that mean finding the people who make the decision to do this and physically stop them? They're a CDN not the Mafia.
Well I didn't say everyone could pull it off successfully

I think the more abstract and less defined the end goal is, the easier it is to make everything look like progress.

The blood testing lady was a pass/fail really. FSD/AGI are things where you can make anything look like a milestone. Same with SpaceX going to Mars.
> He mostly is just optimistic about time frames

Perhaps if you have a selective memory. There's plenty of collections of straight-up set-in-stone falsehoods on the internet to find, if you're interested.
I am white, but have very long hair and a beard.

It was the touristy parts of Beijing where I got the most attention. Usually from tourists from more rural parts of China, or museums with lots of bussed in schoolkids.
It’s whataboutism. Yes. Pointing out inconsistencies and hypocrisies.

That’s what is at the heart of it.

> People will bring up Russia out of nowhere just to point out that it’s not any worse than the US.

Like most people who yell “whataboutism” as if it is an argument you don’t make the effort to parse the salient commonality between these two countries: they both invade places.

Being worse or better in some greater picture has got nothing to do with it.
> Exciting.

Fast forward 20 years and we have propaganda machines that have been optimized on a nearly individual level, available to the highest bidder (or, more likely, available only to the people who happen to control the attention platforms at that particular point in history).

But, I suppose it's probably accurate to say that, within the walls of the academy at least, the potential for research on nuclear technology was exciting in the 1930s-1940s.
Yay that there's research into adding nuance to results.

Science should sharpen science.

Deep down we know how we should eat and live. Society and the economy, though has different plans.
An introduction to jump threading optimizations in GCC
Tiktok is the worst of the brain-rotting social media products our world has produced, and that's saying a lot.

I spent many years in the early days of social media building: starting at StumbleUpon, working on early Facebook apps, building companies in the space. It always felt that social media was an unstoppable train, but it seems like the benefits of connecting everyone together outweighed the negatives: the constant address book spamming, content designed to be viral rather than informative, etc.

I suppose that's it's really just the distilled, pure dopamine lever part of all the early stuff we built with everything else stripped out. It was always inevitable that the culture of optimization would strip out the humanity, I suppose.

EDIT: The replies to this comment really have an "I'm not addicted, you just don't understand it" vibe.
Love this! Nice work.
There's no metaphor here, I meant literally doing those things.

I followed up the point about AGI meaning different things by giving a common and sufficient standard of reference.

Your brain is evidence that it's "even possible".
It’s more than that. Because of what they’ve said publicly and already demonstrated in the 3->4 succession, they can’t release something incremental as gpt5.

Otherwise people might get the impression that we’re already at a point of diminishing returns on transformer architectures. With half a dozen other companies on their heels and suspiciously nobody significantly ahead anymore, it’s substantially harder to justify their recent valuation.
"Events tend to be bad. Trends tend to be good. And the world focuses each day on events, like we are. It was a dramatic day in the market, so we're having this conversation."

Larry Summers on the August 5, 2024 episode of the Honestly podcast, "What to Do When the Market Drops? Call Larry Summers"
I will admit to following the swab-nose-with-neosporin protocol following a previous mouse study with similar results. I use this during travel and have had no short terms ill effects and caught no infections while following it. (Not a doctor, not well controlled, just a random internet guy).

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/research/coronavirus/publicatio...
Depends on the question. "Is this your male member the bird is perching on in the infamous early internet meme?" probably isn't related to any aspect of job performance, at most employers. In which case I'd say yes, you're allowed to refuse to answer.

If the question is job relevant, its more complicated.
One of the above links is from the MIT Technology Review ...
With a reverse proxy the browser doesn't know it's talking to one
Because almost everything "everyone knows" is actually false.

As in my own anecdote, our kids probably need better friends. It may not be their social media time that causes problems, but their friend groups coupled with their current state of neurological/psychological development.

ex: I don't have enough information to reliably conclude that "social media" causes their problems. If they had better friends, "social media time" might have improved their "mental health".
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I can't imagine anyone writing that paragraph of his with a straight face. The chuckling must've lasted a week.
Australia is making a billion-dollar bet on a 'useful' quantum computer
I saw it after the fact, but I left it to alleviate some of the seriousness :)
Scammers are getting a leg-up from the system that serves us personalised ads
Apple couldn't tell fake iPhones from real ones, lost $2.5M to scammers
Would you prefer they only offer the call option without all the other stuff for the same price?

Then you don’t have the problem of paying for things you think you don’t need.

Your problem is that you want the highest value (direct on-call team with actual skills is expensive AF) for the budget price - as someone who helped design support tiers this is super common but obviously not economically viable.

edit: in any case on that price level the price structure should be more flexible I agree
How the search for dinosaurs on Venus exposed a warning for Earth
If your washers are LG washers there’s a cheat code in the manual.
The Photos app has changed. After spending some time with it, I don’t see it as more complicated. I find the new utility section pretty helpful.

You can fully customize the Control Center. If you want BT devices on the first page, put them there. Also, you can do a longer swipe to get several pages deep, instead of a swipe a tap.

I’ve noticed some bugs, but I assume those will be worked out in time, just like with any major release.
You are using "entropy" in a way I do not recognise.

Whatever you mean, our brains prove it's possible to have a system that uses 20 watts to demonstrate human-level intelligence.
The article doesn't even say how long the protection lasts for, or mention a single one of the ingredients by name. Doesn't really give the reader much to go on :-/
What sort of actions do you think we can take where the dangerous side effects (like creating deepfake pornography) won’t be as easily accessible as illegal streaming of TV shows? Only let big private companies to train models? Make open sourcing of weights illegal? Make usage of LLM tools generally illegal? All those are as enforceable as torrenting around the world.
I also make heavy use of RSS. That's how I find basically everything I read and view.
Let’s say you got AGI, and it approximated a not so bright impulsive 12 year old boy. That would be an insane technological leap, but hardly one you’d want running the show.

AGI doesn’t mean smarter than the best humans.
They made medical claims. That's a very bad idea if you aren't 100% sure
Lol you’re right, I must have not had enough coffee at that point in the day.
I think her end product was too clearly defined for anything she was doing to be passed as progress. I don't think you could make the case for her.

You can make a case that partial self driving is a route to FSD, the ISS is en route to Mars and (you can make a potentially slightly less compelling case) LLMs are on the way to AGI.

No one can make a case that lady was en route to the tech she promised
This is pretty cool. Great artwork too. Building edge DBs on top of S3 or R2 had interested me for a long time. Thanks for writing it!

Update: bug in redirection: https://starbasedb.com/blog/blog/blog/blog/blog/blog/develop...
When I read about something like this, my first thought is always, is this something we could have evolved ourselves? And if so, what haven’t we? Thicker mucus seems like something we have evolved, so was there some survival trade-off, perhaps in terms of general quality of respiration, that meant we didn’t?
> robotaxis are still almost here, just around the corner, as always.

You can walk to where they're waiting for you.
I meant following and I just hadn’t had enough stim chemicals in my system when typing that.
The trouble is, “the best”, as in the most competent, will say “this is the long-term percentage growth that you can achieve safely and legally” (realistically, this isn’t going to be much different to the S&P500). And a certain variety of stupid rich person will either go “Not good enough, I can do better on my own” (and do stupid day trading), or go “Mr Madoff over there will do twice that” (investors in Madoff’s scheme and similar scams were, by and large, well off, but unsophisticated investors).

In the case in the news article, DeVocht won the lottery, and then based his wealth management plan on winning the lottery again, repeatedly.
Things like boosted decision trees have been used in several instances, like this[1] or this[2]. Surely other methods as well.

[1]: https://indico.bnl.gov/event/10699/contributions/53933/attac...

[2]: https://inspirehep.net/literature/1665070
I'm not a believer in general intelligence myself, all we have are a small pile of specific intelligences. But if it does exists then it would be godlike to us. I can't guess at the motivations of somebody who would want to bootstrap a god, but I doubt that Altman is so strapped for cash that his primary motivator is coming up with something to sell.
Ethereum’s smart contracts are inherently insecure. Look at all the money lost through oracle hacks and bridge attacks. If crypto ever becomes viable, mark my words - Ethereum will not be that platform.
The profit-obsessed monster destroying American emergency rooms
Are you sure you can get to that with transformers?

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/SkcM4hwgH3AP6iqjs/can-you-ge...
He was arguing about 99.99% of users being people that cannot use your stuff because chrome doesn't allow the use of snakeoil / self signed certs for QUIC, specifically, and TLS encryption is mandatory.

If you compare that to the graceful Connection: Upgrade handshake in http/1.1 and websockets, for example, this would've been much better because there is no isolation based on tools and libraries, only based on trust chain of the certificates. If a new version of the protocol breaks, it automatically falls back with both parties knowing about it. If QUIC protocol has changes on the client side, good luck finding that out.
This could have been it, they could have been all under the same umbrella chud organization and it was really just one actor who spotted my account for some reason.
Last time I tried (probably well over 10 years ago) I struggled more with how long stuff took to compile. The main learning I remember from it was the chroot concept, which then later helped me grasp containerization easier
> the compiler vendor took care of it promptly in a paid upgrade to proprietary compiler 5.next

Ouch (assuming that this required them to pay to get the bugfix.)
I’m in my 50s and a Brit from London . For me ‘cubt’ has always been the absolute nuclear option- probably used 2 or 3 times in my life
> achieved great things for themselves and humanity

For themselves? Absolutely.

For humanity? Perhaps we have wildly different ideas of what is good for humanity.
Evolution isn't nearly as perfect as you think it may be.

For an example, check your feet.
Oh so I guess the "please fill in your reset email" counts as a security question. Makes much more sense thank you.
If you like this article, it's written by Ryan Broderick the guy behind Garbage Day, a newsletter I can't recommend highly enough if you spend rather too much time online:

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Matt Mullenweg: 'WordPress.org just belongs to me'
Sounds like a good startup idea. Just be sure to use AI for this filter so you can get funded.
The president can use Taft Hartley if he likes.
Olive oil prices expected to halve from record high
I'd say that Microsoft's moat was the copyright law and ability to bully the hardware companies with exclusive distribution contracts.

Writing a new DOS (or Windows 3) from scratch is something a lot of developers could do.

They just couldn't do it legally.

And thus it was easy to bully Compaq and others into only distributing PCs with DOS/Windows installed. For some time you even had to pay the Microsoft fee when you wanted a PC with Linux installed.