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AJRF commented on Databricks is raising a Series K Investment at >$100B valuation   databricks.com/company/ne... · Posted by u/djhu9
uxcolumbo · 9 days ago
Are there any cheaper alternatives to Databricks, EC2, DynamoDB, S3 solution? Where cost is more predictable and controlled?

What's a good roll your own solution? DB storage doesn't need to be dynamic like with DynamoDB. At max 1TB - maybe double in the future.

Could this be done on a mid size VPS (32GB RAM) hosting Apache Spark etc - or better to have a couple?

P.S. total beginner in this space, hence the (naive) question.

AJRF · 9 days ago
Depends on how you define cheaper - you could set up Apache Iceberg, Spark, MLFlow, AirFlow, JupyterLab, etc and create an abomination that sort of looks like Databricks if you squint, but then you have to deal with set up, maintenance, support, etc.

Computationally speaking - again depends on what your company does - Collect a lot of data? You need a lot of storage.

Train ML Models, you will need GPUs - and you need to think about how to utilise those GPUs.

Or...you could pay databricks, log in and start working.

I worked at a company who tried to roll their own, and they wasted about a year to do it, and it was flaky as hell and fell apart. Self hosting makes sense if you have the people to manage it, but the vast majority of medium sized companies will have engineers who think they can manage this, try it, fail and move on to another company.

AJRF commented on Gemma 3 270M: Compact model for hyper-efficient AI   developers.googleblog.com... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
weird-eye-issue · 15 days ago
It's going to perform badly unless you have very few tags and it's easy to classify them
AJRF · 14 days ago
You can solve this by training a model per taxonomy, then wrap the individual models into a wrapper model to output joint probabilities. The largest amount of labels I have in a taxonomy is 8.
AJRF commented on The Chrome VRP Panel has decided to award $250k for this report   issues.chromium.org/issue... · Posted by u/alexcos
tptacek · 18 days ago
Grey market, not black. It's been several months since I've talked to anyone in the space but full-chain reliable quiet Chrome exploit packages were high six figures, with discussions starting about bugs reaching 7 figures imminently, and the people I talked to might have been talking that down (or talking it up).

Again, remember that grey market payouts are tranched, so you could get 3x more than Google would pay, or you could get 0.5x, and for much more work.

AJRF · 15 days ago
I’m sure there is a black market for something like this?
AJRF commented on Gemma 3 270M: Compact model for hyper-efficient AI   developers.googleblog.com... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
AJRF · 15 days ago
I've got a very real world use case I use DistilBERT for - learning how to label wordpress articles. It is one of those things where it's kind of valuable (tagging) but not enough to spend loads on compute for it.

The great thing is I have enough data (100k+) to fine-tune and run a meaningful classification report over. The data is very diverse, and while the labels aren't totally evenly distributed, I can deal with the imbalance with a few tricks.

Can't wait to swap it out for this and see the changes in the scores. Will report back

AJRF commented on The Chrome VRP Panel has decided to award $250k for this report   issues.chromium.org/issue... · Posted by u/alexcos
AJRF · 18 days ago
I wonder how much the black market would pay for an exploit like that - anyone know?
AJRF commented on OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google   theverge.com/openai/70599... · Posted by u/rcchen
submeta · 2 months ago
I went from Emacs to VS Code, then to Cursor, next to Claude Code, which is so good that I feel like I am having half a dozen junior devs at my fingertips, 24/7.

Since Claude Code is cli based, I reviewed my cli toolset: Migrated from iTerm2 to Ghostty and Tmux, from Cursor to NeoVim (my God is it good!).

Just had a 14h workday with this tooling. It’s so good that I complete the work of weeks and months within days! Absolutely beast.

At this point I am thinking IDEs do not reflect the changing reality of software development. They are designed for navigating project folders, writing / changing files. But I don’t review files that much anymore. I rather write prompts, watch Claude Code create a plan, implement it, even write meaningful commit messages.

Yes I can navigate the project with neovim, yes I can make commits in git and in lazygit, but my task is best spent in designing, planning, prompting, reviewing and testing.

AJRF · 2 months ago
Do you do all this switching during the workday?
AJRF commented on Next month, saved passwords will no longer be in Microsoft’s Authenticator app   cnet.com/tech/microsoft-w... · Posted by u/ColinWright
fragmede · 2 months ago
Why would you give the technical explanation to a person that doesn't want the technical explanation? To the person outside of tech, passkeys are just your phone has a really good password and fills it out for you. Just use that and don't bother having to remember (and forget) another password.
AJRF · 2 months ago
> To the person outside of tech, passkeys are just your phone has a really good password and fills it out for you

Except that is _not_ true, there is an entire thread of people saying they are unintuitive and hard to understand!

AJRF commented on Next month, saved passwords will no longer be in Microsoft’s Authenticator app   cnet.com/tech/microsoft-w... · Posted by u/ColinWright
tallanvor · 2 months ago
They're just public/private keypairs that are generated either by a device (whether it's part of you phone, computer, or hardware key), browser, or password manager. I do agree that it can be a bit of a pain when it comes to multiple managers trying to offer to save/respond to a passkey, but otherwise it's a fairly straightforward exchange.
AJRF · 2 months ago
> They're just public/private keypairs that are generated either by a device (whether it's part of you phone, computer, or hardware key), browser, or password manager

Now imagine saying that sentence to a person outside tech

AJRF commented on Next month, saved passwords will no longer be in Microsoft’s Authenticator app   cnet.com/tech/microsoft-w... · Posted by u/ColinWright
dontTREATonme · 2 months ago
My first experience with passkeys was eBay. They implemented them 3-4 years ago, and my password manager, Dashlane picked up on it. They offered to save it and I wouldn’t have to enter a username or password. Great, seemed to work. Until I needed to login on another device and then Dashlane saved that passkey too, but each passkey was tied to the specific device… only it wasn’t clear when I logged in which passkey I should choose, and chose the wrong one and it doesn’t work. After having like 6 different passkeys for eBay I gave up. Now I always decline to use passkeys. They don’t work, idk who uses them but as a fairly tech savvy user, without a very complex setup (chrome, with Dashlane installed) if it’s not working for me it’s probably just not working.

I’ll also add. I don’t have a good mental model for what a passkey is or how it works. And again, like most users if I don’t really understand what’s going on I’m just not gonna bother with it. For all the complexity that it takes to implement secure login with a username and password, most of it is hidden from the user, with passkeys it feels like they’re shoving all the complexity front and center, but not explaining any of it.

AJRF · 2 months ago
I have a degree in computer science, 10 years experience in some complicated fields and I can’t figure out PassKeys.

They are woefully designed and implemented, wish we just cut our losses with them and stopped pushing them.

Tuck them away in settings, not on the default login path.

u/AJRF

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