anonygler (u/anonygler)

anonygler commented on Will AI systems perform poorly due to AI-generated material in training data? cacm.acm.org/news/the-col... · Posted by u/pseudolus

anonygler · 10 months ago

This reminds me of the Monsanto case, where they sued a farmer (and won) for using patented seeds that the farmer obtained from a local grain elevator which happened to contain some of Monsanto's seeds.

Should it eventually happen for LLM outputs, I hope we name it Slop Wars.

anonygler commented on RubyUI (Former PhlexUI): Ruby Gem for RubyUI Components github.com/ruby-ui/ruby_u... · Posted by u/ksec

anonygler · a year ago

I used a rendering library like Phlex back in 2010. I hated it back then and I still don’t like it.

They claim it’s faster than ERB but only show micro benchmarks. This is basically a form of lying.

This approach stinks for a lot of reasons:

- it adds a ton of pressure on the garbage collector. - the backtraces suck to debug. Ruby is better now than in 2010, but it’s still lame. - your templates are largely static. Yet when it lives as code you can’t cache any of it. An efficient ERB generator is just cached strings concatenations. Very efficient in Ruby.

Finally, Rubyists hate this and it’s why the community is slowly dying. Almost all your frontend should be in JS/JSX at this point. Even the static stuff.

anonygler commented on Why Legal Immigration Is Nearly Impossible: US Legal Immigration Rules Explained cato.org/policy-analysis/... · Posted by u/zerr

tomrod · a year ago

> Just because someone wants to immigrate to the US doesn't mean they should be allowed.

I'll bite.

Why not?

We let capital typically move freely. Why shouldn't people be as free to move as money?

anonygler · a year ago

We have plenty of controls on money movements. Immigrants who are financially self-sufficient can come here to visit quite easily and freely. They just can't take up jobs. We even let them buy up land, which many countries disallow.

anonygler commented on A new JSON data type for ClickHouse clickhouse.com/blog/a-new... · Posted by u/markhneedham

anonygler · a year ago

I keep misreading this company as ClickHole and expecting some sort of satirical content.

anonygler commented on Notion's mid-life crisis jjinux.com/2024/09/notion... · Posted by u/krishna2

Multicomp · a year ago

Notion is jumping the shark by moving from being a notes organization / mini database product to trying to compete with Salesforce and Hubspot. Just completely a different sector / product.

anonygler · a year ago

This is an issue for all the low/no code tools. Every meaningful problem has a first class SaaS product that solves it well.

Notion/Retool/Airtable/Coda/Etc are fighting over a cursed long tail and their employees are slowly going insane trying to generalize asymptotic industries. The “AI” rebranding has no doubt made them want to put a gun in their mouths.

anonygler commented on Notion's mid-life crisis jjinux.com/2024/09/notion... · Posted by u/krishna2

anonygler · a year ago

Notions kinda funny. It has this stickiness among a college aged, tech savvy demographic that’s not generating any revenue for them but has garnered a massive valuation relative to their revenue.

They want business from me, a tech savvy technical leader in an enterprise who mostly doesn’t care about what they offer. I want all my docs to live in Git, the way it does in Google’s g3doc.

We use Notion and, while it seems better than Confluence, I’ve never actually authored a single thing in it. It has no overlap with my goals. The world should be accessible from my IDE, and if I were them that’s where I’d really focus: a bi-directional sync and a first class VS Code plugin for whatever their file format looks like.

anonygler commented on Fraud, so much fraud science.org/content/blog-... · Posted by u/nabla9

anonygler · a year ago

I didn’t get the Covid vaccine because of all the medical research fraud I’ve witnessed as a grad student.

Remember things like this the next time you try to mandate injections with no long term research.

anonygler commented on Late Again randsinrepose.com/archive... · Posted by u/mooreds

anonygler · 2 years ago

Gonna send this to my wife the next time she makes us late for an event.

anonygler commented on TinyPod – Apple Watch case with scroll wheel thetinypod.com/... · Posted by u/herbertl

anonygler · 2 years ago

This is hilariously brilliant. I love it.

anonygler commented on Binance built a 100PB log service with Quickwit quickwit.io/blog/quickwit... · Posted by u/samber

KaiserPro · 2 years ago

A word of caution here: This is very impressive, but almost entirely wrong for your organisation.

Most log messages are useless 99.99% of the time. Best likely outcome is that its turned into a metric. The once in the blue moon outcome is that it tells you what went wrong when something crashed.

Before you get to shipping _petabytes_ of logs, you really need to start thinking in metrics. Yes, you should log errors, you should also make sure they are stored centrally and are searchable.

But logs shouldn't be your primary source of data, metrics should be.

things like connection time, upstream service count, memory usage, transactions a second, failed transactions, upsteam/downstream end point health should all be metrics emitted by your app(or hosting layer), directly. Don't try and derive it from structured logs. Its fragile, slow and fucking expensive.

comparing, cutting and slicing metrics across processes or even services is simple, with logs its not.

anonygler · 2 years ago

"Once in a blue moon" -- you mean the thing that constantly happens? If you're not using logs, you're not practicing engineering. Metrics can't really diagnose problems.

It's also a lot easier to inspect a log stream that maps to an alert with a trace id than it is to assemble a pile of metrics for each user action.