Really cool. It'll be interesting to see how Multigres (by Supabase) shapes up compared to this. I think it's great to have more/better competitive hosted Postgres offerings.
Readit Newsbrycethornton commented on PlanetScale for Postgres planetscale.com/blog/plan... · Posted by u/adocomplete
For a super ignorant person:
Both Llama 4 Scout and Llama 4 Maverick use a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) design with 17B active parameters each
Those experts are LLM trained on specific tasks or what?
I believe Mixture-of-Experts is a way for a neural network to group certain knowledge into smaller subsets. AFAIK there isn't a specific grouping goal, the network just figures out what goes where on it's own and then when an inference request is made it determines what "expert" would have that knowledge and routes it there. This makes the inference process much more efficient.
brycethornton commented on LinkedIn is the worst social media I've ever seen · Posted by u/bitreducer
I kept catching myself scrolling down their idiotic feed and wondering what the hell I was doing. Mindless dreck, all of it. Yet I still get cold inbound from it that turns into business, so I can't just abandon the platform entirely.
I wrote a ~50 LOC browser extension that always redirects away from the feed to your profile. Works great, sideload and forget.
Nice. I use one in the chrome store called News Feed Eradicator. https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/news-feed-eradicato...
brycethornton commented on Sonos CEO steps down after app update debacle reuters.com/business/reta... · Posted by u/saaaaaam
IIRC seem to recall they changed the infra and software on the devices and it just wasn't possible.... take that marketing messaging as you will.
Yeah, I believe the firmware on all compatible devices was auto-updated to the new architecture and apparently they can't go back to the old firmware for some reason. What a mess.
How many have you used?
At ORIS I wrote a Laravel wrapper for PTOSC and really miss it now that I'm back on PostgreSQL. Now I mostly use updatable views in front of modified tables then drop-swap things later once any transitional backfilling is done.
Hey Paul! Try out pg-osc if you haven't already. I use it quite a bit for this type of thing. https://github.com/shayonj/pg-osc
Here's a few other migration tooling options for Postgres: https://gist.github.com/cpursley/c8fb81fe8a7e5df038158bdfe0f...
Can you add https://github.com/shayonj/pg-osc? It's my favorite PG migration tool.
Apple Watches have been great for us. Both of my kids (ages 10 & 13) use a cellular Apple Watch which gives them a way to call/text with us and their friends but it doesn't give them access to social media. I know they'll want a phone soon (my youngest is already asking) but it's an easy "no" for us. I think waiting until around age 14 (or later) sounds about right. I'd like to delay even longer if possible. We'll see how hard they push.
brycethornton commented on The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Can Be Cleaned for $7.5B theoceancleanup.com/press... · Posted by u/isaacfrond
Let's say they clean it.
What's to keep it from continuing to fill back in?
I don't think anybody is assuming it will stay clean without continued work to clean and improve the root causes of the pollution. Still worth doing.
brycethornton commented on Brain-Health Benefits of Weightlifting psychologytoday.com/us/bl... · Posted by u/mpweiher
The article suggests that you shouldn't skip the legs. What's the best equivalent of pullups for leg muscles?
Probably "air" squats, just squatting to parallel or below without any weights.
brycethornton commented on Memory and new controls for ChatGPT openai.com/blog/memory-an... · Posted by u/Josely
Is there anything revolutionary about this “memory” feature?
Looks like it’s just summarizing facts gathered during chats and adding those to the prompt they feed to the AI. I mean that works (been doing it myself) but what’s the news here?
I don't think so, just a handy feature.