detroitcoder (u/detroitcoder)

detroitcoder commented on Claude Opus 4.5 anthropic.com/news/claude... · Posted by u/adocomplete

I personally jumped ship from Claude to OpenAI due to the rate-limiting in Claude, and have no intention of coming back unless I get convinced that the new limits are at least double of what they were when I left.

Even if the code generated by Claude is slightly better, with GPT, I can send as many requests as I want and have no fear or running into any limit, so I feel free to experiment and screw up if necessary.

detroitcoder · 4 months ago

You can switch to consumption-based usage and bypass this all together but it can be expensive. I run an enterprise account and my biggest users spend ~2,000 a month on claude code (not sdk or api). I tried to switch them to subscription based at $250 and they got rate limited on the first/second day of usage like you described. I considered trying to have them default to subscription and then switch to consumption when they get rate limited, but I didn't want to burden them with that yet.

However for many of our users that are CC users they actually don't hit the $250 number most months so its actually cheaper to use consumption in many use cases surprisingly.

detroitcoder commented on Ripple notches win in SEC case over XRP cryptocurrency reuters.com/legal/us-judg... · Posted by u/ideksec

amluto · 3 years ago

This is IMO rather odd logic. I skimmed the opinion. If identical logic were applied to ordinary stock shares, it seems like it’s saying that shares in a C corp are securities if the C corp sells them to institutional investors, but that if the C corp sells the same shares by putting limit orders on a stock exchange (NASDAQ, for example) and Reddit-reading meme stock buyers buy them, then somehow the C corp didn’t actually engage in a sale of securities.

detroitcoder · 3 years ago

I had a similar thought at first but then read the actual ruling and it made more sense and it all stems on the 3rd prong of the Howie Test. It states there needs to be a "reasonable expectation of profits derived from the managerial efforts of others" which a share of stock has via dividends, etc. regardless how it was acquired.

For XRP, there is no explicit rights to profits via the efforts of others via the instrument so you then have to look at the agreement made via the contract between the purchaser and the issuer.

On page 18 of the ruling it outlines this for Institutional Investors:

'''The third prong of Howey examines whether the economic reality surrounding Ripple’s Institutional Sales led the Institutional Buyers to have “a reasonable expectation of profits to be derived from the entrepreneurial or managerial efforts of others.”... Based on the totality of circumstances, the Court finds that reasonable investors, situated in the position of the Institutional Buyers, would have purchased XRP with the expectation that they would derive profits from Ripple’s efforts. '''

However for "Programmatic Buyers" on exchange the ruling said:

'''Having considered the economic reality of the Programmatic Sales, the Court concludes that the undisputed record does not establish the third Howey prong. Whereas the Institutional Buyers reasonably expected that Ripple would use the capital it received from its sales to improve the XRP ecosystem and thereby increase the price of XRP, Programmatic Buyers could not reasonably expect the same.'''

So because there is both no expectation of profits tied to the managerial efforts of others, nor from the contract made by a buyer on exchange, the court ruled the 3rd prong does not apply. Stocks fail the first part of this.

detroitcoder commented on Half of US wetlands lost federal protection. Their fate is up to the states pilotonline.com/2023/06/1... · Posted by u/DoreenMichele

thomasahle · 3 years ago

I'm trying to understand if the people saying "congress can just fix this" every time the supreme court makes a ruling,

a) Don't agree that congress is blocked and is never going to pass anything.

b) Care more about the legalities than the issues themselves, and so don't really care about whether there is a plausible way through congress.

c) Are making a cry for help for everyone to come together to fix congress. Hoping that if things get bad enough, people will finally wake up and get congress working again.

d) Trust that the supreme court will vote in their favour, and are just concern trolling / trying to distract their political opponents by referring to congress.

Let me know if I missed any other options.

detroitcoder · 3 years ago

It is often:

e.) Want to limit the federal executive branch of government which some believe has grown too powerful.

detroitcoder commented on New York State Senate passes prohibitions on non-competes ogletree.com/insights/new... · Posted by u/hhs

JohnFen · 3 years ago

> I know multiple people whose new employers did not want to test the water with very litigious firms and had people sit out the full NC.

How did those new employers learn about the noncompete?

detroitcoder · 3 years ago

It comes up durring hiring processes. Pretty common to have someone ask, "Have you entered into any legal agreement that would prohibit you from working with us or have any conflict of interest? If so please explain."

detroitcoder commented on New York State Senate passes prohibitions on non-competes ogletree.com/insights/new... · Posted by u/hhs

JohnFen · 3 years ago

> The second is a non-compete clause that is a function of your deferred compensation.

Over the decades, I've learned that deferred compensation is such a double-edged sword that I no longer take it into consideration at all when I'm considering a job.

My primary compensation has to be satisfactory assuming I'll never get a dime beyond that. If I end up getting deferred income, gravy! But if I don't, I'm still fairly compensated -- so no loss.

detroitcoder · 3 years ago

This is a GREAT point, but hard to do in practice when deferred can be several multiples of base. I know many people who internalize large sign on bonuses and deferred comp as though they already earned the income. They are psychologically unable to accept writing this amount of money off, and force themselves to stick in situations that are at times not healthy or at least sub-optimal. Often times this is called life, and you deal with it because it is putting food on the table and providing above and beyond for your family. However a lot of times it would be better to just find something that makes you happier which is easier if you don't factor in deferred comp when thinking through personal finances.

detroitcoder commented on New York State Senate passes prohibitions on non-competes ogletree.com/insights/new... · Posted by u/hhs

hamandcheese · 3 years ago

> Also what this does not address is non-association clauses which are just as restrictive and non-competitive.

I've never heard of a non-association clause, could you explain it? Is this the same as a non-solicitation clause?

detroitcoder · 3 years ago

You cannot work with a former colleague for an explicit duration in an economic capacity for a fixed period of time. This may or may not be dependent on the nature of the work being conscidered competitive (I have seen both). I have only seen these clauses referenced in deferred comp, not contractual non-competes.

detroitcoder commented on New York State Senate passes prohibitions on non-competes ogletree.com/insights/new... · Posted by u/hhs

gen220 · 3 years ago

This is a big deal! Non-competes are a major factor in the finance sector. In tech circles, this mainly impacts HFT firms and prop shops employing software people.

There's a well-trodden path in NYC from HFT/Prop #1 -> Big Tech, for duration of a non-compete -> HFT/Prop #2, that can be shortened by one node.

detroitcoder · 3 years ago

Yes this is great but the way non-competes are enforced for many in the industry this won't have a huge impact because of the way deferred compensation is structured. Most people when they leave are bound to two separate forms of non-competes.

The first is what is being invalidated here, which is a contractual non-compete. The second is a non-compete clause that is a function of your deferred compensation. Here the firm pays a portion of your bonus into the fund that vests over time. Often times a condition of the vesting is that you can leave, but if you do anything competitive for a 1-2 year period following the end of employment with the firm, that deferred comp will be clawed back. For most people this is the most important. It is common for a new fund to offer the employee a make-whole agreement where they will transfer your marked to market deferred comp into the new fund knowing that your prior employer will zero out your deferred comp. This will now in theory allow employees to switch employers that are competitive and start immediately with zero downside as long as the new employer makes the employee's deferred comp whole.

Where this is the worst is for new entrepreneurs leaving these funds that want to start on their own. Even if their contractual NC is no longer valid, there is not a new employer to make their deferred comp whole. Also even in CA where NC's are in theory non-enforceable, I know multiple people whose new employers did not want to test the water with very litigious firms and had people sit out the full NC. Also what this does not address is non-association clauses which are just as restrictive and non-competitive.

Lastly NC structures in this industry change every year and vary significantly across firms so you can't paint with too broad of a brunsh. But all in all I love this change. There is a lot of passion and talent that is forced to sit idle because of NC's.

detroitcoder commented on Big meat can’t quit antibiotics vox.com/future-perfect/20... · Posted by u/atlasunshrugged

m000 · 3 years ago

> Big meat can’t quit antibiotics

But you can quit big meat.

detroitcoder · 3 years ago

It is my understanding that you quitting big meat, doesn't affect your risk. If you are exposed to a new drug resistant pathogen that was the result of anti-biotics in cattle, chicken, pork, etc, it doesn't matter if you even eat meat.

That said am I interpreting this right? How much of a risk does the use of antibiotics in meat present to a vegetarian?

detroitcoder commented on Breaking up with Flask and FastAPI: Why they don’t scale for ML model serving modelserving.com/blog/bre... · Posted by u/yubozhao

detroitcoder · 4 years ago

The jump of going from model -> webserver by placing the webserver in the same process as the model is enticing because you can get it to work in under an hour by adding flask/django/fastapi to the env and decorating a function. The problem is that that your model and webserver do NOT scale in the same way, and if you don't realize this fast, you are going to be trying to fit a square peg through a round hole once you have adoption trying to make it work.

All models at scale eventually need to be executed by an async queue processor which is fundamentally different from a request response REST API. For simplicity managing this outside of the process making the web request will help you debug issues when people start asking why they are getting 502 responses. If you are forced to use python for this, I would always suggest of going to celery/huey/dramatiq as an immediate next step after the REST API MVP. I hear Celery is getting better but I have ran into issues over the year so it pains me to recommend it.

detroitcoder commented on D1: Our SQL database blog.cloudflare.com/intro... · Posted by u/elithrar

slashdev · 4 years ago

For a Cloudflare article, this one is surprisingly light on technical details. And for the product where it most matters.

I'm guessing this is a single master database with multiple read replicas. That means it's not consistent anymore (the C in ACID). Obviously reads after a write will see stale data until the write propogates.

I'm a bit curious how that replication works. Ship the whole db? Binary diffs of the master? Ship the SQL statements that did the write and reapply them? Lots of performance and other tradeoffs here.

What's the latency like? This likely doesn't run in every edge location. Does the database ship out on the first request. Get cached with an expiry? Does the request itself move to the database instead of running at the edge - like maybe this runs on a select subset of locations?

So many questions, but no details yet.

detroitcoder · 4 years ago

Going to be very interesting to see how they glue together R2, edge workers and sqllite. They can manage replication using R2 and make the sqllite process aware of this for eventual consistency. Having edge compute with edge data on a globally consistent data model is the dream.