Hacker News: Silasdev

New comment by Silasdev in "ClickHouse raises $350M Series C"

Silasdev — Thu, 29 May 2025 16:41:31 +0000

SQL, OLAP, Primary use case is fast aggregations on append only data, like usage analytics.

It's fast, it's........ really fast!!

But you need to get comfortable with their extended SQL dialect that forces you to think a little different than with usual SQL if you want to keep perf high.

New comment by Silasdev in "Httptap: View HTTP/HTTPS requests made by any Linux program"

Silasdev — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 11:03:49 +0000

This seems like the kind of things you can do before you get kids and have real responsibilities. Then you need to get back to reality. Sounds fun though and I would have liked to experience it.

New comment by Silasdev in "iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max"

Silasdev — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 07:30:56 +0000

Exactly.

It's just a natural maturity-curve that every new piece of tech inevitably goes through.

Tech on the maturity curve:

ICE cars: settled

EV cars: rising

PC's: settled

Phones: settled

Smart TV's: slowly rising still

Wearables: rising

New comment by Silasdev in "Continuous reinvention: A brief history of block storage at AWS"

Silasdev — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 19:57:15 +0000

Great read, although a shame that it didn't go any further than adding the write cache SSD solution, which must have been many years ago. I was hoping for a little more recent info on the EBS architecture.

New comment by Silasdev in "AI generating radio-quality music"

Silasdev — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 19:10:53 +0000

This is absolutely wild

New comment by Silasdev in "European crash tester says carmakers must bring back physical controls"

Silasdev — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 14:56:18 +0000

Did Douglas Adams travel in time.... this is scarily accurate!!! My BMW keeps turning off the volume if I wave at anything in the direction of the touchscreen. There is a little infrared camera near the roof that can sense hand-gestures and turn volume up or down ... and lots of other things.

Douglas Adams so spot on I want to cry!

New comment by Silasdev in "Revealed: The names linked to ClothOff, the deepfake pornography app"

Silasdev — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 06:03:52 +0000

It's inevitable. We are in a normalization phase right now. Soon, kids will just shrug at stuff like that, because they will all know it's likely fake and therefore not care much about it.

However, I feel really bad for those who has to be the ones to go through the pain of this phase though.

New comment by Silasdev in "Freenginx: Core Nginx developer announces fork"

Silasdev — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 23:08:12 +0000

Insane find. Brilliant!!

New comment by Silasdev in "U.S. workers say banned weed killer in 50 countries is giving them Parkinson's"

Silasdev — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 13:13:27 +0000

Same. I even got my mom an electric bicycle as a present, just to lower the entry to physical exercise, but it just collected dust in the corner, despite endless promises to start using it. She passed away suddenly 3 years ago. I'm sure her heart just gave up. Still can't really take it in.

If the joy of your bad habits outweigh whatever other sources of joy you have in your daily life, then it's hard to motivate someone to stop. In their mind, they are making the conclusion that they'd rather die with some joy from the bad habit than die entirely unhappy - which kind of makes sense.

New comment by Silasdev in "Sqids – Generate short unique IDs from numbers"

Silasdev — Sat, 25 Nov 2023 20:04:50 +0000

It's particularly funny because their example docs for .NET outputs "B4aajs", which to any Swedish l33t speaking individual, would read "Bajs", which means "shit"

New comment by Silasdev in "Major outages across ChatGPT and API"

Silasdev — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 15:05:06 +0000

To my knowledge, you cannot mix embeddings from different models. Each dimension has a different meaning for each model.

New comment by Silasdev in "Ask HN: PG's 'Do Things That Don't Scale' manual examples?"

Silasdev — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 08:55:04 +0000

I was in an online fashion market place company that wanted to test 60-minute delivery in the same city.

We bought a few bikes and had employees ride out to customers, just to check if there was an actual demand. Turned out there was not and the idea was dropped with a low investment.

New comment by Silasdev in "Yandex open sourced it's BI tool DataLens"

Silasdev — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 18:06:47 +0000

Yes, that is really a shame, although it's been fully open sourced.

Yandex is aware of how the geopolitical situation is hurting them and are therefore building a new company called Double.Cloud, based in Europe, to work around the negative public opinion on Yandex, and thereby continue being able to sell Clickhouse cloud services.

New comment by Silasdev in "Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month"

Silasdev — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 08:51:00 +0000

You should really consider getting a proper router like Unifi or the like. It's a one time cost and it will save you from these issues no matter what ISP supplied crap you end up getting.

Just plug whatever ISP router directly into your own, more capable, router and your home network will look identical, no matter where you move to or how many times you change ISP.

That said, running Pi-hole on a Raspberry pi is a treat!

New comment by Silasdev in "Show HN: LLMs can generate valid JSON 100% of the time"

Silasdev — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 12:20:25 +0000

The idea is not to just generate any random string that matches the grammar. The idea is that if your request is "What are the first 10 digits of pi?" and you restrict the response to the regex: "[0-9]+\.[0-9]+", then you actually receive a correct answer of "3.1415926535" and not just a random string such as "1.2346789", which also happens to match the pattern.

New comment by Silasdev in "Ask HN: My GPT project has become a local hit but I can't afford the bill"

Silasdev — Sun, 28 May 2023 06:05:49 +0000

>Wouldn't it be almost impossible to hit a duplicate when the users each form their own question?

The embeddings approach would increase the likelyhood of finding the same question, even if phrased slightly differently.

New comment by Silasdev in "Show HN: GPT-4-powered web searches for developers"

Silasdev — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 21:40:27 +0000

Just set a User Agent that fools them into thinking you're using Edge:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/112.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/112.0.100.0

New comment by Silasdev in "TIC-80 tiny computer"

Silasdev — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 08:42:47 +0000

The game, DRIVING TEST, was surprisingly simple, challenging and fun. https://tic80.com/play?cart=3045

Thumbs up!

New comment by Silasdev in "Few-Shot Head Swapping in the Wild"

Silasdev — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 05:07:09 +0000

Impressive results

New comment by Silasdev in "NPS doesn’t say anything particularly useful"

Silasdev — Fri, 31 Dec 2021 08:36:25 +0000

Why do everyone seem to think that management does not have actual good intentions with measuring NPS as a KPI? The companies I've worked with have all had genuinely good intentions making the best possible experience for the user, because that is what ultimately wins in the end. If someone scores 1-6, you ask them to provide additional feedback, to learn from it - problem solved and everyone has all the info they need to go about their work.

There seems to be this idea that KPIs are evil and interpreted in vacuum. It's rarely like that.