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New comment by saltedonion in "Application Architecture: A Quick Guide for Startups"

saltedonion — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 04:29:19 +0000

Could you elaborate a bit more on #2? What would be the implication of good/bad resource modeling.

New comment by saltedonion in "Breaking up with Flask and FastAPI: Why they don’t scale for ML model serving"

saltedonion — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 04:07:41 +0000

Thank you for the response. Would this pattern be appropriate for something like ML inference if I’m looking for sub 200ms response time and the results objects are small? The polling interval would need to be very short, and would that become an issue?

New comment by saltedonion in "Breaking up with Flask and FastAPI: Why they don’t scale for ML model serving"

saltedonion — Thu, 16 Jun 2022 20:36:26 +0000

Apologies for the noob question but how would FastAPI/Flask know that the job has been successfully completed? Would the worker have to persist ml inference results somewhere and the FastAPI server poll it periodically?

New comment by saltedonion in "HalloApp: a digital space for people who you know and want to connect with"

saltedonion — Fri, 06 May 2022 23:34:20 +0000

How are they going to address the problem of connection creep? (Over time the number of people you add to your friends network increase and cause context collapse)

New comment by saltedonion in "A quantum walk down Wall Street"

saltedonion — Mon, 08 Nov 2021 17:19:07 +0000

Wow. Thanks a ton. This is why I love HN

New comment by saltedonion in "A quantum walk down Wall Street"

saltedonion — Mon, 08 Nov 2021 07:22:00 +0000

What is this exactly? Looks both interesting and intense

New comment by saltedonion in "Expensify S-1"

saltedonion — Tue, 19 Oct 2021 07:14:08 +0000

What’s the point of building this in-house over using an existing solution? Is there some particular use case that a replicated SQLite is good at?

New comment by saltedonion in "Dislike button would improve Spotify's recommendations"

saltedonion — Sat, 16 Oct 2021 21:27:36 +0000

“ Piki selects music from a database of roughly 5 million songs and incentivizes users by giving them $1 for every 25 songs they rate. The Piki interface plays a song, and then gives the listener the ability to rate it after different amounts of time. Specifically, the user can “dislike” the song after 3 seconds, “like” the song after 6 seconds and “superlike” it after 12 seconds.”

These people are training on a completely different set of features than what Spotify is using. For example, listen time is likely to be a important feature where a short time or a skip will be a pretty good proxy for a dislike.

In other words, the authors conclusions are conditioned on only using the features outlined in the article, like, dislike, and super like. And I’m not sure it will generalize for Spotify.

New comment by saltedonion in "And you will know us by the company we keep"

saltedonion — Mon, 11 Oct 2021 19:41:03 +0000

This sounds stupid but is indeed as troubling as the big brother

New comment by saltedonion in "Epic tests Apple with new request: let us relaunch Fortnite in Korea"

saltedonion — Fri, 10 Sep 2021 01:49:39 +0000

Cuz when u have as much market power as Apple, you don’t really have a choice in granting someone market access to your platform. A refusal is potential grounds for a antitrust case. Assuming ofcourse, epic stays within the lines of apple’s other rules which hasn’t been challenged in court.

New comment by saltedonion in "Facebook Apologizes After A.I. Puts “Primates” Label on Video of Black Men"

saltedonion — Sat, 04 Sep 2021 16:17:27 +0000

I applaud you to join Facebook PR team. You might be the cure the internet needs where we gain the critical momentum for antitrust action.

New comment by saltedonion in "Facebook Apologizes After A.I. Puts “Primates” Label on Video of Black Men"

saltedonion — Sat, 04 Sep 2021 16:16:07 +0000

The space for potential edge cases are so large it will be wack mole.

Inference tasks isn’t like software testing where the states are well defined.

New comment by saltedonion in "Apple Delays Rollout of Child Safety Features"

saltedonion — Fri, 03 Sep 2021 15:38:27 +0000

I bet this had something to do with #AppleToo and the company didn’t want to fight 2 PR battles at once. My bet is this is just a delay tactic.

New comment by saltedonion in "Renaissance executives agree to pay around $7B to settle dispute with IRS"

saltedonion — Fri, 03 Sep 2021 04:12:54 +0000

At ren tech’s kind of returns it’s literally cheaper to pay the interest and fine than to borrow from anyone else.

New comment by saltedonion in "Ask HN: What is a good Python project for a mid lv engineer to contribute to?"

saltedonion — Fri, 27 Aug 2021 18:31:44 +0000

Amazing. Thank you.

New comment by saltedonion in "Ask HN: What is a good Python project for a mid lv engineer to contribute to?"

saltedonion — Fri, 27 Aug 2021 01:33:01 +0000

As a user of airflow I certainly wouldn’t mind. Also ran into quite a few bugs while using it. Thanks for your work! Amazing project.

New comment by saltedonion in "Squatters in Spain who demand a "ransom" before they will leave a property"

saltedonion — Thu, 26 Aug 2021 21:41:29 +0000

This entire thread just reads MADNESS in bold. The hell is this law supposed to accomplish?!?!

Ask HN: What is a good Python project for a mid lv engineer to contribute to?

saltedonion — Thu, 26 Aug 2021 18:29:18 +0000

Have some off time looking to fill. Please recommend.

Thank you

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New comment by saltedonion in "How can we make air conditioners more efficient? [video]"

saltedonion — Sun, 22 Aug 2021 23:07:30 +0000

So what is the approximate overall efficiency of this system now? Is there still viable room for improvement after this 33% increase?

New comment by saltedonion in "Widely Viewed Content: What People See on Facebook"

saltedonion — Wed, 18 Aug 2021 18:56:04 +0000

Last time this was discussed here one of news reports mentioned internally executives pushed for this style of report to be released so they can massage the metrics how ever they like and own the narrative.