LiteLLM and LangChain are AWFUL pieces of software and should be avoided at ALL costs.

Btw, you should update httpx to httpx2, and I think it's not much effort to remove openai's SDK compatibility.

I'd love to have a provider-agnostic LLM router (almost) dependency free (aside from httpx2).

At 99.999% of C, the Lorentz factor is ~223.6.

It grows pretty quickly as you add more 9s to the fraction. Every two additional 9s multiply the Lorentz factor by ~10.

So at 0.99999999999 c, it'd be ~223,607x.

2.5M years / 223,607 is: ~11 years

Of course this is all highly theoretical.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorentz_factor

How i got there:

The closest major galaxy to the Milky Way is Andromeda, and is 2.5 million! light-years away. And this is the CLOSEST galaxy, the universe is extremely big.

Of course that as you get closer to C, the traveling object will experience time dilation (relative to observer), so the time passed will be less. At 99.999% C, the traveler would take ~11,000 years to arrive to Andromeda.

So again, even at 99.999% C, 11K years seems like a LONG time to reach even the closest galaxy.

My reasoning was: the speed of light is pretty damn slow.

But then I realized: no, it's not the speed of light that is slow, is my frame of reference.

For us humans, 11,000 years seems like A LONG time, but for the universe is not that long.

The universe's age is estimated to be 13.8 billion years. 11,000 years is 0.0000007971 of the age of the universe.

An average human lives 70 years, 0.0000007971 of that lifespan is approximately ~0.4 hours, or 29 minutes, so it's not that bad.

So yeah, frame of reference matters.

But after using it for a production project I have to say I'm deeply satisfied and surprised by the maturity, quality of APIs and performance in general.

I was proven wrong and I'm happy about that :)

[0] Old man yell at clouds type of meme

This is "Bicycle face" level of hatred (or fear) against new technology.

It will definitively be a problem in the long term for monetization of the authors. But for me as a user, it's the best.

I think summarizing everybody's feedback the simplest solution is: "Game difficulty".

- Standard: what you have today

- Relaxed: 1 minute per word?

- Practice Mode: no timer whatsoever

And "Practice Mode" is a completely different mode that lets you skip questions, and instead of "you win / you lose" which is today's behavior, you end up with a score (14/18).

I pulled the data using HN API and confirmed this "reversal". "Who wants to be hired" posts are getting 2x more comments than "Who's hiring" posts (and seems to be accelerating). For reference, in 2022 it used to be 0.25.

I'm old, I'm from the times where demand for software devs greatly outpaced supply, but maybe we're seeing a reversal of it?

I don't want to draw any conclusions yet, there could be many things going on. My initial thoughts would be AI-related. We're either entering a general recession because the AI bubble is bursting, or the job market is changing due to AI.

Again, I don't have any answers, but it's something definitively interesting to discuss!

Here's the source code (including data): https://github.com/santiagobasulto/hn-who-is-hiring-analysis

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48816813

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Funny enough, a few months ago we decided to start a new project and we chose async Python. I had no clue how'd work so I decided to read the PEP and learn a bit more. Big was my surprise when I realized I "knew" all the fundamentals just by understanding how coroutines and generators worked low level, thanks to David's talks.

EDIT: His talks about the GIL are also super informative!

The problem is not that the ID wallets require Google and Apple. The problem is that we're getting eaten alive by this Big Brother called EU (lead by the UK initiatives) that is starting an unprecedented control over the population.

These ID wallets should be all optional, there should NOT be any age verifications.

I remember ~10 years ago when Europe was laughing at China's face detection systems to track citizens.

We're becoming much worse than that now.