Hacker News: seldo

New comment by seldo in "Cerebras launches inference for Llama 3.1; benchmarked at 1846 tokens/s on 8B"

seldo — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 19:00:58 +0000

For agentic use cases, where you might need several round-trips to the LLM to reflect on a query, improve a result, etc., getting fast inference means you can do more round-trips while still responding in reasonable time. So basically any LLM use-case is improved by having greater speed available IMO.

New comment by seldo in "LlamaCloud and LlamaParse"

seldo — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 19:30:43 +0000

We are planning to move our blog off of Medium (we've been busy!), but this post is public so you can actually just click through the nag screen if you see one.

New comment by seldo in "LlamaCloud and LlamaParse"

seldo — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 18:32:42 +0000

Retrieval-Augmented Generation, where you ask an LLM to answer a question by giving it some context information that you have retrieved from your own data rather than just the data it was trained on.

New comment by seldo in "Ask HN: How do I train a custom LLM/ChatGPT on my own documents in Dec 2023?"

seldo — Mon, 25 Dec 2023 22:16:46 +0000

LlamaIndex lets you attach metadata to Nodes which are basically chunks, although that fact is poorly documented! Will fix.

New comment by seldo in "Major bank accidentally published a private package to the public NPM Registry"

seldo — Mon, 11 Mar 2019 20:23:00 +0000

This really isn't news, folks. It happens every week. I was just grumpy this morning.

New comment by seldo in "ESLint compromised, may have stolen your credentials"

seldo — Thu, 12 Jul 2018 17:55:17 +0000

Further clarifying: npm will revoke all tokens issued before 2018-07-12 12:30 UTC. If you rolled your tokens after that time you will not need to re-issue them.

https://status.npmjs.org/incidents/dn7c1fgrr7ng

New comment by seldo in "Many packages suddenly disappeared"

seldo — Mon, 08 Jan 2018 05:47:22 +0000

Update: (this is not the post-mortem, this is just more detail) http://blog.npmjs.org/post/169432444640/npm-operational-inci...

New comment by seldo in "Many packages suddenly disappeared"

seldo — Sat, 06 Jan 2018 23:05:39 +0000

We're working on a full post-mortem now. Until then we don't want to give out misleading/partial information.

New comment by seldo in "Many packages suddenly disappeared"

seldo — Sat, 06 Jan 2018 23:04:35 +0000

Absofuckinglutely. It's being done as we speak.

New comment by seldo in "Many packages suddenly disappeared"

seldo — Sat, 06 Jan 2018 22:45:14 +0000

Hi folks, npm COO here. This was an operational issue that we worked to correct. All packages are now restored:

https://status.npmjs.org/incidents/41zfb8qpvrdj

New comment by seldo in "Uber Fires More Than 20 Employees in Harassment Probe"

seldo — Tue, 06 Jun 2017 18:34:34 +0000

I think you should probably re-examine your priorities in life, but that's just me. You do you.

New comment by seldo in "Npm v5.0.0 released"

seldo — Fri, 26 May 2017 22:38:45 +0000

Yarn does not run a mirror of the registry. registry.yarnpkg.com is a pass-through domain to the npm registry. It allows them to collect stats about yarn usage but is not a mirror.

New comment by seldo in "H-1B visas mainly go to Indian outsourcing firms"

seldo — Wed, 19 Apr 2017 00:07:30 +0000

L1 visas are easier for the company to get, because there is no cap on the number issued. The employee on an L1 is just as qualified as an H1, but less free -- they cannot switch jobs, and if they get fired they must leave the country within 15 (!) days.

New comment by seldo in "Acing the technical interview"

seldo — Thu, 16 Mar 2017 20:07:13 +0000

I'm not sure where you've interviewed but everywhere I've worked we always ask what you've done, and at my current company we have no whiteboard interviews. Tech is learning, slowly, how to give proper interviews.

New comment by seldo in "Postmortem of database outage of January 31"

seldo — Sat, 11 Feb 2017 08:58:57 +0000

Funny you should mention a managed relational database service; Instapaper uses one of those and had more than 12 hours of downtime this week: http://blog.instapaper.com/post/157027537441

No database solution is totally reliable. If storing data is my primary job, like it is GitLab's, I'd like to have as much control of it as possible.

New comment by seldo in "The owner of several 1 letter NPM packages"

seldo — Thu, 19 Jan 2017 00:37:59 +0000

A few points: as @chrisfosterelli noted, if a package is being squatted we'll give it to you, no problem.

As for why we don't automatically/proactively handle squatting: it's a very thorny problem. Whatever minimum standard we applied to count as "not squatting" could be trivially discovered and gamed, eventually resulting in people who wanted to squat on a name just publishing a copy of `express` or something to that name as a placeholder.

Relatedly: you can report offensive, or deliberately confusing package names ("typosquatting") and we will take those package names down permanently.

New comment by seldo in "The owner of several 1 letter NPM packages"

seldo — Thu, 19 Jan 2017 00:33:37 +0000

How would you like us to better publicize it? I agree it's a few clicks away from the home page, but as others have noted not a lot of people need to enter this process, so giving it prominence on e.g. every package page would be overkill.

New comment by seldo in "Tell HN: Political Detox Week – No politics on HN for one week"

seldo — Tue, 06 Dec 2016 05:20:37 +0000

How does one contact the moderators to let them know that a comment is racist/sexist/whatever? I don't see any "flag" UI at the comment level, and I don't know who the mods are by name.

New comment by seldo in "“There is no justifiable reason to be working 100+ hours a week.""

seldo — Tue, 06 Dec 2016 01:32:36 +0000

Reminds me of this great presentation: http://lunar.lostgarden.com/Rules%20of%20Productivity.pdf

Especially this graph of productivity over time: https://slides.com/seldo/makersquare-6-stuff-everybody-knows...

TLDR: if you crunch for 4 weeks it will take you so long to recover that it'll be as if you never crunched.

New comment by seldo in "Visual Studio Code 1.7 overloaded npmjs.org, release reverted"

seldo — Thu, 03 Nov 2016 17:45:39 +0000

Check out my detailed answer a few comments down: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12861180