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saltedonionon Application Architecture: A Quick Guide for Startups

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

saltedonionon Breaking up with Flask and FastAPI: Why they don’t scale for ML model serving

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?

saltedonionon Breaking up with Flask and FastAPI: Why they don’t scale for ML model serving

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?

saltedonionon HalloApp: a digital space for people who you know and want to connect with

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)

saltedonionon A quantum walk down Wall Street

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

saltedonionon A quantum walk down Wall Street

What is this exactly? Looks both interesting and intense

saltedonionon Expensify S-1

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?

saltedonionon Dislike button would improve Spotify's recommendations

“ 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.

saltedonionon And you will know us by the company we keep

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

saltedonionon Epic tests Apple with new request: let us relaunch Fortnite in Korea

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.

saltedonionon Facebook Apologizes After A.I. Puts “Primates” Label on Video of Black Men

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.

saltedonionon Facebook Apologizes After A.I. Puts “Primates” Label on Video of Black Men

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.

saltedonionon Apple Delays Rollout of Child Safety Features

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.

saltedonionon Renaissance executives agree to pay around $7B to settle dispute with IRS

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

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

Amazing. Thank you.

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

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.

saltedonionon Squatters in Spain who demand a "ransom" before they will leave a property

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

saltedonionon How can we make air conditioners more efficient? [video]

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

saltedonionon Widely Viewed Content: What People See on Facebook

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.

saltedonionon ‘Likes’ and ‘shares’ teach people to express more outrage online: study

Conforms to my personal anecdotal evidence on hackernews

saltedonionon U.S. FTC says Facebook misused privacy decree to shut down ad research

With so many whistle blowers it is now clear that FB does not want to eradicate any political party’s misinformation campaigns. They know they are much better off going with the flow, become a valuable tool for the powerful and gain market access and dominate.

In a way, I feel the American government also wants FB to do the same as it advances the US centric world order.

If there is a global monopoly. American wants it. This is evident in America’s position in negotiating the digital tax with the EU.

saltedonionon U.S. FTC says Facebook misused privacy decree to shut down ad research

Not sure why you’re downvoted. But sadly this is true. Fb knows it is financially better off to pay the fine than change their operations. It just goes to show how capitalistic the US really is and how tolerant this country is towards unprecedented market power. No way it will fly in the EU. And that is why there is no FB in the EU.

saltedonionon FB users buying Oculus VR headsets to get customer service prioritization

Can you elaborate what this system does? Escalates customer support tickets for employees?

saltedonionon Facebook Wanted NSO Spyware to Monitor Users, NSO CEO Claims (2020)

Wow. I’ve heard of this case before but did not know FB bought a zero day to crack his phone.

saltedonionon 4.6B-year-old meteorite found

Do we really expect these rocks to not undergo any sort of chemical reaction once they land on earth?

saltedonionon RabbitMQ Streams Overview

Redis too have an append only log at-least for backup and persistence. What’s the difference with rabbitmq?

saltedonionon The Miami condo collapse is a reminder of America's artificial land problem

https://www.wsj.com/articles/what-we-know-about-the-miami-ar...

Talks about it in this article

saltedonionon The Miami condo collapse is a reminder of America's artificial land problem

It’s probably more likely that salt air corroded the steel rebars. This is a known issue.

saltedonionon The Miami condo collapse is a reminder of America's artificial land problem

Could have remove the “the” or subbing American with “us” lol

saltedonionon WD My Book users wake up to find their data deleted

How is this even possible. Shouldn’t these devices be behind a NAT? How did the hacker even reach these devices.