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shukantpal

206 karma · joined January 29, 2021

Infra @ Meta. Previously Teamflow, Lindy. Building agentic companies GitHub.com/impalasys/talon
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shukantpal··on Show HN: Proliferate- open-source, self-hostable Codex for any coding agent
Friendly ask: get the windows exes codesigned
shukantpal··on LLMs reward expertise
Not really, is a offline chess page not an app? It seems like it would be closer to an app.
shukantpal··on SQLite is all you need for durable workflows
Yes, agreed on SQLite/Postgres. But I'm going to benchmark RocksDB next and see what the performance characteristics are. I suspect the LSM tree storage engine of RocksDB might perform better since agents are so write heavy when running highly concurrent workloads. After all, you are streaming LLM tokens into disk and fanning them out to subscribed clients.
shukantpal··on SQLite is all you need for durable workflows
SQLite is surprisingly performant for single node applications even when comparing to Postgres. Postgres consumes a lot more memory and requires IO to hop through IPC whereas you can keep everything in process in SQLite with a shared connection pool.

I've been testing different storage engines for my agent harness and I can get up to 7.5k concurrent sessions on a single vCPU with SQLite whereas Postgres crashes or runs out connections.

[0] https://github.com/impalasys/talon/pull/23#issuecomment-4577...

shukantpal··on Show HN: GitClassic.com, GitHub circa 2015 without JS & AI
It doesn't quite work: https://gitclassic.com/pixijs (repos.filter is not a function)

Also it seems to get rate limited, but good work.

shukantpal··on Show HN: Former Cloudflare SRE building OpsCompanion a live map of whats running
In your pilots so far, what's the feedback you've gotten?
shukantpal··on Show HN: Play poker with LLMs, or watch them play against each other
This is really funny to watch and see what the LLMs are thinking. This makes me think how they would perform against a custom ML model trained with RL, e.g. https://ai.meta.com/blog/rebel-a-general-game-playing-ai-bot...
shukantpal··on Quality of drinking water varies significantly by airline
You should push the knob with a paper towel instead. I do this at all small public restrooms.
shukantpal··on How to Use DeepSpeed on Amazon SageMaker
Hey everyone, I recently got started in machine learning and ran into a few hiccups setting up our infrastructure. This post shares how I finally got things working in the end.
shukantpal··on Supreme Court Rules Companies Can Sue Striking Workers for 'Sabotage'
If you intentionally fill up a truck with material that destroys it and then leave it, that is property destruction. That is equivalent to blowing something up (the concrete expands and blows up the truck) in that it is property damage.

Another example to help you understand:

If I came into my office in the morning with a highly flammable liquid and put them where the sun shines in the afternoon, and then intentionally left for "striking" - the ensuing office fire would be property damage on my part.

shukantpal··on DreamBerd is a perfect programming language
> Please note: I will close any issues without unreproducible steps.

Surely you meant "without reproducible steps"?

shukantpal··on Supreme Court Rules Companies Can Sue Striking Workers for 'Sabotage'
The idea that strikes are intended to cost the company does not lend itself that workers can do anything that damages the company. Are workers allowed to blow up the trucks using TNT (as long as no one gets hurt)? Can they steal all the gasoline in the trucks and sell it on the secondary market? No.

Strikes are intended to lose the company money in a very specific way - by a lack of labor. They are not intended to lose the company money by intentional destruction of property (nor should they be intended to do that)

shukantpal··on Intel Announces Layoffs After Paying $1.5B in Q1 Dividends
> Did they make a mistake when they were hiring or did they make a mistake now when they are firing? You cant believe both simultaneously.

No it's entirely plausible that hiring then was the right decision and firing now is the right decision. There's no universal law that says you must hire people for eternity.

shukantpal··on The BRICS Has Overtaken the G7 in Global GDP
You still need energy to build cities even if no one lives there.
shukantpal··on Coinbase issued Wells notice by SEC
This Wells notice is not about Coinbase lending out money but rather about staked assets. Coinbase is not doing any lending.
shukantpal··on De-Extinction? Surely You’re Joking
Yes, because the parent comment's point was they are an argument _against_ not _for_ de-extinction
shukantpal··on Are U.S companies legally obligated to maximize profits for shareholders? (2012)
> Also when you buy a share of Apple you are not a part owner of the company.

This is totally wrong.

> as a shareholder you're entitled to very little and do not have legal rights to demand profitability.

Only if you are an isolated minority shareholder. If shareholders group together form a quorum (+ 50% of total ownership), they can demand anything from their company - including replacing the entire board and taking operational control of the company.

shukantpal··on Silicon Valley needs to stop laying off workers and start firing CEOs
If you get laid off at Google, don't you have a grace period to find another role internally?
shukantpal··on Intel's horrible quarter revealed an inventory glut and underused factories
Change of Control and Change of Ownership are two different things if you take the hint.
shukantpal··on FTC cracks down on companies that impose harmful noncompete restrictions
You didn’t read the comment. It’s not about getting a job in a restaurant within 1 mile - but rather opening a restroom yourself in that radius.
shukantpal··on FTC cracks down on companies that impose harmful noncompete restrictions
That money is the premium embedded in their income
shukantpal··on The State of HTTP in 2022
I'm curious, what other protocols do you have in mind?
shukantpal··on Ask HN: What is your favorite front end state management solution?
What are your thoughts on MobX?
shukantpal··on Be wary of imitating high-status people who can afford to countersignal
Or that could be earned
shukantpal··on FCC Bans Authorizations for Devices That Pose National Security Threat
> "We should not solve this solvable problem because other problems exist" is false.

Without commenting on the truthiness of the comment you are replying to, you have constructed a strawman argument here. They weren't saying that the problem shouldn't be solved because other problems exist, rather that it might not be solvable b/c of so and so obstacles that don't seem to have a solution.

shukantpal··on Shopify Is Illegal in Germany
Them giving their IP address is consent. If I put a dollar bill in your hand, I can come around a year later and ask for it back since I didn't "consent" explicitly.
shukantpal··on TomTom’s new mapping platform and ecosystem
You can download maps offline in Google Maps
shukantpal··on Brave browser now blocks cookie banners
> if questioning Trump's borderline coup attempt is too "woke" for you.

It seems like this comment was made in bad faith − because the article is not simply questioning the "borderline coup attempt".

shukantpal··on Brave browser now blocks cookie banners
The very important difference being you are not publically showcasing your browser.

A more appropriate analogy is buying a card with a gun attached in the trunk or interior. It's weird but not a negative.

shukantpal··on Cloudtorus
OP here! I'm prototyping Cloudtorus - a web application to let developers & companies self-host open source SaaS software on their infrastructure. The vision is that Cloudtorus autonomously updates the software and handles any service disruptions.

I'm curious if this idea resonates with anyone.

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