How the DevTeam conquered the iPhone
How the DevTeam conquered (jailbreak) the iPhone Source: How the DevTeam conquered the iPhone
Building Meta’s GenAI Infrastructure – Engineering at Meta
To lead in developing AI means leading investments in hardware infrastructure. Hardware infrastructure plays an important role in AI’s future. Today, we’re sharing details on two versions of our 24,576-GPU data center scale cluster at Meta. These clusters support our current and next generation AI models, including Llama 3, the successor to Llama 2, our […]
JSON Canvas — An open file format for infinite canvas data.
Infinite canvas tools are a way to view and organize information spatially, like a digital whiteboard. Infinite canvases encourage freedom and exploration, and have become a popular interface pattern across many apps. The JSON Canvas format was created to provide longevity, readability, interoperability, and extensibility to data created with infinite canvas apps. The format is […]
GitHub – teableio/teable: ✨ A Super fast, Real-time, Professional, Developer friendly, No code database
Teable is a Super fast, Real-time, Professional, Developer friendly, No-code database built on Postgres. It uses a simple, spreadsheet-like interface to create complex enterprise-level database applications. Unlock efficient app development with no-code, free from the hurdles of data security and scalability. Source: GitHub – teableio/teable: ✨ A Super fast, Real-time, Professional, Developer friendly, No code […]
Release Notes: How to make self-hosted maps that work everywhere and cost next to nothing • MuckRock
If you’ve made it this far, congratulations, you should now have geographic data, turned into tiles, a style to render it and maybe custom fonts and icons. This is a lot, and it’s part of the reason there are companies ready to sell you a monthly plan that will do all this for you. There’s […]
Why choose async/await over threads? | Hacker News
Multi-threaded async/await gets ugly. If you have serious compute-bound sections, the model tends to break down, because you’re effectively blocking a thread that you share with others. Compute-bound multi-threaded does not work as well in Rust as it should. Problems include – Futex congestion collapse. – Starvation of unfair mutexes. Source: Why choose async/await over […]
Linux Crisis Tools
When you have an outage caused by a performance issue, you don’t want to lose precious time just to install the tools needed to diagnose it. Here is a list of “crisis tools” I recommend installing on your Linux servers by default (if they aren’t already), along with the (Ubuntu) package names that they come […]
Image Stacks and iPhone Racks – Building an Internet Scale Meme Search Engine | FindThatMeme.com Blog
Testing with generated datasets showed that it scaled really well, allowing for searching of millions of memes in less than a second even on relatively modest hardware. At the time of this writing I’m able to index and search the text of around ~17 million memes on a shared Linode instance with only 6 cores […]
How to Start Google
The companies at the Google end of the continuum are called startups when they’re young. The reason I know about them is that my wife Jessica and I started something called Y Combinator that is basically a startup factory. Since 2005, Y Combinator has funded over 4000 startups. So we know exactly what you need […]
Suspicious discontinuities (2020) | Hacker News
I went to school at a relatively late age and started in community college. The school/state had a policy where any independent income earners making less than 35,000/year would not pay tuition. A single dollar over that would require paying full tuition of ~$60/unit or about $750 a semester. One year I worked a little […]