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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 w…

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.

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…

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

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

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.npmj…

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

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

Absofuckinglutely. It's being done as we speak.

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

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

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.…

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 j…

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, slowl…

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/15702…

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 ver…

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 …

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 …

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/makersqua…

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

99.9% of our requests are handled by the CDN. The CDN doesn't cache 404s, so 404s are handled by our origin servers, which are much fewer in number and therefore quite easy to over…

More efficiently handling 404s, which as many have pointed out we were handling quite naïvely.

I'm sorry my response looked like I was blaming them, that wasn't my intention. Like I said, it was an honest mistake: these things happen, and they handled it well. Once we determ…