Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by madisonmay 2473 days ago
It's also possible it's part of a docker build step or similar. Even if they're aren't downloading models at run time they may be loading s3 if their pytorch-transformers lib docker cache gets invalidated frequently.
1 comments

Docker builds are crazy wasteful in terms of bandwidth and compute. Right now I'm struggling with a project that builds ITK on demand every heckin time.

I'm working through how to best integrate apt-cacher-ng, sccache, and a pip cacher. It costs me nothing to hit apt or pypi, but like, somebody is paying that bill. A little perspective goes a long way.

I wonder if I could do something to just proxy all requests and cache those on a whitelist and stick it on my CI network.