K0nserv

8 ms·

121.
by K0nserv 1y ago
I'm arriving at the conclusion that deployments of LLMs is most suitable in areas where the cost of false positives and, crucially, false negatives are low. If you cannot tolerate false negatives I don't see how you get around the
122.
10 Years of Betting on Rust(tably.com)
114 points by K0nserv 1y ago|51 comments
123.
by K0nserv 1y ago
Very cool research! I really like these applications of transformers to domains other than text. It seems it would work well with any domains where the input is sequential and those input tokens relate to each other. I'm looking forwar
124.
by K0nserv 1y ago
It's mentioned elsewhere in the thread, but I've had good success with WaniKani[0]. As an aside, the company behind it, Tofugu[1], also have a lot of good free resources. The main tag line on the WaniKani website, "2000 Kanji
125.
by K0nserv 1y ago
> No amount of crypto is going to protect you from this mess. Technical safeguards work as long as it is backed by the law and the constitution. But when they are suppressed, the people in power will just find someone smarter than you an
126.
by K0nserv 1y ago
Already the US can serve as a good example when discussing the need for unbreakable cryptography and e2e systems. The current decline nicely illustrates how quickly you can go from "The police have legitimate needs to break encryption
127.
by K0nserv 1y ago
It's possible to use with vanilla, but probably not a good experience. You want either components or at least a templating system where you can break things down into reusable parts. It's somewhat similar to raw HTML vs something
128.
by K0nserv 1y ago
For this contrived example it isn't better. I was very sceptical of tailwind before I tried it, but in certain scenarios it's nice. I think it shines if you are already using a component focused development process. As others have
129.
by K0nserv 1y ago
You use components, e.g. react, and replace the `bg-blue-500` class with `bg-yellow-500` in your button component.
130.
by K0nserv 1y ago
Speculating about her motives isn't fruitful, because her motives don't matter particularly. It has many upvotes because the information in the book is newsworthy and relevant for a place like HN.
131.
by K0nserv 1y ago
The book is a good read and she also testified in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee[0], repeating many of the claims from the book under oath. One of the striking things is that it's clear that Mark and several others from Facebo
132.
by K0nserv 2y ago
All browser makers are making the change together, why are your singling out Mozilla?
133.
by K0nserv 2y ago
The indignation in this thread and from OP is ridiculous, especially when all the ire is aimed at Firefox, who are doing the same thing all browser makers do. When you are changing the very fabric of the whole web, rolling things out in a g
134.
by K0nserv 2y ago
I don't doubt that, but someone is definitely trying. For example they moved Swift out of the Apple GitHub org and the announcement blog post[0] calls out Swift's use outside Apple's ecosystems. Their blog archives has more p
135.
by K0nserv 2y ago
Steve Klabnik talked about how he and rest of the early Rust team recognised the importance of tools like this on a recent Oxide and Friends episode[0], it's well worth a listen. I think this is a positive sign for Swift and Apple&#x27
136.
by K0nserv 2y ago
I appreciate the pun in the repository name https://github.com/googlefonts/fontations/
137.
by K0nserv 2y ago
In a similar way Rust can be very useful for the hot path in programs written in Python, Ruby, etc. You don't have to throw out and rewrite everything, but because Rust can look like C you can use it easily anywhere C FFI is supported.
138.
by K0nserv 2y ago
Two things: 1. Historically a CLI like this would often be written in C, so Rust isn't that strange of a choice. 2. Rust is know for the borrow checker and being a great low level language. However, it's also an excellent modern g
139.
by K0nserv 2y ago
Encoding assumptions and invariants in the type system is a spectrum. Rust, by it's very nature, places you quite far along that spectrum immediately. One should consider if the correctness achieved by this is worth the extra work. How
140.
by K0nserv 2y ago
Apple sets Advertising Tracking ID to 00000-0000 because it's the only technical control they have. However, apps are also supposed to respect the signal with regards to other methods of cross-site/app tracking and disable fingerp
141.
by K0nserv 2y ago
Actually, I'm not sure if this is the preface the OP was talking about, in fact it's not clear to me who the author of it is. There's another preface[0], from the Uranian edition of Animal Farm, that they might have been refe
142.
The Freedom of the Press – The Orwell Foundation(orwellfoundation.com)
1 points by K0nserv 2y ago|0 comments
143.
by K0nserv 2y ago
I wasn't aware of this proposed preface[0]. It's a great read and is, interestingly, somewhat applicable to the TikTok situation. However, you are incorrect, the preface does not say the book is intended as an attack on the UK, Eu
144.
by K0nserv 2y ago
I would love for Linux gaming to take off and displace Windows. The current direction is very promising, but there has been roadblocks. Notably, Respawn decided to forbid Linux users last year[0]. 0: https://www.reddit.com/r
145.
by K0nserv 2y ago
Adding a CA cert to the OS trust store only works if the application uses it. I've encountered apps that don't use the OS trust store or networking stack; even then it's possible to reverse engineer the traffic though[0]. 0:
146.
by K0nserv 2y ago
Your first line of defence should be a secure API where an attacker doesn't gain anything by knowing it. You can add obfuscation, but ultimately if the client is shipped to the user you must assume an attacker can reverse engineer it.
147.
by K0nserv 2y ago
Jetbrains Mono and Fira Code made it to the run off, but Fira won out in the end. Having used Fira for many years, at least I'm consistent.
148.
by K0nserv 2y ago
> What would an option for a hash set of userids? As an argument: An optional filter for a query e.g. "return me posts form these users" As a return value: The users who liked a post or nothing if it's not semantically val
149.
by K0nserv 2y ago
My point is that the factoring and abstractions one produce after the spaghetti intermezzo will be better than a blind stab at them; a greater understanding of the problem helps.
150.
by K0nserv 2y ago
Both examples stem from not understanding the problem well enough I think. My best work is done when I first write a throwaway spaghetti solution to the problem. Only through this endeavour do I understand the problem well enough to effecti

More ›