Spivak

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by Spivak 1y ago
What do you mean by this? Because everything in Python is object, even classes and functions are objects. Do you just mean that Python lets you write functions not as part of a class? Because yeah there's the public static void main me
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by Spivak 1y ago
Calling Proxmox a wrapper for KVM is hilarious, you're ignoring that Proxmox does all the work to make a functional cluster of VM servers including stuff like shared storage and live migrations and networking. If you only use Proxmox o
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by Spivak 1y ago
This happens all the damn time when people tout out the "see, nothing bad happened" because they don't know the work that went into the opposition fighting to make the bad things not happen.
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by Spivak 1y ago
It is normal and okay. Every 8-14 year old boy wants to play guns even in the absence of video games. The video games we're talking about are play violence. If they upped the realism to depict actual mature themes, like the German sold
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by Spivak 1y ago
Are you sure you want an internet where it's not possible to go escape legal censorship? Because that's what you're proposing with an id standard.
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by Spivak 1y ago
Hey, even the worst person in the world is owed their right to privacy. Determining if someone is doing evil with their right necessarily undermines privacy for everyone.
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by Spivak 1y ago
I think you assume the fact that it's a winking reference means they have to use a winking reference. It seems like it would be legal for them to post a full guide for UK users on how to access their site using a VPN service. There&#x2
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by Spivak 1y ago
Are there currencies you would actually do something with other than it being a way to move $local_currency by means of exchanges? Because I'm not sure it really solves anything when exchanges find themselves with the same regulations
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by Spivak 1y ago
This implies that Amazon is The Paperclip AI and is just building data centers for no purpose and isn't using them or is using them for non-productive means like Bezos' gaming rig. But they're not, they're building out d
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by Spivak 1y ago
> You should never trust an "rsync copy" or even crash consistent backups. This leads you to the secret forbidden knowledge that you only need to back up your database(s) and file/object storage. Everything else can be, or
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by Spivak 1y ago
You hear a faint whisper from the alleyway : you should try Kagi. I know it's the HN darling and is probably talked about too much already but it doesn't have this problem. The only AI stuff is if you specifically ask for it whic
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by Spivak 1y ago
Yes, and you can choose to use any language with a garbage collector and get the same benefit. The list of memory safe languages at your disposal is endless and they come in every flavor you can imagine.
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by Spivak 1y ago
> In that sense, Rust enables escapism: When writing Rust, you get to solve lots of 'problems' - not real problems, mind you, but fun problems. This is a real problem across the entire industry, and Rust is a particularly egreg
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by Spivak 1y ago
They have done #1 and the library is WebKit and so #2 isn't happening. Not the least of which because of the lack of expertise to patch that code base but because it's dynamically linked and in most deployment scenarios they get t
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by Spivak 1y ago
See this is what the OP is getting at, this is only true for async implementations that don't have any parallelism. That doesn't have to be the case, there's no reason that your javascript runtime couldn't take awa
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by Spivak 1y ago
Take a photo of an ai image, profit! Would the signature even survive the editing process of any photographer? It would be an endless source of memes to try and make the most obviously fake image have the "verified real" badge.
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by Spivak 1y ago
Serious question, does anyone actually care about immigration law at this point? Because on the surface it doesn't seem to matter if you followed the law exactly or you completely ignored it if you're someone targeted by ICE. They
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by Spivak 1y ago
Python programmers, don't use f-strings for your logs. # yes logger.info("Super log %s", var) # no logger.info(f"Super log {var}") I know, it's not as nice looking. But the advantage is tha
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by Spivak 1y ago
Right but we're mixing things * Can a reader understand a medium sized body of text and understand its meaning? * Can a reader parse prose that uses more complicated grammatical structures? * Does the reader know a bunch of archaic ter
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by Spivak 1y ago
It really is, students were asked to read a passage in what could be reasonably called a dialect of English that they don't read, write, or speak; that makes reference and uses turns of phrase that would be well-understood by readers a
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by Spivak 1y ago
It literally is their job. One of Mozilla's roles is to give their opinion on proposed web standards. It's one of the factors that determines what actually becomes a standard. WebUSB is Chrome (and derivatives) only at the moment.
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by Spivak 1y ago
Mozilla brings in a lot of money and they're sitting on a pile of cash. There's nothing even remotely close to pressure to become lean. They could double the CEO compensation and it wouldn't even be noticed. They have the o
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by Spivak 1y ago
They very well could be, but I doubt they remain in business for very long were they compelled to block the raison d'etre people use them.
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by Spivak 1y ago
It doesn't have to, it just has to outperform humans on some tasks. Often really simple tedious tasks. Take this whole discussion out of the context of AI and instead look at it as just a machine. Machines outperform humans at all sort
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by Spivak 1y ago
Tor is great but wouldn't an easier and higher bandwidth (for the yarr harr) solution to just buy any VPN service that exits outside of the UK?
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by Spivak 1y ago
You pay for their highest tiered and highest bandwidth plan and they have the audacity to impose a cap making that bandwidth work against you? Crazy. My household internet usage is quite modest, nothing anyone on HN would call data intensiv
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by Spivak 1y ago
Because the web became too "capable." Fun is incompatible with a platform made by and for serious businesses looking to make money with it. It's why the cozy web is a thing that emerged from the corporate theme park that the
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by Spivak 1y ago
I agree with every word of your analysis and I agree that we've tried basically nothing. But this is why I talked about political capital—every one of your suggestions has been available for the last twenty years and nothing has come o
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by Spivak 1y ago
Of all the responses, this was perhaps my least expected one when I was talking about being chained to an async framework. Async isn't a replacement for threads, async doesn't let you spread your work out over multiple cores and d
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by Spivak 1y ago
Why not? We have an overweight and obesity epidemic that has persisted through everything else we've gotten enough political capital to try thus far. The "miracle" drug is the most promising direction we've had in a long

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