TekMol

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by TekMol 3y ago
No, HN is not just one request, it is 7. And no, latency does not accumulate. Because the browser requests assets in parallel as it loads the html. Also, assets can easily be routed through a CDN.
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by TekMol 3y ago
I don't buy this. Hacker News is one of the most responsive websites I know. And it is run on a single server somewhere in the USA. While I am in Europe. If you have users in Sydney, Australia ... ... you are floored at 104m
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by TekMol 3y ago
Great, thanks for the clarification. And how does the NN represent the token at the output layer? Is it a binary representation of the token number? Or does it have a neuron for each token it knows and ChatGPT takes the most activated neuro
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by TekMol 3y ago
Do I understand it correctly, that an LLMs are neural networks which only ever output a single "token", which is a short string of a few chars? And then the whole input plus that output is fed back into the NN to produce the next
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by TekMol 3y ago
What is the state of decentralized betting platforms where people can place crypto on their predictions? Shouldn't that give us the best possible predictions? Everybody with expertise or inside knowledge who sees the probabilities are
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by TekMol 3y ago
My initial post (maybe you did not see it) was about why other retailers don't make compelling affiliate programs.
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by TekMol 3y ago
That would create exactly the obvious patterns I mentioned. Low conversion ratio and many repeat customers. With new customers I mean customers who have not bought before.
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by TekMol 3y ago
LTV is usually calculated as the margin on the future orders of the customer. A customer has many other benefits. Just a few examples: They tell other potential customers about your product. More customers means better and faster a/b t
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by TekMol 3y ago
Shouldn't those activities create patterns which are easy to detect? A million visitors and just one sale -> Something is wrong Mostly repeat customers -> Something is wrong How would a scammer bring in a steady stream of new cus
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by TekMol 3y ago
That's what I meant with "I suspect that it is because companies are so afraid of getting scammed". What is the solution? How can we build trust between publishers and advertisers?
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by TekMol 3y ago
I don't think that the 20 times lower PPC on affiliate links vs Google Ads is due to market forces. From the numbers I see, Google Ads are paid roughly "correctly". The ad spent per new customer is somewhere around the lifeti
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by TekMol 3y ago
For those who don't watch the video: This is about his affiliate account. It is surprising, that there is so little competition for affiliates these days. Amazon seems to be almost the only game in town. Sure, there are thousands of ot
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by TekMol 3y ago
So what does "everything else" do if it has no kernel below it? What does curl do if it cannot talk to a network stack? What does "touch" do if there is no filesystem to touch? What does "dd" do if there are no
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by TekMol 3y ago
But my Python code does not run in a vacuum. It gets executed by Apache, writes to a file system, makes use of a gazillion of libraries and programs that come with Debian. What would the Python "requests" module do if it has no Li
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by TekMol 3y ago
Compile what? A whole Debian distro with a Linux kernel and all 7000 packages?
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by TekMol 3y ago
What does that even mean? When I use a container, I get all the stuff a Debian distro brings: A file system Process management My favorite database (SQLite) My favorite webserver (Apache) My favorite runtime (CPython)
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by TekMol 3y ago
Unfortunately, a judge can always say that using an external resource was not necessary to fulfil a user request. As they did in the judgement I linked to. A judge can always claim you could have used a local version of whatever external
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by TekMol 3y ago
Use the search function on the bottom of HN. It is provided by a different company. HN is also hosted by a different company. They get your IP too.
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by TekMol 3y ago
The mistake here in Europe is that an ip address is considered personal information: https://www.ra-plutte.de/lg-muenchen-dynamische-einbindung-g... This makes it impossible to use any components hosted by third parties w
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by TekMol 3y ago
Is there a term for a country where ... - there are so many laws and regulations, that everybody is violating some of them - therefore only a tiny fraction can be brought to court - therefore everybody lives in t
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Ask HN: How can we help the Reddit mods?
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by TekMol 3y ago
The only logic I see: If the user is from Europe, tell them to fuck off. What is the reasoning behind that?
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by TekMol 3y ago
But I'm not compiling. And neither are 99.9% of other software users.
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by TekMol 3y ago
Afaik, Debian runs on the 386? And I think that came out in the 80s? So all new CPU instructions of the last 40 years are pretty much used by nobody?
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by TekMol 3y ago
How does software these days target all the different CPUs with different instructions? If I download, say, debian-11.7.0-amd64-netinst.iso - does it somehow dynamically adapt to all the different AMD and Intel CPUs and uses the instruction
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by TekMol 3y ago
That seems to be a way to define 3D objects and render them in 2D html. This approach would be useful if 3D devices let you render a view for each eye. And report head and hand movements as events. So one would build a whole 3D engine with
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by TekMol 3y ago
SwiftUI, RealityKit, ARKit, Xcode, Reality Composer Pro, Unity ... give me a break :) These device specific environments and technologies are cumbersome to learn, will exclude everybody with a different device, usually change rapidly which
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by TekMol 3y ago
I said "incentive". You made it "monetary incentive". What do you mean with "torrents work fine"? Do you have any statistics on the lifetime of torrents? Everything ever written to the Bitcoin blockchain is sti
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by TekMol 3y ago
That would hold true if IPFS would be a specific application. But it is a protocol. I would not expect that the protocol specifies that a complient client shares what it downloaded. That sounds more like a choice the client developers make
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by TekMol 3y ago
It's censorship resistant if enough nodes mirror the sqlite file I guess. Is there any incentive for nodes to do so? Is it possible to see a statistic about how many nodes mirror it?

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