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by adtac 3y ago
Imagine a multidimensional matrix with various payment methods, local regulations, cloud providers, third party dependencies, web/mobile platforms, etc. Then also add more dimensions for internal things like accounting, hiring, payroll
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by adtac 3y ago
Maybe the real scaling hypothesis was the friends we made along the way
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by adtac 3y ago
We, uh, fixed the glitch^W^W all bugs
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by adtac 3y ago
Certificate pinning is easy to work around if you know which bytes to change, so that's what adblocking will be
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by adtac 3y ago
This is slightly tangential, but has anyone recently used ChatGPT for non-trivial programming tasks where you start typing a precise description of what you need from the system and by the time you finish writing it you realise there's
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by adtac 3y ago
(1) Twitter's data is accurately timestamped, (2) there's new data constantly flowing in talking about recent events. There's no other source like that in English other than Reddit. AFAIU neither of those are relevant to GPT-
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by adtac 3y ago
The malware will then rely on actual ptrace behaviour as a check. You could instead use seccomp_unotif and let the target ptrace itself as much as it wants: https://man.archlinux.org/man/seccomp_unotify.2.en
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by adtac 3y ago
Do you remember when ISPs would redirect unresolved DNS A record queries to their “search engine”?
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by adtac 3y ago
The Schwarzschild radius [0], which defines the radius at which the escape velocity equals the speed of light, is given by 2GM/c^2. I don't know what the impact parameter is either, but given these two expressions, it sounds like
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by adtac 3y ago
b, err := os.ReadFile(path) if err != nil { return nil, fmt.Errorf("read %s: %w", path, err) } is so much better than b := Must!(os.ReadFile(path)) because when things go wrong, I have exactly the
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by adtac 3y ago
I consider the stdlib to be Go's best feature too. As a somewhat contrived example, can you name any language that lets you write a HTTP/2 TLS endpoint that computes the HMAC of a PNG file's pixels without any dependencies? A
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Show HN: Guesstimate – Generate a spreadsheet-like interface for any question(guesstimate.ai)
1 points by adtac 4y ago|0 comments
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by adtac 4y ago
One more relevant use case: I've found Floyd-Steinberg dithering to be somewhat useful in compressing scanned JPEG paper notes at 600dpi (~1.5-2.5MB per page) to 1-bit PNG (100-300KB). At full scale, there is no loss in readability and
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by adtac 4y ago
>And I've seen firsthand how just getting a _little_ bit wrong with your free vs. premium tiers can result in some significant and unforeseen infra charges. Can you elaborate?
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by adtac 4y ago
Yeah the flame graphs show ~9% of the time being spent in golang.org/x/crypto/chacha20poly1305 so you're probably right, but flame graphs and throughput aren't always a one-to-one mapping. Flame graphs just tell you
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by adtac 4y ago
It'd be interesting to see the benchmark environment's raw ChaCha20Poly1305 throughput (the x/crypto implementation) in the analysis. My hunch is it's several times greater than the network, which would further support t
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by adtac 4y ago
Security only makes sense in the context of the technology available to an attacker _at that time_, so I don't think he was wrong. The same way I'm not wrong to say X25519 ECDH is secure even though it's very unlikely we&#x27
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by adtac 4y ago
https://shakti.org.in/processors.html See the "learn more" link under each class
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by adtac 4y ago
https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9225.html
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by adtac 4y ago
This reminds me of an old article quote from a game developer on Steam bug reports from Linux vs Windows users: >The report quality [from Linux users] is stellar. I mean we have all seen bug reports like: “it crashes for me after a few h
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by adtac 4y ago
In just 24 hours, HN has redefined the units of time [1] and space. Move fast, break things indeed. What are we disrupting next? I hear the Euro is facing some stability issues. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32975
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by adtac 4y ago
>Or maybe they say "enough is enough" and don't pay it. Never thought of it this way. Does Google need European revenue more or do Europeans rely on Google more?
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by adtac 4y ago
Is the node process size comparable across architectures?
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by adtac 4y ago
vim support had only gotten better since 2018. With CiderLSP (LSP support for all of google3), it was a breeze navigating the massive codebase.
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by adtac 4y ago
this is literally https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 all over again. just use dropbox, they have file history.
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by adtac 4y ago
I only have an amateur interest in physics, so I'm sorry if this sounds dumb, but I often think about what if we've reached as far as we can go within the current framework of physics? This is more meta-science than actual science
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by adtac 4y ago
The real question is: why is anything other than randomised studies allowed to be published in the first place?
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Cluster management at scale at Facebook (2019)(engineering.fb.com)
2 points by adtac 4y ago|0 comments
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by adtac 4y ago
Since geothermal, is this the first form of energy that is not even indirectly from the sun?
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by adtac 4y ago
From an investor's perspective, why would I invest in the middle when I can put 90% in super conservative securities and the remaining 10% in super speculative startups? I get all nearly all the upside (unicorn) with very little downsi

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