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by amirhirsch 1y ago
I don't know exactly what they do now, bloom filters was a thing then, also lots of heuristic approaches based on the bots we detected. the OP agent example actually would fail the very first test I deployed which looked for basic char
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by amirhirsch 1y ago
gotta charge less than the hourly cost of a B200 to remain employed
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by amirhirsch 1y ago
Captcha can detect the same person passing a captcha over and over. We shadow-ban to increase the cost of this kind of attack. Source: I wrote the og detection system for hCaptcha
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by amirhirsch 1y ago
Yes. The moral failing of Saul (1 Samuel 15) is precisely not following the command to exterminate Amalek, but rather sparing Agag, and taking spoils when he was commanded to kill everything that breathes.
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by amirhirsch 1y ago
Being dismissive of the Bible is not as cool as you think it is: those who do not study the Bible are doomed to repeat it. I understand the instinct to treat Bronze‑Age literature like fanciful fiction: engineers are wired to put "myth
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by amirhirsch 1y ago
The entire bible is a story of the Jewish people losing their land due to moral failings. Repeatedly. From Judges through 2 Kings, Israel repeatedly loses divine protection precisely because of its own wickedness. Being “chosen” meant bear
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Are all residential proxy services criminal organizations?(hcaptcha.com)
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by amirhirsch 1y ago
I misremembered the story and checked on details: the arm broke in a fall while he was travelling several months prior to the move and it was Gerry joking that he punched a wall so he wouldn't have to move stuff.
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by amirhirsch 1y ago
Hi Keith! Another consideration was that the core computer programming skills needed to be taught more broadly to basically everyone and not just course 6 students. Source: I shared an office with Keith next to Hal and Gerry--he taught me J
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by amirhirsch 1y ago
lol!! but also driving this is the fact is that each new thing speeds up the development of the next thing so 5x is more like (e^t)x
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by amirhirsch 1y ago
It started out as an innocent kv cache before the redis industrial complex became 5% of the GDP
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by amirhirsch 1y ago
great. now i have to spend my morning using vibe kanban to make a tui for vibe kanban with textual. i'll submit a pr as soon as it's finished.
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by amirhirsch 1y ago
i just realized the figure is showing the time breakdown as a percentage of total time, it would be more useful to show absolute time (hours) for those side-by-side comparisons since the implied hours would boost the AI bars height by 18%
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by amirhirsch 1y ago
Figure 6 which breaks-down the time spent doing different tasks is very informative -- it suggest: 15% less active coding 5% less testing, 8% less research and reading 4% more idle time 20% more AI interaction time The 28% less coding&
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by amirhirsch 1y ago
MCP for Claude code that asks ChatGPT O3 for help. This is the way.
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by amirhirsch 1y ago
For each file in files: claude prompt with file You can generally do map-reduce, also you can have separate git worktrees and have it work on all your tickets at the same time.
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by amirhirsch 1y ago
I built control computers for nuclear reactors. Those machines are not connected to a network and are guarded by multiple stages of men with automatic machine guns. It was designed to flawlessly run 3x boards each with triple-modular-redund
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by amirhirsch 2y ago
The whole Hacker News support thing gives good dev vibes but we had a support ticket for over-billing go unanswered for months (01288863) despite email pleas to a salesperson and then the ticket was closed without response. Made it impossib
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by amirhirsch 2y ago
No one will make long-term investments in US manufacturing capabilities in response to policy that will revert in 4 years.
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by amirhirsch 2y ago
Definitely missing from this list: J. Cooley and J. Tukey, “An Algorithm for the Machine Calculation of Complex Fourier Series,” 1965
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by amirhirsch 2y ago
Put a 1 or 2 in front of that
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by amirhirsch 2y ago
But we're literally having this discussion with Gil Kalai in the next room.
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by amirhirsch 2y ago
The argument is that error correction doesn’t scale.
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by amirhirsch 2y ago
Welcome to Hacker News Gil! I’m a big fan of your work in complexity theory and have thought long and hard on the entropy-influence conjecture revisiting it again recently after Hao Huang’s marvelous proof of the sensitivity conjecture. To
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by amirhirsch 2y ago
Yes. There are many Jewish lending organizations designed around the principle that loaning money to establish a new business is the highest form of charity (see Maimonides 8 levels of giving). For example, there is a 127-year-old organizat
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by amirhirsch 2y ago
You are not logic-ing correctly. The financiers were Jewish. Jews do not charge interest to other Jews; if Columbus were not Jewish they would have charged interest. This is written in Deuteronomy 23:20-21 as well as Leviticus and Exodus an
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by amirhirsch 2y ago
Another indication that Columbus was part of the Jewish community is that the Jewish financiers Luis de Santángel and Gabriel Sánchez advanced interest-free loans to finance the journey.
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by amirhirsch 2y ago
YC benefits strongly from network effects; the value for each founder grows superlinearly with more founders. Grow faster!
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by amirhirsch 2y ago
Maximum performance is only one corner for optimization. We do not operate chips at high temperatures in our pocket; the goal is to get low power for the same functionality to have a long battery life, in which case parallelization means do
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by amirhirsch 2y ago
Weather models are chaotic, are ML methods more numerically stable than a physics based simulation? And how do they compare in terms of compute requirements? the Aurora paper seemed to be promising, but I would love a summary of comparison

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