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by btown 1y ago
On the contrary, from what I gather, the Justices were amenable to the federal government regulating or even banning intrastate (non-cross-border) gambling as well! The problem was that PASPA was sloppy and didn’t do that; its mechanism was
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by btown 1y ago
Arguably/pedantically, Pyodide has had this for a while: see https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/sandboxing-agentic-ai-work... for a use case. Wasmer's approach hints at faster cold starts and better overall pe
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by btown 1y ago
But this, too, skips over some nuance. There are a few types of actors here: - small content creators who want to make their content accessible to individuals - companies that want to gobble up public data and resell it in a way that destro
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by btown 1y ago
The LLGuidance paper is highly recommended reading for everyone interested in this! https://guidance-ai.github.io/llguidance/llg-go-brrr TL;DR instead of just getting a token and seeing if it would be accepted by the p
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by btown 1y ago
> your function needs to have no side effects I'm trying to understand how well this no-side-effects footgun is defended against. https://github.com/cloudflare/capnweb/blob/main/src/map.ts#L.
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by btown 1y ago
One of the big things here is de-anonymization and account correlation. Say you have an application where users'/products' affiliation with certain B2B accounts is considered sensitive; perhaps they need to interact with each
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by btown 1y ago
Here’s the thing about AI though - you don’t need to worry about its confidence or impact on professional development if you’re overly critical, and it will do a turn within seconds. That gives a tremendous amount of flexibility and leverag
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by btown 1y ago
As a huge fan of the engineering wizardry that is tldraw... this is a really inflexible pricing model. But it’s not an easy solve, either. If you charge by MAU, that’s the Unity licensing debacle all over again. If you charge by seat active
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by btown 1y ago
One of Slack's greatest missed opportunities IMO was to become the hub for every company's customer/advocate community. Once you've established yourself as a customer service channel and internal coordination hub, yo
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by btown 1y ago
A brief but important point is that this primarily holds true in the context of rewriting/vendoring utilities yourself, not when discussing importing small vs. large dependencies. Just because dependencies do a lot more than you need,
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by btown 1y ago
Even the simplest "any maintainer can click a push notification on their phone to verify that they want to push an update to $package" would have stopped this worm in its tracks!
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by btown 1y ago
Larger discussion thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45260741
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by btown 1y ago
I'd like to think there are ways to do this and keep things decentralized. Things like: Once a package has more than [threshold] daily downloads for an extended period of time, it requires 2FA re-auth/step-up on two separate human
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by btown 1y ago
Not at Apple and don't have any knowledge here, but I'd imagine that the UNIX test suite, ever since it began passing, has been a useful set of additional regression tests even outside the certification context. Does anyone want
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by btown 1y ago
> AI workflows are, in practice, highly non-deterministic. While different versions of a compiler might give different outputs, they all promise to obey the spec of the language, and if they don’t, there’s a bug in the compiler. English
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by btown 1y ago
Thank you so much for sharing this! That sounds like an equally fun and headache-inducing problem indeed! The idea that someone could book a room for 400 years of consistency guarantees is somewhat hilarious, yet absolutely the kind of thin
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by btown 1y ago
To say that 99% of what became WordPress was "done by him and his company" completely ignores the rich ecosystem of free and non-free plugins that have driven its value. A competitive landscape of hosting solutions like WP Engine
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by btown 1y ago
This is Python; finding new ways to subscript into things directly is a graduate student’s favorite pastime! In all seriousness I think that encoding-independent constant-time substring extraction has been meaningful in letting researchers
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by btown 1y ago
This seems like a fascinating problem domain! I'm incredibly curious what product you're working on - if you're taking this much attention to detail on recurring events, it seems like it's a step beyond most scheduling s
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by btown 1y ago
For what it's worth, this does appear to be just a temporary situation, as mentioned in that linked document and in code comments e.g. https://github.com/orioledb/orioledb/blob/7f3b3a9a8e195ba31f...
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by btown 1y ago
Based on the README [0] and discussion [1] it seems like it might especially shine on high-write-volume workflows, with the implementation of anti-bloat measures. Do you have a sense for whether it would shine even further where those rows
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by btown 1y ago
This 2019 article about how reading strategies have shifted in recent decades away from phonics to "three cueing" - which attempts to incentivize reading by encouraging students to interpolate words they don't understand fr
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by btown 1y ago
I'm often curious about how effective runtime quasi-sandboxing is in practice (at least until support at the TC39 level lands). My understanding is that if you can run with a CSP that prevents unsafe-eval, and you lock a utility pack
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by btown 1y ago
In all seriousness, it’s only a matter of time before an LLM makes a critical error in language-translating (or even being used to write) a reference manual for an industrial process, and escapes the attention of regulators. One can only ho
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by btown 1y ago
Full text of the lawsuit: https://www.bloomberglaw.com/public/desktop/document/BaigvMe...
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by btown 1y ago
"It looks like you're trying to insert some control rods. Would you like help with that?"
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by btown 1y ago
A brief reminder that if you read an article about JSTOR and it doesn't even mention Aaron Swartz, it's a puff piece. The blurb in the article's overview about "users praise JSTOR’s public-good focus that translates into
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by btown 1y ago
You can create a ref that stores whether isOpen has ever been true, and condition on that, letting you lazily initialize the Modal and its contents while preserving out transitions. I’m honestly surprised this isn’t recommended a lot more o
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by btown 1y ago
Original discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34547259 This is really, really cool! Skia is a incredible abstraction layer. The linked article at the top of the OP https://fathy.fr/html2svg (202
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by btown 1y ago
My favorite (and admittedly unorthodox) companion piece to Nagel's Bat , and one of my favorite literary recommendations, is Vernor Vinge's Hugo-winning 2000 novel, A Deepness in the Sky [0]. It's a hard-sci-fi story about

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