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by btown 1y ago
If you need your partners/bankers/salespeople/cabinet-level officials etc. to be able to converse with their clients on the E2E encrypted systems those clients already use, like WhatsApp and Signal, but maintain retention for
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by btown 1y ago
The idea that any situation or sensory input can be broken down into a sequence of tokens, and that action choice can be characterized by predicting a subsequent sequence of tokens in the same space, may well bear fruit. But I think that a
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by btown 1y ago
To add to this, a pattern that's really helpful here is: findThingWeShouldDoThisTo can both satisfy a condition and greatly simplify doThis if you can pass it the thing in question. It's read-only, testable, and readable. Highly r
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by btown 1y ago
I wrote about one under-appreciated and still-relevant use case for Google Closure Library a while back here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41397235 - reposting it here! > If you want a rich text editor that truly
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by btown 1y ago
I imagine it's not used as an MTA-to-MTA signal, but rather for organizations where outbound messages, received by the org's SMTP server, should only be accepted when the internal sending device has a client certificate. See, fo
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by btown 1y ago
CarPlay is a really interesting co-branded design challenge. Each automaker wants their own look and feel (this is the industry that led to the computing usage of the word "chrome" after all! [0]), so Apple needs to deliver a desi
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by btown 1y ago
This is absolute gold! > “Making processors faster is increasingly difficult,” John thought, “but maybe people won’t notice if I give them more processors.” This, of course, was a variant of the notorious Zubotov Gambit, named after the
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by btown 1y ago
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by btown 1y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MguVQ1Fja8&t=8 - an example of the X-Wing iMUSE soundtrack! You can hear it swap in memorable tags, literally without missing a beat. From a musical theater composition perspective, it&#
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by btown 1y ago
There was actually quite a heated debate on this during the New Deal in the 1930s, where federal regulations and federal public works projects were often scoped to have highly localized impacts. Wickard v. Filburn, for instance, upheld in 1
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by btown 1y ago
There's an interesting dynamic here: if McMaster part numbers are searchable on Google, people are going to use Google to search for McMaster part numbers, rather than the McMaster site itself. Which gives all its competitors a chance
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by btown 1y ago
I have mixed feelings about a world where zero-knowledge-based ID verification gets so good that it reduces barriers to being adopted widely. On the one hand, it's better than a world where non -privacy-respecting ID verification beco
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by btown 2y ago
Perhaps not "absolutely done for," but there was meaningful action here that resulted in a 4.3 billion EUR fine (of which only 200 million was reversed on appeal). The action was based partially on the Anti-Fragmentation Agreement
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by btown 2y ago
While I shudder at the privacy implications of some of those buyers, there's a really ironic concept here: Google always had a conflict of interest between giving the user agency in their browser, and making ads unblockable (namely, it
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by btown 2y ago
That's fair, though IMHO some marketing from Vercel does make it difficult for someone not versed in the internals to understand what is "privileged in the React client" and what is not. That's their prerogative as a lea
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by btown 2y ago
One of my biggest gripes about this is that the wire format for React Server Components is neither standardized nor documented. Every bundler has its own format [1], but what this means in practice is that every bundler wants to be able to
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by btown 2y ago
Public service announcement: CAA records exist and allow you to whitelist the CAs you trust to issue certificates for your domain. https://letsencrypt.org/docs/caa/ You can use https://www.entrust.com&#
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by btown 2y ago
Notably on this point, resource contention on e.g. a Kubernetes cluster can cause these kinds of things to fail spuriously. Sleeps have their uses, but assuming that work is done while you’re sleeping is rarely a good idea, because when it
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by btown 2y ago
A channel manager using Rust for the caching layer? That's actually kind of incredible. Might want to pick your brain someday :) And Feldera/DBSP is absolute magic - definitely something I want to dig deeper into!
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by btown 2y ago
Ah, a world where this is taken to an extreme might even bring back the mythical https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_place rapidly disappearing in the American suburb and city alike... because it becomes the only place
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by btown 2y ago
I've thought of this a lot! Lots of hospitality booking and pricing engines, for instance, require materialization of complex rules: if suppliers have rules that say "if the checkin is on these 3 days of each week add a price mult
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by btown 2y ago
While the headline is clickbait (this genuinely seems like an engineering leader wanting to code again, and absolutely does not indicate any kind of exposé or lack of confidence)... the article links to OpenAI's most recent Preparednes
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by btown 2y ago
There seems to be a typo in OP's "Visualizing Our Results" - but things make perfect sense if red is non-nullable, green is nullable. I'd be really curious to see where the "attention" heads of the LLM look whe
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by btown 2y ago
The GTC 2025 announcement session that's mentioned in this article has video here: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/on-demand/session/gtc25-s72383/ It's a holistic approach to all levels of the sta
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by btown 2y ago
AMD was investing in a drop-in CUDA compatibility layer & cross-compiler! Perhaps in keeping with the broader thread here, they had only ever funded a single contract developer working on it, and then discontinued the project (for who
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by btown 2y ago
A rule of thumb I’ve started using is: “if your function name and arguments aren’t good enough to have Copilot tab completion make a cogent attempt at implementing the full behavior, you need more comments/docstrings and/or you ne
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by btown 2y ago
To expand on this, you could be maintaining a list of Cats, call a function which accepts a list of Animals, and that function could append a Dog without causing a type error. https://github.com/python/mypy/issues&
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by btown 2y ago
But also ironically, it's almost heartwarming these days to see blogspam that's not machine-generated! A real live human cared enough about an article to write a brief (perhaps only barely substantial, but at least handwritten) ta
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by btown 2y ago
While the headlines may be exaggerated, it's worth comparing https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=... - "You will be able to review and delete those transcripts in your Voice
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by btown 2y ago
One of my favorite exaggerated examples of this is the (completely sidestepped) challenges of anime mods like Grand Theft Neptunia V, and the entirety of the Loyalists channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MboDzmsrFHQ Wh

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