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by btown 3y ago
It's interesting: perhaps the stability (from a change management perspective) of the tokenization algorithm, being able to hold that constant, between old and new training runs was deemed more important than trying to clean up the dat
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by btown 3y ago
This reminds me of how GPT-2/3/J came across https://reddit.com/r/counting , wherein redditors repeatedly post incremental numbers to count to infinity. It considered their usernames, like SolidGoldMagikarp, s
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by btown 3y ago
https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/a-deep-dive-into-airbn... (2021) is Airbnb’s take on this. A fascinating read.
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by btown 3y ago
You're right - it was a silly thing for me to write! Something more accurate would be that because debits and credits must balance, there is no way to send a message that would only be seen by a single account (other than a no-op); thu
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by btown 3y ago
In all fairness, if you're trying to understand a piece of software like Quickbooks and are not coming from an accounting background, anthropomorphizing each "account" at your company as an individual actor with their own led
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by btown 3y ago
Exaggerative title aside, it's really cool to learn about how fsspec lets you essentially make a custom filesystem in a few lines of code, as well as the (important) notion that the very existence of a Python package can cause a plugin
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by btown 3y ago
If I have a 0day for your backend stack, or you fail to upgrade a dependency, I might get RCE on your backend server and install an exfiltration system, but I would not necessarily be able to pivot to changing the frontend bundle on the sta
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by btown 3y ago
It may be easier for an insider or compromised server to add a silent exfiltration functionality to server code, than to additionally compromise the frontend build, add a side channel by which the client could transmit the secret to the ser
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by btown 3y ago
Yep, couple it with a third party vaulting solution like Spreedly or VeryGoodSecurity and you can dynamically route any card-on-file to any payment processor with a simple configuration change, including routing higher-risk/newer accou
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by btown 3y ago
This is an alternative to Stripe Billing, not the core Stripe payment rails themselves. In fact, one would use Stripe or similar with Lago: https://docs.getlago.com/guide/payments/overview . Tracking the edge case
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by btown 3y ago
Fighting games dial up these low-latency conflict resolution considerations to 11, and there’s an entire subfield of techniques for writing “netcode” to reconcile real-time event streams. https://arstechnica.com/gaming/
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by btown 3y ago
The original Flying Toasters may be the classic, but the singing Flying Toasters from After Dark 3.2 will always have a special place in my heart: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjlusi_h_XA Flying out of the sun / T
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by btown 3y ago
I hope that one takeaway from this entire situation is that if you're a maintainer and your users are pushing you outside your levels of comfort, that's a reflection on them, not on you - and that it could be reflective of somethi
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by btown 3y ago
It's worth also noting that the spycraft involved a coordinated harassment campaign of the original maintainer, with multiple writing styles, to accelerate a transition of maintainership to the attacker: https://www.mail-arc
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by btown 3y ago
Counterpoint: if you wait to keep things up to date until there's a CVE, there's a higher likelihood that things will break doing such a massive upgrade, and this may slow down a very time-sensitive CVE response. Allowing people t
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by btown 3y ago
There's an interesting phenomenon where a certain type of rapid-to-experience, entertaining content, often with an enjoyable twist, has become synonymous with the glaringly imperfect TikTok voice... and thus, conversely, creators use T
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by btown 3y ago
Slack has a notion of private channels to which a bot can be added. Even a bot with full OAuth scopes can’t read private channels it hasn’t been granted access to. Of course, many people wouldn’t explicitly add the Netflix bot to their DM w
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by btown 3y ago
Ooh, magick.css ( https://css.winterveil.net/ ) spotted in the wild! Discussion on magick.css from 5 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39793513
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by btown 3y ago
From what I'm reading above, the pitch is more "I can keep using my existing systems, but use this tool as a layer on top to help me with my data entry and anomaly detection, and our clients/external parties don't need t
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by btown 3y ago
From what I've heard, they've just recently elevated some really talented leaders who understand the interplay between the gaming world and line-of-business-app needs, so I'm hopeful they're moving in the right direction
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by btown 3y ago
> The biggest innovation with Vision Pro is visionOS. visionOS provides native app frameworks, so developers can build apps for it. That sounds ridiculously obvious, and yet its something Meta have failed to offer for years. Every app on
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by btown 3y ago
Make an Electron app that simply wraps your website! Just build in best-practices updating of the wrapper as well from day one, in case you want to ship improvements to the wrapper or start to move more things to client side processing. As
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by btown 3y ago
In Python, thread-local variables and ContextVars get you quite a bit of the way there. You can even implement “without” patterns, albeit only as runtime checks - though if you’re following the React practice that hooks must be called uncon
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by btown 3y ago
I’ve often wondered about an automatic codemod that takes a Django template and turns it into an API endpoint + React component that does the same thing. Your {% if request.user.is_superuser %} checks get propagated to protecting the API da
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by btown 3y ago
Previous discussions: 2021: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26002656 2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21289832
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by btown 3y ago
This is an absolutely beautiful design system, and a beautiful way of presenting one. I love the interplay of the organic serifs and handwritten script for inputs, with all the attention to detail for balanced line heights and weights. Code
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by btown 3y ago
Direct link to the complaint itself: https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/documenttools/9765671b... Pages 29-31 of the complaint are especially relevant to read for many of us in web development and who value ope
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by btown 3y ago
The real AI was the Adobe software that Figma obsoleted along the way :)
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by btown 3y ago
Is there a modern open-source solution for bridging a traditional stateless web application to real-time notifications - one that's implemented all the best practices from the OP? Something like pusher.com but on self-hosted infrastruc
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by btown 3y ago
It just occurred to me that Gravatar data is owned by the same folks who decided on selling Tumblr data for AI training: https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/27/24084884/tumblr-midjourne... … While I don&#x27

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