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by btown 3y ago
Say you add a super_secret_internal_notes field. If you're writing a traditional backend, some human would need to explicitly add that to a list of publicly available fields somewhere (well, hopefully). For systems like Firebase, it&#x
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by btown 3y ago
> 1.1 Ensure every page includes both implicit and explicit links to the homepage. One of my pet peeve anti-patterns is API documentation sites not linking to the actual company homepage, only to the documentation root. Documentation sit
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by btown 3y ago
Whenever you have “there is complex business logic that determines how SQL clauses are chained together” the Django ORM is invaluable.
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by btown 3y ago
What about when column statistics don’t accurately describe a subset of the table that you know from a business perspective is likely to have different dynamics? Allowing the client to essentially A/B test between different advisements
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by btown 3y ago
The paper in [4] is absolutely fascinating - I'm very much a neophyte here, but I believe it shows that practically any ReLU network can be represented as a tropical ratio of two tropical polynomials, and thus can be analyzed with geom
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by btown 3y ago
I doubt that the compute required to ingest game video in real time makes it remotely viable for botting. Even if it did, the above-human latencies between vision and agentic choice would be detectable by much simpler models operating on th
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by btown 3y ago
QI is atrocious. See some choice quotes from https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/02/19/qualified-... : > Although a prior court decision had held that it was unconstitutional to release a
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by btown 3y ago
> will there ever be anyone that goes the other way I'm sure that some teachers, as well as parents who have seen large credit card bills for Fortnite lootboxes, are grateful that Apple is aggressively targeting one of the banes of
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by btown 3y ago
For the uninitiated: https://youtu.be/3m5qxZm_JqM
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by btown 3y ago
An ability to turn volume up to the max, unintentionally, is a safety issue, IMO. And more generally, I wonder how many “took my eye off the road for the radio” accident reports are actually a result of bad physical UX.
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by btown 3y ago
Yep - the very existence of a widespread concern that open sourcing would be counter to AI safety, and thus not "for the public benefit," would likely it very hard to find OpenAI in violation of that commitment. (Not a lawyer, not
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by btown 3y ago
CI is different from the others, here! At minimum, building a "happy path(s)" test harness that can run with replicable results, and will run on every one of your commits, is a first step, and also helps to understand the codebase
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by btown 3y ago
And even in the lowest level assembly code imaginable, sometimes the syscall called by your assembly is really unsafe code: https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11/blob/master/Luminar...
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by btown 3y ago
Cascading Stellar Sheets: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1086/379854/fulltext/2...
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by btown 3y ago
While it's likely not the answer you're looking for, I've had a colleague walk their in-law through starting Pop on their home machine while traveling, so they could remote in!
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by btown 3y ago
Pop is one of my favorite founding stories. Slack acquihires a multi-cursor product, kills it, never builds the feature. Noncompete expires, original acquihire founders use their acquihire money to buy a $1.5M vanity domain, bootstrap a rep
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by btown 3y ago
More generally, this opens up all sorts of threat models for espionage and alternative data. A private bucket called project-foobar-logs-staging might have its existence known in an index but never have been known to be associated with Baz
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by btown 3y ago
This has me thinking about the context behind the striking quote in https://www.theinformation.com/articles/how-microsoft-swallo... (May 2023, months before the OpenAI drama): > Nadella [in December 2022] abruptly c
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by btown 3y ago
https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium may be of interest!
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by btown 3y ago
In a way, it's a subset of the distributed systems tracing problem - you have multiple tasks running in parallel on the same node, but they will have been initiated as different (sub) tasks, and should be tracked by the specific task v
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by btown 3y ago
The ability to find lyrics on lyric sites would be a reasonable proxy for sufficient popularity, I’d imagine. On a semi-related note, when talking about large genre-specific corpuses, https://vgmdb.net has a fascinating scope de
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by btown 3y ago
Ironically for many, the lack of support for arbitrary extensions on RDS, Google Cloud SQL, and the like means that if your data's stuck there, you'd need to migrate to a self-managed database instance - which means you'd nee
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by btown 3y ago
One of the coolest things (IMO) about the entire Asahi effort, and why I'm not at all surprised that they surpassed Apple, was the dedicated effort to build bespoke developer-friendly Python tooling early in the reverse engineering pro
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by btown 3y ago
One would hope that they've learned since then - but it could very well be that they haven't!
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by btown 3y ago
Why would this not be AMD’s top priority among priorities? Someone recently likened the situation to an Iron Age where NVIDIA owns all the iron. And this sounds like AMD knowing about a new source of ore and not even being willing to sink a
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by btown 3y ago
I'm almost certain that the Unity licensing debacle caused a number of Disney department heads to say "we need to make sure this doesn't sneak up on us on the Unreal side for our cinematic production pipeline." Whether o
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by btown 3y ago
Your GitHub action can trigger a helm chart, or series thereof, or other infra tools. Declarative specifications, triggered procedurally with the context of the branch’s latest build. We use this pattern quite extensively for preview app wo
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by btown 3y ago
Who watches the watchers? If I understand the product correctly, you're suggesting customers opt into letting an LLM pentest their testing systems, and allowing that LLM to generate and carry out plans of attack. Imagine a recurring re
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by btown 3y ago
This is really cool. The annotation-to-testing-to-annotation-etc. feedback loop makes a ton of sense, and I'd encourage others who may be confused on this post to look at the Automotus case study https://encord.com/cust
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by btown 3y ago
I often like to think about https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11 as an analogy. It's public domain with available source, in the assembly language in which it was written... so it fills all the definitions of

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