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by cromwellian 4y ago
Endojs/SES is the latest and if you look at the list of things it has to do to make JS safe, you’d feel nervous about any approach that doesn’t use an interpreter and process isolation. Side channel attacks against CPU caches are still
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by cromwellian 4y ago
Does anyone really want to hand their financial risks over to a company managed by Musk these days? Twitter seems headed towards FTX style management. Moreover, this fantasy of making Twitter into WeChat is going to run hard into some of th
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by cromwellian 4y ago
Almost exactly the debt service interest payments, what a surprise.
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by cromwellian 4y ago
Wow, all these ppl on HN making excuses for sh tty workplaces. It's like they think the default toxic corporate environment must* be some kind of natural law, and anyone who works at a company that treats its employees with respect is
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by cromwellian 4y ago
I think you'll find the most capable engineers at Twitter will be the first to leave, not the deadweight. These people will be able to get a job anywhere, or start a company, and they're not going to sit around and be screamed at
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by cromwellian 4y ago
One way to work around this is to serialize the argument to harden back to source, eval() it and then harden, which will prevent the captures from working.
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by cromwellian 4y ago
The compute wouldn’t be that high as long as you had a way of scoping it down. If the police limited it to a handful of accounts of to a geo-fenced time of day, it would be quite tractable. The police have already used such geo-fenced warra
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by cromwellian 4y ago
So it’s a clustering algorithm that just clusters photos with like features together. Let’s say it was done without any kind of special face recognition but was done purely by some funky nearest neighbor algorithm in high dimensional space.
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by cromwellian 4y ago
But these profiles can be built on the fly. Imagine you host photos but have no biometric profiles. The police show up with a warrant and this warrant demands you run a search for all faces that match a given face and turn over the resultin
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by cromwellian 4y ago
I definitely agree with you that the US has a really bizarre kind of anti-intellectualism going on, and the GOP is kind of leveraging it, because much of their voting base is rural and old and less educated, and so they're basically pu
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by cromwellian 4y ago
> Are you supporting that assertion, or are you making an unrelated point about educational models? Because the connection isn't clear to me. I'm just reacting to the point about tutoring as a proxy for valuing education, when
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by cromwellian 4y ago
These are not true hypersonic cruise missiles (e.g. a SCRAMJet), instead they are ballistic missiles with an unpowered hypersonic glider warhead. Thus, they aren't too dissimilar from the way ICBMs work for missile defense with EKVs be
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by cromwellian 4y ago
> Expensive private tutoring companies were a hot startup sector until the government crackdown. This is almost entirely due to the Gaokao. Also, there's a difference between prizing education as a means to make money, and prizing e
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by cromwellian 4y ago
Honestly I wouldn't put NKS in the same level as TAoCP. NKS is way more experimental, TAoCP is more of a survey of the entire field. NKS is mostly analyzing the results of his experiments, TAoCP is more about the complexity analysis a
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by cromwellian 4y ago
> Why make the act of reading about programming hard These books are not really programming books, they are math books. There are oodles of "programming" books out there that teach algorithms, like how to implement a quicksort
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by cromwellian 4y ago
We won! Emacs vs VI war over. It's finally over thanks to Knuth! VI users will be forced to pay reparations, and agree to cede territory back to the Emacs military alliance. :)
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by cromwellian 4y ago
I know. I’ve been an emacs user for 30 years, but I tend to just call them buffers. In the old days when I would be using a PPP or SLIP connection into a dialup Unix, my whole screen would be Emacs in VT100 mode so it made a lot more sense
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by cromwellian 4y ago
These are the photos my wife took at his home. https://www.quantamagazine.org/computer-scientist-donald-knu... Like the 5th picture down you can see him standing (he uses a standing desk!) and if you blow up the screen, yo
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by cromwellian 4y ago
A few years ago I had the pleasure of meeting Knuth in his home, my wife was doing some photography for him. He took me to his room and showed me his setup, he was researching Soduku algorithms at the time. His hands were blisteringly quick
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by cromwellian 4y ago
Well, when those periods were due to freak weather and rebounded immediately the next quarter? Q1'2014 analysis from Economists: "Data such as employment, manufacturing and services sectors point to a sharp acceleration in growth
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by cromwellian 4y ago
"Obama's YoY for the final three years are 2.3%, 2.7% and 1.7%" Yes, but those were brought down by a unlucky quarters in between. If you look at quarter-by-quarter GDP growth from 2012-2020, you'll see Obama had way mor
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by cromwellian 4y ago
I didn't say Obama was the cause of these things, merely that they happened on his term. This is in response to Trump fans who like to trash Obama and celebrate Trump. My point is, if you want to blame Obama for the bad economics that
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by cromwellian 4y ago
Those “good times” were large an extension of Obama’s term. If you look at the GDP and job numbers of this period and fit a regression line, Trump did not meaningfully alter the slope of the curve, which means he largely inherited a growing
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by cromwellian 4y ago
Obama inherited an economy in free fall. By the time he left, the deficit had been cut in half (thanks to sequester), we had more quarters of 3%, 4%, even 5% GDP growth not since the 90s. Unemployment fell from 10% to 4.7%. Home prices and
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by cromwellian 4y ago
Before a great deal of testing? It went through multiple clinical phases, including a phase iii trials with over 40,000 people from April 2020 to November 2020. By the time most people started getting it, the phase iii trials had been going
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by cromwellian 4y ago
"It appears that it was indeed suboptimal for people younger and healthier than myself to take it." Maybe it was suboptimal for them, but isn't the point that when you vaccine yourself, you're not just protecting yoursel
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by cromwellian 4y ago
TechInsights reverse engineered one of SMIC’s 7nm ASICS and claims a lot of similarities with TSMC’s N7 process. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/china-chipmaker-smics-7nm-...
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by cromwellian 4y ago
And a nothing burger. Amazing how a Coke addict who failed upwards to get a cushy c suite job like many, is supposed to sway the election but the Trump family running a fraudulent university and a fraudulent charity, paying millions in fine
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by cromwellian 4y ago
Jared Kushner negotiated selling tens of billions of high tech weaponry to the Saudis, and then ended up with a bunch of Saudis renting empty apartments in his failed real estate project, at the same time he got a $2 billion check from the
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by cromwellian 4y ago
illiac786 already did most of the work, but I just wanted to respond to a few things. >Foreign media is easily accessible in China using VPN VPNs not sanctioned by the government (most of them) are officially against the law. It might be

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