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by gfd 4y ago
I thought this was going to be about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szemer%C3%A9di_regularity_lemm...
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by gfd 4y ago
He does security for a living. It seems pretty important to know how much jail time you would be facing if you cross the line from whitehat to blackhat (including who legally gets to decide that line).
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by gfd 4y ago
QQQ which tracks nasdaq-100 is down 30% the last 6 months
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by gfd 4y ago
I put Amazon referral links on my technical blog whenever it's a hardware project. So far I have made < $5 on it so I should probably remove them. But for others I think it helps justify the time I spent writing up the blog and doin
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by gfd 4y ago
I used to love the subreddit https://www.reddit.com/r/Frisson/top/?sort=top&t=all which is now kind of inactive. Surprisingly to me, music didn't work as well as images/text for inducing frisson
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by gfd 4y ago
> Reznor praised Cash's interpretation of the song for its "sincerity and meaning," going so far as to say "that song isn't mine anymore." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurt_(Nine_Inch_N
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by gfd 4y ago
For non-public usages, I remember Boltdb being named as one of the root causes that took down Roblox for three days! https://blog.roblox.com/2022/01/roblox-return-to-service-10-...
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by gfd 4y ago
The tldr for a paper is the abstract. If you're asking for a more blog post style exposition, this was also discussed on a competitive programming forum where the authors are active in: https://codeforces.com/blog/
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by gfd 4y ago
AWS ECS is pretty easy to use
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by gfd 4y ago
Oh wow, a lot of fears people have in this thread apparently already happened. For example they claim to own the copyright to find substring: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29239926 Absolutely disgusting.
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by gfd 4y ago
You can't copyright algorithmic code snippets . It's like trying to copyright math. You will have an insane amount of false positive from every repository that have ever implemented a prefix sum or binary search. (Or anything aut
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by gfd 4y ago
> Statistical armour is exclusively for defeat of shaped charge munitions using a double-skinned nose as conductive path for a piezoelectric-based fuzing system. Is there a reason for this to be a common design for RPGs? If it turns out
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by gfd 5y ago
I remember googling how to sync time on aws instances before and was surprised that they use atomic clocks: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/keeping-time-with-amazon-ti...
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by gfd 5y ago
Not to be a downer, but 53% seems too small to make a difference. If people are not planting trees now, why would a small percentage increase in carbon efficiency change this equation? It also doesn't seem like a good enough reason to
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by gfd 5y ago
I found puppeteer very nice to script against if you need a real headless browser: https://github.com/puppeteer/puppeteer
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by gfd 5y ago
Somewhat related, but you can also play CS 1.6 in your browser: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23497236 The site itself seems to currently down but I was using just a few weeks ago. I found that port pretty impressive
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by gfd 5y ago
I found https://youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs very useful for understanding where dictators derive their power from. Adapted from 'The Dictator's Handbook'
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by gfd 5y ago
I think I've read that minecraft behaves differently depending on how far away you are standing from the origin for similar reasons: [1] https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Bedrock_Edition_distance_e... [2] https:&#x
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by gfd 5y ago
Holy shit
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by gfd 5y ago
Why aren't these used to steal cryptocurrencies? According to the article you can buy a similar exploit for just $1-2.5 million. Considering the amount of money floating around that space, that it hasn't happened yet is surprising
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by gfd 5y ago
I didn't realize we had food delivery bots already...
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by gfd 5y ago
If you ever get around to updating the graphs, there's also a bug with where you're drawing the vertical dotted lines (for example I expect 4M to be at 2^22)
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by gfd 5y ago
> “But if your case had been approved, who in the senior faculty would have won?” I am not from academia, but can someone explain the "game" to me? Why do senior faculty win or lose based on who gets tenure?
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by gfd 5y ago
If you search for "reciprocal throughput" in the article, the author did do another benchmark with dependencies to compare "real latency".
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by gfd 5y ago
Does anyone have recommendations on how to compress the data (gzip or parquet).
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by gfd 5y ago
Given the virality and case fatality rate we knew at the time, we were on track to lose hundreds of millions of lives from covid back then (assuming no vaccines and hospital infrastructure collapse). Even with those worst case scenarios, th
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by gfd 5y ago
If reddit ever becomes a significant influencer of people's buying decision (like this article is claiming), it too will be gamed. Think automatic gpt3 bots making up life stories of how he was hiking up mt everest and just so happen t
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by gfd 5y ago
Pretty sure this is referencing the $3.6B hack https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30260787 where the wife is a rapper. Though it's pretty weird that I wasn't sure whether you were referencing geohot's (anot
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by gfd 5y ago
I've seen the author advertise his book on codeforces.com blogs before if you want somewhere to reach him: https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/99790 That might be a better intro than a random chapter of the boo
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by gfd 5y ago
Can someone give me an ELI5 on how lab-grown viruses work? (or point me to resources to learn more) Is the process mostly trial and error? Do you just mutate something a lot then study its properties? If so, are typical labs chock-full of t

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