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by jacobr1 2y ago
They are goldmine of enumerated attack surface. But it would likely require some kind of secondary exploit of the identified vulns. The API connections are generally scoped to read-only access of security settings. Though it wouldn't s
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by jacobr1 2y ago
Vanta/Drata and other are starting to build solutions that are somewhere in-between checkbox compliance and real security. To the extent they integrate with your cloud providers and security tools, they can validate you have secure set
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by jacobr1 2y ago
> If it was there at a fair price, lots of buyers would pick it. I don't think this is true. Lot's of folks on a forum like this would pick it. But the social norms around repair have degraded significantly (in large part no do
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by jacobr1 2y ago
> being unrepairable and non-upgradable isn't "the worst" so it keeps happening. Because it isn't collectively valued relative to other things, like have the most performant device. The bundle of things people value i
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by jacobr1 2y ago
The market largely self-regulates this. If you want systems with replaceable components built to high quality standards, they exist, but there are costs. They might costs more, not be cutting edge, not have the nice integrated form factors.
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by jacobr1 2y ago
Design For Obsolescence isn't often the goal ... just a side benefit. Not that it doesn't happen. The goal is usually something like: ensure we meet durability requirements X, while minimizing costs. Now in practice that might ver
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by jacobr1 2y ago
And we are talking even more basic than most people on HN can imagine. Such as: "Is your device turned on?" "Are you logged into the site and not just searching google for the thing your want our application to do?" &quo
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by jacobr1 2y ago
I had this happen when I got rid of facebook years ago. I just lost touch with certain groups that were going to the movies or out for drinks or whatever. I just wasn't aware things were happening. Occasionally I'd get "where
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by jacobr1 2y ago
I've analyzed support ticket requests before, and that doesn't seem to be the case. At least for the two times I've done this: 1) IT support tickets for a local school, and 2) Tickets for a B2B SaaS app. In both cases the maj
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by jacobr1 2y ago
They work together to produce immutable cattle. The alternative is managing a pool of servers where you are doing things like in-place patch upgrades, vs a teardown of the old infra and replacing it with the newly baked servers.
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by jacobr1 2y ago
> As soon as you're trying to do deletions, you're making assumptions that the view of the state you have is complete and total and that is usually not the case terraform does this, which is why it tracks the its own representa
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by jacobr1 2y ago
Because what most people want is actually something closer to "Goal Seeking." If the system works as intended (and as you point out with the need to debug is often does not!) then defining the desired end-state and letting the sys
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by jacobr1 2y ago
The example in the article is a good one. Result and Optional as first class sum types
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by jacobr1 2y ago
Not in the 5-7 age range. Once they hit middle-school what you stated becomes more applicable.
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by jacobr1 2y ago
I think that is right. The sweat spot is twofold: 1) A replacement for general search on a topic where you have limited familiarity that can give you an answer for a concise question, or a starting point for more investigation or 2) For pow
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by jacobr1 2y ago
> When they realized they weren’t building the best SaaS version of their products, they didn’t try to improve their service They went there several versions of their cloud products over the years, and pivoted a few times during that spa
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by jacobr1 3y ago
Or introduce more noise or seeding to get more interesting responses. The `temperature` settings don't really satisfy this right now. I would like some determinism - but seeded randomly - so I can get similar responses if I like what i
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by jacobr1 3y ago
He certainly isn't in the top 1% of work-life balance.
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by jacobr1 3y ago
That might be true. But I'd rather bet on a startup: 1) If the product is successful, they will likely have continued growth and support (via an acquisition or other exit). If the product sucks I don't really want it anyway. With
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by jacobr1 3y ago
> Apple itself offers a "super app" of course, which is the Apple ecosystem of apps. Not sure I buy this point. Competitors can also offer their own suite of apps. Apple has an advantage that they can come pre-installed. But th
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by jacobr1 3y ago
It is the classic innovator's dilemma. There are ton of incentives to keep the focus on today's cash cow in any business.
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by jacobr1 3y ago
This seems true as far as incentives go. But how much of that cost driver will be due to efficiencies driven by companies like NVIDIA? They seem well poised to benefit from a lot of the increased (non-hype) use of AI. Seems like we spent a
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by jacobr1 3y ago
They are pretty close. LLMs can write the code the solve a sudoku, or leverage an existing solver, and execute the code. Agent frameworks are going to push the boundaries here over the next few years.
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by jacobr1 3y ago
I suspect this is the wrong take. AI can only perform integrations when there are systems to integrate. The frontier of interesting work to be done isn't supervising an integration AI, but building out the hard components that will be
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by jacobr1 3y ago
Agreed - I see SSE as basically a standardized approach to modern long polling
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by jacobr1 3y ago
This presumes the majority of your use case is server-client, but otherwise yes.
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by jacobr1 3y ago
Right - in theory any turning-complete-language can bootstrap any other turning-complete-language. But in practice some of the convections and approaches are going to be mixed via some combinations of cognitive load, laziness/inertia,
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by jacobr1 3y ago
The key though is probably to have a strong Number interface, where the overhead of it being an object is complied away, so you can easily switch out different implementations, optimize to a more concrete time at AOT/JIT time and have
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by jacobr1 3y ago
It is interesting to consider how much the lower abstraction influences the higher abstraction. If you are building on a existing language/runtime/framework then you can inherit more functionality and move faster, but also you imp
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by jacobr1 3y ago
A related notion is that you need strong, well-thought out, and when the system is changing, regularly refactored abstractions. You might not need a DSL but your class/type/trait designs needs to be sane, your API needs to be soli

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