lokar

27 ms·

961.
by lokar 8mo ago
Another thought: many (most?) of these "rules" were before widespread distributed computing. I don't think Knuth had in mind a loop that is reading from a database at 100ms each time. I've seen people write some really
962.
by lokar 8mo ago
And if you know in advance that a function will be in the critical path, and it needs to perform some operation on N items, and N will be large, it’s not premature to consider the speed of that loop.
963.
by lokar 8mo ago
I agree, but also find it funny that by that standard the DRM in the original Google video streaming product was not hacked before the service was shutdown, after about 2 years :)
964.
by lokar 8mo ago
IMO, it would be ok if it was not unconditional. If you have been public for >N years, and have had >X "clean" quarterly reports, no trouble with the SEC, etc, then sure, back off to 6mo (or even yearly, if your shareholders
965.
by lokar 8mo ago
For people who don't follow this, the West Bank has a different government vs Gaza (they are not friends!), and is in fact pretty compliant wrt Israel.
966.
by lokar 8mo ago
We have a system. Free speech, public debate and democratic elections.
967.
by lokar 8mo ago
The approach of allowing a limited amount of some "vice" (or otherwise disfavored activity), highly regulated, combined with stiff penalties for illegal use is a pretty common approach to greatly reduce anti-social activity.
968.
by lokar 8mo ago
I don't think it is a mirror, quite the opposite. I think most Americans (and probably europeans?) think a lot of this is in fact very bad, and should be stopped. The problem is that our lawmakers are not mirroring what the voters wan
969.
by lokar 8mo ago
I asked my CS peers why they were doing that major since they clearly disliked programming and theory. They all said they would either be a consultant or a manager.
970.
by lokar 8mo ago
For business it’s almost a simple as adding another factor to your model: the odds of expropriation by the leader and his cronies. It does not take a very high number to make most capital investments look really bad. And you compare that (i
971.
by lokar 8mo ago
a popular concept: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stamppot
972.
by lokar 8mo ago
Found a chart: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/gini-coefficient-vs-gdp-p...
973.
by lokar 8mo ago
djb had to (with the EFF) spend years in court to establish (on appeal) that writing crypto code was a speech issue: https://www.eff.org/cases/bernstein-v-us-dept-justice Laws like this make it much simpler for someone
974.
by lokar 8mo ago
But it only applies to AI controlling critical infrastructure, you think this is an issue in practice? I would think if a power plant deploys some AI model to optimize something or other, it would be on the plant operator to perform the rev
975.
by lokar 8mo ago
(1 - Gini) * GDP/Pop ?
976.
by lokar 8mo ago
The use of GDP, or GDP/Population as the primary metric is a real problem. We need to use a metric that is closer to "total economic benefit for the median person", that would include income, as well as government services.
977.
by lokar 8mo ago
Context matters. You communicate differently in person vs with async text. If you don’t have your thoughts together, if you see a problem but are not sure of the fix, just say that. Make it clear why you are communicating with me, do you ha
978.
by lokar 8mo ago
You should not have the root account be a human anyway. Make that a special account, secure the credentials and only ever use them when you screw something up really badly.
979.
by lokar 8mo ago
HN readers won't be surprised, but I don't think that's who he is talking about. Most Americans have this kind of thing tuned out, that have bigger issues in their lives.
980.
by lokar 8mo ago
This is a badly written story. It should explain if she saw a judge or had a lawyer.
981.
by lokar 8mo ago
Automation has a strong tendency to degrade diligence. I see this all the time in operational / production settings. Having a loop with automation reviewed and approved by a human degrades very fast. I only approve automation that h
982.
by lokar 8mo ago
Oh, probably
983.
by lokar 8mo ago
I don't see what it has to do with "me too" Take block: AFAICT, it was just really badly managed. A long time ago it got about as much share of its main market as it was going to get. They took the cash flow from that and h
984.
by lokar 8mo ago
I see your point, but I'm not sure. I think if that's what they want, the should say "don't police the rules in comments"
985.
by lokar 8mo ago
The pattern I see is: The Banks get in trouble, and Gov has to step in. So Gov, reasonably, add regulations and restrictions. But the law can't be really specific, it requires gov employees to actually examine the bank and make decisi
986.
by lokar 8mo ago
I mean the classic “it’s a wonderful life” model
987.
by lokar 8mo ago
Didn’t they attack the Chinese flagged “Hailan Journey”?
988.
by lokar 8mo ago
There is a good chance they are trying to bait the US navy to enter the strait
989.
by lokar 8mo ago
It would take far more ships (ideally destroyers and frigates ) than we can muster to the gulf. Also, it exposes the ships to easy attack in a constrained body of water Also, the ships would need to exit the gulf and travel a long distance
990.
by lokar 8mo ago
If you own a house or rent in the district you are paying (or your landlord is) the taxes that fund schools.

More ›