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by neoncontrails 4y ago
The timeline of events might explain why they're proceeding with caution. Last Wednesday, 46 people were let go[1]; that Friday, Riot tweets that their development systems were compromised "earlier in the week." Insider job,
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by neoncontrails 4y ago
Absolutely zero information in this article.
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by neoncontrails 4y ago
I simply can't take a Twitter account with a blue checkmark seriously anymore.
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by neoncontrails 4y ago
This is _really_ cool. Early in the pandemic I released a local news aggregation tool that aimed to aggregate COVID-related content and score it for relevance using an ensemble of ML classification models, including one that would attempt t
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by neoncontrails 4y ago
What motives might they have for suppressing this information?
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by neoncontrails 4y ago
There's reasons to be optimistic that the solution to preventing this type of attack (which is so troubling precisely because the difficulty of patching it is utterly colossal) might yet be around the corner. Band-aid mitigations, like
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by neoncontrails 4y ago
I'd love see it draped uncannily over a table edge, displaying one of those Salvador Dali paintings of melting clocks.
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by neoncontrails 4y ago
https://acko.net
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by neoncontrails 4y ago
This is so cool. I'm a Hyperwrite subscriber and would absolutely consider switching to Scraft.ai if it works as well as I'm imagining. Although GPT-3 can be a powerful ally when writing emails, proposals, documents, etc., on tigh
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by neoncontrails 4y ago
What's the methodology behind the stacked line graph, "Percent of pixels, across all photos"? Somewhat perplexing that this visualization contains data as far back as the early 1800s, but then, to conclude that the world desc
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by neoncontrails 4y ago
I'm keen to understand how I've managed to get this far without understanding the first thing about Terraform, beyond maybe its the foundational premise of "infrastructure as code." I've casually tried a few times t
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by neoncontrails 4y ago
High Availability. A service with (hopefully) a lot of 9s in its percent uptime.
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by neoncontrails 4y ago
Took a new job this month, my first working on a product at any real scale. Maybe it's just the honeymoon phase, but I couldn't be happier. Sure it's a little awkward, but I'll take a remote kubernetes cluster over worki
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by neoncontrails 4y ago
Not only is it a solid premise, but there is an ultrashort story by Franz Kafka that lends itself perfectly to a cinematic promo video: TINY MOUSE-SIZED HUMAN: "Alas! The whole world is growing smaller every day. [Close on the tiny per
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by neoncontrails 4y ago
I'm not sure that figuring out who among them you chat most frequently with constitutes "surprising facts about the people you text along the way," I was expecting some lurid metadata leakage not exposed through the UI and le
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by neoncontrails 5y ago
I highly recommend Victor Skvortsov's exhaustive, 12-part series, "Python Behind the Scenes," a deep dive into the implementation details of just about every Python language feature one could possibly take for granted. There
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by neoncontrails 5y ago
Great question. Models for generating plausible recipes have existed in some form for about a decade now. Arguably the first "successful" attempt at this was Chef Watson, which blew my mind when it was first released in 2014 despi
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by neoncontrails 5y ago
(153,057 active HN users * 12.6 events per million)/1,000,000 = 1.4*10^-8 This leads to a P value of approximately 0.0014, which is well below the 5% threshold. This is a very crude calculation, but it does give an idea of what we can
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by neoncontrails 5y ago
This is all great advice. I won't pretend that, after a slew of embarrassing incidents early in my career, I've learned to embrace the livecoding interview. No way. I still find the experience stultifying and a bit demeaning. Af
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by neoncontrails 5y ago
My first thought was "vintage Facebook" actually — back when it was called _the_ Facebook and open only to university students. The wall was a beautifully chaotic thing, basically a text file to which all your friends had read&#x2
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by neoncontrails 5y ago
It's a smooth muscle vasodilator. Of course it will increase the blood flow of capillaries in the brain, the question is whether that's a good thing. It's plausible that it has some cognitive benefits — but also, entirely pla
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by neoncontrails 5y ago
Layperson, admittedly, but it wouldn't shock me that a smooth muscle vasodilator affects cognition. It's good to be skeptical of those claims, but I don't think Occam's Razor cleaves so closely to the alternative explana
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by neoncontrails 5y ago
This is my preferred way to navigate too. I was already in the habit from using Sublime Text, and it's actually not too far off from the Spacemacs UI either.
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by neoncontrails 5y ago
I completely agree with the UI criticisms. I love JetBrains, but brrr. On a fresh install, it's a throwback, and not in a good way. Thankfully the Material UI extension exists. With this enabled, it's actually one of the best look
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by neoncontrails 5y ago
Gosh, this was beautiful to read as an incidentally American person. There's something truly healing in giving thanks, in calling attention to the countless small acts of kindness without which we wouldn't be where we are today. T
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by neoncontrails 5y ago
This unhappiness seems to me why it's so important Calendly exists: if it's not important enough to merit a visit to an online form, it's sure as heck not important enough to merit interrupting my flow.
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by neoncontrails 5y ago
You're the second person I've heard say this lately. To me, using Calendly feels like demurring to the reality that you have times that work for you, these are the times that work for me, my respect for you is so strong: pick any
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by neoncontrails 5y ago
That's hilarious. Which PEP made 0_0 syntactically okay? I typed it into an AST visualizer (I'm on mobile) and if I'm not mistaken this is equivalent to `0`. But why?
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by neoncontrails 5y ago
Bitwise: A Life in Code, by David Auerbach. Among its memorable conceits: debugging as a life-improvement strategy, the weirdly mesmerizing properties of randomness, adversarial cat-and-mouse games that have transpired as a result of duelin
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by neoncontrails 5y ago
Possibly something like this? (Code for illustration purposes only, of course -- please no one use this.) class AntiAntiPattern: 2 """A quick and dirty attempt to mock a Python class instance that 'undoes

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