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by posnet 3y ago
In the streaming SQL space, I feel like at this point it's essential to start off with saying what you bring to the table compared with Materialize. No matter what you think about how the Materialize, the company, has executed, differe
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by posnet 3y ago
I assume the anti-porn crowd will still dislike this on the principle that porn is inherently bad, even though one of their main arguments is how the porn industry exploits the performers. And presumably the sex work positive crowd will dis
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by posnet 3y ago
The crypto/cloud equivalent is letting market makers connect directly to the exchange front end servers via AWS VPC peer or equivalent rather than going via the public load balancers.
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by posnet 3y ago
Many of the recent ones are as you say, "not leaks". However the Challenger Tank one was real https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/classified-challenger-tank-s...
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by posnet 3y ago
It can be detected if your adversaries are clever enough: https://lukespademan.com/blog/the-dangers-of-curlbash/
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by posnet 3y ago
They also directly broke Levine's second rule of insider trading. 2. Don’t do it by buying short-dated out-of-the-money call options on merger targets [0] [0]: lawsofinsidertrading.com
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by posnet 3y ago
No, it's more of a Judge Dredd type situation.
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by posnet 3y ago
According to the GSA themselves, the value of the helium there is ~$100,000,000 [0] though that is 2019 prices, I believe it has gone up since then. Apparently for diving purposes it's as high as $2.0 per cubic foot. [1] [0]: https:&#
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by posnet 3y ago
Not a problem here. Read the top level comment. "static key-value data. ... a const (i.e. a hash table)"
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by posnet 3y ago
Also similar to the design of the Luajit IR. "Linear, pointer-free IR: The typed IR is SSA-based and highly orthogonal. An instruction takes up only 64 bits. It has up to two operands which are 16 bit references. It's implemen
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by posnet 3y ago
Everybody knows relational databases don't scale because they use joins and write to disk. Relational databases weren't built for Web Scale. MongoDB is Web Scale. You turn it on, and it scales right up. Shards are the secret ingre
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by posnet 3y ago
I was very confused, I thought this was about the polars, data science/data analytics toolkit. I know names are hard, but maybe pick something more distinct.
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by posnet 3y ago
The question isn't whether satellite links can beat deep-sea cables, it's whether they can beat shortwave. https://sniperinmahwah.wordpress.com/2018/05/07/shortwave-tr...
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by posnet 3y ago
Also of interest are the Nightwatch planes for use as mobile command posts in the event of a nuclear strike. They are able to trail a 5 mile long cable to act as a massive transmitter to also contact submerged ballistic missile submarines.
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by posnet 3y ago
I am not scared of tax avoidance techniques.
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by posnet 4y ago
AIs or Super-intelligence wiping out their creators is not a great filter (at least in the context of the fermi paradox), unless you are making the claim that ALL said AI or SI will then shutdown and not attempt to use the rest of the galax
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by posnet 4y ago
A Frank Herbert fan then.
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by posnet 4y ago
I know they aren't optimized for truth, that was the point of my comment. But based on my own experience of showing people ChatGPT, without explaining the flaws they tend to treat the output as if it was. I don't understand the se
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by posnet 4y ago
This actually gets at the heart of the problem with the current batch of LLMs. They have no concept of truth, and so will gladly generate tokens that are "likely", but are at best clearly wrong, or worse look correct to a non-expe
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by posnet 4y ago
Unfortunately as we have learned from open source software, it doesn't matter if it's write or wrong. The only way to enforce licensing is to litigate. The decades of GPL violations have taught us the only way to get commercial in
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by posnet 4y ago
"virtualization overhead is less than 5%, which is the lowest overhead in the industry that we’re aware of" Is it really lower than AWS bare metal instances? Amazon are fairly reticent on details of their nitro platform, but it&#x
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by posnet 4y ago
It would be interesting to see it benchmarked against the highway qsort[1] Google published last year. [1] https://github.com/google/highway/tree/master/hwy/contrib/so...
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by posnet 4y ago
Because it's actually a new browser, not just a wrapper/reskin around webkit, gecko or blink.
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by posnet 4y ago
It works on metal instances.
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by posnet 4y ago
Would love to see this integrate with magic trace [1]. I'll need to look at the code for the flamegraph plugin, because handling nanosecond timestamps in flamegraphs seems to break most tools due to float precision. (1) https:/&#
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by posnet 4y ago
From my experience in HFT, the answer was "unhinged template meta programmer" with a healthy dose of assembly/reverse engineering thrown in.
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by posnet 4y ago
The title is very misleading, it is just one of their micro-services that has that uptime.
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by posnet 4y ago
GPT-3 is surprisingly good at generating dungeon crawler style adventures. It even successfully tracks page numbers and the "turn to page X" prompts.
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by posnet 4y ago
Remote 0-day onto all google internal infra?
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by posnet 4y ago
I always feel that so many of the 'digital humans' narratives sci-fi are just approximations of the depth of world achieved in permutation city or diaspora.

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