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by s17n 4y ago
> In no storage system do you ever get away from reasoning about this. Agreed > Second because SQL is actually a mediocre abstraction layer over your data storage. This is fair but adding yet another layer only makes things worse >
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by s17n 4y ago
ORMs are just not performant unless you reason about all the code at the level of "what queries are going to be generated and when", which makes the ORM an unhelpful layer of obfuscation over the layer of abstraction that you&#x27
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by s17n 4y ago
If you're going to do this, you may as well simply not use an ORM. Which is definitely the solution that I'd recommend; they are just not actually a good idea.
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by s17n 4y ago
Humans need training and reinforcement.
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by s17n 4y ago
OpenAI has their residency program: https://openai.com/blog/openai-residency
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Bay Area sees rare snowfall amid winter storm(sfchronicle.com)
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by s17n 4y ago
But to exploit this, an attacker would need to have the address book of every account they are trying to spam.
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by s17n 4y ago
He's running 20 year old software on today's hardware, of course it's going to be fast. The idea that software is slower now is nonsense, if anything it's faster in general. It's using orders of magnitude more hard
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by s17n 4y ago
The problem with hiring programmers for learning speed is that even fast learners will take months to years to catch up to experienced people. If you’re doubling the size of your company every year, even without attrition, you end up with
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by s17n 4y ago
You seem to be implying that "poor social skills" are a valid excuse for sexual misconduct?
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by s17n 4y ago
(Original title was too long for HN, did my best)
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Effective altruism has a sexual harassment problem, women say(time.com)
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by s17n 4y ago
From the article: > Fundamentally, the accounts system is clearly consumer-oriented. A lot of this risk-based authentication seems based on the general premise that most users of the Google Accounts system can't really be trusted to
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by s17n 4y ago
Same thing happened to me, it sucks. All the development had been in my fork (not just my own work, also my collaborators;) and now it's just gone. Github should change this policy.
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by s17n 4y ago
Hiring a lawyer isn't magically going to make your problems go away, and it might not even be that useful, and it will definitely be painfully expensive, but the fact remains that (as you just concluded) it's still the right decis
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by s17n 4y ago
You need to get a lawyer.
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by s17n 4y ago
https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-co...
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by s17n 4y ago
I think the problem is that we don't have a great way of quantifying the impact, so the tradeoff always ends up being something like "people are literally going to die, is pleasant light worth human lives?" The answer IMO is
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by s17n 4y ago
Just out of curiosity, is there a reason that both this and copilot support Vim but not Emacs?
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by s17n 4y ago
> We can make gradual incremental change as we learn more though, and we should try to do so. We shouldn't thoughtlessly make gradual changes which sacrifice quality of life for safety (which is the direction that these changes alwa
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by s17n 4y ago
Dear god please no, electric stoves are awful and idgaf about my lungs.
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by s17n 4y ago
“Synergies” are great but many of the most profitable acquisitions are, at heart, bets that the acquiree was undervalued.
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The rise and fall of the mail-order house (2015)(livabl.com)
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by s17n 4y ago
It seems like using lastpass was worse than not using a password manager, though (if you had an old vault that is going to get cracked).
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by s17n 4y ago
Well he already commented on the bans, so he's aware of them. I think it's pretty safe to say it was his decision.
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by s17n 4y ago
Not exactly on topic but Lago has been killing it when it comes to making the HN front page, nice job.
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by s17n 4y ago
So if I'm understanding this correctly, a trader managed to: 1. Buy a bunch of mobilecoin, a thinly traded coin, below $10. 2. Single handedly pump the coin price to $60, due to the market's illiquidity 3. Instead of trying to sel
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by s17n 4y ago
GPT3 costs something like 5 cents a query. At 20 dollars a month, that would be 400 queries a month. I don't know about you but I'm pretty sure I do at least an order of magnitude more Google searches than that.
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by s17n 4y ago
> The other inescapable conclusion is that whenever the quality of the shopping experience on Amazon and the needs of Amazon's advertising business clash, advertising will win (just as it has on Google). Saying that the e-commerce a
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by s17n 4y ago
Your natural reaction is to try to keep the board level, so when pushback happens, you push forward against it, which is telling the board to accelerate. Pushforward would be the opposite. For what its worth this happened to me (I rode a o

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