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by sigil 7y ago
Tyler Cowen interviews Sam Altman — https://medium.com/conversations-with-tyler/tyler-cowen-sam-... Naval’s “You Won’t Get Rich Renting Out Your Time” (and the whole series) — https://nav.al/renting-tim
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Trying to improve buffet lines using simulations(erikbern.com)
144 points by sigil 7y ago|54 comments
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by sigil 7y ago
> So great powers and separatist/extremist groups exist in symbiosis. This theory reminds me of slatestarcodex’s “The Toxoplasma of Rage,” specifically section V. https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/17&#x2
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by sigil 7y ago
> AMC is fully owned by Chinese. AMC was majority-owned by China’s Dalian Wanda, but they scaled back from 60% to 38% about a year ago. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amc-dalian-wanda-silver-l...
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by sigil 7y ago
> You don't find that vulnerability in qmail because qmail doesn't have that feature. But being selective about what features to add is itself a valid strategy for writing secure software — perhaps even the most effective one
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by sigil 7y ago
Fine, let’s call it 7, since postfixadmin & the debian postinst script can’t be attributed to postfix proper. I’m not sure this qualitatively changes the argument. CVE-2011-1720 and CVE-2008-2936 are examples of postfix vulns no one has
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by sigil 7y ago
Postfix has had 9 CVEs in 20 years, a few of them quite bad. [0] qmail has had 1 CVE in 20 years, a local DoS. [1] I trust djb to write correct code more than almost any other human on the planet. That includes all the non-crypto code found
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by sigil 7y ago
You’d be surprised how easy it still is to hitchhike across America, and how many good people you’ll meet. A friend of mine persuaded me to try it a few years back. I was skeptical. I’d heard the cautionary tales, figured the narrative th
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Using files is fraught with peril(danluu.com)
7 points by sigil 7y ago|1 comments
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by sigil 7y ago
djb also wrote daemontools, ucspi-tcp, dnscache, djbfft, kicked off the field of post-quantum cryptography (pqcrypto), wrote the spec for `redo`, and came up with `find -print0 | xargs -0`. Definitely a legend!
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by sigil 7y ago
Here’s some math around power law investing, maybe this post is what you’re looking for? http://reactionwheel.net/2019/01/why-do-vcs-insist-on-only-i...
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by sigil 7y ago
You could report the issue here: https://github.com/soul-lang/SOUL/issues (We might open the soul.dev website too at some point, but that's private for now.)
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by sigil 7y ago
I had the same reaction to SOUL at first (why do we need yet another language?!!), but I've come around to it. The precedent to consider is shader languages. A language like GLSL constrains what the programmer can do, with very good re
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by sigil 7y ago
Aha! Thanks for investigating.
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by sigil 7y ago
Strange, our media.noise.fm ssl cert is issued by AWS, I'd assume you would have the necessary roots for that. I'll look into it further! What browser and OS are you using?
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by sigil 7y ago
Elsewhere: > However, akiya owners are taxed more for empty plots of land than for having an empty property, according to real estate expert Toshihiko Yamamoto. This is a deterrent to razing a vacant home. https://www.cnn.com&
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by sigil 8y ago
Cool to see this on here! I work for ROLI and love it. If you’re interested in building new kinds of music instruments and the software to complement them, we’re hiring: https://roli.com/careers
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by sigil 8y ago
All the time!
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by sigil 8y ago
> If you use GNU find and GNU xargs, you can use non-standard extensions to separate filenames with \0 instead. MacOS and the BSDs have had `xargs -0` and `find -print0` for a while now. Time to update that section?
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by sigil 8y ago
Seconded. I had an X1C2 and am currently on an X1C5. Everything works out of the box on linux and the performance is crazy for something so thin & light (2.8lbs).
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by sigil 8y ago
I picked up the Meditations recently, expecting some profound insights, but it’s been a bit of a let down so far. Are there particular parts I should skip to? Has anyone found a translation they really like?
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by sigil 8y ago
Yep. Maybe I misunderstood the subtler points of OpenAI’s “democratize AI” strategy, and this has been the plan all along. But AFAIK they haven’t put an “among a few rational state actors” asterisk on anything up until now. Regardless, I ag
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by sigil 8y ago
Ok but isn’t this the opposite of OpenAI’s “nukes are safer when multiple actors have them” strategy wrt AI? I’m also confused by the threat models earnestly put forth in your blog post. Are we really concerned about deep faking someone’s w
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A log/event processing pipeline you can't have (2019)(apenwarr.ca)
27 points by sigil 8y ago|1 comments
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by sigil 8y ago
I've been using minisign, signify, and ed25519 on a project and they're minimal but wonderful. They're fast, they have small key and signature sizes, and I found it way easier to integrate the reference ed25519 implementation
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by sigil 8y ago
This talk by djb and Tanja Lange is a good overview of the NIST candidates and the current state of pqcrypto: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCmnQR3_qWg
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by sigil 8y ago
Does gometalinter report absolute cyclomatic complexity numbers, or does it report density (cyclomatic complexity / sloc)?
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by sigil 8y ago
The latter. Unlike Schwarzschild black holes, a Kerr black hole drags spacetime with it as it rotates. The black hole in Interstellar was a Kerr black hole. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerr_metric
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by sigil 8y ago
We need a catchy, vaguely ominous name to scare people into action. “Y2K38” isn’t cutting it. Proposed rebranding: The Epochalypse.
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by sigil 8y ago
He co-founded Vox, so bias in that direction isn't terribly surprising.

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