teiferer

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by teiferer 1y ago
I'm sorry, I don't get the point. Perhaps I'm missing something. If I open a single port to my home server, then anybody can send any traffic to my server on that port . The attack surface is exactly the process running on m
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by teiferer 1y ago
That's the same order of magnitude though.
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by teiferer 1y ago
It's the old "we use first principles thinking" approach. Too often it means "we don't actually know or care what came before us, we just move fast and break things, how hard can it be lol yolo" Then that'
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by teiferer 1y ago
I think we're not in disagreement that both play a role. But maybe not in how much each contributes. My claim is that luck is often heavily underappreciated. That's not surprising - it's hard to measure, and it feels less goo
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by teiferer 1y ago
We are not in disagreement here. Of course it makes sense to study successes and figure out differences in patterns of behavior making success more likely. Causal or not, that is another matter. However, it's not black-or-white. Once a
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by teiferer 1y ago
> I will put a few more extra hours today in my project thinking about you. And that's the recipe for failure right there. Your passion side project needs to be fueled by passion, not thinking about somebody else's success that
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by teiferer 1y ago
To me, a lesson is: If you keep chugging along on your idea then you might get lucky and be the one out of 10,000 for whom this single-entrepreneur-bootstrap project works out, you get to be your own boss, have a big payroll and it ends up
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by teiferer 1y ago
> It's so, so , so hard to walk the line between persistence (which leads to glory) and stubbornness (which leads to more time following already wasted time.) > Congratulations for walking this line correctly. As much as I like t
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by teiferer 1y ago
QM isn't less well understood though than Newton's mechanics. Neither cover the "why". But both provide a model of the world, the model (!) is very precisely understood and it matches observations in certain parts of rea
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by teiferer 1y ago
I'll bite: What is your job?
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by teiferer 1y ago
Privacy? "Just encrypt things" might be your reply. TOR folks have been fighting an uphill battle for ages with that as their main weapon.
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by teiferer 1y ago
It costs energy. It's very little energy, but it's literally non-zero, so definitely not "literally zero marginal cost". Why would the user care if it's negligible? Because very-small-but-nonzero things scale very
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by teiferer 1y ago
Though demonstration organizers could run around with QR codes making it easy for everybody to install the right app to communicate with each other during the demonstration. As long as people can side-load things on their phones, this shoul
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by teiferer 1y ago
Technically viable. Socially not viable since all actors that could make it happen are incentivised to actively work against this to ever happen: Governments and big tech. Where are the ad opportunities if stuff does not go to a central pla
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by teiferer 1y ago
Blockchains/cryptocurrencies are actually quite simple, from a cryptographic POV.
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by teiferer 1y ago
I'd love to see dang's take on this. How to prevent HN getting overrun with AI topics? How to avoid slop killing the mood? In terms of articles, in terms of comments? Is there any estimate of how many comments are LLM-generated? W
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by teiferer 1y ago
Blockchains are not real? Tell that to my neighbor who regularly uses bitcoin to send some money to some relative in some far away place. (I'm not arguing that that's a good idea. It's likely not. But it's pretty real fo
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by teiferer 1y ago
Hm idk ... The blockchain hype a while back was much less than the current AI hype and still most folks remember it.
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by teiferer 1y ago
Because it makes little sense. Vector spaces can have infinite dimension, so the "only" in the first sentence does not belong there. The second sentence is also odd. How do you define "sequence"? Are there no finite sequ
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by teiferer 1y ago
> But for personal projects and open source work, it feels out of reach Is it? Many hobbies cost much more money. A nice bike (motorbike or road bike, doesn't matter), a sailing boat, golf club/trips, a skiing season pass ... $
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by teiferer 1y ago
> Here in EU, if not stated in your work agreement, it's pretty common people work full time job and also as a self-employed contractor for other companies. First time I'm hearing this. Where in the EU are you? I don't kno