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by uyt 5y ago
IIRC regular cloudflare will still cache assets for free. This tool is specifically for people who don't want to write a pipeline to do image resizing/optimization themselves. If you're able to write your own pipeline to do s
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by uyt 5y ago
I think they also force phone verification if you make multiple accounts connecting from the same ip. I don't want to run VPN just for a throwaway discord account and I don't know how to get burner phone numbers.
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by uyt 5y ago
Can you give more details on what the possible consequences are? I just can't see how people making trollish interpretation of lyrics can possibly be harmful. At worse it just becomes a stupid meme. This is just internet culture.
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by uyt 5y ago
What they are doing is unfortunately not legal. There were precedents of Cloudflare ratting out manga site operators before which have led to arrests [1] (the person who ran mangamura got a 3 year sentence and a $650k fine [2]). And at some
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by uyt 5y ago
Implementation-wise, if you multiply two 64 bit numbers you need to hold the result in a __int128 before taking the mod which makes it less portable.
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by uyt 5y ago
This is a great blog explaining various ways to force collisions if you're not careful about how you pick your base and mod: https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/60442
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by uyt 5y ago
It's amazing how good humans are at detecting these sorts of patterns. For another example, in minecraft, people noticed you can find diamonds if you dig straight down from clay patches. At first I dismissed it as superstition but it t
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by uyt 5y ago
It's just selection bias. If those threads weren't great they wouldn't be linked. A better test would be to use wayback machine to look at a random date's front page and its threads.
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by uyt 5y ago
I think this data structure is usually called a Counted B-tree https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/algorithms/cbtr... instead of range tree
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by uyt 5y ago
I only know of one site that uses the model you proposed (pure deterministic feeds ordered by date descending) but it's the cesspool of the internet: 4chan
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by uyt 5y ago
The additional cost might be a small percentage of the budget but what does it buy you? If you can't justify it, it will get cut. All the other frivolous things have pointy haired managers advocating for them. This happens a lot for an
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by uyt 5y ago
I really like that the hint is optional. You don't always want the hint because if you're jumping d steps ahead, you actually need to touch 2 log(d) nodes, once to walk up, and another to walk down. This means anytime you'r
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by uyt 5y ago
I was going to link the same thing except I would say he is talking about exactly that without knowing the academic name for it.
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by uyt 5y ago
The Lean community uses zulip which seems to be a nice compromise between chat and forum/email threads https://leanprover.zulipchat.com/login/
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by uyt 5y ago
I thought "advertising agency" was referencing that the best minds of our generation are thinking about how to make people click ads at google/facebook. I guess it was always a thing even back then?
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by uyt 5y ago
Another problem is because of hedonic adaptation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonic_adaptation People might actually feel happier when moving from a miserable state to a better state compared to being in a good sta
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by uyt 5y ago
It's fun and all but is it really practical? If you have more than two people in a room, it should turn off only when both are blinking at the same time, which should basically be never?
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by uyt 5y ago
You can check out redis's implementation: https://github.com/redis/redis/blob/unstable/src/t_zset.c Or leveldb's: https://github.com/google/leveldb/blob/mast
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by uyt 5y ago
I was curious if the offending commit is still there but I didn't see anything that looked like it: https://github.com/cdnjs/cdnjs/commits/master?after=6901ec10... That commit log should give you a bette
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by uyt 5y ago
Will that violate copyright (or whatever the IP rights law for this is called)?
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by uyt 5y ago
Cuckoo filter is the one I thought it would be compared to since I see mentioned on HN a lot: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... And the title seems to be a reference to it too, &quo
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by uyt 5y ago
I am in the US and I feel like most people have unlimited data. I am atypical and have Google Fi so I pay 10 dollars per gb. So 1.39mb would be $0.0139 for me. Are Canadians really paying 10x my rate?
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by uyt 5y ago
> are open algorithmic contests useful and valuable? Kaggle has been around for a long time now. If it works, I would expect them to be pumping out tons of interesting results from winners but I don't think I've heard many stor
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by uyt 5y ago
I know stylometry is a thing, but is it good enough to fingerprint you according to what you know or talk about? What about in the future as NLP advances? For a historic example, '...although Newton's solution was anonymous, he wa
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by uyt 5y ago
As a submission to HN, most of the homepage wasn't useful to read. You should change the link to https://anonymousplanet.org/guide.html#table-of-contents and link straight to the contents.
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by uyt 5y ago
Most real time conversations I have is complete bullshit, so that's plenty of practice. The problem is that when chatting I don't have time to put any deep thought into my words, I just say whatever is heuristically true. The alte
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by uyt 5y ago
Compact dict which preserves insertion order are now the default implementation of dicts in python 3.7. They gave a talk about it in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npw4s1QTmPg
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by uyt 5y ago
Is this better than the commonly taught ransac (random sample consensus) for rejecting outliers? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_sample_consensus
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by uyt 5y ago
How do you account for stock/option appreciation? Which number is displayed on the site? There might be a huge difference between a person reporting their total compensation from their offer letter (according to the fair market value a
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by uyt 5y ago
I didn't get fired on the spot or anything. He put me on a PIP (performance improvement plan). If you fail that then they use it as the paper trail to fire you.

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