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by vitus 2y ago
> The difference with the 737 Max crashes is that there was only one sensor feeding data to the system, not two. That's fair. I was likely remembering that there were two sensors, since there's one for the pilot and one for the
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by vitus 2y ago
What? I was responding to the specific claim that two independent sensors always make your failure rates go down. Not that any particular source of sensor data is strictly inferior. I agree that optimizing for vehicle cost and shipping shod
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by vitus 2y ago
> Democrats, who historically supported protectionist trade measures, now oppose tariffs Can you provide a source for this one? On the front of free trade, NAFTA comes to mind where there was some support and some oppositions within both
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by vitus 2y ago
I think that's an oversimplification, and helps mainly in the case where one sensor is totally offline. If you have two sensors, one says everything's fine but the other says you're about to crash, which one do you trust? Wha
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by vitus 2y ago
> The Internet was conceived as a network of independent nodes, all interconnected. What I said looks a lot more like what the Internet was intended to be than YouTube does. I don't dispute that, and it's not as much of an issu
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by vitus 2y ago
Going further: do you want a US internet, a French internet, Japanese internet, etc? I would prefer to avoid fragmentation of the ecosystem, since it complicates discovery of content, reduces potential reach, limits cross-pollination of ide
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by vitus 2y ago
I'm not saying that we have to keep using YouTube for this vision, but GP stated that there would be fewer YouTube channels (but not none!). In that scenario, what incentives are there to provide a video-sharing platform that is a net
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by vitus 2y ago
> The remaining YouTube channels would be concentrated around the ones that are of higher quality, rather than easy slop produced to push ads. Nobody would try to clone someone else's channel for money. They would only be produced b
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by vitus 2y ago
Sure. Most engineers will probably poke around on the UI to look at graphs, and write any special monitoring configs in GMon (a DSL in Python, which is then transpiled to mash). Directly interacting with monarch_tool should be rare, as moni
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by vitus 2y ago
Monarch is very much still the recommended monitoring backend.
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by vitus 2y ago
Eh, it has, though. Half of it is about setting up a bigtable for hosting the data. I don't know of any team that's set up a new bigtable in the past 5 years; if you're really going all-in on the cloud ecosystem (per AppEngin
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by vitus 2y ago
> Trump has always liked tariffs [alas, I can't find the source for this pre-presidency, its been blown out by current events]. Here you go, Feb 2011: https://money.cnn.com/2011/02/10/news/economy
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by vitus 2y ago
Soon? Sure, we don't have billboards that scan the biometrics of whoever's walking past in order to deliver customized ads, but instead we have conditioned everyone to glue themselves to their own personal miniaturized billboards.
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by vitus 2y ago
Yes, that's my point, although I can see why you interpreted it otherwise. mitmproxy's API is flow.response.get_content(strict=False), which returns a bytes object; the proof-of-concept script then copies it into the bytearray usi
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by vitus 2y ago
> instead, I found a flaw in the Protobuf format which allows me to reliably change one byte to obliterate ads. Let me guess, the author changed the field number to a large unused number. > Now, all we have to do is scan the Protobuf
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by vitus 2y ago
> I wonder why no one has written high performance library code in assembly yet at this point? What do you mean by that? There is plenty of hand-rolled assembly in low-level libraries, whether you look at OpenBLAS (17%), GMP (36%), Borin
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by vitus 2y ago
> in c or go if you dont like variadics just pass in a params struct. Which, again, is fine if your language supports named args for your params struct. C++ didn't have this until C++20, despite C having it for decades prior. Java s
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by vitus 2y ago
If your language supports named arguments, sure, but that's not always a given.
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by vitus 2y ago
> mainly because "fluent" chains should never be mutating their operand. I see this quite often with builders, actually, and I don't mind it so much there. FooBuilder() .setBar(bar) .setBaz(baz) .se
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by vitus 2y ago
I mean, yes, the hobbits go back home where Sam becomes the mayor of the Shire for 50 years, and Gimli and Legolas sail off together into the sunset. But it's also unambiguous that Aragorn, who was previously a nobody raised by elves,
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by vitus 2y ago
> and who then go right back home where they belong, dismissing any notion of chosenness Well, except for Aragorn, who turns out to be the true king of Gondor.
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by vitus 2y ago
I like how that then chains into the first check: > Error: This script must be run as root
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by vitus 2y ago
"Negative probabilities" is being imprecise -- as you allude to, what we really mean are quantum mechanical amplitudes that are out-of-phase relative to each other, such that we get constructive and destructive interference when y
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by vitus 2y ago
> It is vacuously true that a Turing machine can simulate a human mind - this is the quantum Church-Turing thesis. Since a Turing machine can solve any arbitrary system of Schrodinger equations, it can solve the system describing every a
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by vitus 2y ago
Ugh. I hate how we (Google) launched proto editions. It used to be that we broadly had two sets of semantics (modulo additional customizations): proto2 and proto3. Proto editions was supposed to unify the two versions, but instead now we ha
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by vitus 2y ago
> Banning the middle layers here (absent other changes) just means that the companies that replace their spots in the top 20 will be vertically integrated conglomerates that manufacturer, distribute, prescribe and provide insurance (i.e.
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by vitus 2y ago
The three big papers: clocks [0], Paxos [1], Byzantine generals [2]. [0] https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/time-clocks.pdf [1] https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/lamport-paxos.pdf [2] ht
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by vitus 2y ago
Trees are also too many things to be one thing. https://eukaryotewritesblog.com/2021/05/02/theres-no-such-th... crops up on HN periodically. “Trees” are not a coherent phylogenetic category. On the
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by vitus 2y ago
> Saver: $1k salary is $500 take home pay (50% marginal tax of last bit of income). 0% interest rate at the bank. You pay a 2% effective wealth tax per year. Wait, what? Under that tax regime, you might as well squirrel away that money u
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by vitus 2y ago
I remember the subsequent workaround: "PSA: your past streams will be deleted after X days, unless you mark the whole thing as a highlight." It mostly only made sense for infrequent streamers (e.g. if you had one stream every few

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