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by willvarfar 1y ago
Is there any simple explanation or walk-through of a diagram showing how Tide works? There are several bits in the article about how Tide and TideCloak demonstrates that authorityless auth works, but I'm not finding an explainer.
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by willvarfar 1y ago
Is this an escalation in the spat between the administration and the Smithsonian? The administration has been making a lot of attacks and even executive orders on the Smithsonian for being unamerican and so on.
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by willvarfar 1y ago
Yeah see this all the time :( Senior is often about time in industry not competence. A lot of 'senior' engineers are completely ineffective and seemingly unable to ever become effective. They just joined the industry a while ago
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by willvarfar 1y ago
Prince Edward Island sounds a _great_ place to work from home! Source: am WFH in remote farmhouse in Scandinavia- with fibre.
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by willvarfar 1y ago
Your examples are all hardware. Software is something that can be completely automated. Its just compute budget. They can create a ERM from scratch _and_ provide all the migration scripts to move customers off of the competitors etc. Its
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by willvarfar 1y ago
This is all talking about the big companies investing in AI as a service to sell to others. The whole financial aspect of all the articles is focused on investing in a service to sell? But the moment that the AI can exceed a human programm
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by willvarfar 1y ago
Reminds me of another Tencent paper https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3711896.3736949 that is how to combine distillation and ensemble for faster parallel inference. That was Tencent doing parallelism at the model le
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by willvarfar 1y ago
From the title this put me in mind of the "draco standard", a dragon head mounted atop a pole that wailed in the wind which Roman cavalry used when they charged into battle. Yeah I know it's completely different, but HNers wi
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by willvarfar 1y ago
A quick googling says that lego knitting machines have been built. Now it's just to program them! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV19wqtfyF0 Is it only a matter of time before you can get generative AI to create a pa
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by willvarfar 1y ago
Generally, yeah, to use the online government and financial services in Sweden need BankID, which is almost always on your mobile phone. You can also use a PC, although that is fading away. ID cards are also a thing, and in principle every
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by willvarfar 1y ago
These are the main points listed in the article: * Automatic Refunds for Cancellations: Airlines want to remove the requirement to provide automatic refunds when flights are cancelled or significantly altered. Passengers may instead receive
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by willvarfar 1y ago
Digital ID works great in the nordic countries and doubtless elsewhere.
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by willvarfar 1y ago
Real medium and large companies are so much messier. Almost guaranteed to have different iterations of each architecture and multiple competing architectures all running in parallel, with divided siloed and opposing ownership and perverse
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by willvarfar 1y ago
Back when national TV mostly showed national magicians, and sparingly, my family loved "Fool Us" because it brought such a variety of different magicians from all around the world into our living room. My favourite magician I&#x27
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by willvarfar 1y ago
Wolfram has named his concept of the 'the universe is a program' the 'ruliad' and calls the study of it 'ruliology'. He has been using these terms and explaining them - in his long rambling way - for the last
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by willvarfar 1y ago
Another notable Swede is Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat who issued Swedish passports and sheltered thousands of Jews in Budapest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raoul_Wallenberg . He disappeared and died in Russia
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by willvarfar 1y ago
I get the sense that Mattermost is the same kind of eventually-get-you-paying play as Slack. Other threads are mentioning Zulip, which feels more old-school free as well as Free open source.
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by willvarfar 1y ago
What level of support will they give RADV? Or is it just that AMD ultimately do less?
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by willvarfar 1y ago
I was with it right down to near the bottom where the author suggests people try it out using an LLM. Hmm, LLMs fall for cargo cults and I'm not sure they are to be trusted with even the most trivial self-help.
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by willvarfar 1y ago
I'm someone who wrote a lot of 'raw' Java and C++ without frameworks, which meant there was a lot less boilerplate and indirection etc. And for me, the big usability boon came about 10 years ago, around the same time for bo
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by willvarfar 1y ago
Fresh water will presumably be reverse-osmosis energy-recovery desalination. These are normal on sailboats nowadays and often driven off a small PV array like shown on the pictures of the paddleboard. Regards food, the paddleboard looks ab
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by willvarfar 1y ago
People have already rowed solo across the Atlantic and Pacific. Rowing won't get the attention the paddleboard will?
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by willvarfar 1y ago
The blurb says it is an 'offshore' paddle board and that they do expect to encounter storms.
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by willvarfar 1y ago
The whole project is a series of neat stunts that bring publicity to the cause. They also make documentaries.
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by willvarfar 1y ago
Isn't selling older products first first-in-first-out (FIFO) instead of first-in-last-out (FILO)? </hn programmer pedantry>
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by willvarfar 1y ago
At least it has a 'only necessary cookies' option and you don't have to click through a lot of 'settings' to get them off.
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by willvarfar 1y ago
The other day I accidentally double-clicked on the the dismiss of a popup and the second click went through to the page underneath and I added an item to cart. Don't know if it was intentionally positioned like that but I was ready to
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by willvarfar 1y ago
There was an awesome viral video of someone offloading their frustration and a full mag on an HP printer. Now I can't find the original because it started a trend of copiers.
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by willvarfar 1y ago
Think it a silly gramatical error and should read: > confusion and internal communication problems limited the damage control effort
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by willvarfar 1y ago
How do all the people involved, IRL, cope with the reputational impact of being part of such an event? Do people change name, move, cut off ties with their past etc? Or never tire of telling the story? Edit to add: I was wondering about t

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