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by adamb 2y ago
I experimented with an Ohm/CodeMirror bridge that would map an Ohm grammar to CodeMirror classes for marks and syntax highlighting. It might be an interesting starting point for you: https://observablehq.com/@ajbouh&#x2
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by adamb 7y ago
If anyone is looking for ideas for how to build tooling that fights flaky tests, I consolidated a number of lessons into a tool I open sourced a while ago. https://github.com/ajbouh/qa It will do things like separate o
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by adamb 8y ago
My understanding is that there is some evidence that Alzheimer's is transmissible (e.g. higher rate of incidence in caregivers and neurosurgeons), but more study is needed.
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by adamb 8y ago
What have you found to work best when coordinating with your data management and development/operations staff?
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by adamb 8y ago
Transitive trust is the scariest form of trust in any system. It's also the part of V2V that seems to be most powerful and least talked about.
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by adamb 8y ago
I think there is something romantic about the siren's song that is "we don't need object detection or velocity estimation if all objects self-report their location, velocity, and intent". I hope you're right and tha
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by adamb 8y ago
I am not aware of any sensor system that involves meaningful cryptographic claims about sensor readings. I'd love to learn more about anything along those lines. Especially the associated threat modelling and engineering principles!
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by adamb 8y ago
Fair enough. Though my point was trying to say that protocols should assume a variety of component failure modes. I'd rather just have to trust the safety standards of the manufacturer of my car (and to a lesser extent the cars I might
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by adamb 8y ago
I'm actually just asserting that systems advocating for use of V2V messages should account for misinformation. That is, as a human I know that the drivers around me might have broken lights or misuse their signals. I also assume that o
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by adamb 8y ago
Good point. V2V communication means BT exploits can become worms even more easily, spreading from phone to vehicle to vehicle.
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by adamb 8y ago
Nothing about my comment advocates for perfectionism. My point is that V2V systems and research papers I've seen just don't make meaningful claims about safety. They instead make claims about convenience and efficiency, which are
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by adamb 8y ago
Low Speed/Fault Tolerant CAN offers baud rates from 40 Kbit/s to 125 Kbits/sec. This standard allows CAN bus communication to continue in case of a wiring failure on the CAN bus lines. In low speed/fault tolerant CAN net
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by adamb 8y ago
Car manufacturers are extremely careful about the failure modes of components and sensors they put in their vehicles. Consider the design of the CAN bus, which has explicit support for failed and misbehaving peers. I have yet to see these s
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InterPlanetary TensorFlow: A P2P Filesystem for TensorFlow(github.com)
5 points by adamb 8y ago|0 comments
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by adamb 8y ago
Hi @danicgross, glad to see you're iterating in this space! :) It feels like your comment about the network and community being the most valuable part of program is probably right. Given that, is it possible to be a Pioneer, but not
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by adamb 9y ago
Beyond providing security, reproducible builds also provide an important ingredient for caching build artifacts (and thus accelerating build times) across CI and developer machines. They also can form the basis of a much simpler deploy and
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by adamb 9y ago
Cool seed for a community! Seems to lack a place for discussion about submitted ideas, so I'll follow others' lead and discuss here. The "industry specific deep learning" project is similar to something I'm working
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by adamb 9y ago
Cool! Does this sort of thing ever upset users when you guess wrong?
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Ask HN: How have you used (or wanted to use) machine learning in your business?
9 points by adamb 9y ago|5 comments
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by adamb 10y ago
Kudos to HashiCorp for realizing that the complexity of the project was getting away from them and for having the guts to pull the plug in such a public way.
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by adamb 10y ago
We suffered with a Jenkins-like solution for a long time before we decided enough was enough and we wanted to use an approach that didn't need as much soul-crushing, CI-specific effort. If any of our experiences or insights can help ot
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by adamb 10y ago
I forgot to mention that using the same build tool for both CI and developers has a number of other advantages, including artifact caching. When a developer downloads a change, their build will pull artifacts from the caches that build slav
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by adamb 10y ago
I don't know how large a large project is, but our system is pretty large. We build and test for 4 different operating system flavors and way more than that if you incorporate specific versions and distributions. We run end to end user
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by adamb 10y ago
Your comments are fantastically correct. Yes, secret dependencies are the worst . We use an OS sandbox to prevent access outside to non-declared dependencies. That same sandbox prevents access to the network unless a build or test target e
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by adamb 10y ago
Have you written any code to that effect? I've been trying to think through how booting up dependencies might work (for things like integration tests). I have aspirations for QA ( https://github.com/ajbouh/qa ) to l
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by adamb 10y ago
In my (limited) experience, treating your CI pipeline like a distributed system is a design smell. It leads to build processes that are difficult to test, fix, and iterate on. When a build system can only be effectively invoked by CI/C
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by adamb 10y ago
There's a lot of harsh commentary, but I think people here are missing the point. The fact that so much software needs root access to a (often mutable) global environment in order to properly build is a bug . There are an increasing n
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by adamb 11y ago
There's always going to be a perspective that makes a business sound crazy before it's mainstream. That said, I used many of those products when they were very, very young and I did want what they were building. In many cases, tho
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by adamb 11y ago
It's definitely a sequencing issue. Glad you mention the "make something people want" motto :). I've recently realized that it's actually wrong. Well, backwards. A more instructive formulation is: "find somethi
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by adamb 11y ago
Perhaps I'm the only one that sees this, but this essay appears to be a significant departure from the YC rhetoric I've observed in the past few years. Every time I've heard retention discussed (at YC) in the context of gro

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