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Prompt Injection at the Drive-Through(spectrum.ieee.org)
3 points by barathr 8mo ago|0 comments
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by barathr 1y ago
Tom Murphy shows in his excellent book on energy that over-tilting your solar panels by 15 degrees is a good idea (Table 13.2): https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9js5291m#section.13.4 Basically take your latitude a
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by barathr 1y ago
People have also been building ingenious systems for growing fruit for a long time: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2015/12/fruit-walls-urban-...
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by barathr 2y ago
We've found that this decoupling (multi-party) approach is a good way to improve privacy in a bunch of networking contexts -- here's a paper we wrote a few years ago with colleagues at Fastly and Cloudflare on the topic: https:&#
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by barathr 2y ago
This is really clever and elegant. Thanks for building it.
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by barathr 2y ago
Sure, here's what Claude generated (all the usual caveats apply): https://pastebin.com/Xbs2qasH
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by barathr 2y ago
This is a neat idea, and one that I frequently find a need for. (I was curious how it'd work, so I copied and pasted the description and screenshot of the UI into Claude and in two prompts it built a working React app prototype.)
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by barathr 2y ago
I highly recommend Klinenberg's Palaces for the People, which he named after Carnegie's phrase for libraries. Here's an interview he did on 99% Invisible: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/palaces-fo
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by barathr 2y ago
Any chance that Threlte makes it easy to do view-independent rendering / ray tracing? Basically if you have many surfaces in your scene and you want to not just visualize the scene but find out how much light is arriving at any surface
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by barathr 2y ago
Amazing how prescient her talk is on so many levels -- things that in 1982 there were likely few folks really thinking about deeply and holistically.
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by barathr 2y ago
What we're hoping for (and is the theme of the piece) is that we are and can and should be both and more -- taxable citizens, members of illegible communities, and many more things. It's a both-and perspective -- life is and shoul
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by barathr 2y ago
It's a general-audience essay, not one targeted towards the HN community. So unfortunately there's little opportunity to delve any deeper into what specific data structures are involved in holding the data and the difference that
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by barathr 2y ago
We started writing this essay about 3 years ago (and first read Seeing Like a State about 15 years ago -- it's a book that should be read and re-read many times). It takes time to write something this long, and if I could have I would
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by barathr 2y ago
I like the idea -- I hope someone gives it a try. Like combining our essay with "Do Artifacts Have Politics?" and CLRS.
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Seeing Like a Data Structure(belfercenter.org)
154 points by barathr 2y ago|33 comments
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How AI Will Change Democracy(schneier.com)
2 points by barathr 2y ago|0 comments
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by barathr 2y ago
Yeah, desalination is perfectly aligned with solar energy availability both on a daily and annual cycle: More water needs during the day, more sun during the day. More water needs during the summer, more sun during the summer.
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by barathr 2y ago
GEM isn't worth growing -- it's not that good of a fruit. Hass does just fine even in high heat. Just plant the tree in a spot that gets some afternoon shade.
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by barathr 2y ago
Easy to water a backyard tree with a laundry to landscape greywater setup.
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by barathr 2y ago
They usually flower in Spring, whenever that is for you. It's cultivar and temperature dependent. Some varieties like Carmen will even flower multiple times a year (though Carmen isn't one of the more cold hardy types). Bonny Doon
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by barathr 2y ago
Yeah, that can be a separate issue with any fruit tree. There are a bunch of options, but it depends on how much effort you want to put in. (Though all the options are worth it compared to buying fruit from the store.)
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by barathr 2y ago
I've grown and grafted Avocado trees in both Northern and Southern California. Hass, Reed, and many other good types will fruit well in Redwood City and virtually all of the Bay Area. The only areas that can't grow Avocados are th
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by barathr 2y ago
Most folks who live in California can grow more avocados than they can possibly eat. If you don't have a tree, you should get one. I would highly recommend against any of the varieties listed in this article. Your best bet is Hass -- g
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by barathr 2y ago
This strikes me as similar to Cargo Cult Science. https://calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/2/CargoCult.htm https://metarationality.com/upgrade-your-cargo-cult
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Is the privacy field improving privacy globally?(ioc.exchange)
3 points by barathr 3y ago|0 comments
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by barathr 3y ago
Exciting to hear that about OCB -- I hadn't been keeping track of the expiration. It's great that there's now a widely-usable, single-pass, block-cipher-only authenticated encryption mode.
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by barathr 3y ago
Bob Briscoe has been on this line of thought for a long time. I'd recommend reading a couple of his classics on the topic, including: http://www.sigcomm.org/sites/default/files/ccr/papers/2007&#
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Ask HN: Who like Engelbart is ahead of their time now?
2 points by barathr 3y ago|2 comments
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by barathr 3y ago
That's a different use and meaning of the word trust. The essay is specifically talking about the difference between interpersonal trust (the sort of trust that might be captured by a poll about whether people trust businesses vs. gove
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by barathr 3y ago
Even simpler than implementing a cryptographic PRNG yourself, just use /dev/urandom, which will provide an infinite, non-blocking stream of cryptographically-strong pseudorandom bytes. All platforms currently have known-good imple

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