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by btown 4d ago
For those uninitiated with the source for this incredible quote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&t=2047s
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by btown 6d ago
Heck, it’s even astonishing that any sort of generalized computer program could even verify a proof of this magnitude that hasn’t already been codified in a formal verification language. If, and it’s unclear that we’ll ever get the full sto
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by btown 6d ago
Per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_chemical_warfare#Wo... this (a) overlooks the widespread use of chemical weapons in the Pacific theater, and (b) ascribes the non-use by Germany to humanitarian reasons, whi
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by btown 6d ago
There's something worth flagging here – mitochondria aren't just the powerhouse of the cell, they're load-bearing to the entire ecosystem. And honestly? I should have surfaced this earlier.
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by btown 7d ago
A few things: (1) I admire your energy, but sir/ma'am this is a Wendy's. (2) I am very confused that you thought I was talking about tolerance-of-intolerance types of conversations, when I was more intending to say "I do
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by btown 7d ago
Hacker News is the epitome of this! If you find yourself not enjoying your daily dose of "someone is wrong on the internet" (via the immortal https://xkcd.com/386/ ) as you find yourself crafting the perfect r
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by btown 7d ago
Tailwind’s business model was entirely legitimate, pre-AI. Humans can only hold so many ideas in their heads, and panes in their IDEs. Shorthand class names let them stay in their render hierarchy while drawing from a logical and consistent
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by btown 16d ago
A C-level executive I know is getting a top-of-the-line new Mac simply to function as a personal build server and host for agentic coding instances - they are able to orchestrate so many parallel projects that they're hitting RAM limit
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by btown 16d ago
This (whether MV3 blocking is sufficient) is the right question to ask, but also a premature answer. Because here's the future: Google is already promoting that sites have their tag management (including ad network JS) resolve at the C
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by btown 23d ago
At the end of the day, while you can do your best to obfuscate your reasoning tokens, it's a losing battle to hide actual user-visible output tokens. The very nature of API offerings is that you can't do KYC on where that API&#x27
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by btown 26d ago
There's an interesting question about intent and mens rea here, from a legal perspective. Can an AI model intend harm? Can a company, or company employee, intend harm by creating an environment that would knowingly encourage (but not
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by btown 1mo ago
That would be awesome - and thanks for your work, I'll want to start using it! Nullable event payloads silently null-coalescing to '' are a real "spooky action at a distance" kind of issue, because something that wo
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by btown 1mo ago
Does this apply if using cloud environments other than Oracle's own though? (Which is a far cry from on-prem, and relevant to perhaps a vast majority of businesses.) Documents like https://www.oracle.com/a/ocom&#x2
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by btown 1mo ago
This is a really cool tool! Would zizmor have caught the below as well? From the article: > The workflow had an if: condition that appeared protective: > if: (github.event_name == 'issues' && github.event.pull_reques
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by btown 1mo ago
> They also don't publish the Claude Code system prompts, which is silly because those are trivial to extract using a logging proxy. For those interested in the Claude Code tool descriptions, they're collected here: https:&#x2
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by btown 1mo ago
A large missing link for AWS Bedrock is Gemini model support [0]. And this is a vital feature, because Gemini itself (as far as I'm aware) does not have a real-time daily or weekly hard spend cap in the case of misconfigured or comprom
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by btown 1mo ago
Slightly off topic, but a friend of mine worked on Microsoft SQL Server a ~decade ago, and I recall all sorts of conversations on types of optimizations they were doing that sounded truly magical compared to other databases at the time. The
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by btown 1mo ago
For what it’s worth, I typed every word of my comment above by hand. You’re welcome to see every post that uses sentence fragments, parallel structure, and not-X as a sign of AI, rather than a style learned by a human from decades of person
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by btown 1mo ago
There are many industries and situations that will pay absurdly high multiples on API rates for low latency access. Anything remotely related to finance, deal flow, or trading, including the development and checking of Excel financial model
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by btown 1mo ago
It’s an important reminder: I think a lot of people think that online privacy is just a thing that keeps you from being micro-targeted by ads and algorithms - and many don’t care about that. But it’s also a thing that keeps that data from g
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by btown 1mo ago
Cowan (2001) is an oft-cited paper proposing three to five "chunks" of capacity in human attention: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/behavioral-and-brain... The full PDF is worth a read (Figure 1
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by btown 1mo ago
If you are a company selling Red Team cybersecurity services, it’s in your interest to make your services indispensable. Your unwilling customers must subscribe to frontier cybersecurity scans and fixes to ensure they’re immune to just-be
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by btown 1mo ago
If someone wanted to use this as a real-time WAL-tracking read-only mirror of a live production database, for analytics work, is it ready for that use case yet?
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by btown 2mo ago
To be very clear: there's a difference between the people shaping/benefiting from/profiting from this system, and those being shaped by it. And, without sharing too much personal info, I am very much one of those being attack
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by btown 2mo ago
> deserves what they get American voters exist in an environment of propaganda addiction, with every piece of their personal technology reinforcing and profiting from said addiction, that has never existed before. I have great empathy an
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by btown 2mo ago
There's a rich ecosystem around distributed tracing via OpenTelemetry! Honeycomb was one of the pioneers of this, and they contributed significantly to OTel which largely standardizes this approach. OP's approach is a bit differen
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by btown 2mo ago
Are there any that you'd recommend?
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by btown 2mo ago
Similarly, I've often wondered if this is the root cause of why GitHub has become fragile of late. All of a sudden you have operations on billions of tiny files that are amplified by AI usage. And object graphs are so fragmented by nat
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by btown 2mo ago
I am shocked, shocked, that a company that is part of SpaceXAI would become hostile to its existing paying users and partners. This has never happened before in history.
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by btown 2mo ago
It begs an interesting question as well: are frontier labs stuck in the incumbent phase of the "innovator's dilemma," where there's such intense pressure to maintain the flavor/character of their widely-loved existi

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