maldeh

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by maldeh 8mo ago
> I wish the order of presentation were different, because it starts with incorrect and misleading claims and then only later fixes its trajectory. I wouldn't hold my breath, every inch of this article is evidently AI-generated - yo
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by maldeh 3y ago
The source is 4chan, and most certainly an exercise in creative s#!$posting.
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by maldeh 3y ago
Per the paper, it looks to be this one: https://phaser.io/
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by maldeh 4y ago
Barely two months from their announcing a hiring spree... https://www.reuters.com/business/logistics-startup-flexport-...
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by maldeh 4y ago
This seems like a pretty surprising process failure for a mature company like Grubhub, for such a marketing campaign to be greenlit without any guardrails. Wouldn't this be the kind of mishap you might expect from a startup or a 2-year
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by maldeh 4y ago
It looks like it could be a binary intended to be snuck in with third party package dependencies and such that you might unintentionally execute within your lambda runtime. It's one thing doing mining at a slow trickle within the free
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by maldeh 4y ago
A more poignant elegy to the modern landscape of compliance theater I have never seen: > Security Standards. Okta's ISMP includes adherance to and regular testing of the key controls, systems and procedures of its ISMP to validate
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by maldeh 5y ago
Likely some stressed out buyers paid for overpriced homes given the sharply rising prices across the market (although completely by their choice), and the sellers probably loved it - but that's already par for the course with the housi
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by maldeh 5y ago
> A more innocent, but also unproven, theory is that those who got sick suffered from a mass condition brought on by some stressful underlying situation. A Stand Alone Complex?
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by maldeh 5y ago
One could argue that we are doing the followup even to this day (with the China CLEP programme, India’s Chandrayaan, USA’s ongoing Artemis campaign and others). The deed was done, the minimum bar was set and humanity has been as determined
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by maldeh 5y ago
India's first forays into semiconductor fabrication in the 80s and 90s were likewise enthusiastically supported by the government (land, incentives, tax breaks and so on), but were ultimately hamstrung by more fundamental infrastructur
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by maldeh 5y ago
"Art is what you can get away with." - Andy Warhol
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by maldeh 5y ago
Is this referring to Alexa, or some other product? Have there been any major notable reports about spying happening with Echos? With regards to data collection for ads, personalized recommendations and such, are there any major concerns tha
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by maldeh 5y ago
Not to mention: > Already have an account? No you don't. > Try to log in below if you think you do anyway.
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by maldeh 5y ago
This is a good principle in terms of reducing the overall blast radius of exploits. But to do this the implementations should genuinely be independent. In practice we may find a monoculture within a hidden layer of the stack than we're
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by maldeh 5y ago
The pricing appears to be static per model with a ceiling on the monthly request count, not charged per request. Edit: Actually, I didn't spot the free tier of 1000 requests. I wonder how you avoid the problem of a lot of users leaving
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by maldeh 5y ago
There was a good thread on this topic a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23216852 That and Matt Levine's take on it ( https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-05-18/t
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by maldeh 5y ago
Yeah, given that the article started off establishing how an Estimator was basically an interface with simple rules about supporting "fit" and "predict" and how it could contain anything or do anything, I thought the arg
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by maldeh 5y ago
I'm frankly astonished that the species lasted for two and a half million years all while being highly endangered the whole time. Like, nevermind a comet, a poorly timed burp from a volcano could have sufficiently reduced diaspora enou
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by maldeh 5y ago
What does a yearly installment plan even mean in the context of a cloud subscription-based service, as opposed to one for which one has already received goods? And first of all, as the OP noted in the twitter thread, they believed they were
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by maldeh 5y ago
And for the rest of us there's always ConcurrentSkipListMaps.
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by maldeh 6y ago
Don't think OP is claiming that was the reason for the ban, they may be alluding to this separate incident: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23628394 Edit: Agreed, no conviction was involved, so their statement loo
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by maldeh 6y ago
Sure, as long as we're not insinuating that's an inherently undesirable thing. We're quite literally on a thread involving a product that collected tonnes of sensitive user data without a clear opt-out mechanism while failing
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by maldeh 6y ago
Cue dang's caution about Wolfram Derangement Syndrome https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
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by maldeh 7y ago
That'd be fantastic in a week or a month. ICUs in Washington and New York are running low on supply as we speak, any help now could buy a medical professional in these areas precious days.
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by maldeh 7y ago
Refer to (author) littlemtman's response below (curiously, getting downvoted to oblivion): > No, I am not testing this on real roads only testing with videos so far. So no real cars only videos in cars
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by maldeh 7y ago
Whoa, before we start pulling out the pitchforks, I think this may be terribly distorting OP's words and intent. - My reading of it was that OP was in awe at the immense scale of engineering that went into Autopilot to make it producti
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by maldeh 7y ago
Your musings here are legitimate, so long as you recognize your feelings as a single datapoint and don't mistake them for a general trend, or extrapolate them to the wider population. As a counterpoint, I don't know of any friends
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by maldeh 7y ago
Benchmark is a major investor, actually. But it sounds like they might be getting the short end of the stick on this deal, like almost everybody else. This case could be quite different from Uber per the thesis of this article by Stratecher
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by maldeh 7y ago
Also recommended: "Lo and behold! Reveries of the connected world" by Werner Herzog.

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