nitrobeast

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by nitrobeast 2y ago
Reading into the details, the system is more impressive than the title. 100% of the algebra and geometry problems were solved. The remaining problems are of combinatorial types, which ironically more closely resembles software engineering w
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by nitrobeast 6y ago
Grindr’s Chinese owner has sold it to a US owner, forced by CFIUS ( https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2020/3/6/21168079/grin... ).
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The SSPL Is Not an Open Source License(opensource.org)
3 points by nitrobeast 6y ago|0 comments
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by nitrobeast 6y ago
Functions that return random results do not fit into the most common testing paradigms. I have seen people try to verify the distribution of random results, and even that could have concerns for theoretical flakiness. I wonder if the natur
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by nitrobeast 6y ago
My prediction is this will be less useful than twitter results in Google search. Btw, I like the direction of tiktok and ig videos being less walled garden. One thing I like about tiktok is that by default creators allow downloading the vid
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by nitrobeast 6y ago
I think the context in the article is more plausible i.e. defending Hawaii from NK. Anti ship missles are not ICBM.
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by nitrobeast 6y ago
worried about india or the agreement?
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by nitrobeast 6y ago
There seem to be at least two large factions in CCP when dealing with Ant Financial. In exaggerated terms: 1. The statists who want strict control over financial giants like Ant Financial. They created the new regulations. 2. The neo libera
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AMD’s newest graphics cards: RDNA2 power from $579 to $999(arstechnica.com)
2 points by nitrobeast 6y ago|0 comments
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by nitrobeast 6y ago
A few things I realized in the past few years: 1. Elite class does exist in the society, and they exert tight control on the flow of information in traditional media, e.g. TV, newspapaer etc. Their control is loosened in the Internet age in
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by nitrobeast 6y ago
One thing that surprised me in the US while applying for credit card: private companies can get access to my past addresses and many other personal info of me. I don’t ever want these information provided to profit companies, joined with fa
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by nitrobeast 6y ago
I'm unfamiliar with marketing but I suspect the situation is much better now with all the tracking. And I can imagine for many APIs, people do know what most frequently used features are, and what typical users are like.
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by nitrobeast 6y ago
This statement seems very true, even to the point of “duh” for people who have designed and maintained semi-widely used API or applications. I wonder where the language design wisdom to the contray come from.
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by nitrobeast 6y ago
Likely your db configuration is very different from what FB uses in production, so they have no incentive to investigate or fix.
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by nitrobeast 6y ago
It has been said that other countries, including US, in fact have more rare earth deposits. If they choose to relax environmental laws and disregard patents held by Chinese corporations, more rare earth would be produced.
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by nitrobeast 6y ago
And if Europe develop a company that threatens US leading tech / surveillance companies like Facebook / Google, or becomes the leader of the next tech wave, be prepared for US government actions to take it down. See: Japanese semi
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by nitrobeast 6y ago
Most people do not want any war, even if it is against CCP. However the current administration seems to be pushing for at least a limited skirmish. US airforce planes have been flying 100 miles off the coast of major Chinese cities. It is l
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by nitrobeast 6y ago
What’s the difference between forced labor in China, vs prisoner firefighter in California?
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by nitrobeast 6y ago
Part 2: https://blog.yugabyte.com/yugabytedb-vs-cockroachdb-bringing... Original post from CockroachLabs: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/unpacking-competitive-ben...
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Bringing Truth to Competitive Benchmark Claims – YugabyteDB vs. CockroachDB(blog.yugabyte.com)
1 points by nitrobeast 6y ago|1 comments
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by nitrobeast 6y ago
It will be interesting to see how many telecoms in EU would join this.
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by nitrobeast 6y ago
This seems irrelevant.
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by nitrobeast 6y ago
It is not clear expiration time per layer is much better than the commonly used strategy of compacting to a single layer periodically. For KiWi, storing deletes separately could be interesting but I’m not sure about its exact disk layout an
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by nitrobeast 6y ago
Standard corp policy? Google disallows dropbox on devices that can access Google internal data as well.
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by nitrobeast 6y ago
Slightly off topic. After the Covid-19 masks are not useful / we must wear masks fiasco, if you are willing to think it through, it is painful how most media are not independent at all. At best they are beholden to group thinks, parrot
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by nitrobeast 6y ago
I thought the article was pretty explicit in comparing US against european countries that are still able to build?
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by nitrobeast 6y ago
Totally this. Covid-19 really opened my eye on how all governments basically lie to avoid “fear” in public.
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by nitrobeast 6y ago
Ok, I guess it is my bias.
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by nitrobeast 6y ago
Just an observation, it seems HN is more interested in topics semi-related to China than BLM or policing reform. I wonder if this reflects something about HN readers.
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by nitrobeast 6y ago
This is an ok thing for some Americans to believe in, but at least Google encrypted all its traffic between data centers specifically to avoid NSA eavesdropping. And many people in the rest of the world don’t think US respects the rule of l

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