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by primitivesuave 10d ago
Rather than investigate all the things where investigative journalism could potentially make a difference to real human beings' lives, the Guardian has chosen to pursue a plea for the majority owner of Meta's voting shares (61%) t
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Show HN: Searching for optimal strategies in a puzzle game with chance (Drop7)(drop7.dev)
3 points by primitivesuave 22d ago|0 comments
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by primitivesuave 25d ago
I've been meaning to write something about how I did it, and have been putting it off for a long time. I wrote all the tools myself - by that, I mean that everything was a web app running in my browser. My advice would be to first set
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by primitivesuave 25d ago
Excellent guess, and the documentary All The Queen's Horses does a much better job explaining that story than I ever could! This one is about Dolton, IL - the series is called "Dolton Documentaries" on YouTube.
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by primitivesuave 25d ago
Honored by your interested :) It is called "Dolton Documentaries".
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by primitivesuave 26d ago
My favorite real-world example that I worked on: I created a YouTube documentary series about corruption in a small town in Illinois. This required downloading thousands of hours of government meeting videos from YouTube, transcribing + chu
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by primitivesuave 1mo ago
My non-technical teammates use Claude Cowork extensively. We set up MCP servers to give them audited access to certain internal services, while they just have to think of MCP as a "connector" which they can configure in the GUI.
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by primitivesuave 1mo ago
It's great to see SOC2 going in this direction. I've had to set up all kinds of compliance automation over the past decade (mainly Drata, Vanta, Oneleet), but at the end of the day it's a huge pain grabbing screenshots for wh
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by primitivesuave 2mo ago
FWIW, Peter Norvig also gave an updated take on what programming will look like with LLMs around 2 years ago. It did give me some hope back then, but with the development of Fables and Kimis and Sols I think it's truly anyone's gu
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by primitivesuave 2mo ago
Most well deserved. For the uninitiated, highly recommend her 2019 Christmas lectures which are excellent. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q4DrUHKC0Q
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by primitivesuave 2mo ago
I'm curious how this compares to just using DuckDB in the browser? https://duckdb.org/2021/10/29/duckdb-wasm
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by primitivesuave 2mo ago
I deployed a Lambda function behind CloudFront which rendered a simple HTML page with the query results from executing some SQL over the dataset. I served millions of page views for next to nothing because most pages were already in the cac
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by primitivesuave 2mo ago
Yes, if I wanted to put a nice HTML interface over the query results then I would still end up with the same problem where some combinatoric explosion of query parameters to the `/search` endpoint, most of which are cache misses, leads
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by primitivesuave 2mo ago
Thanks for that tip, this is exactly how I would do this if I had to do it from scratch. Just in case it's useful for anyone else: https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/public-data
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by primitivesuave 2mo ago
Completely agree, I've worked at several companies where I saw the AWS bill balloon from five to six figures, usually because of pointless over-provisioning. However, it all became worth it when I saw Jeff Bezos go to space. [1] 1. ht
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by primitivesuave 2mo ago
They were both more exhaustive and more frequent. I don't remember the exact numbers, but it was definitely over 100x the traffic from search engines. By the way, search engines were allowed under robots.txt - I did want all 11.5 milli
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by primitivesuave 2mo ago
A couple years ago, I was running a website which allowed the public to view all the US government handouts to small businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic. It also tracked all the fraudulent loans being prosecuted by the DOJ, and allowed
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by primitivesuave 4mo ago
If Boeing claimed a plane was airworthy, but it crashed because basic engineering controls were skipped, we have collectively put our faith in the NTSB to preserve evidence, run an independent technical investigation, etc. There is no such
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by primitivesuave 5mo ago
The cost to operate a single jet is $6-7 million a year, so the total cost over its 30-40 year lifetime would be closer to $400m :(
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by primitivesuave 6mo ago
Missing from the article - the hacker first compromised Resolv Lab's AWS account, took a private key from KMS that was used to control minting, then managed to extract $25 million into ETH before all protocol functions were suspended.
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by primitivesuave 6mo ago
English is full of animal-based metaphors, and that's a pretty innocuous statement. "I herded everyone into a room" does not automatically imply that one perceives those people as animals.
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by primitivesuave 6mo ago
The most telling sign of a human commenter is brevity. Consequently, I hardly ever spend the time to write out long and detailed HN comments like I used to in the pre-LLM era. People nowadays have a much harder time believing that an Intern
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by primitivesuave 8mo ago
The Puya PY32 series MCUs found in most vapes have 3kb of RAM and 24kb of ROM, whereas Doom requires at least 4MB of RAM. Assuming Moore's law also applies to the computing power inside a disposable vape, we should be seeing that post
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by primitivesuave 8mo ago
The fact that this occurred in Bombay is important context. In India, the culture amongst older people is to have a clear sense of where you fit in the hierarchy. You might be verbally abusive to those who you consider below you, but you wi
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by primitivesuave 8mo ago
I wouldn't call CareQuality a "data broker" as much as it is an interoperability framework. It's essentially a big distributed system of participants who agree to instantly share patient records - CareQuality maintains a
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New Lawsuit Shows Medical Privacy Could Be at Risk(forbes.com)
2 points by primitivesuave 8mo ago|0 comments
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by primitivesuave 8mo ago
If this actually happens, get ready for an avalanche of AI-generated garbage code that exists for the sole purpose of boosting a scammer's metrics, so they can maximize their slice of the pie with the minimum amount of effort. Spotify
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Epic vs. Health Gorilla: A New Fight Begins(healthapiguy.substack.com)
9 points by primitivesuave 8mo ago|0 comments
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Epic accuses Health Gorilla of improperly accessing medical records(channel3000.com)
2 points by primitivesuave 8mo ago|0 comments
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by primitivesuave 8mo ago
Thank you for the excellent feedback. I had this realization a while back that I'm a mobile user during "consumption" (e.g. browsing HN late at night), but a desktop user for "production" - now I see how it applies

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