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New comment by curuinor in "How many of the 170k English words do you know?"

curuinor — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 20:29:52 +0000

can't assume gaussian underlying distribution of the word-knowing, it's known zipfian. so you can't be doing anovas or anything of that nature because if you look up zipfian distribution's variance, you get Nature and Reality giving you the middle finger

New comment by curuinor in "Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books?"

curuinor — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 21:15:46 +0000

the man leveraged the fact that his name was the same as Andrew Carnegie (having no relation) to launch a publishing empire. it was hacks from the beginning

New comment by curuinor in "Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books?"

curuinor — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:07:08 +0000

Dale Carnegie created it, Tim Ferriss is a century too late to point as origin.

New comment by curuinor in "Workers are spending over 6 hours a week botsitting AI, fueling job frustration"

curuinor — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 18:59:17 +0000

finance is a service.

New comment by curuinor in "Formal methods and the future of programming"

curuinor — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 16:21:00 +0000

guy's korean, looks like? korean <-> english is the hardest language pair of two industrialized-nation languages, almost.

New comment by curuinor in "Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes"

curuinor — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:55:25 +0000

https://www.lindahall.org/about/news/scientist-of-the-day/ca...

"It was said that when doing astronomical calculations that required logarithms, which are typically 10 digit numbers in log tables, [C. F. Gauss] would often just recall the logarithms instead of bothering to look them up."

New comment by curuinor in "Alexander Grothendieck Revolutionized 20th-Century Mathematics"

curuinor — Sun, 24 May 2026 13:24:32 +0000

all mention of aekjeot (fish sauce) and saeujeot (tiny shrimp) seems to be elided here. kimchi in coastal regions (and most commercialized korean kimchi) has a strong tendency to have that in, so if you take grothendieck's recipe as is, you won't have the exported korean taste. northern kimchis have diverged materially in addition, due to north korea being fucked up. aekjeot you can just add but the procedure to add saeujeot traditionally is pretty fiddly

he mentions using whatever herbs he had in a european setting like juniper and rosemary but the canonical herb to add is korean chives and dropwort. never seen juniper or rosemary, frankly.

he does mention that the pepper is a specific variety in korea without exception. this is the korean chili, sun-dried and flaked. it's a very distinctive varietal, the taste will be very different without it

New comment by curuinor in "SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B"

curuinor — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:44:39 +0000

It is adversely selected, but it's not debt, it's equity, so price action can go real fast and nobody will be burned except folks who soberly-or-not opted into this. Everyone _knows_ Elon is the way he is, so nobody will be _surprised_ at things. No surprise, no crisis.

New comment by curuinor in "The future of everything is lies, I guess: Work"

curuinor — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:55:15 +0000

Omnissiah-bothering, I call it.

New comment by curuinor in "The looming college-enrollment death spiral"

curuinor — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:38:40 +0000

let's see the site, if we can't have a primary source

New comment by curuinor in "Show HN: Git bayesect – Bayesian Git bisection for non-deterministic bugs"

curuinor — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 21:10:02 +0000

Bayesian inference is, to be overly simple, a way to write probabilistic if-statements and fit them from data. The "if" statement in this case is "if the bug is there...", and of course it's often the case that in actual software that if statement is probabilistic in nature. This thing does git bisect with a flaky bug with bayesian inference handling the flakiness to get you a decent estimate of where the bug is in the git history. It seems to be usable, or at least as usable as a Show HN thingy is expected to be.

New comment by curuinor in "New Washington state law bans noncompete agreements"

curuinor — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 19:01:13 +0000

Less than, not more than

New comment by curuinor in "Billion-Parameter Theories"

curuinor — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 18:25:11 +0000

Connectionist models have lots of theory by theoreticians explicitly pissed off about Chomsky's assertion that there is an inbuilt ability for language. Jay McClelland's office had a little corkboard thingy with Chomsky mockery on the side, for example. Putting forth even the implicature that the present direct descendants are intellectual descendants of Chomsky is like saying Protestants are intellectual descendants of Pope Leo X.

New comment by curuinor in "Deep dive into Turso, the “SQLite rewrite in Rust”"

curuinor — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 22:55:09 +0000

metabase.com, but metabase is intended for business analyst types and is AGPL, with shenanigans for embedding and an enterprise edition thing

New comment by curuinor in "How we exploited CodeRabbit: From simple PR to RCE and write access on 1M repos"

curuinor — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 20:42:23 +0000

https://www.coderabbit.ai/blog/our-response-to-the-january-2...

New comment by curuinor in "How we exploited CodeRabbit: From simple PR to RCE and write access on 1M repos"

curuinor — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 20:13:52 +0000

CodeRabbit response -

https://www.coderabbit.ai/blog/our-response-to-the-january-2...

New comment by curuinor in "How we exploited CodeRabbit: From simple PR to RCE and write access on 1M repos"

curuinor — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 18:27:24 +0000

hey, this is Howon from CodeRabbit. We use a cloud-provider-provided key vault for application secrets, including GH private key.

New comment by curuinor in "How we exploited CodeRabbit: From simple PR to RCE and write access on 1M repos"

curuinor — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 18:27:12 +0000

hey, this is Howon from CodeRabbit. We use a cloud-provider-provided key vault for application secrets, including GH private key.

New comment by curuinor in "How we exploited CodeRabbit: From simple PR to RCE and write access on 1M repos"

curuinor — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 18:26:44 +0000

hey, this is Howon from CodeRabbit. We use a cloud-provider-provided key vault for application secrets, including GH private key.

New comment by curuinor in "How we exploited CodeRabbit: From simple PR to RCE and write access on 1M repos"

curuinor — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 17:49:46 +0000

hey, this is Howon from CodeRabbit here. we wish to note that this RCE was reported and fixed in January. it was entirely prospective and no customer data was affected. we have extensive sandboxing for basically any execution of anything now, including any and every tool and all generated code of any kind under the CodeRabbit umbrella.

if you want to learn how CodeRabbit does the isolation, here's a blog post about how: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/h...