Hacker News: initplus

New comment by initplus in "An Analysis of the Performance of WebSockets in Various Programming Languages (2021)"

initplus — Sat, 23 Nov 2024 09:31:29 +0000

http.ListenAndServe is implemented under the hood with a new goroutine per incoming connection. You don't have to explicitly use goroutines here, it's the default behaviour.

New comment by initplus in "Apple Confirms Zero-Day Attacks Hitting macOS Systems"

initplus — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 04:14:49 +0000

Will be an underlying safety issue in some system library, but they have only seen "in the wild" exploits targeting Intel. "Defence in depth" - better to push the bugfix to all than to scrutinize ARM security features to understand if an exploit is possible there as well.

New comment by initplus in "Llama 3.1 405B now runs at 969 tokens/s on Cerebras Inference"

initplus — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 06:01:11 +0000

Yeah you can see the cooling requirements by looking at their product images. https://cerebras.ai/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Cerebras_Prod...

Thing is nearly all cooling. And look at the diameter on the water cooling pipes. Airflow guides on the fans are solid steel. Apparently the chip itself measures 21.5cm^2. Insane.

New comment by initplus in "Two upstart search engines are teaming up to take on Google"

initplus — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 12:23:35 +0000

It's not just that there are few signals to prevent the wrong person being put in charge, but this kind of government bureaucratic actively selects for the wrong person. These kinds of government IT projects are often soul sucking to work on, and so they attract a specific kind of applicant.

New comment by initplus in "M4 Mac mini's efficiency"

initplus — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 09:14:30 +0000

I mean they aren't designed for rack mounting? It's a consumer product, likely <0.1% of units produced will end up in a rack.

New comment by initplus in "M4 Mac mini's efficiency"

initplus — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 09:04:51 +0000

The port on the bottom is really the least offensive element of the design. I know people find it fun to clown on, but if any of them had ever used one for 5 minutes they would realize it's a terrible mouse for a bunch of other more important reasons (weight, feet quality, tracking accuracy, polling rate etc.).

New comment by initplus in "FDA proposes ending use of oral phenylephrine as OTC nasal decongestant"

initplus — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 09:01:01 +0000

Regulatory challenge is that the FDA have to combine 3 related but seperate concepts:

1. Manufacturing quality/ingredients accuracy (is the product what is says on the tin) 2. Safety 3. Efficacy

Medicines must pass all three, supplements don't have to meet any.

New comment by initplus in "Nvidia to join Dow Jones Industrial Average, replacing Intel"

initplus — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 07:55:25 +0000

Given that experience, think about what state the alternatives must be in!

New comment by initplus in "Apple introduces iPad mini built for Apple Intelligence"

initplus — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 03:56:32 +0000

You'll likely run into frustrating app availability issues. Releasing iPhone apps on iPad is not universally done. (looking at you WhatsApp)

New comment by initplus in "Routine dental X-rays are not backed by evidence"

initplus — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 10:24:10 +0000

Court isn't the place for scientific inquiry into these issues. It's just not setup for it. French courts have also found in favor of "electrosensitivity" issues.

New comment by initplus in "Automating processes with software is hard"

initplus — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 03:29:49 +0000

Sounds like a really interesting problem space. I'm curious if you have any comments about how you approached dealing with inconsistencies between information sources? System A says X, system B says Y. I suppose best approach is again just to bail out to manual resolution?

New comment by initplus in "Automating processes with software is hard"

initplus — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 03:27:44 +0000

One example is that instead of adding support for edge case mutations/changes late in a process, it's sometimes better to force those records to be thrown away and reset with a new record from the start of the process. You avoid chasing down flow on effects of late unexpected changes in different parts of the application.

To give a contrived/trivial example, imagine a TLS handshake. Rather than building support to allow hosts to retry with a different cert, it's better to fail the connection and let the client start from scratch. Same principle can be applied to more complex process automation tasks in business. Imagine a leave tracking system. It might be better to not support changing dates of an existing leave application, and instead supporting cancel & re-apply. Best part is that the user facing part of both versions can be exactly the same.

New comment by initplus in "WordPress Plugin Mirror Downloader (Proof of Concept)"

initplus — Sun, 06 Oct 2024 07:19:37 +0000

It's not "until sales shows up", it's until regulators start causing problems for Cloudflare because you are using Cloudflare infra to host a grey market online gambling website.

New comment by initplus in "Filed: WP Engine Inc. v Automattic Inc. and Matthew Charles Mullenweg [pdf]"

initplus — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 05:22:22 +0000

Harder to justify contributing back when the open source project is so tightly coupled to your biggest for profit competitor.

New comment by initplus in "It is hard to recommend Google Cloud"

initplus — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 07:07:42 +0000

Even grosser is that they explicitly limited the iOS version of Google Photos to refuse to work with scoped access. So on iOS the app will refuse to work without being granted whole library access, a permission that Google no longer allows to any third party photo app on Android. Blatantly anticompetitive.

New comment by initplus in "It is hard to recommend Google Cloud"

initplus — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 07:05:08 +0000

I'm also completely sick of fielding API migration emails from Google on mobile Android/Firebase. Feel like I get some "action required" every couple of weeks. This stuff saps our resources, both to fix it, and to diagnose if the issue even applies to us in the first place. If you are lucky Google includes details of the app using the API, but often this part is even left out.

New comment by initplus in "Tupperware files for bankruptcy as its colorful containers lose relevance"

initplus — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 15:12:54 +0000

What’s crazy is the range on the liability estimate. Maybe there is a good reason for it. But 1b-10b is an absolutely massive window?

New comment by initplus in "Apple mobile processors are now made in America by TSMC"

initplus — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 03:18:40 +0000

It does seem weird that there is this separation though. I would have assumed that there is a lot of overlap between machine design and operation.

New comment by initplus in "GM to Cut More Than 1k Software Engineers, Mostly in US"

initplus — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 04:15:47 +0000

More engineers doesn't automatically mean better software. Sometimes the opposite.

New comment by initplus in "The Story of Samsung's failed deal with iFixit, as told by iFixit's CEO"

initplus — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 18:47:38 +0000

This is a rod Samsung has made for their own back though. Fewer SKU's, and more shared parts between models would be better for consumers and for the planet.