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New comment by z77dj3kl in "Life Improvements Since the 1990s"

z77dj3kl — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 17:31:56 +0000

I'm extremely interest the general feeling and views societies had in the past: how they perceived the present and the future, as a whole.

Objectively life has become better and more comfortable for the vast majority of humans since then (Hans Rosling does a beautiful job of exploring this).

But I do think that perceptions and feelings matter, and even though material wellbeing is a prerequisite to that, so is also the general feeling and view that those around you hold, and in many ways I feel we've gone backwards in that.

New comment by z77dj3kl in "AllStar: Continuous Security Policy Enforcement for GitHub Projects"

z77dj3kl — Wed, 11 Aug 2021 17:45:17 +0000

Seems pretty silly? It has opened a bunch of issues and is harassing devs on github repos complaining about missing SECURITY.md files?

https://github.com/search?q=%22Issue+created+by+Allstar.+htt...

No judgement, but I guess this is just not the kind of hole-plugging security I'm used to.

New comment by z77dj3kl in "GitHub’s engineering team has moved to Codespaces"

z77dj3kl — Wed, 11 Aug 2021 17:41:00 +0000

It's a slightly different flavor of the same thing.

VS Code is an amazing tool that's getting huge adoption because of how awesome it is, and how open source and community centric it is, etc. They've gotten a lot of mindshare and dev love, that's the embrace bit.

The next step is the set of closed source addons. Have you noticed that a lot of the new VS Code features are now in addons that are under a different license. This includes the new remote dev and python tooling. Still free to use and awesome tools, of course, but fully under MS exclusive and controlled. That's the extend.

I don't know what the longer-term plan is. I'm hoping that it won't lead to an extinguish. But if that's what they want, then they could e.g. cripple the open source version, moving all their dev effort into a closed-source, Azure/Github only web environment. Who knows?

New comment by z77dj3kl in "OpenAI Codex"

z77dj3kl — Tue, 10 Aug 2021 18:18:35 +0000

I thought OpenAI was originally supposed to be some kind of for-the-good, non-profit institution studying AI and its safe use in particular with an effort to make it more accessible and available to all through more open collaboration. This is cool research, sure; but what happened to making models available for use by others instead of just through some opaque APIs?

Maybe I'm just remembering wrong or conflating OpenAI with some other entity? Or maybe I bought too much of the marketing early on.

New comment by z77dj3kl in "Incident with GitHub Actions, API Requests, Git Operations, Issues and more"

z77dj3kl — Tue, 10 Aug 2021 18:13:11 +0000

Emailing patches is a classic git flow, used e.g. by the linux kernel. Git even includes a command to format emails and send them. Nothing wrong with it!

New comment by z77dj3kl in "How we built the Evervault Encryption Engine (E3)"

z77dj3kl — Tue, 10 Aug 2021 18:09:26 +0000

That's not how timing attack mitigation works: just because you're doing some other stuff too doesn't mean the timings can't be exploited.

New comment by z77dj3kl in "Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained (2020)"

z77dj3kl — Tue, 10 Aug 2021 13:59:57 +0000

You can't even use Linux on Intel Macs properly, no chance it'll work on the M1 anytime soon. The kernel might boot in some form, but last time I checked, even the SSD wasn't working on Intel Macs under Linux.

New comment by z77dj3kl in "Evolution of Search Engines Architecture – Algolia Search Architecture Part 1"

z77dj3kl — Mon, 09 Aug 2021 00:35:43 +0000

Ah, that makes sense! I always wondered why any search term would just return 8 year old stuff at the top.

New comment by z77dj3kl in "The rise of never-ending job interviews"

z77dj3kl — Mon, 02 Aug 2021 06:42:49 +0000

Or the case where you work google which goes down and then you can't possibly duckduckgo it, that'd be too humiliating.

New comment by z77dj3kl in "New in Git: switch and restore"

z77dj3kl — Sun, 01 Aug 2021 19:04:32 +0000

I had a hand saw in mind...

New comment by z77dj3kl in "New in Git: switch and restore"

z77dj3kl — Sun, 01 Aug 2021 16:00:50 +0000

A more apt comparison would be to using a saw vs using a saw with gloves on.

With gloves it's safer and more comfortable, but you're not quite as in touch with the wood as you would be without one.

Without gloves you feel badass because you don't care about safety, and you might be able to carve out some slightly more intricate things.

Either way the outcome is roughly the same and it really doesn't matter what your personal preference is.

New comment by z77dj3kl in "1 out of every 153 American workers is an Amazon employee"

z77dj3kl — Fri, 30 Jul 2021 22:17:42 +0000

They're a public employer though, no?

Apple is GCP’s largest cloud customer for storage

z77dj3kl — Fri, 30 Jul 2021 12:25:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/report-apple-is-googles-largest-cloud-customer-for-storage/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28007196

Points: 3

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New comment by z77dj3kl in "Why the Substack hype is much ado about very little"

z77dj3kl — Tue, 27 Jul 2021 08:12:51 +0000

Advertising? Have some articles be part of the bundle as a "preview", and most articles behind an individual subscription?

This idea of building your own newspaper sounds kind of interesting actually: a mix of authors you've picked and an automatically curated content from other authors to help you find new authors.

New comment by z77dj3kl in "The Insecurity Industry"

z77dj3kl — Tue, 27 Jul 2021 08:06:22 +0000

I think he's referring to the standard, non-hidden microphones.

New comment by z77dj3kl in "Some stuff I found interesting about number theory research"

z77dj3kl — Mon, 26 Jul 2021 11:09:42 +0000

The social networks are offline. Universities are great at open collaboration, it's just not a kind of online collaboration where anybody can walk in and partake. People spend a lot of time on a different type of communication: going to conferences, attending seminars, and meeting one-on-one. Why should it be online?

Also keep in mind that a lot of mathematicians are also older, less tech-savvy. This might change in the next decade or two!

New comment by z77dj3kl in "Some stuff I found interesting about number theory research"

z77dj3kl — Mon, 26 Jul 2021 10:59:06 +0000

I've heard of mathematicians being frustrated by physicists who use fancy stuff without full understanding of the underlying principles, and sometimes they just manipulate the notation without fully justifying what that manipulation means (e.g. you may have an integral operator on some space, and you might just swap an infinite sum and that integral operator, but that requires a justification that you might omit).

New comment by z77dj3kl in "Some stuff I found interesting about number theory research"

z77dj3kl — Mon, 26 Jul 2021 10:55:31 +0000

What do you mean? Mathematics is all about formal verification, i.e. proofs.

New comment by z77dj3kl in "No Code Reviews by Default"

z77dj3kl — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 17:22:27 +0000

Pitting code review against trust and responsibility is just disingenuous. The point of code review is not that you distrust others. It's that everyone makes mistakes and often someone else having a quick look over your changes can come up with some really cheap wins that are safer, more maintainable, faster, etc.

New comment by z77dj3kl in "Maplibre: community-driven Mapbox GL fork"

z77dj3kl — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 17:13:41 +0000

The OSM style is here: https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto

There is an issue about converting it to vector: https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/3...

Doesn't seem like there's any current vector versions of that style, but you could make one yourself using Maputnik or similar; you'd probably want to start with OpenMapTiles and maybe even one of the pre-existing styles for OMT like OSM bright.