The modern solution would be to capture the incoming packets as a training set then apply machine learning to create a model that can perfectly recreate the outgoing packets.
It’s still an inexplicable black box of course, that is the nature of ML, but at least you can run it in the cloud now.
Do you think we can put some crypto in there, too?
Too subtle for HN but I don’t mind.
No, plenty of us got it. It's just not funny right now.
A person is trying to find a real solution to a real problem they have. Every comment in this thread represents a potential hope that someone knows how to fix it. When someone comes in to a serious thread that is spitballing ideas and tries to make it about them by cracking jokes and being fun and clever, it's annoying. I know this because for about 8 years I was the guy trying to crack jokes in these threads.
This is not the time to make some kind of point about the state of modern software engineering - do that in a thread where people are bullshitting, not trying to work a problem. It's not ever really funny. It's noise. It doesn't help anything. It's not too subtle, it's just obnoxious.
Watch as I come up with a random reason you're wrong.
The OP could see it and laugh and that could possibly lighten their day and help them relax.
Wait, no. That's positive, online we're only supposed to bash men, hitler, and take everything in the most negative light possible. I should have instead judged you as a hateful person who has a horrible life and no friends.
This paper [0] is a pretty decent survey on the field and [1] is an excellent article on the topic at a high level, written by a team currently working in the space (synthesising smart contracts).
[0] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1802.02353.pdf
[1] https://medium.com/@vidiborskiy/software-writes-software-pro...
This reminds me of Team America [1] ... or maybe idiocracy [2] :-p
In this case the input space is small and you want a quite dense mapping from input to output. I do not think ML applies.
The problem is that the solution space grows super exponentially, and if you need to find an exact one, then the number of samples too.
No. Not even close for any general purpose I/O.