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jalcazar··on Site Is Closed on Sundays
No, I want them to take time off from work to read the blog. Just as they do when going to the DMV, bank, doctor consultation,etc.
jalcazar··on Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters
I tried it the very first day it was available to Google employees, and it was not usable.

Then a few weeks back, I gave it another try and I was pleasantly surprised.

It was insanely good!

A colleague and I have been on-and-off trying to build a C++ binary against specific Google libraries for months without success. Then, Gemini CLI was able to build the binary after 2-3 days iterating and refining prompts

jalcazar··on Ask HN: Must read applied system architecture articles?
- Articles from highscalability.com

- Videos and presentations from USENIX. Especially OSDI and NSDI

- Meta's Production Engineering blog posts

- Books in "The Architecture of Open Source Applications" series

jalcazar··on Show HN: Quantus – LeetCode for Financial Modeling
Looks like something I want to use.

Would this help me preparing to [aspirationally] compete in the FMWC (Financial Modeling World Cup) ?

jalcazar··on WeSQL. Separation of storage and compute for MySQL
> Low Latency Commit: Avoid the high write latency of direct log writes to S3 by using Raft replication.

I'm wondering how does Raft replication avoids high write latency

jalcazar··on OpenJDK Authorization
What are use cases for handling the authorization at the JVM level?

As opposed to do it at the OS level or platform level e.g., SELinux, AWS security policy

jalcazar··on Making database systems usable
Gemini generating SQL queries from natural language could be an example of AI making DBs more usable. There is more people speaking natural language than SQL

https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/write-sql-gemini#prom...

jalcazar··on TinyML and Efficient Deep Learning Computing
These TinyML courses on edx look good https://www.edx.org/professional-certificate/harvardx-tiny-m...
jalcazar··on FindMyCat – Open-Source Pet Tracker
Which shows how bad are other comments, e.g., the one saying: "The solution is simple: keep the [cats] indoors"
jalcazar··on Sloth – A Mac app that shows all open files, directories, sockets, etc.
iotop ?
jalcazar··on Ask HN: Which photographers do you admire?
Manuel Alvarez Bravo
jalcazar··on Fantastic bugs and how to find them
A Tour of Applied Program Analysis and Domain-Specific Automated Testing
jalcazar··on Ask HN: Which courses (online or not) have had the greatest impact on you?
It made me realize there are ways for capitalism to be “ethical”, that not all banks are trying to make a profit at all costs and that there are investors that track and optimize for other metrics besides monetary returns, e. g., community impact.
jalcazar··on Ask HN: Which courses (online or not) have had the greatest impact on you?
“Just Money: Banking as if Society Mattered” Available on edX and MIT OpenCourseWare

Putting money to a good use, caring about society and the environment.

jalcazar··on OpenJDK Proposes Project Galahad to Merge GraalVM Native Compilation
not really hard just harder than Java
jalcazar··on Cruz: I Never Put Java in My Resume No Matter How Much Experience I Have
With GraalVM it is possible to build native binaries, so no need for JVM to run programs written in Java
jalcazar··on MongoDB Releases Queryable Encryption Preview
Not broken according to the response to that paper:

the conclusions drawn by this paper with regard to CryptDB's guarantees for medical applications are incorrect: had the guidelines been followed, none of the claimed attacks would have been possible. [1]

[1] https://css.csail.mit.edu/cryptdb/response.html

jalcazar··on MongoDB Releases Queryable Encryption Preview
Related video explaining encryption schemes to make encrypted data in a DB queryable:

CryptDB: Processing Queries on an Encrypted Database

https://youtu.be/xsaXMUelOEA?t=807

jalcazar··on Peloton – A call for action [pdf]
I saw this a few days ago in Matt Levine's newsletter.
jalcazar··on Ask HN: What are your favourite textbooks?
"A first course in differential equations" by Dennis G. Zill

"Introduction to Algorithms" by Cormen

"Distributed Computing Through Combinatorial Topology" by Kozlov, Herlihy & Rajsbaum

"Practical UNIX programming" by A. Robbins

jalcazar··on NetBSD is Looking for various WiFi hardware
Yes, seems like I got it wrong.

Thank you for checking

jalcazar··on NetBSD is Looking for various WiFi hardware
I think they are specifically looking for the following

ath pci[1], cardbus[1] bwfm pci, sdmmc[1], usb rtw pci, cardbus[1] run usb[1] wi pci, pcmcia[1]

https://wiki.netbsd.org/Driver_state_matrix/

jalcazar··on Ask HN: Books that impacted your work that few other people seem to care about?
The 2007 article "API: Design Matters" by Michi Henning gave insights on how to better design APIs. However, people I have shared it with don't seem to be excited about it.

Should the authors of lousy APIs be held accountable for their crimes? Why changing APIs might become a criminal offense Why changing APIs might become a criminal offense - Should the authors of lousy APIs be held accountable for their crimes?

jalcazar··on Plans are useless, but planning is indispensable (2005)
"No battle is won according to the plan but no battle is won without a plan"
jalcazar··on Where are we going from here? Software engineering needs formal methods
Program verification is an expensive activity. Navigating the cost-benefit trade-off of program verification is ultimately a business decision. https://t.co/IUCLtDLROC
jalcazar··on Mexican billionaire Salinas says his banking business may embrace Bitcoin
It should read "Salinas Pliego" as "Salinas" is understood to be "Salinas de Gortari"
jalcazar··on “They introduce kernel bugs on purpose”
The guy is still putting the blame on the Kernel project for not having a "don't submit bugs" clause.[1]

And insists it was not human research. [1]

How can this type of people be professors?

[1] https://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~kjlu/papers/clarifications-hc....

jalcazar··on Is Netflix's Seaspiracy film right about fishing damaging oceans?
Save Philippine Seas is organizing a live Facebook Q&A "Seaspiracy VS Reality"
jalcazar··on Lambda School is a predatory bootcamp that lies about students outcomes
Can Lambda School still sell the debt to hedge funds without the student getting a job ?
jalcazar··on Closing web browser windows doesn't close connections
Is for performance: Re-use already established connections. It is common on the server side as well and with other TCP clients beside browsers.
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