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paulddraper

18,088 karma · joined November 13, 2013

Father of three.

CTO at Redo.

Co-founder of Rivet Health.

Formerly Lucid Software

https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-draper/

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paulddraper··on Woman Arrested, Dragged Away After Speaking About Flock at City Council Meeting
The time was for speaking about building development codes.

Contrary to what some seem to believe, public discussions are not open-mic night.

paulddraper··on Woman Arrested, Dragged Away After Speaking About Flock at City Council Meeting
Imminent threats of violence are not covered by the First Amendment.

Peaceful gatherings are covered.

paulddraper··on Woman Arrested, Dragged Away After Speaking About Flock at City Council Meeting
Have you not heard similar from parents/teachers/chaperons?

"I will take as long as I need, to get you to comply. Your resistance doesn't make this go away, it just prolongs the inevitable."

paulddraper··on SAML: A fractal of bad design
Yes, you could develop a client-side (JavaScript) application to do this.

SAML does not require JavaScript to do that.

paulddraper··on SAML: A fractal of bad design
ODIC cannot operate with a private-network IdP.

SAML can.

In general, SAML is complicated because (1) auth is complicated (2) XML is complicated (3) canonicalization/signatures are complicated.

Some of those are unforced errors, some are historical facts.

paulddraper··on One-Electron Universe
https://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html
paulddraper··on Ask HN: How do you interview devs in a post-AI world?
If you’re doing traditional on-site interviews, you’re already asking for multiple days (unless they live nearby).

It can be a challenge sometimes, but not as often as you might think.

I’m sure there are heavy-handed employment contracts that prohibit side work, but hasn’t been a problem in practice.

paulddraper··on Ask HN: How do you interview devs in a post-AI world?
Same as for other contractors.

Yes, there is friction, but if you do it enough, it gets reasonably small.

paulddraper··on Exfiltrate Your Weights
It's a SPA (see the example cards/pages).

So technically slightly more.

paulddraper··on Ask HN: How do you interview devs in a post-AI world?
Conventional technical interview (DSA, whiteboard architecture).

Then 1-2 day paid work trial.

Interestingly…no one has said no to the trial.

It turns out that people want to derisk their decision just as much, if not more.

paulddraper··on Tin: full-text search for Postgres
It has it.

Incredible? No.

paulddraper··on Iran school bombing: grounds to believe US was behind atrocity, UN finds
I don’t commonly hear that.

Just in the instance that was chosen.

paulddraper··on Iran school bombing: grounds to believe US was behind atrocity, UN finds
Overstated.

It was never given as a fact.

Was literally "in my opinion" speculation. A dumb opinion? Okay. But not statement of fact.

paulddraper··on Iran school bombing: grounds to believe US was behind atrocity, UN finds
To recap:

A Iranian military structure was converted into a school.

After conversion, the rest of the naval base remained there (< 100m away).

Missile strikes hit both the base and the adjacent school.

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FYI, it's not unusual for schools to be part of military bases. The U.S. itself operates over a 100. [1]

[1] https://www.dodea.edu/

paulddraper··on AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran
A targeted, coordinated attack can compromise multiple AZs.

But AFAIK AWS has only reported data loss in mec1-az2.

Cross-AZ services like S3 should have no data loss, unless there is more damage than AWS has currently published.

paulddraper··on AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran
> An Availability Zone is one or more discrete data centers with separate and redundant power infrastructure, networking, and connectivity in an AWS Region. Availability Zones in a Region are meaningfully distant from each other, up to 60 miles (~100 km) to prevent correlated failures, but close enough to use synchronous replication with single-digit millisecond latency.

> https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/aws-fault-iso...

They are far enough apart that tornados, floods, and fires cannot simultaneously impact multiple.

paulddraper··on AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran
Of course not.

The surprising thing is that multiple availability zones were bombed simultaneously.

And to my knowledge, they haven’t even yet said 2+ AZs were compromised.

paulddraper··on AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran
What AZs were affected?

I don’t think I’ve seen them say?

paulddraper··on AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran
All the AZs flooded simultaneously?!

How big was this flood?

paulddraper··on AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran
How would have that changed anything?
paulddraper··on Java 27
You misunderstand, xxx360NoScopexxx is now the default.
paulddraper··on Claude is a Contrarian
You have to use Fable or Opus 4.6 for tolerable language output.

Using Opus 4.7-5 is harmful to your health.

https://x.com/wolframs91/status/2090159644849353058?s=46

paulddraper··on Temporal raises $550M at a $12.55B valuation
> So... like exception handling?

Yes...with eventual consistency.

If your process OOMs, if the machine restarts, etc.

Plus some other distributed execution advantages.

paulddraper··on New $100k H-1B visa fee pushes tech jobs offshore
> Not surprising, H1B for my entire career was a cost cutting measure.

> Every H1B that shared their salary with me has been underpaid.

Yes.

paulddraper··on Making Startups Powerful
Airbnb is so much more versatile I almost always start there when traveling. (And then move to booking.com.)

A house for 6 people. A guaranteed view. A real kitchen. A remote location. Etc.

paulddraper··on Everyone should slow down AI development except for me
By that logic, farming is too dangerous to release.
paulddraper··on Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to 'distill' frontier models, too
Have they seen big pharma?
paulddraper··on Navier-Stokes Announcement
“if X then Y” means “(not X) or Y”

E.g. “If it’s raining, the sidewalk is wet.” That statement holds if it’s not raining or the sidewalk is wet.

This is a common occurrence in mathematics, where someone might not be able to unconditionally prove Y, but they can under the condition X. Later, another mathematician might build on this by proving X, thereby transitively proving Y. (Or conversely, they might unconditionally disprove Y, thereby disproving X.)

Many hard problems are answered this way.

For example, Fermat’s Last Theorem was proven assuming the Taniyama-Shimura-Weil Conjecture, then Wiles proved the conjecture.

Thousands of theorems rely on the the unproven Reinmann Hypothesis, which is why it’s so interesting to mathematicians.

But if your precondition is “stupid,” your proof is stupid.

paulddraper··on EFF to Courts: Don't Rewrite Copyright over AI Hype
Just imagine how much slop they could make if licensing wasn't holding them back
paulddraper··on ChatGPT Is Throwing 404
OpenAI, Anthropic, and X...

Need to have a 4th string backup (Gemini).

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