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vander_elst··on Google search drops cache link from search results
Not sure of it's only me but GitHub search is absolutely unusable, it does not find a variable name in the file I have open in the other pane and I can see it exists.
vander_elst··on How AI is changing gymnastics judging
Anyone aware of there are proposals to use computer vision for judging the technical part and the judges for the artistic part? On paper that should help fulfilling both schools of thought
vander_elst··on Sourcehut network outage post-mortem
Mostly curious about the k8s plans. From some past posts it seems that the team was strongly against employing containerization [0]. However, it seems something changed. If anyone has more info about this if love to hear more.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23030489

vander_elst··on DaedalOS – Desktop environment in the browser
Check https://bellard.org/jslinux/vm.html?url=alpine-x86.cfg&mem=1...
vander_elst··on DaedalOS – Desktop environment in the browser
Linux can already run in the browser: https://bellard.org/jslinux/vm.html?url=alpine-x86.cfg&mem=1...
vander_elst··on I told the flight attendant "the WiFi isn't working"
I'd suggest a book. I was pretty happy with "Computer Networking: A Top-down Approach" by Jim Kurose. I find it more appealing that it starts with the upper layers (http), because I was more familiar with them.
vander_elst··on Privacy is priceless, but Signal is expensive
19M for ~50 people is quite a good compensation
vander_elst··on I designed my own keyboard layout. Was it worth it?
With custom layouts how do you deal with editor shortcuts? I tried Dvorak but the cost of losing vim muscle memory was too high for me. Do you remap editor shortcuts (e.g. hjkl navigation) or do you learn the new positions from scratch?
vander_elst··on Bill Gates demonstrates Visual Basic (1991) [video]
Something is probably difficult to find these days is a CEO that writes code, and probably even more difficult one that writes code live in front of the audience!
vander_elst··on DALL·E 3
I'm definitely not using DALL·E 3 :) but this is has been my experience for all other image generators
vander_elst··on DALL·E 3
For all the press releases the images displayed are always very impressive, however whenever I try a similar (at least from my point of view) prompt I get undefined blobs full of mistakes. Is my prompt-fu that low or is that a more widespread issue?
vander_elst··on Experts fear crooks are cracking keys stolen in LastPass breach
How can the attackers eventually exchange crypto for fiat currency without revealing their identity? It seems that now their wallet address is known and all transactions will be closely monitored therefore it would seem that the whenever they try to buy real goods it might be possible to identify them. Maybe sell the crypto to criminals for cash? But than now the chain is tainted and the buyer will have the same problem.
vander_elst··on I'm OK, the bull is dead (2004)
This might be also a cultural difference and might cause some friction in the communication. If I remember correctly in general in the US it is preferred the style "what; why" while in Europe generally it is more "why; what". If the appropriate style works it's not used you might be perceived arrogant or condescending. Very high level generalization here but I think you get the point.
vander_elst··on Git-appraise – Distributed Code Review for Git
I think this has some drawbacks because it seems to require a lot of discipline from all the parties, to keep the source code clean once you are ready to merge and even if you have some presubmit checks if a human makes a mistake and has some typo in the comment, that might end up in the main branch. Ideally all the new changes are small but that's not always possible and the larger the change the higher the probability to leave comments around. I agree it's not the end of the world but such things do add up over time and if you are in a big shop things will definitely get messy, it's just a matter of time.
vander_elst··on The oldest and most expensive rum?
7 to 10k a bottle doesn't seem so much to be honest, there are several wine producers that sell bottles for much more than that.
vander_elst··on U.S. Senate bill crafted with DEA targets end-to-end encryption
Portugal tried this approach and in practice it did not work very well ( https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/07/07/portugal-dru... ). The Netherlands are also going back on this.
vander_elst··on Linux Hits All-Time High of 3% of Desktop PC Share After 30 Years
Why isn't Chrome OS counted as Linux? It runs on a Linux kernel.
vander_elst··on How much information is too much information? (2022)
Are there any implementations of this? So that it's possible to measure it for a given piece of code?
vander_elst··on Linux has achieved a 3% desktop market share
Chrome OS is actually also Linux isn't it?
vander_elst··on GPT-4 API General Availability
Single digit cents per query (let's say 2) is A LOT. Let's say the service runs at 10krps (made up, we can discuss about this) it means the service costs 200$ a second i.e 20M$ a day (oversimplifying a day with 100k seconds, but this might be ok to get us in the ballpark), which means that running the model for a year (400 days, sorry simplifying) is around 8B$, so too run 10krps we are in the order of billions per year. We can discuss some of the assumptions but I think that of we are in the ballpark of cents per query the infrastructure costs are significant.
vander_elst··on Travel across Germany with the 49 Euro ticket
It's actually not that easy to get the ticket. The ticket is not just a ticket that you can but at a machine whenever you want, it's actually a subscription that at the moment can only be started at the beginning of the month and the request must be received something like 4 days before the end of the month, otherwise you slip to the next month. I'm not sure if there are additional conditions not covered here but I can imagine there are are lots of other quirks.
vander_elst··on Generative AI learning path
I have the impression that these days there's a very strong bias against Google on HN.
vander_elst··on TOML: Tom's Obvious Minimal Language
I wonder why text protobuf is not widely used for config. There is a formal description of the structure and the configuration structure can be statically checked.
vander_elst··on Neovim 0.9
> Everything works just like it's supposed to

There are different defaults for the pane management and the terminal. The vim defaults, IMO, allow a more consistent user experience. E.g. when you are in a vim terminal and you go to normal mode to yank some stuff to put it in the other pane with the code, nvim defaults adds line numbers to the terminal that need to be cleaned up afterwards, vim just does not add them. This is just one small example, but there are several edge cases where the vim defaults behave like I would expect and nvim either does something unexpected or it lags or it crashes.

vander_elst··on Neovim 0.9
I've really tried to move from vim to neovim for a long time and spent many hours trying to configure it to behave like vim, but every time I try it breaks in unexpected ways or it hungs up, while vim for my workflow never flinks. I hope that they'll reach a 1.0 soon where things are more stable.
vander_elst··on Calling all open source maintainers
Sometimes it's hard to distinguish between what's a joke and what's not. I thought at first this was an April's fool, but it actually seems real.
vander_elst··on AAD misconfiguration led to Bing.com results manipulation, account takeover
In their report (https://msrc.microsoft.com/blog/2023/03/guidance-on-potentia...) Microsoft doesn't even say whether end users were impacted. This seems to be a MASSIVE issue.
vander_elst··on Google Reader shut down announced ten years ago today
Reading that post you can really see how little Google cares about the end users. They are closing products and removing features without providing a replacement and providing ridiculously short timelines for changing.
vander_elst··on Bard and new AI features in Search
Isn't this what the Google assistant basically does?
vander_elst··on Ask HN: How to self-promote at work?
I disagree, the organization needs to know that feature came from YOU. I'm very bad at this and I from my experience every time I don't do this some one else swipes in and gets the merit, e.g. my boss bragging they were able to successfully lead the delivery (they didn't even know what the feature was about it until after delivery), a co-worker (who might have helped rolling it out during onduty) etc. Promoting yourself is essential.
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