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Skunkleton
·21 giorni fa·discuss
If your goal is to understand the quality of the espresso shot, rather than experience a high quality espresso shot, letting it cool off provides a useful data point.
Skunkleton
·25 giorni fa·discuss
Watts * seconds are joules. Joules is a unit of energy. Watts are power.
Skunkleton
·mese scorso·discuss
> Schiendelman sent you a message on hacker news clarifying what its showing. It's you asking about the plant she told you about, it finding that text message, summarizing, and also proving with the text that it's accurate.

wow! we are in the future!
Skunkleton
·mese scorso·discuss
In the simplest possible terms: this is total bullshit security theatre. At no point has there ever been a bomb or even a bomb threat carried out via usb device names. There is absolutely no reason to even look at the names of Bluetooth devices on a flight.
Skunkleton
·2 mesi fa·discuss
You must be joking. Google ties all of your searches to you wether you log in or not.
Skunkleton
·2 mesi fa·discuss
Yeah, this is basically what happened with prop 65 as well.
Skunkleton
·2 mesi fa·discuss
My understanding is that the rules around those is similar to prop 65 rules. So unfocused as to dilute the original purpose.
Skunkleton
·3 mesi fa·discuss
Because spacex already bought xai.
Skunkleton
·3 mesi fa·discuss
The title is misleading and not in the article. This change is for business/enterprise accounts. Also, these are still credit based. The change is that credits now operate on tokens like the API rather than on messages as they used to.
Skunkleton
·3 mesi fa·discuss
The TurboQuant paper is from April 2025. I’m sure the major labs knew about it on, or even before, the day it published. Any impact it had would have been a year ago. Yet I keep seeing these posts and discuss completely ignoring this.

Can we please start talking about this in that context? We already know what TurboQuant will do to DRAM demand. We already know what it will do to context windows. There is no need to speculate. There is no need to panic sell stocks.
Skunkleton
·4 mesi fa·discuss
It could also be that masters degrees concentrate in fields with lower compensation. Teachers are in high demand, but yet they still tend to have something beyond an undergrad.
Skunkleton
·4 mesi fa·discuss
I didn't add a why. Here is why.

Most of the staff doesn't have the visibility into the business to understand what may or may not make money. You can have a great idea, even on that could be a successful product, but it could still be a bad fit for the business.
Skunkleton
·4 mesi fa·discuss
This depends on your goals. If your goal is to drive efficiency into your processes, drive down tech debt, or fix pain points for customers of your existing products, sure. Most people at a your company with have thoughts, and lots of them will have good ideas.

If your goal is to pivot the company into new verticals, or to develop an entirely new product, then "asking staff for ideas" isn't a likely way to succeed.
Skunkleton
·4 mesi fa·discuss
I don't think it's odd. Sacrificing deep understanding, and delegating that responsibility to others is risky. In more concrete terms, if your livelihood depends on application development, you have concrete dependencies on platforms, frameworks, compilers, operating systems, and other abstractions that without which you might not be able to perform your job.

Fewer abstractions, deeper understanding, fewer dependencies on others. These concepts show up over and over and not just in software. It's about safety.
Skunkleton
·4 mesi fa·discuss
My experience is that "asking staff for ideas" does not lead to successful products. Sometimes, sure, but in general it does not.
Skunkleton
·5 mesi fa·discuss
It's not just fork. The operating system overcommits memory all over the place. For example, when you map memory, that can/will succeed without actually mapping physical pages. Even "available" memory is put to some use and freed in an asynchronous way behind the scene, a process that is not always successful.

Honestly, I think overcommit is a good thing. If you want to give a process an isolated address space, then you have to allow that process to lay out memory as it sees fit, without having to worry too much about what else happens to be on the system. If you immediately "charge" the process for this, you will end up nit-picking every process on the system, even though with overcommit you would have been fine.
Skunkleton
·5 mesi fa·discuss
If you make structural changes to your filesystem without a journal, and you fail mid way, there is a 100% chance your filesystem is not in a known state, and a very good chance it is in a non-self-consistent state that will lead to some interesting surprises down the line.
Skunkleton
·6 mesi fa·discuss
Yes, that is really all it is.
Skunkleton
·6 mesi fa·discuss
In the context of the kernel, it’s hard to say when that’s true. It’s very easy to fix some bug that resulted in a kernel crash without considering that it could possibly be part of some complex exploit chain. Basically any bug could be considered a security bug.
Skunkleton
·7 mesi fa·discuss
> The spontaneous explosions become so common and normalized that just about everyone knows someone who got caught up in one, a dead friend of a friend, at least

That’s an extraordinary claim.