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Ben Gras.

My day job is security researcher at Intel Corporation. I'm interested in EDA tools and RTL analysis, systems programming, embedded programming, and the many challenges that intersect with that world.

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/bengnl; my proof: https://keybase.io/bengnl/sigs/cYVoDysjOMs0TJKfmofAZPhd0BFqtV5jZNCOynkHBUs ]

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beng-nl
·3 ngày trước·discuss
The scourge of nouning.
beng-nl
·4 ngày trước·discuss
I see how jarring it is for you, but I want to comment-vouch against your flag. If you slow down a little, you can spot some meaning there. Its oddly phrased, but it does make sense that vectors (as in: simd vectors) are the building blocks of execution (to put it closer to how I might say it).

I’ve had similar ideas in the past: clearly simd is the way to get the most out of your cpu. Can we design a language where all operations are automatically simd, and it takes effort to do anything in scalars?

And I guess these array languages are what you might get.

It’s not ‘unit vector of thought,’ btw, which is weirder than what it says.
beng-nl
·4 ngày trước·discuss
Not if the thing is actually worth $3000
beng-nl
·4 ngày trước·discuss
You are motivating me to get enough reputation points to be allowed to downvote.
beng-nl
·5 ngày trước·discuss
I also think the friction is a higher obstacle than the cost.
beng-nl
·6 ngày trước·discuss
Wow, that is honestly a bit freaky - first I’ve heard of anything like that. I will assume it was a client side action, but still horribly invasive if that’s how it went. I’ll try to find more about this possibility.
beng-nl
·6 ngày trước·discuss
Can you be sure WhatsApp retroactively censored a message? Implying someone else but the direct recipient could read and delete/change it? (I believe group chats are different, forgot the details.) I don’t want to be dismissive but.. well i dont believe this is the best explanation given just these observations.
beng-nl
·6 ngày trước·discuss
Phegasus
beng-nl
·7 ngày trước·discuss
And we’re not sure about the cosmos.
beng-nl
·8 ngày trước·discuss
The water isn’t destroyed, though, is it? It evaporates, right? So it isn’t lost?
beng-nl
·11 ngày trước·discuss
I don’t get what you’re implying. What is repatriating; You think they will move their workloads to on-prem?

Is there something different about the world that changed the trade-off calculus for cloud vs on-prem from how it was in the last 15 years compared to now?

(I’m as anti-cloud-overspend as the next guy on hn btw. Just trying to make sense of your comment’s worldview.)
beng-nl
·13 ngày trước·discuss
Ouch, did not expect to get triggered by this on HN

- Peugeot 2008 owner but not much longer
beng-nl
·19 ngày trước·discuss
As a thought experiment - such shocks (govt pressure to use models for bad purposes and govt excluding access to non-Americans) coming early in the ‘ai revolution’ will wake up the rest of the world sooner that they have to get their act together to stay competitive without relying on USA. Just like with nato.
beng-nl
·20 ngày trước·discuss
It’s not ai penned, it’s human authored.
beng-nl
·20 ngày trước·discuss
What happens when you teach him to fish :-(
beng-nl
·23 ngày trước·discuss
I loved that show. The love that went into it really shows.

Sadly the gap between reality and satire has shrunk.

But yes. I also wish that show would come back.

Noam shazeer would be google head dreamer
beng-nl
·tháng trước·discuss
Can you write a more specific question? I think the meaning of the comment is clear enough, but maybe you’re asking for more specifics? Ironically I can not understand what you are asking for with such a generic comment.
beng-nl
·tháng trước·discuss
I have very fond memories of reading that book.
beng-nl
·tháng trước·discuss
Your last paragraph hit home with me. I also find it refreshing to be clear and direct, have the intent be directly understood, and have a pleasant, good faith, high signal conversation as a result. I hardly ever experience that with humans (I recognize that that’s not ‘everyone else’s fault’ of course).
beng-nl
·tháng trước·discuss
Just a thought, but: maybe it’s even easier to (as well as do what you suggest, which is a good idea) build and sell buggy (ie backdoored) devices.

What’s easier, marketing or finding bugs :-)

(Not a rhetorical question)