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zcw100··on Why big tech companies need so many people
I think I'm on number four...

> Posting this just never gets old... > > It must have been a couple of months because... > >> I keep this link sitting around and enjoy dusting it off every couple of > >> months or so > >> https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...

zcw100··on Ask HN: How to distribute a lot of images throughout multiple Universities
IPFS does provide data reliability with the use of pinning services, a private cluster, or cooperative cluster. It seems to be difficult how to communicate how IPFS works in this regard and there are a lot of misunderstandings about it. There are some people who want IPFS to be an infinite free hard drive in the sky with automatic replication and persistence till the end of time. (it is not). Then there are the people who worry that, "OMG someone can just put evil content onto my machine and I have to provide it!" (it does not)

IPFS makes it very easy to replicate content, but you don't have to replicate anything you don't want to. Resources cost money so you either have to ask someone to do it for free, and you get what you get as far as reliability, or you pay someone and you get better reliability so long as you keep paying.

zcw100··on GraphGPT: Extrapolating knowledge graphs from unstructured text
It's a combination of reification and bitemporal modeling.
zcw100··on Telling your inner critic to chill
By what metric do they work? And what is mindfulness? You have something that can’t be measured or defined.
zcw100··on From Google: Why we focus on AI (and to what end)
Maybe this article was written by a Google AI. I don’t see an author listed.
zcw100··on Despite everything you think you know, America is on the right track
You could make the argument that America is great because we think we suck and drive ourselves harder than might be necessary. It's when you think you're great that you become complacent.
zcw100··on Globalization is dead and no one is listening
Give me a good definition of globalization and then you can declare whatever that is to be dead.
zcw100··on How to write unmantainable code (2015)
Maybe this would be a good use for AI code generation. Reversable non-obfuscated obfuscated code. If you just obfuscate it it's pretty obvious what you're doing but if an AI can obfuscate it in a what that looks like something that is plausible that you could have written it you'd get away with it. Reversable so that you could undo it make updates and then reobfuscale.
zcw100··on WebAssembly: Docker Without Containers
I'll start by saying I'm a big fan of wasm but just a couple of comments about the articles.

I really with the WebAssembly community would stop quoting that tweet from Solomon Hykes. It's taken somewhat out of context and while at the time it was a big shoutout to the wasm underdog it's now a bit over used. Wasm really needs to justify itself with more than just a tweet and I think that it can.

"Polyglot - 40+ languages can be compiled to Wasm" is a bit misleading which anyone would see if you listed the 40+ languages. A lot of them are going to be very obscure ones and a lot of the popular ones are on that list. Factually correct but you're just setting people up to be disappointed. "40+ languages oh boy!.....What the heck is Zig? and no Python?!" (yes, I know you can sort of run Python if you run the entire interpreter)

zcw100··on Ask HN: Am I the only one hurt by lack of writing skills?
It's interesting that your solution to the problem was spending your time writing an app rather than working on your writing skills. That may be some of your problem right there. You don't actually value it. You've no doubt improved your coding skills with no improvement in your writing skills.

It might help to look at it in reverse to see the problem with your approach. Imagine someone with a degree in journalism saying, "I need to improve my coding skills" and going out and writing a blog post about coding instead of doing any actual coding.

zcw100··on Spiral’s Homomorphic Encryption – Is This the Future of Privacy?
OpenFHE is one https://www.openfhe.org
zcw100··on Brain study suggests the workday needs to be radically restructured
Why does it require a "brain study" to even suggest restructuring the workday?
zcw100··on Ford drops full self-driving cars
You can give up without ever saying the words, "I'm giving up" which is what I expect Tesla will do and keep the money.
zcw100··on DIY gadgets that could keep your energy bill down
Why exactly 18"? That's some specific installation. You can make it any length you want. I encourage you to not be so smug.
zcw100··on DIY gadgets that could keep your energy bill down
I get the desire to do stuff like this but the numbers never work out. Wrapping a large diameter drain pipe with copper is hella expensive and a terrible heat exchanger. It would take a century to recover the cost of the copper plus installation. Also It's best not to screw around with waste water. You want that stuff to get to where it needs to go. There are enough problems with it even when you're not messing around and even one backup during the its lifetime would easily cause enough damage to offer the entire thing.
zcw100··on A large scale non-linear optimization library
I'd be interested to see how this compares to Googles also recently released Vizier https://oss-vizier.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ other than one is black box and the other isn't.
zcw100··on The Internet needs the InterPlanetary File System
IPFS Cluster https://ipfscluster.io
zcw100··on The Internet needs the InterPlanetary File System
Not if you use PubSub
zcw100··on The Internet needs the InterPlanetary File System
And that's exactly what IPNS does. You can also use DNS with DNSLink.
zcw100··on The Internet needs the InterPlanetary File System
Same people but Filecoin doesn't even use IPFS.
zcw100··on Ask HN: What's Your Biggest Regret?
I get what you’re going for but I’ve found that attitude in other people distasteful. First it’s a normal emotion and simply refusing to experience an emotion probably isn’t healthy. It also means you are never really sorry even if you might say it. How can you truly be sorry for something without regretting having done it? It ends up translating to “I’m sorry for the outcome and that it hurt you but if I had to do it all over again I would still do it knowing that it hurt you” and that isn’t really an apology.

A regret is a mistake that you don’t want to make in the future only it’s projected into the past. “I regret having done that because if I went back to the past, knowing what I know now, I wouldn’t have done that”

You’re also inviting other people not to regret their choices even when those decisions negatively affect you.

zcw100··on Why big tech shreds millions of storage devices it could reuse
This only seems like an odd thing, not to use them, if you assume the cost of operating them is at or close to zero. It is not.
zcw100··on Capsule: the nano (WASM) functions runner
And RedPanda uses WebAssembly as an execution engine to keep with the WASM theme here. https://redpanda.com/blog/wasm-architecture
zcw100··on The Rise of Fully Homomorphic Encryption
There are a few companies in this space. Duality is one of the bigger ones. https://dualitytech.com/
zcw100··on Stable Diffusion based image compression
There's a really nice lecture series on data compression with deep probabalistic models https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL05umP7R6ij0Mp1dW2HuX...
zcw100··on Video shows GOP fake elector giving 'unauthorized access' to voting equipment
"So what has you so upset?"....."Comet Ping-pong pedo ring, contrails, Q, where we go one we go all, derrrrr"

Nope, coming in loud and clear, not a bubble problem.

zcw100··on Stable Diffusion based image compression
You can do lossless neural compression too.
zcw100··on Java’s Cultural Problem
This is just an angry rant by someone describing themselves as a “functional programming enthusiast”. The post is only tangentially about Java and is really about a framework called Quarkus.

If there’s a culture problem it’s the “Look at me. I learned something new and now I’m going to do my best to burn down everyone else”. If you want to program in Haskell or whatever have a great time. Think it’s so great? Prove it by writing great software with it.

zcw100··on Homelab 10“ mini-rack shelves
Or just run some cable and don’t put the AP on the rack.
zcw100··on Homelab 10“ mini-rack shelves
I’ve been looking for something like this as I anxiously await the delivery of my TuringPI

https://turingpi.com/

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