ForkMeOnTinder (u/ForkMeOnTinder)

ForkMeOnTinder commented on Spot Bitcoin ETF receives official approval from the SEC cointelegraph.com/news/se... · Posted by u/talboren

qwytw · 2 years ago

> Okay, so not because you say so but because you think so :)

Well.. I mean it's a bit like the "climate change is fake" or "5G causes cancer" people. Getting into a serious argument with them only legitimizes their viewpoints and makes them seem just as valid for not good reason..

ForkMeOnTinder · 2 years ago

- climate change is fake

- 5G causes cancer

- bitcoin is a scam

Your substantive and well-reasoned argument fits right in with that list ;)

ForkMeOnTinder commented on Adélie Linux adelielinux.org/about/... · Posted by u/BSDobelix

arittr · 2 years ago

> Your needs are complex—and that's music to our ears because we're constantly looking for new ways to further refine Adélie. Please note that we do not support inherently broken designs.

Idk i probably wouldn’t use this simply because of this text, but that’s just me.

ForkMeOnTinder · 2 years ago

Yeah I hate this spammy marketing speak.

> Whether you've taken a few photos with your phone's camera or you're a professional photographer with terabytes of digital negatives, Adélie gives you the tools you need to manage and view all your photos.

Translation:

> Adélie installs digiKam by default

ForkMeOnTinder commented on Don't pass structs bigger than 16 bytes on AMD64 gist.github.com/FeepingCr... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

Cloudef · 2 years ago

It's rare to hit it, but if you do, having it happen silently is not ideal for sure.

ForkMeOnTinder · 2 years ago

I still think noalias-by-default is the way to fix this.

https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/1108

You get all the benefits of Zig being able to choose the function ABI, but if the optimization would have caused a bug, you'll get an immediate panic at the function entrypoint, instead of silently corrupted data.

ForkMeOnTinder commented on Whistleblower Aid whistlebloweraid.org/... · Posted by u/mooreds

yboris · 2 years ago

I've felt for 20 years now that a nice system design would be to, by law, give 10% of the fine levied against a wrong-doing company to the whistleblower. This way there's always a financial incentive to whistle-blow, especially when the wrongdoing is egregious.

ForkMeOnTinder · 2 years ago

The SEC does this.

https://www.sec.gov/whistleblower/frequently-asked-questions

> The Whistleblower Program was created by Congress to provide monetary incentives for individuals to come forward and report possible violations of the federal securities laws to the SEC. Under the program, eligible whistleblowers are entitled to an award between 10 and 30% of the monetary sanctions collected in actions brought by the SEC and related actions brought by certain other regulatory and law enforcement authorities.

ForkMeOnTinder commented on The Curious Case of MD5 katelynsills.com/law/the-... · Posted by u/w4lker

userbinator · 2 years ago

There's a GIF MD5-quine here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13823704

And a PNG version too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32956964

But no one has made an exclusively plaintext (ASCII) MD5-quine yet, and I suspect doing so may be impossible given the characteristics of collision blocks.

ForkMeOnTinder · 2 years ago

How is it impossible? I would think an MD5 quine exists with probability approaching 1 as the size of the document grows to infinity. Think about the reduced problem:

1. a document containing "1", whose hash begins with "1"

2. a document containing "12", whose hash begins with "12"

3. a document containing "123", whose hash begins with "123"

#1 is certain to exist. #2 exists, but would take 16x as long to brute force. #3 would take 16x longer again. If this pattern doesn't continue until 2^128, where would it stop, and why?

All hashes can be brute forced this way, even secure ones SHA-2. Its security relies on the fact that the earth doesn't contain enough computing power to execute a brute force attack within the universe's lifetime.

ForkMeOnTinder commented on 2024's public domain is a banger pluralistic.net/2023/12/2... · Posted by u/matijao

Eric_WVGG · 2 years ago

I think it's because the list just isn't all that interesting… are you as hyped about all the new works based on Virginia Wolfe's Orlando as I am?

Academically, it's interesting to think over the media that would already be in public domain had Sonny Bono and Clinton not sold us out… basically everything through World War II, and (since all anyone brings up is Steamboat Willie) all the big foundational Disney movies from Snow White through Bambi and Dumbo. Makes one wonder if this fad for "live-action remakes" isn't connected…

ForkMeOnTinder · 2 years ago

In a way that means the copyright lobbyists have won. You don't find the list interesting now, but 14+14 years after 1928 you would have. A lot of it would still be fresh in our collective minds. Now in 2024, most of it is dead to us.

What about 14+14 years ago (1996)... can you think of any music/movies from the mid-90s or before that would be interesting to remix? I sure can. But very few people are still going to care in 1996+95 = the year 2091.

ForkMeOnTinder commented on Email addresses are not good 'permanent' identifiers for accounts utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/spa... · Posted by u/throw0101b

superjan · 2 years ago

Well the argument not that it it readily available, but that most countries do have an administration of their inhabitants.

ForkMeOnTinder · 2 years ago

So instead of "There is a good identity", GP should have said "There are about 200 good identities around the world, but if your country happens to not have a single unified ID system you're out of luck"

ForkMeOnTinder commented on Email addresses are not good 'permanent' identifiers for accounts utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/spa... · Posted by u/throw0101b

Solvency · 2 years ago

> they want to be able to choose non-unique ones rather than end up with user53267 or something inane.

Disagreed. I'm 39. I've known hundreds of people (HS, college, etc) and many close friends who willingly made email accounts like "brijacks85" (their birth year) or "sammichelson212" even when their actual names were still fully available on yahoo/gmail/hotmail, etc. I used to regularly create email accounts for these people using just their names and then ask "why didn't you just check your own name first?" and they'd usually just shrug with total indifference and never use the account I made for them.

ForkMeOnTinder · 2 years ago

I'd never use an account someone else made for me either. Who knows if after you created it, you added some recovery questions or a recovery email or saved the login cookie or who knows what else? I'll stick with my fresh account made on my own PC through my own connection, thanks.

ForkMeOnTinder commented on Compare Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, Mwmbl, and ChatGPT danluu.com/seo-spam/... · Posted by u/882542F3884314B

anonymoushn · 2 years ago

Probably for the same reason that there are so many more posts about anything that make claims than that explore evidence systematically, especially when the people making the posts stand to gain nothing by spending their time that way.

I encounter claims that "protobuf is faster than json" pretty regularly but it seems like nobody has actually benchmarked this. Typical protobuf decoder benchmarks say that protobuf decodes ~5x slower than json, and I don't think it's ~5x smaller for the same document, but I'm also not dedicating my weekend to convincing other people about this.

ForkMeOnTinder · 2 years ago

The problem with benchmarking that claim is there's no one true "json decoder" that everyone uses. You choose one based on your language -- JSON.stringify if you're using JS, serde_json if you're using Rust, etc.

So what people are actually saying is, a typical protobuf implementation decodes faster than a typical JSON implementation for a typical serialized object -- and that's true in my experience.

Tying this back into the thread topic of search engine results, I googled "protobuf json benchmark" and the first result is this Golang benchmark which seems relevant. https://shijuvar.medium.com/benchmarking-protocol-buffers-js... Results for specific languages like "rust protobuf json benchmark" also look nice and relevant, but I'm not gonna click on all these links to verify.

In my experience programming searches tend to get much better results than other types of searches, so I think the article's claim still holds.

ForkMeOnTinder commented on Things are about to get worse for generative AI garymarcus.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/eddyzh

madamelic · 2 years ago

> It is dystopian, and it already exists, e.g. printers refusing to print anything that looks sufficiently like money.

There is no fair or private use of hyper-realistic fake money.

There are fair uses of copyrighted materials unless you want to start suing children for copyright infringement when they draw a character.

ForkMeOnTinder · 2 years ago

> There is no fair or private use of hyper-realistic fake money.

What about every movie ever made where two people trade a briefcase full of cash?