I feel like if you're worried about picking the right abstraction then this is almost certainly the wrong one.
Readit NewsBetween this and the UK Online Safety Bill, how are people meant to keep track?
Launch a small website and commit a felony in 7 states and 13 countries.
I wouldn't have known about the Mississippi bill unless I'd read this. How are we have to know?
More to the point, why would anyone outside of Mississippi need to comply? What legal grounds do they have to dictate what other people do outside of their state?
contravariant commented on Playing every game of Wordle simultaneously chriskw.xyz/2025/08/24/Hy... · Posted by u/chriskw
What's the point? You play these games to improve your own mind, or for your own enjoyment.
No you see chatgpt is doing the thinking for us now, instead of using your own brain to struggle with a puzzle that is trivial to solve for a simple algorithm you can let a language model struggle with it for you! You get all of the enjoyment from solving a puzzle with an inefficient overly complicated general purpose solver, without needing to put in any work yourself!
I'm a bit curious why some times like 190ms don't get even slightly highlighted as an outlier when regular traffic is clearly 125+/-5ms
contravariant commented on Monero appears to be in the midst of a successful 51% attack twitter.com/p3b7_/status/... · Posted by u/treyd
There is such a thing as useful proof of work. Qubic may not be doing it but it does exist. The linked papers [1][2] are examples of way to do it. They aren't 100% "useful" but rather achieve partial efficiency by essentially forcing miners down random paths in a manner that limits the ability to complete work ahead of time or otherwise "cheat".
Proof of useful work feels like it's one and a half steps removed from discovering seigniorage and reinventing money.
contravariant commented on Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act bbc.com/news/articles/cjr... · Posted by u/phlummox
Because, as someone living in the UK, the only way people here are going to realise what's going on and apply meaningful pressure to the government is if these organisations force us to. And because once they've given up on one country, they'll give up on the rest just as easily.
Sure, but letting the UK government block wikipedia makes things _much_ clearer for everyone.
One more optimization idea: instead of the trie mapping to the suffix string directly, then instead make an array of unique suffixes and let the trie map to the index into the array, e.g.
const suffixes = [",,,", "a,u,u,u", ",,i,s", ",,,s", "i,a,a,a", ...];
var serializedInput = "{e:{n:{ein:0_r: ...You could go a step further by putting the suffixes themselves into the trie and then identifying identical subtrees.
If you can use gzip there's bound to be a clever way of using a suffix array as well, that might end up being better unless you can use an optimised binary format for the tree.
When the cost of different requests varies widely it’s difficult to get it right. When we rolled out docker I saw a regression in p95 time. I countered this by doubling our instance size and halving the count, which made the number of processes per machine slightly more instead of way less than the number of machines. I reasoned that the local load balancing would be a bit fairer and that proved out in the results.
I'm not 100% sure if it's just load balancing. It would depend on the details of the setup but that situation also allows you to throw more resources at each request.
I mean obviously there is a point where splitting up the instances doesn't help because you're just leaving more instances completely idle, or with too little resources to be helpful.
I have never been able to wrap my head around why 2 random works better in load balancing than leastconn. At least in caching it makes sense why it would work better than another heuristic.
Technically it doesn't, it's just really hard to implement leastconn correctly.
If you had perfect information and could just pick whichever was provably lowest that'd would probably work. However keeping that information up to date also takes effort. And if your information is outdated it's easy to overload a server that you think doesn't have much to do or underload one that's long since finished with its tasks. Picking between 2 random servers introduces some randomness without allowing the spread to become huge.
Couldn't you just print the product number as a barcode/qrcode and let a "dumb code scanner" read it, instead of having to download a multifunctional LLM?
The page loads but doesn't offer to register the product, which is probably for the best.