salil999 (u/salil999)

salil999 commented on Flaw has Microsoft Authenticator overwriting MFA accounts, locking users out csoonline.com/article/348... · Posted by u/miles

deepsquirrelnet · a year ago

Until recently, treasurydirect made you login using your mouse by pressing a keyboard laid out on a screen. This is a government website in the US for buying treasury bonds.

I didn’t know this when I made my account and fired up keepass per usual to create a massive random password. It takes me nearly 5 minutes of carefully pressing buttons on the screen and trying to keep my location in the password (you can’t see what you entered) just to get in.

salil999 · a year ago

I got around this by just editing the HTML. Worked like a charm

salil999 commented on Show HN: NoteTech – Create personal automations by writing notes simpltech.ai... · Posted by u/kenstler

smusamashah · a year ago

The video shows actions on external services. Can NoteTech be used to automate phone activities e.g. "Turn phone silent from 10pm to 6am" , "When John is calling, ring at full volume" ?

salil999 · a year ago

I think you can already do some of this in iOS with the Shortcuts app

salil999 commented on OpenFeature: Standardizing Feature Flagging openfeature.dev/... · Posted by u/alexzeitler

salil999 · a year ago

I'm confused as to why this needs to be standardized? OTel makes sense because multiple applications can consume metrics and logs. Feature flags are typically contained within a company and they typically don't need to be transferred across to other places.

salil999 commented on Show HN: Elles – A nicer /bin/ls github.com/arp242/elles... · Posted by u/arp242

salil999 · a year ago

I would also take a look at exa: https://the.exa.website/

It's been my ls replacement for a while now and it's very customizable!

salil999 commented on Stack Overflow Community Is Not Happy with the OpenAI Deal favtutor.com/articles/sta... · Posted by u/thunderbong

amarant · a year ago

This might be a controversial opinion, but to me it seems kinda petty to remove your answers from SO to stop open-ai from improving their models.

Honestly I don't quite understand all reluctance around AI. It will either improve productivity, or it will be irrelevant. If it doesn't provide quality, it will be outcompeted.

The only consistent argument I can see against AI requires us to view employment as a social welfare program, but if that's the case, why aren't we considering an actual social welfare program?

salil999 · a year ago

The claim I've heard is that you're essentially feeding your own knowledge for free into a proprietary system that can be used to generate cash for whatever corporation owns that system (i.e. ChatGPT from OpenAI). I think it's pointless to redact content for this purpose as well but clearly some people have strong takes against AI training.

salil999 commented on Meta does everything OpenAI should be old.reddit.com/r/MachineL... · Posted by u/quick_brown_fox

jstummbillig · a year ago

Meta is not in the AI business. Meta is in the attention business (in this case, actually, no pun intended). If AI is not your product (as in: not how you need to make money), you can be be "generous". Making other peoples products less competitive by aggressively subsidising part of your business is not that cool of a move.

If Meta starts being all open and generous about their core assets, we can start talking. But we will not start talking. Because that will not happen.

salil999 · a year ago

> If Meta starts being all open and generous about their core assets

I think they are pretty open about it?

- https://www.meta.ai/ requires no log in (for now at least)

- PyTorch is open source

- Various open models like LLama, Detectron, ELF, etc

- Various public datasets like FACET, MMCSG, etc

- A lot of research papers describing their findings

salil999 commented on The problem with new URL(), and how URL.parse() fixes that kilianvalkhof.com/2024/ja... · Posted by u/kilian

salil999 · a year ago

In the example they have

> const urlstring = "this is not a URL";

> const not_a_url = URL.canParse(urlstring) && new URL(urlstring);

Why would you need the latter part of the condition? Couldn't it just be this?

> const isValidURL = URL.canParse(urlstring);

Posted by u/salil999 a year ago

Google wants employees to move faster cnbc.com/2024/04/23/googl...

salil999 commented on Meta Llama 3 llama.meta.com/llama3/... · Posted by u/bratao

nickthegreek · a year ago

And they even allow you to use it without logging in. Didnt expect that from Meta.

salil999 · a year ago

I do see on the bottom left:

salil999 commented on Show HN: BSON Extension for Postgres github.com/buzzm/postgres... · Posted by u/buzzm

hanszarkov · 2 years ago

I've used the BSON Java ObjectId for distributed primary key generation for a long time. Really useful for distributed systems.

salil999 · 2 years ago

It's specifically advised NOT to use ObjectId for distribution. This data type has a notion of time embedded in it which results in monotonically increasing ObjectIds. Use UUID or a hashed version of the ObjectId

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