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Hey, I’m acutely in the market (considering moving away from Google) 2 Qs: 1. How does OpenCage correctness/completeness compare to Google Maps API, especially in rural and industr…

What would happen if Russia attacked these power plants directly? Are they built to "fail safe" even when hit by a missile, or is there a big risk of nuclear meltdown?

I encourage anyone to read the (surprisingly plain-english) first few pages of the decision, but here is the gist of it: > In January 2024, the court issued a post-trial opinion fi…

For anyone else confused by what actually happened, here is a summary compiled from various sources around the conviction and the related 1MDB scandal: --- Jho Low, a Malaysian fin…

The frustrating thing with SOC2, or pretty much most compliance requirements, is that they are less about what’s “technically true”, and more about minimizing raised eyebrows. It d…

Read the notes in the link you posted. I don’t think it says what you think it says. In May 2020, the definition of M1 (monetary supply in “cash”) was changed to include savings de…

I mean a normal passenger on a normal plane making a normal trip to an office building and finding a hidden location where to tape a small box with an arduino in it. Maybe even on …

What’s wrong with the tried-and-tested technique of flying a guy or girl over there to drop a small gadget in WiFi proximity?

You’d need to go a level below the API that most embedding services expose. A transformer-based embedding model doesn’t just give you a vector for the entire input string, it gives…

Wow, this is ridiculously polished for a one-man-show side project. Massive kudos. Do you have a write-up somewhere of how you built this? I think there is a lot that I (and probab…

In a perfect market, the market maker who sells you that option offsets it with correlated assets in the other direction, eg by buying or selling stock that is sensitive to the ele…

This is awesome, but I'm not sure what the long-term use case for the intersection of low-latency integration and non-production-stable is? I'm saying this as someone with way more…

I see - I suppose that’s a fair viewpoint to have! I’m not much of a python programmer but my experience with the language would make me tend to agree actually. There are bigger fi…

What’s wrong with being explicit about “I really do mean anything that goes wrong” by catching the base class?

Why would you go through all the hassle of setting up an air-gapped system, only to stop at enforcing strict code signing for any executable delivered via USB?

1. Slack has network effects: we connect with customers on Slack (or M$ Teams for enterprise…) 2. I don’t want to innovate on “back office”. Slack works, is sufficiently affordable…

My understanding was that the extra parameters required for the second attention mechanism are included in those 6.8B parameters (i.e. those are the total parameters of the model, …

Some of the "prior art" here is ladder networks and to some handwavy extent residual nets, both of which can be interpreted as training the model on reducing the error to its previ…

This certainly contributed to people preferring card over cash, making merchants loose ~3% per transaction. That ship has long sailed, but it does male you wonder: if everything wa…

I see what you're saying, but I don't think it applies in this case. Correct use of jargon helps domain experts communicate with higher precision, and papers tend to be written by …

What makes you think that’s bizarre? Presumably one could calculate this from seismic data of the blast, after accounting for the fact that there was still gas in the pipeline desp…

Does that image look like a render to anyone else? Not doubting it’s real, just confused- esp. if you compare it to the photos of raptor 1 and 2 linked in another comment. Maybe it…

Re. postgres, this is actually something I have always struggled with, so would love to learn how others do it. I’ve only ever worked in very small teams, where we didn’t really ha…