Viewing profile — primitivesuave

It's great to see SOC2 going in this direction. I've had to set up all kinds of compliance automation over the past decade (mainly Drata, Vanta, Oneleet), but at the end of the day…

FWIW, Peter Norvig also gave an updated take on what programming will look like with LLMs around 2 years ago. It did give me some hope back then, but with the development of Fables…

Most well deserved. For the uninitiated, highly recommend her 2019 Christmas lectures which are excellent. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q4DrUHKC0Q

I'm curious how this compares to just using DuckDB in the browser? https://duckdb.org/2021/10/29/duckdb-wasm

I deployed a Lambda function behind CloudFront which rendered a simple HTML page with the query results from executing some SQL over the dataset. I served millions of page views fo…

Yes, if I wanted to put a nice HTML interface over the query results then I would still end up with the same problem where some combinatoric explosion of query parameters to the `/…

Thanks for that tip, this is exactly how I would do this if I had to do it from scratch. Just in case it's useful for anyone else: https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/public-dat…

Completely agree, I've worked at several companies where I saw the AWS bill balloon from five to six figures, usually because of pointless over-provisioning. However, it all became…

They were both more exhaustive and more frequent. I don't remember the exact numbers, but it was definitely over 100x the traffic from search engines. By the way, search engines we…

A couple years ago, I was running a website which allowed the public to view all the US government handouts to small businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic. It also tracked all th…

If Boeing claimed a plane was airworthy, but it crashed because basic engineering controls were skipped, we have collectively put our faith in the NTSB to preserve evidence, run an…

The cost to operate a single jet is $6-7 million a year, so the total cost over its 30-40 year lifetime would be closer to $400m :(

Missing from the article - the hacker first compromised Resolv Lab's AWS account, took a private key from KMS that was used to control minting, then managed to extract $25 million …

English is full of animal-based metaphors, and that's a pretty innocuous statement. "I herded everyone into a room" does not automatically imply that one perceives those people as …

The most telling sign of a human commenter is brevity. Consequently, I hardly ever spend the time to write out long and detailed HN comments like I used to in the pre-LLM era. Peop…

The Puya PY32 series MCUs found in most vapes have 3kb of RAM and 24kb of ROM, whereas Doom requires at least 4MB of RAM. Assuming Moore's law also applies to the computing power i…

The fact that this occurred in Bombay is important context. In India, the culture amongst older people is to have a clear sense of where you fit in the hierarchy. You might be verb…

I wouldn't call CareQuality a "data broker" as much as it is an interoperability framework. It's essentially a big distributed system of participants who agree to instantly share p…

If this actually happens, get ready for an avalanche of AI-generated garbage code that exists for the sole purpose of boosting a scammer's metrics, so they can maximize their slice…

Thank you for the excellent feedback. I had this realization a while back that I'm a mobile user during "consumption" (e.g. browsing HN late at night), but a desktop user for "prod…

I love the Typescript handbook, but wanted the examples to be "runnable". It turns out that the TypeScript compiler runs pretty fast in the browser for trivial code snippets, so I …