I worked as a tech in porn in my very early 20s. My experience was the opposite, interviewers later on remembered my CV because I was transparent about it. In 2009-2011 weren’t many places where a junior developer could work on code that served 100M ad impressions
/month and 3-5M requests on the pages. Gambling and porn both hook into your dopamine systems, but mixing them together does not make sense at all. The consequences of watching pornography are two orders of magnitude milder than a gambling addiction.
To have an initial smoke test, why not run a diff between version upgrades, and potentially let an llm summarise the changes? It’s a baffling practice that a lot of developers are just blindly trusting code repos to keep the security standards. Last time I installed some npm package (in a container) it loaded 521 dependencies and my heart rate jumped a bit
Is this the first time you have ever thought about the idea of supply chain attacks? This is the first thought 90% of people have and it doesn't work. Too much work to manually verify diffs and LLMs aren't good enough at this yet.
No, I think about it all the time. It’s just baffling that this kind of attack is still a thing, after a decade+ of this happening over and over again.
Sure thing! Here: (ffmpeg). Ffmpeg wrapped in simple yet elegant parens. Or fancier: {ffmpeg}, or more brutalistic: [ffmpeg]. Do you want to try a cookie recipe ingredienting ffmpeg?
Just some unfiltered feedback after checking out the website: from what I understand this is an SaaS only? So basically I’m asked to upload ALL company docs to a company that existed for basically a minute with some questionable SOC2 report. Soc2 is basically dead as a security artefact and the data asked to upload is sensitive by nature. I don’t see that working.
Sure, I work in security, and the amount of sub-6 month old companies with SOC2 reports are mind-boggling. The trend started probably a year ago or at least I noticed it. There is seemingly no oversight of AICPA to enforce any kind of standard in practice, companies like Delve are hiring vibe-auditors to autogenerate the reports. You already had the issue with low-cost providers like A-Scend who have maybe one qualified auditor across 5 auditing teams or so (I worked with them several times) - but at least they had several rounds of human-QA before issueing any kind of report. A company that started 6 months ago simply cannot in any meaningful way prove that they should be trusted, because they cannot prove that their processes are solid. And that's fine and normal, you have early adopters and companies with not-so-critical data for these use cases. Getting some vibe audited reports early on is setting you up for distrust, it's a signal that you are willing to take all short cuts to get enterprise customers and that's a red flag.
Not surprising since concepts are virtual. There is a person, a person with a partner is a couple. A couple with a kid is a family. That’s 5 concepts alone.
I’m not sure you grok how big a number 10^43741 is.
If we assume that a "concept" is something that can be uniquely encoded as a finite string of English text, you could go up to concepts that are so complex that every single one would take all the matter in the universe to encode (so say 10^80 universes, each with 10^80 particles), and out of 10^43741 concepts you’d still have 10^43741 left undefined.
A concept space of 10^43741 needs about 43741*3 bits to identify each concept uniquely (by the information theoretic concept of bit, which is more a lower bound on what we traditionally think of as bits in the computer world than a match), or about 16000-ish "bytes", which you can approximate reasonably as a "compressed text size". There's a couple orders of magnitude of fiddling around the edges you can do there but you still end up with human-sized quantities of information to identify specific concepts in a space that size rather than massively-larger-than-the-universe sized.
Things like novels come from that space. We sample it all the time. Extremely, extremely sparsely, of course.
Or to put it another way, in a space of a given size, identifying a specific component takes the log2 of the space's size in bits to identify a concept, not something the size of the space itself. 10^43741 is a very large space by our standards, but the log2 of it is not impossibly large.
If it seems weird for models to work in this space, remember that as the models themselves in their full glory are clocking in at multiple hundreds of gigabytes that the space of possible AIs using this neural architecture is itself 2^trillion-ish, which makes 10^43741 look pedestrian. Understanding how to do anything useful with that amount of possibility is quite the challenge.
That and producing these glasses with said technique is a lot more expensive. You need to heat up the glass and the potassium nitrate to 500C, mostly over hours because otherwise the glass breaks. Then you need to keep it for a couple of hours, then cool down slowly. What made the initial east german production work is, they did it on a large industrial scale, but even then the energy that you need makes the glasses quite expensive to produce. It's hard to justify buying 6-7€ for a regular drinking cup when a comparable form factor is 1€ or something in this region.
Apart from the criticism in this comment section - I hate it with passion when I have to guess who I do business with. Besides a missing privacy policy from the landing pages, no names, no location- this isn’t a drug deal, it’s supposed to be a b2b app.
Plan B founder here. I take your comments with passion ;) Clearly, the landing page does not stand out. Regarding the privacy not in the footer, that's a miss, this happens when you build the landing page in a rush! I had MVP ready and just wanted it out. I Appreciate the feedback!
Generally state intervention is not what you call a "free" market. But it's the sovereign task of a state to secure strategic resources for its citizens. Free market is overrated.
Edit: overrated when we talk about cornered resources.
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