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My Knowledge Lakehouse
1 There’re only three entities: log, list, structure.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 80,902 posts.
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How to Be More Agentic
On a supposedly difficult thing
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A decade-old Steam bug
Valve has shown to occasionally not act on community feedback and bug reports. A story about a decade old bug.
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What I learned selling my company
At my first company, I internalized the standard advice to never think about M&A. The consensus was, and is, to just keep growing the business and good things will come. I did that, and I was lucky that good things did come in the form of a $130M acquisition
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Hidden Changes in GPT-4, Uncovered
The tool instructions in this article are not up to date as of 2024-01-12, see this post to learn more about the new tool OpenAI added to block conversations about U.S. elections using function calls.
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Autonomous trucking is harder than autonomous rideshare
Freeways were supposed to be easy. What happened?
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The current state of OpenTelemetry
OpenTelemetry round for 2023 and what to expect in 2024
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Features and Benefits of Bluetooth Mesh 1.1 for Wireless Mesh Networking
Commercial and industrial applications like lighting require large-scale, low-power device networks where thousands of devices need to communicate with one another efficiently, reliably and securely.
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A supply chain attack on PyTorch
Security tends to lag behind adoption, and AI/ML is no exception. Four months ago, Adnan Khan and I exploited a critical CI/CD vulnerability in PyTorch, one of the world’s leading ML platform…
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A vision for the alleviation of water scarcity in the US Southwest
[Edit May 2024: This concept was republished in Asterisk Magazine.] Just a couple of hours drive east of Los Angeles lies the Imperial Valley, home to Palm Springs, some of the most productive agri…
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Carta's 83b Oversight: A Tax Trap for Married Startup Employees (2023)
There's a blind spot in Carta's 83(b) election feature you need to know about if you're married and living in California.
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ESP32-C61: Delivering Affordable Wi-Fi 6 Connectivity
ESP32-C61 marks Espressif's response to a significant demand for Wi-Fi 6 technology, offering optimized peripherals, improved connectivity, and increased memory options.
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Epistemic Learned Helplessness (2019)
[This is a slightly edited repost of an essay from my old LiveJournal] A friend recently complained about how many people lack the basic skill of believing arguments. That is, if you have a valid a…
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We need technology that is less immersive, not more
How come so many of the most talented engineers of our time work on making our entertainment more immersive?
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Changes we're making to Google Assistant
Google Assistant will no longer support a number of underutilized features to focus on improving quality and reliability.
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CLI user experience case study
Topiary’s journey to a modern, user-friendly CLI experience.
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QMK and Keyboards
A collection of QMK firmware libraries, macros, and thoughts on ergonomic keyboards.
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Is Fortran “A Dead Language”? (2022)
Some C++ folk seem to think so, but they're wrong!
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Doing First Grade Math in Rust's Type System
MIT student who enjoys performance engineering, compilers, and creating unconventional code
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We removed advertising cookies, here's what happened
Since our removal of cookies, we’ve seen both positive & negative effects. Learn more about our experience of going cookieless here.
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Unity's Open-Source Double Standard: The Ban of VLC
This page has moved to https://martinfinkel.com/blog/unity-double-oss-standards/ .
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Keycloak open redirect: wildcard redirect URIs can be exploited to steal tokens
CVE-2023-6927 Keycloak vulnerability allows bypassing redirect URI validation which can be used as a vector for stealing authorization codes, access tokens and be used to redirect victims to arbitrary hosts.
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The Wolfram Prompt Repository (2023)
Curated collection of prompts for use with LLMs. Accessible interactively in Chat Notebooks and programmatically in functions like LLMFunction. Initial categories in the Prompt Repository cover personas, functions, modifiers.
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Postgres Incremental Backup
We walk through the incremental backup feature committed to the Postgres 17 development branch by Robert Haas. We show an example on our local machine.
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A Love Letter to Tinkerable Software
I work in product growth helping people discover and use great software, currently at SurveyMonkey. In the past I've done it at Prismatic (acq. by LinkedIn), Clara Lending (acq. by Sofi), Right Side Up, Hubstaff. I've also enjoyed consulting with interesting companies like DoorDash, Empower, StitchFix, Calm, Dell…
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How virtualisation came to Apple Silicon Macs
From Hypervisor APIs in OS X 10.10 Yosemite in 2014, through early VirtIO kernel extensions in Mojave in 2018, and Arm hypervisor support in Big Sur.
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Generating SVG for the prime knots
How I created a wall poster of knot diagrams.
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Attack of the Week: Airdrop Tracing
It’s been a while since I wrote an “attack of the week” post, and the fault for this is entirely mine. I’ve been much too busy writing boring posts about Schnorr signatures!…
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A Technical Dive into PostgreSQL's replication mechanisms
Guide to PostgreSQL Replication and CDC - Navigate the complexities of logical replication in PostgreSQL.
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Removing data transfer fees when moving off Google Cloud
Customers discontinuing their use of Google Cloud can move their data without incurring any network data transfer fees.