davidshepherd7
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Tech lead at Wave mobile money (www.wave.com), building radically affordable financial infrastructure for Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Comment · 5 months ago
Did you try Opus-4.7 on a lower reasoning level? Looks like on `max` it's using far more tokens than the other frontier models.
Comment · 7 months ago
That page is copied verbatim from https://unsung.aresluna.org/molly-guard-in-reverse/ (which is linked at the top). The original page also has much better formatting.
Comment · 8 months ago
On the off chance that the author reads this: can you enable an RSS feed please?
I want to subscribe, but I never end up reading newsletters if they land in my email inbox.
Comment · 10 months ago
A mirror that worked for me: https://skyview.social/?url=https://bsky.app/profile/robpike...
Comment · 1 year ago
This is a perfect replacement for me, thanks for recommending it.
Comment · 1 year ago
IIUC chainguard is this, but only for python, java, and docker images so far. https://www.chainguard.dev/libraries
Comment · 1 year ago
Could you give some examples of more secure solutions?
Comment · 2 years ago
In case it's useful to anyone: another implementation of this idea is Weeve https://shop.weeve.ie I bought one of their books (a study in scarlet) but it wasn't great. Lots of mistranslation, especially later on in the book. The general idea seemed to work well though, with better implementation I think it could really help my french.
I'll give this one a try, being able to add my own books is particularly exciting.
Comment · 2 years ago
Does anyone have a list of which products are in which business units?
Comment · 3 years ago
Yeah I think this is correct with the edit.
I guess this is mostly relevant for software that runs on shared infra, sends requests to a url provided by an attacker (e.g. webhooks), and uses a SOCKS5 proxy?
Comment · 3 years ago
The article was too vague for me to really understand, but I think it's suggesting something like Brandur's deeply-integrated idempotency keys design [1] except that the infra is provided by a saas company? Also somehow it supports rollbacks?
Does anyone know of any other more concrete explanation of how these kinds of systems could work?
Comment · 3 years ago
This sounds really interesting! Can you explain or link to an explanation of the technical defenses that Google has?
(Or, is this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35585453 complete and accurate?)
Comment · 3 years ago
They actually use a python monolith unless it's changed recently. See e.g. https://instagram-engineering.com/static-analysis-at-scale-a...
Comment · 4 years ago
The company I work for has saved people and businesses in West Africa roughly $1B in banking fees this year.
It's a big company but I'm really proud to have done my part towards this.