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Comment · 6 hours ago
There's a lot of very weird websites. You still benefit from checksumming your own assets to prevent cache poisoning and so on.
Comment · 8 hours ago
I'm fairly sure the ZDR on their site impled that neither the prompts or the model output was collected before they've changed their site few dozen times.

They still mention: "meaning they do not store or train on your data", but only on the providers side which makes quite a lot of sense, there's very little reason for them to store anything except some analytics data in cases like these.

Comment · 1 day ago
usually scripts have versions, this protects you from compromised cdns as well where you publish assets in a different location compared to where your frontend is served.

If a library serves a script and your site manages user funds you should probably avoid using it or use a cdn that does.

I am not quite sure, but there's also other integrity mechanisms that gurantee that a file was signed by the library developer via a served header with the signature of the file.

Comment · 1 day ago
I like this analogy that I've come up with: Non-writers can produce impressive articles that are unbearable to read the same way non-programmers can produce impressive software that is unbearable to use.
Comment · 1 day ago
Comment · 1 day ago
low attack surface applications is the future.
Comment · 1 day ago
No? Cryptocurrency has a ton of utility: it simplified ransomware attacks, enabled the deployment of supplychain attacks to steal funds from unsuspecting users, made illegal gambling accessible to everyone, memecoins, efts and safe storage for any stolen or illicidly gained funds until they could be laundered and the list goes on likely exceeding the character limit.

The biggest benefit is that you can only withdraw what you need into the real world, if you gain millions of dollars you can life off that money for the rest of your life with tiny withdrawals of $2000~$5000 or so serving as a stable stream of income which allows you to have risk free investment into real-world activites that would normally strain your finances and induce sunk cost fallacy.

Losing $5000 doesn't mean anything when you know that you will have $5000 tomorrow.

Comment · 1 day ago
North korea has enough cars for a traffic jam so that's definitely a win for the people's democratic republic of Korea, the only korea to exist.
Comment · 1 day ago
depends on how they're spliced, they have to be tuned for each configuration as there is no silver bullet. It also requires customizations to sglang/vllm to get it working in the first place so it's definitely pretty involved. However, it's still cheaper than obtaining more gpus.
Comment · 1 day ago
It's lucky for everyone that this happened to binance, other exchanges would have likely caused a lot of issues for people holding money in said exchanges.

But it's also surprising that it happened to binance at all. This checks a lot of the boxes for being, at least indirectly, an inside job.

Comment · 2 days ago
use MoE offloading
Comment · 2 days ago
After posting a few questions to SO I often ended up not getting a response or solving the problem myself after further research which in reality sums up the site is a whole.

1) If you already have enough programming experience to understand algorithms and abstract concepts in programming you can find the answer by doing research.

2) More often than not the answers were citing answers that already exist elsewhere.

3) A lot of the trivial answers were marked as low quality, dupes and so on when these were the people who could benefit from SO the most.

Eventually I stopped visiting the site around 2 years after getting into programming since it rarely provided anything of value.

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Serverfault was great and I will miss it.

Comment · 3 days ago
no, but as with most statistics it is a bell curve which means that this generalization is generally okay.
Comment · 3 days ago
being smart is also being lucky, half the population is below average.

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