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hot tip: to avoid writing bugs, don't write software

The greatest protest photos of all time were taken 33 years ago today. On June 5, 1989, six (not four) photographers captured a lone protester facing down a column of tanks near #TiananmenSquare. This version of the“Tank Man” photo was made by Stuart Franklin for TIME...🧵

Been waiting for this to come out. Using zero-knowledge attestations, you can prove anything to anyone without leaking the underlying information. I think this has a huge design space, so curious what builders will do with it (disclose: investor🙂)

Are there any DNS registrars that are secure by default? Thinking about it, there are multiple supply chain attack vectors (via CS reps and the like) across the infrastructure stack for targets worth way more than crypto/DeFi sites 🤔

SCIENCE: If you don't make mistakes, you're doing it wrong. If you don't correct those mistakes, you're doing it really wrong. If you can't accept that you're mistaken, you're not doing it at all.

Spending $800 an hour to fly the helicopter to tell kids to get out of the pool because we don’t have money for lifeguards just sums up America perfectly.

Covid (UC San Francisco) Chronicles, Day 838 The die is now cast: BA.5 is destined to be our dominant virus. In today’s 🧵I discuss the implications on the course of the pandemic, and how to think about responding. (I use “BA.5” & not “BA.4/5” since BA.5 is poised to outrun BA.4.). (1/25)

ever wonder why the cheap junk flooding Amazon has keyboard-mashing brand names like MOFFBUZW? let's dive into an example... the 2nd organic result for "baby moccasins" has: - 0 reviews - no Prime offer - 20 day shipping (lol) - a brand name that literally looks like Dog Shit

I've been asked about this a lot, so let me provide a quick FAQ. Q: What's the nature of the issue? A: Anyone who has bought my book from Amazon in the past few month hasn't bought a genuine copy, but a lower-quality counterfeit copy printed by various fraudulent sellers.

I'm very sympathetic to those who don't want to fight to defend Taiwan. I'm against the forever wars and generally am skeptical about the use of our military. But defending Taiwan makes sense *for Americans' concrete economic interests, freedoms, and sovereignty*. Why? 👇 1/

At best, molnupiravir (MOV) is a useless drug we’re wasting $$ on. At worst, it could accelerate the emergence of novel variants with unpredictable characteristics. First I’ll explain why MOV is useless. Later, I’ll present evidence I’ve found that it could be dangerous. 1/

Just received a notification on a 5 year old Signal bug (opened after a previous 2y older bug was closed) that iOS Import/Export was closed as "not planned" github.com/signalapp/Sign…

THREAD: The US government's new export controls are wreaking havoc on China's chip industry. New rules around "US persons" are driving an "industry-wide decapitation."

Am hearing the number of Twitter resignations today is likely over 1,000, though unclear as not all are posting their decision. Some teams, such as the engineering team that manages Twitter’s core system libraries, are completely gone now. theverge.com/2022/11/17/234…

Since it seems that extended downtime is imminent now, for those that have their Twitter archives generated already, here's a good place to start to make sure you have URLs/media: github.com/timhutton/twit… (you'll also need to manually get your lists, followers, and following)

🚀 Excited to finish this EN/JA model I've been working on with @[email protected]! Fine-tune: huggingface.co/augmxnt/shisa-… Base: huggingface.co/augmxnt/shisa-… We were able to create a competitive 7b JA model with only ~8b tokens of continued pre-training! Sponsored in part by @akavirtual_ and a16z

I don't post much here anymore, but maybe this is worth an exception. I've spent basically all year working on an open model that is incredibly strong in Japanese. For those interested, full details published here: shisa.ai/posts/shisa-v2…