Dependency cooldowns turn you into a free-rider Against dependency cooldowns as a response to supply chain attacks

I wrote a new blogpost arguing against dependency cooldowns

https://
calpaterson.com/deps.html

"Disregard that!" attacks - why you shouldn't share a context window with others

Helsinki HN Helsinki HN is an an unofficial bimonthly Hacker News meetup in Helsinki, Finland. It is open only to active HN participants with a registered account and at least 64 karma points. If you'd like to be...

There is an (unofficial) coffee morning for hacker news posters here in Helsinki this Sunday (16th).

It's relaxed, not very startupy, just coffee and pastries.

Fill out bit.ly/helsinkihn if you want to come

yes it's roughly contemporary with the article. a couple of buildings are missing now

It does look interesting. Apparently "Final Five" voting is apparently already in use in Alaska - I'd never heard of it

Most welcome; glad you liked it

There are lots of other customers for NVIDIA GPUs including computer gaming, crypto miners, 3D rendering, etc. I have not checked but I would strongly suspect that LLMs are just one of a few lines of business for NVIDIA. Though maybe the >3tn USD market cap requires LLMs

You're most welcome!

About the photo: the houses are where I lived at the time and the buildings in the distance are where I worked (I changed places a couple of times, so worked in a few)

they don't even know what a sandwich is. "voileipä" literally means butter on bread, which explains why they don't put another slice of bread on top

thanks - i'm improving but there still lots of work that goes into writing these, so it's great that people enjoy it :)

You know, I reflect fairly positively on Bank Python as a whole. It was actually one of the better aspects of working at those places. I miss a lot of the pieces today

Threat modelling case study: bicycles How to avoid buying your bike again every 6-12 months and tips for how to apply the same reasoning to other things, like computers

In 2020 I wrote about security from the point of view of someone trying to park their bike

calpaterson.com/bicycle-thre...

An oral history of Bank Python The strange world of Python, as used by big investment banks

In 2021 I wrote about Bank Python

calpaterson.com/bank-python....

Building LLMs is probably not going be a brilliant business The Netscapes of AI

Being the Next Big Thing isn't always that profitable

calpaterson.com/porter.html