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> This default is 30 seconds, matching the default TOTP period. But due to skew, passcodes may remain valid for up to 60 seconds (“daka” in Hebrew), spanning tw
by procaryote 1y ago
> This default is 30 seconds, matching the default TOTP period. But due to skew, passcodes may remain valid for up to 60 seconds (“daka” in Hebrew), spanning two time windows.
Wait, why would I care this is "daka" in Hebrew? Is this a hallucination or did they edit poorly?
- 1a527dd5 1y ago[flagged]
- falconertc 1y agoI can't believe we're going to forever have to live with people who don't speak English as a first language having their written work assumed to be done by AI. It's pretty disappointing.
- colechristensen 1y agoI think people will get bored with it, especially when we get to a point where a majority of written things will have AI in the loop and we'll return to bad writing just being bad writing.
- qualeed 1y agoNot just people who don't speak English as a first language. I was recently linked a list of 1,000+ words that "shouldn't be used" because they're "evidence" of AI. Oh, and if you use bullet points, obviously AI. Dashes? AI. Paragraphs with opening and concluding sentences? AI!
- andrewflnr 1y agoI've said it before, and I'll probably keep saying it forever: bad writing predates AI. Overly verbose writing predates AI. Not all the bad writing you see is AI, lots of it is still the good old fashioned kind. Not that inserting an aside about a different language is bad writing. It's also weird enough that it's exactly what I would not expect an AI to do (except perhaps under very odd and specific circumstances). "It's clearly AI" has become a catchall for any writing that people find even mildly bad or surprising.
- neom 1y agoMaybe just being cute. Author is Yarden Porat from Cyata, an Israeli cybersecurity company.
- onecommentman 1y agoSo perhaps using AI writing tools for English to polish his writing, since English may not be his first language and he doesn’t want stumbling around English syntax to get in the way of his message. It may become an English writing style we all have to get used to from non-native English speakers and an actual valid use case for current AI. I know I’d use AI this way when writing something important in a language I’m semi-fluent in. I already use search engines to confirm the proper use and spelling of fashionably popular foreign phrases, instead of an online dictionary.
- andrewflnr 1y agoWhat would including a reference to a Hebrew word in their English article have to do with polishing his writing? You seem to have gotten off the track of the original "evidence" while still fixating on the AI hypothesis. (Your comment is at least more charitable than the first couple in this thread, but still factually shaky at best.)
- adhamsalama 1y ago[flagged]
- tecleandor 1y agoAlso... what is "daka" ? 60 seconds? passcodes that remain valid for two time windows? I've been checking the dictionary and "daka" might mean "minute".
- n4bz0r 1y agohttps://s3.amazonaws.com/LCG/40kconquest/ffg_WHK03_34.jpg https://s3.amazonaws.com/LCG/40kconquest/ffg_WHK03_34.jpg
- iddan 1y agoFun language fact: "daka" is hebrew for "minute" but it's literal meaning is "thin one" figurative being "the thin (shorter) time measure" in contradiction with an hour ("sha'aa")
- jimkleiber 1y agoFascinating, "dakika" is "minute" in Swahili...probably similar in Arabic as well...yup, Google AI says "daqiqa" for the Latin alphabet version of minute in Arabic.
- drivers99 1y ago"minute" is also "small" pars minuta prima (first small part) -> minute (1/60th of a circle, or of an hour) secunda minuta -> second (1/60 of a minute) minutus -> minute (adj), "very small in size or degree, diminutive or limited, petty" source: etymonline
- yardenporat 1y agoLolllllllll "Daka" is an Easter egg I added. Because I have a friend named Daniel. And this is an inside joke
- tptacek 1y agoPlease don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html