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by 0xDEF 3y ago
Considering all the Snowden fanboyism and anti-CIA/NSA sentiments on HN and reddit I expected people to be more critical of a Five Eyes intelligence service saying "just trust us bro".
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
Has anyone tried how different compression algorithms compare when doing NCD classification? gzip first does LZ77 and then Huffman coding. ANS is a more modern alternative to Huffman coding that can achieve higher compression ratios than Hu
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
Because people can make porn with locally hosted Stable Diffusion. They can't do that with MidJourney and DallE.
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
Has anyone who funded OpenAI back in 2015 spoken out against their non-openness? Elon Musk only did after he no longer had a stake in it. Edit: OpenAI is a corporation and their stakeholders include Microsoft, Peter Thiel, and Infosys. Yeah
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
Does that really happen? Has there been any incident of European companies being sanctioned by the US because they traded with Cuba? Here is a Danish article about more Danish and European companies operating in Cuba because they expect a V
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
>There is nothing lax about the trade embargo. Tell that to the people who can’t get food and medicine. Cubans have all the food and medicine they need because China, Europe, Canada, Mexico, and the rest of the world still trades with th
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
When people today talk about Elon Musk's political views they mean his sudden right-wing radicalization in 2022 that happened exactly when he was tipped off about sexual harassment allegations coming his way.
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
He pulled an Elon. Elon Musk also came out as an alt-right troll when he was tipped that an expose about sexual harassment of a flight attendant was coming his way.
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
It would be interesting to guesstimate what the NSA might be doing by analyzing the skills they're looking for in their job postings and the kind of open source projects they have released. For example their Accumulo OSS suggests they&
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
How does that make sense? Are there significantly more young men than women? Or do the women date older men?
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
It's remarkable how little of what Putin and Russian state median say internally to Russians is covered in Western media. They are obsessed with old maps. A few months ago Putin flaunted a map from the 1700s without Ukraine as proof as
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
>As a general rule when criminal conspiracies are taken to task, they don't retain a right to privacy for their communications that aren't about the criminal conspiracy. Rather it all comes out in court. That doesn't seem
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
That site inflates salaries because it oversamples devs who work remotely for American companies. For example the site claims Ukrainian devs make $57k a year.
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
+1 for uBlock Origin and SponsorBlock. Who are the people behind AdGuard and why should I send them all my DNS lookups? I think it's better to use Pi Hole instead.
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
Why are you surprised that backdoors in "boring" non-consumer facing hardware didn't get much attention?
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
Yes, Elon Musk did the same. But it's not proof that he is guilty.
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
But this is Britain. The UK has never had the same range of speech as the US or France.
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
Let's be honest. Do you think Russell Brand would have been cancelled this hard if he was a boring centrist instead of spending the past 18 months talking about Ukrainian "bio-Nazi labs"? Neurodivergent people are being perse
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
>To highlight, Russia’s future changed dramatically after 2014. Actually things started going south for the Russian economy in 2010-2014 when both US oil companies and Saudi Arabia started pumping out oil as no tomorrow.
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
The West has unfortunately a track record of being very soft on foreign death squads. We did the same thing when Russian and Iranian death squads killed people in Europe: - Complain - Expel diplomats - Sanction a few regime-aligned individu
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
It is actually a surprising that Russia is not the manufacturing capital of the world. They have super-cheap energy, Soviet-era high-quality STEM education, and 50 million cheap workers from Caucasus, Siberia, Far East Russia, and the Centr
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
I think we in the West need to get better at creating excitement about manufacturing. The two biggest wind turbine manufacturers in the world, Vestas Wind Systems and Siemens Gamesa, are located here in Denmark. It is definitely possible to
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
>to India and China You probably mean just China. India's manufacturing output is less than 1/10th of China's manufacturing output.
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
TIL Sam Altman became the CEO of OpenAI because he is good at verbally patting billionaires on the back.
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
Building large-scale C++ projects has become less of an issue because of CMake slowly becoming the default build tool.
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Chinese police detain wealth management staff at indebted developer Evergrande(apnews.com)
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
There is no way it implements the entire RV32I base profile. Maybe it only implements the instructions that are relevant for CS students taking a computer architecture class. That is typically what these breadboard CPUs implement.
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
Even LLMs would be better off with a clear unambiguous syntax to define human laws and rules.
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
What makes you think they will do that? Especially considering that Russia's source of soft power in the developing world is their willingness to sell offensive weapons without asking ESG questions.
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
How are you going to hold all the permanent members of the UN Security Council responsible for this? They all have companies and organizations operating in this space.

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