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871.
by Animats 7mo ago
Now to prevent scroll bar hijacking.
872.
by Animats 7mo ago
Note the mention of "systems of record" being unsuitable for the present level of AI. The real question is whether the costs of AI mistakes and hallucinations can be dumped on some external party who can't impose costs on you
873.
by Animats 7mo ago
Compression/decompression is a good problem for proof of correctness. The specification is very simple (you must get back what you put in), while the implementation is complex. What seems to have happened here is that the storage alloc
874.
by Animats 7mo ago
The attack has to find the control nodes. Domains and IP addresses can be turned off. With this approach, there's no way to stop the finding process even after the attack has been reverse-engineered, short of firewalling or shutting do
875.
by Animats 7mo ago
This prevents uploading pictures, with chain of custody data attached, of law enforcement misbehaving. Was there pressure from ICE to install this feature?
876.
by Animats 7mo ago
Needs a beauty strip of trees around the panels.
877.
by Animats 7mo ago
> They admit no returns. So it's not a useful trading strategy. Good to know. It might have worked out that the human tendency towards optimism biased the Yes side, but Polymarket is watched closely enough by traders that the pricin
878.
by Animats 7mo ago
Or worse sudo curl URL | bash
879.
by Animats 7mo ago
"It resolved its C2 domain through an Ethereum smart contract, querying public blockchain RPC endpoints. Traditional domain takedowns would not work because the attacker could update the smart contract to point to a new domain at any
880.
by Animats 7mo ago
Even that may not work. See Stuxnet.[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet
881.
by Animats 7mo ago
Almost all those events were on Hacker News. This hasn't been a secret. Companies need to get serious about levels of security. Only some things need to be protected, and you have to accept a substantial level of inconvenience and cost
882.
by Animats 7mo ago
Don't you have to pay Twitter to get programmatic access to a X feed? [1] The documentation mentions using the "Twitter adapter", which uses a paid API.[1] Using an unofficial client has been a TOS violation for many years no
883.
by Animats 7mo ago
The LLMs read everything .
884.
by Animats 7mo ago
This wasn't the first electronic reservation system. It was preceded by the Magnetronic Reservisor, custom built for American Airlines by Teleregister. It didn't use general-purpose computers. It had magnetic drums and remote term
885.
by Animats 7mo ago
> If I am unemployed long enough in America, I will eventually die. Not wrong.
886.
by Animats 7mo ago
What are they finding? Buffer overflows? Something else? Also, if someone has the time and tokens, would they please run the OpenJPEG 2000 decoder through this tester? It's known to be brittle. The data format has lots of offsets, and
887.
by Animats 7mo ago
If you could do that at a high writing rate, could it be used for making ICs?
888.
by Animats 7mo ago
"A scanning-probe prototype already constitutes a functional non-volatile memory device with areal density exceeding all existing technologies by more than five orders of magnitude." Does that mean a scanning tunneling microscop
889.
by Animats 7mo ago
Here's a 10 year old study from Norway's navy.[1] It's a marginal technology for navies. It's more useful for defending urban areas from air strikes, because urban areas have lots of emitters, too many to attack. There&#
890.
by Animats 7mo ago
The headline is confusing the issue. Bitcoin miners are losing money because October's crash took Bitcoin from $126,000 to below $70,000, and the Iran war has pushed up oil and electricity prices. The minor difficulty drop is a result
891.
by Animats 7mo ago
Buzz Aldrin is reported to be watching this on TV.
892.
by Animats 7mo ago
Google's "Manifest 3" rules, vs. ad blocking, in Ars Technica.[1] Did the JSON formatter with ads get kicked out of the extension store yet? [1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/08/chromes-m
893.
by Animats 7mo ago
The current administration is squishy-soft on white collar crime. (The United States Department of Justice is mostly to handle white-collar crime. Most DOJ authority comes from the Federal power to regulate interstate commerce. Violent crim
894.
by Animats 7mo ago
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895.
by Animats 7mo ago
It's OK to inject ads, but not OK to remove them, under Google's current policies.
896.
by Animats 7mo ago
"Who's in charge here?" "The Claw." Some of this stuff is starting to look like technologies that worked, looked promising, but were at best marginally useful, such as magnetohydrodynamic generators, tokamaks, E-bea
897.
by Animats 7mo ago
In other words, clickbait. Fox News used to be awful in this respect, with ledes such as "(Important thing) happens in (unnamed city)". Now they name the city. So that trick apparently backfired. It seems to have died out, along w
898.
by Animats 7mo ago
Sometimes I think all the HN "get off my lawn" postings need to be moved to another site.
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by Animats 7mo ago
Why do you still need the CEO? With this, Claude should be able to do the job. Maybe have the board look at a weekly summary and tweak policy.
900.
by Animats 7mo ago
Half and Half is too much cream for most people. I've met someone who drank it constantly, but she was a former New York City Ballet dancer, with a very high metabolic rate, struggling to keep her weight up. Milk mixes from all-cream t

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