TeMPOraL

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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
With the "black star" being the name for "black hole" back when they were purely theoretical idea.
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
Good catch. I doubt it's even a rounding error right now, but with the space market undergoing a rather rapid growth (good thing!), it's a good time to start tracking this and hopefully address before it turns into a problem.
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
It's not a null argument, because LLMs have long moved past "language as in words like english or tamil". Tokens are not units of such language, at least not since visual and audio tokens became first-class objects and there&
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
> as demonstrated by every (...) the Chinese Room thought experiment Wait, did I miss the Chinese Room suddenly becoming sensible, or relevant? Last I checked it was a failure to accept that the system of "human + room" can i
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
> Have you ever had a professor or mentor walk you through some experiences as a way to help you understand some complex concepts? I guess language is used in that but the ideas are conveyed by the process not the language. Yes, but I
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
> Well that's why they can sync between devices. I don't really see the problem. How do you sync passkeys to someone else's phone to authorize them to act in your name? This is the basic use case, very common in the
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
No, the site doesn't become important if it wasn't from the start. This is not conditioned on individual use cases. Government sites, your bank, your healthcare provider - they have the important sites. Your e-mail provider is imp
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
Right. People look at me funny for drinking my tea from a 500 ml thermal mug, courtesy of USS Defiant replicators, and it's not because of the Starfleet delta on it (people don't even recognize it, philistines). 1.25 liters is w
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
I'll repeat what GP wrote: > Seriously, many web admins need to hear this message: "Chill. Your site is not that important."
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
But that's the thing: SMS can be auto-forwarded without that much effort. Definitely without rooting your phone. I don't recall if there is any built-in functionality for this, or at what granularity, but in the past I had a Tas
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
> For one thing, many animals that lack language can still navigate a very complicated natural world So can a cruise missile. Also I think there's like separate part of the brain for that > using concepts of phenomena like gr
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
This nonsense again? Yes, feel free to write code. It exists. In fact, why did you write your comment in English and not code? It's imprecise and doesn't explicitly state exactly what you wanted to communicate, and is instead full
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
Until they will look indistinguishable from regular businesses doing regular marketing, advertising, and "value engineering" bullshit. It's xkcd://810 of the advertising industry, I guess - all the scammers doing th
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
Right, but security maximalist are running the asylum now, and they try to sell everyone the lie that more security is possible. Also, the original sin: framing it as "security" vs. "convenience". It's not. The othe
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
Your post switched half-way from "this hypothetical app your mum might hypothetically install" to "this apparently real app doing these specific things". Which way is it? Are you describing an actual threat in the wild,
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
> "we will never ask for this over the phone" takes second place to: Doesn't help that the banks then do, in fact, call you, and ask for this over the phone.
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
> But it helps against account sharing This is actually a feature , very common in real world, that security maximalists keep insisting is a bug.
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
This heuristic is not covering the dimensions of interest here, because it fails to address the key security questions (that the industry usually wants people to not even think about): Who is doing the securing, whose interests are being se
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
> 1. How do you cool your chips? Vacuum is a thermal insulator, so radiators are required to remove heat. This is space 101 and honestly, at this point, I consider bringing this up as disqualifying from giving criticism on the topic. &
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
Yes, and "beamed power" is exactly about tapping into it some more downwell. As outlined in other comments, it's not currently the best option.
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
As the threat being secured against, yes.
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
> I genuinely don't understand why people who have to work for their living are amazed at this. It's tricky. On the one hand, it will - in the near future - indeed screw us all pretty badly unless we completely redefine our e
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
And then finally software engineering work can be completely automated :).
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
> on device i paid 250$ It doesn't get better even if you pay 2500$, which is extra silly.
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
Follow up question: how many of those still let you log in and authorize transfers without relying on their mobile app as required second factor?
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
Yes, really. The obvious answer that security maximallists deny even exists is, who is doing it and why. In LLM case, users are doing it themselves to allow a way of computing they want and find useful, in spite of platform locks designed t
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
Correct. That, and security maximalism displayed in 3. and some comments in the HN thread.
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
Remote attestation itself being a questionable idea at best, so it's bad things creating a market for even worse workarounds.
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
You can't fully protect people from the risk of taking bad advice from malicious strangers. Not the least because most of our industry relies on it to make money. Marketing and advertising themselves are institutionalized forms of &quo
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by TeMPOraL 3mo ago
You forgot to ask yourself whose interests are being secured, and who/what is the threat being secured from. Security is not an unqualified good. It's just mechanism of control.

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