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by antonvs 3mo ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49081325
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by antonvs 3mo ago
That's a different attack vector. The attack vector that involves accessing plain text has been eliminated. An attack vector is a specific path or method that can be used to break into a system.
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by antonvs 3mo ago
Eliminating an attack vector means stopping a specific path or method that can be used to break into a system. "Shift" in this context means that the attacker has to use a different attack vector. They can no longer just access
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by antonvs 3mo ago
> Looking back 250 years and saying "This isn't how THEY would have done it" is not always the correct perspective. Sure, but usually when someone raises that, they're doing so because they think it is the correct per
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by antonvs 3mo ago
> On the other hand, why care what the American founding fathers thought? Because they had direct experience with tyranny and exploitation, and documented their response to that in the US founding documents. We care because if you don&#x
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by antonvs 3mo ago
Which law is that? It's true that border agents need to follow the law, unlike these ones.
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by antonvs 3mo ago
This is oversimplifying. For example, encryption at rest or in transit essentially eliminates attack vectors. The possible attack avenues necessarily shift as a result, but only because an avenue was blocked. That's very different from
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by antonvs 3mo ago
> reluctantly Stretching credulity a bit there.
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by antonvs 3mo ago
> “become literal god of AGI” That only lasts until the AGI decides their god would be more useful if turned into paperclips.
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by antonvs 3mo ago
It reminds me of the recent claim about how AI is resulting in a booming job market for philosophers. Then when you look at it, it turns out single-digit numbers have been hired at Anthropic and OpenAI, and that’s about it. The point is it’
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by antonvs 3mo ago
The point is there are limits on how much better the compilers can get, without modifying the language to be closer to the target environments. And there are multiple target environments, so a one-size-fits-all solution is not really possib
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by antonvs 3mo ago
It's similar to when Neil Tyson criticizes a scifi movie.
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by antonvs 3mo ago
> "doing his best to get the general public reading again" This seems very detached from reality. I very much doubt that many people seeing a movie like this will think "oh, I should read The Odyssey", or "I shou
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by antonvs 3mo ago
Besides, what if Dujour and Choi don’t knock on my door, never lead me to Trinity, so Morpheus never offers me the red pill? Now I’m just stuck as an ordinary schlub.
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by antonvs 3mo ago
I’m going to start open carrying a DGX Spark.
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by antonvs 3mo ago
> I generally disagree with the claim that distilling a model is equivalent to training on freely available internet content – mostly due to investment required to turn it into a model The frontier labs all give free access to their mode
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by antonvs 3mo ago
> The United States making questionable decisions and behaving recklessly and dangerously as a country does not suddenly make China any better. It absolutely does make China better relatively, i.e. by comparison to the US. Many of the cr
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by antonvs 3mo ago
> "We should instead focus on keeping powerful chips out of authoritarian hands, " No chips for the current US administration then?
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by antonvs 3mo ago
> unless you're shipping nuclear safety code, you probably don't need a human reviewer for your PRs") There’s an enormous spectrum between nuclear safety code, and free consumer-facing software like Bluesky that can be dow
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by antonvs 3mo ago
I’m not missing anything. I used to use Usenet, notorious for flamewars. What you’re missing is that when you don’t try to control and nanny people, they can settle into an equilibrium on their own. Edit: also, I find it revealing that you
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by antonvs 3mo ago
> I expect that people would have likely been less casual with their usage of such terms when they also had specific technical meanings. Why would you expect that? It seems the opposite of what we see in practice. Colloquial language typ
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by antonvs 3mo ago
The issue I have with it is that it seems gratuitous, intended to impress - not that far from the edgy teenager who’s just discovered a thesaurus. Even the choice of passages he admires seems to fit that description. Any reader is likely to
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by antonvs 3mo ago
> it’s an extremely appropriate place to shame those in the profession who refuse to consider the second-order effects of their work. The HN guidelines follow the approach which Martin Luther King Jr. criticized: > [the] moderate who
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by antonvs 3mo ago
Using statistics. They’re probably better at it than we are.
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by antonvs 3mo ago
It’s a tradeoff against lots of irritating silly parentheses.
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by antonvs 3mo ago
> already built the bridge, and it seems to not have collapsed yet, so we're already directing traffic there. “Actual” engineering went through a phase where bridges and other structures did collapse due to structural flaws - it’s n
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by antonvs 3mo ago
It’s arguable whether it’s weird or undesirable. There are benefits to using unusual words when they have precise scientific or other technical meaning. It helps identify them as terms of art, so that they’re not confused with their native
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by antonvs 3mo ago
The translation of the name appears to be intended as “black star fear”.
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by antonvs 3mo ago
They don’t have to be gargantuan (except in terms of mass) - the low end of stellar mass black holes can have radii as small as 6 km. Many black holes have a bright accretion disk outside their event horizon, so visibility for those is not
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by antonvs 3mo ago
I tried this, and now my cat is missing!

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