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by cantrevealname 19d ago
Hacker News' founder Paul Graham also recommends that you read the original version[1]. I'm curious to see examples of what was changed in the revision. I read it myself a long time ago, but I don't know which one it was and
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by cantrevealname 5mo ago
> not with even with your computer would I run VeraCrypt This has got to be the most surprising encryption-related comment I've ever read from you. Please tell us what you're thinking about VeraCrypt. What would you say about
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by cantrevealname 5mo ago
> TD Bank Quite the opposite in the case of TD Bank. They sued Plaid in 2020. “The bank said in the court filings that the Plaid interface dupes consumers into believing they are entering personal information into TD Bank’s trusted pla
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by cantrevealname 5mo ago
To everyone who doesn’t know how Plaid works: You give your banking username and password directly to Plaid, and it keeps it (so it can continue to login). I don’t understand how anyone is OK with this. It goes against every security pr
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by cantrevealname 6mo ago
I agree with construction and auto repair, but why psychology and psychiatry? If there's anything that's perfect for LLMs, it self-diagnosis and self-treatment by chatting with them. Other than prescribing drugs, an AI system coul
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Google recovers "deleted" Nest video in high-profile abduction case(arstechnica.com)
52 points by cantrevealname 8mo ago|3 comments
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by cantrevealname 1y ago
I also tried some searches and couldn't find anything except references to this very Hacker News question. I'm going to nominate this as a candidate for the Mandela Effect (or at least that things can truly disappear from the web
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by cantrevealname 1y ago
> "Everyone knows. But if we filtered it all out properly, our revenue would drop 40% overnight, and investors would have a meltdown." The word "revenue" above doesn't sound right. Did you mean "ad impress
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by cantrevealname 1y ago
When AI ends up running everything essential to survival and society, it’ll be preposterous to even suggest pulling the plug just because it does something bad. Can you imagine the chaos of completely turning off GPS or Gmail today ? Now i
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by cantrevealname 1y ago
This sci-fi thing goes as far back as the 1983 movie WarGames, where they wanted to pull the plug on a rogue computer, but there was a reason you couldn’t do that: McKittrick: General, the machine has locked us out. It's sending rando
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by cantrevealname 1y ago
What you say is true. But I find it funny that we can prevent expensive highly-targeted individual bugging by using a ubiquitous worldwide realtime tracking and surveillance system (a smartphone!).
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by cantrevealname 1y ago
Let's think about possible applications of audio-video recorders camouflaged to look like something in the form factor of credit cards: - Induce your target to apply for a certain credit/debit card, gym/movie/gallery&#x2
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by cantrevealname 1y ago
Before the Berlin Wall fell, East Germany, the communist side, was the German Democratic Republic . (West Germany was the Federal Republic of Germany .)
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by cantrevealname 1y ago
The 20 countries that Anthropic won't do business with: Afghanistan Belarus Central African Republic China Congo, Democratic Republic of Cuba Eritrea Ethiopia Iran Libya Mali Myanmar Nicaragua North Korea
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by cantrevealname 1y ago
> All of this software, from the individual processes to the OS itself, were the work of a single software developer. They left AECL in 1986, and no one has ever revealed their identity. I bet some readers are thinking that the develop
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by cantrevealname 1y ago
In that case, how about using extremely trivial encryption (eg., XOR every byte with 0x3B) and on the website give a one-line perl command to decrypt. Now it's random data and not a known format (like a password-protected zip file). Of
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by cantrevealname 1y ago
> AI and robotics nullify any comparative advantages low wage countries had If we project long term, could this mean that countries with the most capital to invest in AI and robotics (like the U.S.) could take back manufacturing domina
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by cantrevealname 1y ago
> These cryptographic systems were not designed by the sculptor himself but by Edward Scheidt, who retired as chairman of the CIA’s Cryptographic Center in 1989. The article left me with a nagging question: Doesn’t the designer of the
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by cantrevealname 1y ago
> Almost everything you sort out into a recycling bin gets dumped in the ocean But the articles don't say that. They say that a lot of plastic is unsuitable for recycling and is therefore incinerated or dumped, like into a landfil
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by cantrevealname 1y ago
It is unknown whether the digits of pi contains every single finite sequence of numbers. But the Champernowne Constant does[1]. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champernowne_constant
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by cantrevealname 1y ago
> Get Terminator out of your head. A real AI take over is likely something we probably can't imagine. Indeed, robotic bodies aren't needed. An ASI could take over even if it remained 100% software by hiring or persuading huma
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by cantrevealname 2y ago
FYI for everyone: This is not about Machine Learning. It is about a programming language called Standard ML where ML stands for Meta Language[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_ML
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by cantrevealname 2y ago
This brings up the question about whether there are hereditary information transmission methods other than DNA. There are so many things we ascribe to “instinct” that might be information transmitted from parent to offspring in some encoded
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by cantrevealname 2y ago
Related to this, pin tumbler locks on doors should be installed so that the bitting (i.e., the teeth on the key) face up when inserting the key. If you follow a standard orientation, you don't have to think about which way to orient th
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by cantrevealname 2y ago
> We need a USSR or something like it Well good news: the PRC (China) will be the needed existential threat within 10 years.
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by cantrevealname 2y ago
I stumbled on an April 1950 article predating and predicting the H-Bomb: "Production of the hydrogen atomic bomb has been ordered by the President of the United States. Within one to three years, it is unofficially predicted, the firs
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Is it safer to use an app or a website on your phone?(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by cantrevealname 2y ago|0 comments
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by cantrevealname 2y ago
> the remaining ungrouped users, by process of elimination..." This being hacker news, I can't help but appreciate the pure evil genius of this. It reminds me of some other cases cunning corporate ingenuity: - Monsanto and
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by cantrevealname 2y ago
> If the wavelength of the laser is chosen exactly right ... then maybe a special atomic nucleus could be manipulated with a laser, namely thorium-229. On November 21, 2023, the team was finally successful: the correct energy of the tho
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by cantrevealname 2y ago
Same here. Windows was my daily driver until Windows 7, but I stopped using any Windows platform as of Windows 10 because of the telemetry and spyware. I don't care how snappy Windows is, I'm not returning until they provably cut

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