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by chromacity 6mo ago
It's both cool and a bit confusing. Is this an attempt to commoditize flying-probe testing for PCBs? An attempt to use LLMs to reverse-engineer circuits? Both? It almost feels like it would benefit from being split into two projects. I
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by chromacity 6mo ago
I guess I was right to wait out IPv6... But more seriously, it gives me a pause when we try to bake more complex, application-centric logic into foundational protocols. The list of assigned IPv4 and TCP option numbers is a graveyard of tech
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by chromacity 6mo ago
> Corporate employees abusing trust are doing it equivalently whether they trade securities or place bets. But the crime the article is talking about isn't "abusing trust", it's insider trading. Insider trading is def
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by chromacity 6mo ago
I mean, often, yep. The real reason why they are unhappy with you having an unsupported browser is simply that it's much harder to reason about or enforce policies across bespoke environments. And in an enterprise of a sufficient scale
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by chromacity 6mo ago
I discussed this in more detail in one of my earlier comments, but I think the article commits a category error. In commercial settings, most of day-to-day infosec work (or spending) has very little to do with looking for vulnerabilities in
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by chromacity 6mo ago
Well, at least you know it's not AI-written because it's delightfully weird and evidently about some pet theory of the author. This day and age, that's something to unironically celebrate.
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by chromacity 6mo ago
This is yet another instance of a weirdly specific domain that pops up and starts posting seemingly LLM-generated articles that follow a single pattern - in this case, how "they" made everything worse. We had a similar instance fe
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by chromacity 6mo ago
> There are a few species you can sometimes find in washes when they get buried during massive floods, but other than that most museum quality specimens are impossible to find for rockhounds. Well, that's kinda how it has to be, r
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by chromacity 6mo ago
Raspberry Pi was and is selling official desktop kits: https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-4-desktop-... I wouldn't wish it upon an enemy, but it's a thing.
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by chromacity 6mo ago
It's a cool argument, but I don't think it's how YouTube is being used or how it makes money. Most views go to a relatively small number of mainstream content creators who converge on more or less the same sanitized format, d
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by chromacity 6mo ago
No. I don't think it's a good use of anyone's time to "debate" an infinite stream of chatbot-produced text. If you look at the website, it's clear that article wasn't published in good faith. See the comme
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by chromacity 6mo ago
I'm guessing they also didn't teach writing, because AI wrote this article.
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by chromacity 6mo ago
> It's not at all surprising people are leaving, university degrees are becoming minimum quarter million dollar participation trophies. The vast majority of college degrees are nowhere near that. Average in-state tuition in the US i
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by chromacity 6mo ago
First, I'm not dismissing anything. I'm just saying it's not the most significant concern. Second, Mythos doesn't create "new ways". You already have plenty of vulns to go after, and you can write exploits for
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by chromacity 6mo ago
If it's allowed by regulation and zoning, they generally don't have a say in the first place. These stories are never about building another box-shaped building in an industrial zone. We're talking about rezoning, variances,
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by chromacity 6mo ago
This is a perfect illustration of what cracks me up about the hyperbolic reactions to Mythos. Yes, increased automation of cutting-edge vulnerability discovery will shake things up a bit. No, it's nowhere near the top of what should be
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by chromacity 6mo ago
I'm honestly surprised why local governments are so eager to make datacenter deals in the first place. I'm pro-progress, but a datacenter brings approximately nothing to the local economy. It doesn't employ any noteworthy num
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by chromacity 6mo ago
I don't know. In a vacuum, if we prevent them from ever finding out that there's a faster way with less cognitive overhead? Sure. Until they have to explain to an agent precisely which shoes they want the AI agent to buy them... I
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by chromacity 6mo ago
> I have ZERO doubt that if you put people that haven't used a computer in front of one ... presented with a chatbox in the middle of the screen and you just ask the computer what you want I am 99.99% sure that everyone would prefer
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by chromacity 6mo ago
And of course it's an AI-generated article.
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by chromacity 6mo ago
I understand why you're doing it, but as a person who has to wade through dozens of these "minimal amount of utility" sites on almost every search, you're not making things better for the rest of us (or for the people wh
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by chromacity 6mo ago
I will actually concur with one of the less upvoted comments here: the most fascinating thing about this article is the website. I've seen that pattern on HN a couple of times in the past couple of months. It's an incredibly speci
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by chromacity 6mo ago
Almost everything you can do on your own is a "solved problem". Why go into woodworking if you can buy an Ikea stool? The point of hobbies isn't to solve problems - that's called a job - but to learn and have fun. Find a
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by chromacity 6mo ago
> I understand the sentiment, but.. do you realize how much more expensive that would make all these services? It wouldn't. For example, before Gmail, email was often free or nearly free (bundled with your internet service), but in
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by chromacity 6mo ago
Well, code and visual art is more differentiated, so the thing you need probably doesn't exist and it would take effort & money to procure it. Not always, but often enough to make rational people default to AI. With music... if the
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by chromacity 6mo ago
I find the production and consumption of AI music to be uniquely... anti-human. You can make utilitarian arguments for most other uses of AI. For example, the code you're generating didn't exist before, and it would take serious t
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by chromacity 6mo ago
Eh. It doesn't start or stop with people like Altman, Zuckerberg, or Nadella. I think it's a symptom of a broader problem in tech. Half the people on this site made a decision to work at companies that do shady things, and they di
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by chromacity 6mo ago
There are three possible paths that sort of substantiate current valuations: 1) Business: LLMs become essential to every company, and you become rich by selling the best enterprise tools to everyone. 2) Consumer: LLMs cannibalize search an
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by chromacity 6mo ago
Indeed. Gotta keep that body in a tip-top shape so that we can pull off all-nighters at some dude's AI startup while eating pizza and pretzels.
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by chromacity 6mo ago
I'm increasingly unsure if this is something to aspire for. I make an effort to only follow people I know, and I turn off algorithmic feeds on social media, but it doesn't matter because the people I know routinely reshare made-up

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