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by dogecoinbase 5y ago
Other people here and elsewhere have demonstrated direct code copying. It's not hard to find. The license/copyright notice (and note that the copyright notice with the names of individuals easily invalidates your assertion regard
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by dogecoinbase 5y ago
> However in the real world people don't always write bugless code and aren't always alert when driving. Therefore these AI assistants can still have a net positive result as long as they are better than the average performance
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by dogecoinbase 5y ago
It's happily spitting out licenses and copyright notices with other people's names on them, it's pretty clearly half-baked.
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by dogecoinbase 5y ago
_You_ are not in control of _your_ devices. Your television will use this technology to report what shows you're watching to the company that manufactured it; the web browser running on your computer will use this technology to report
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by dogecoinbase 5y ago
Signal didn't publish the source for their server-side from 20 April 2020 to 6 April 2021 while they secretly added a cryptocurrency payment system. Open source is only open if the source is available (and yes -- if their end-to-end e
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Reverse Engineering the M6 Smart Fitness Bracelet(rbaron.net)
94 points by dogecoinbase 5y ago|7 comments
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by dogecoinbase 5y ago
Thanks for your input! You have committed a subvariety of the classic tu quoque logical fallacy also sometimes colloquially known as "whataboutism". It is irrelevant to the topic at hand. Would you care to try again, and addres
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by dogecoinbase 5y ago
Obviously not, rather because of the significant negative externalities that remain unaddressed after over a decade.
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by dogecoinbase 5y ago
I would highly recommend Paul Benacerraf's article "What Numbers Could Not Be" for a philosophical if somewhat technical take on the subject (PDF link): http://michaeljohnsonphilosophy.com/wp-content/uplo
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by dogecoinbase 5y ago
I recognize the ways in which this is a difficult problem, but it remains frustrating to me that the application isn't capable of providing this information directly to end users. Instead you end up with confusion, missed communicatio
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by dogecoinbase 5y ago
If you're curious about the Handshake project, this is basically all I needed to hear: they based their domain-claiming system on DNSSEC -- and when they launched they couldn't even claim their _own domain_ because .org was still
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by dogecoinbase 5y ago
Advertisers.
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by dogecoinbase 5y ago
This reminds me of an all-time favorite essay: https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2756 "We can ask: if consciousness is reducible to computation, then what kinds of computation suffice to bring about consciousn
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by dogecoinbase 5y ago
I've never been able to get over Handshake basing their domain-claiming system on DNSSEC -- and when they launched they couldn't even claim their _own domain_ because .org was still signed with a RSASHA1-NSEC3-SHA1 key: https:&#x
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by dogecoinbase 5y ago
Ah yes, Kraken: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-court-authorizes-irs-see... I would suggest that engineers looking to make huge amounts of money think carefully about potential liability and whether they'
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by dogecoinbase 5y ago
is this a criticism of the linked site, or HN? ... and to stay on topic, .org may not be credible, but the indistinguishable-at-a-glace .ong is absolutely vetted. So keep an eye our for that ;)
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by dogecoinbase 5y ago
Note that this was _not_ originally the case -- Jason Fried edited his post after the fact without noting it: https://twitter.com/waxpancake/status/1386810666221150210
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by dogecoinbase 5y ago
Here's a link to the CR report with details of their testing: https://www.consumerreports.org/autonomous-driving/cr-engine...
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Consumer Reports engineers find Teslas can drive with nobody in the driver seat(cnbc.com)
5 points by dogecoinbase 5y ago|1 comments
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by dogecoinbase 5y ago
I noted this in another comment, but if they _did not_ update the code in production, they ran with known vulnerabilities in the server side for many months: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server/commit/3
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by dogecoinbase 5y ago
In this case, they not only didn't update with changes, but didn't address specific concerns about known vulnerabilities in their outdated repo: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server/commit/3432
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by dogecoinbase 5y ago
Previous discussion of the addition of payments here on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26713827 In addition to the conflict of interest Moxie has (and, honestly, I can see that side -- of course he'd want to
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by dogecoinbase 5y ago
Finally, I can purchase something without recourse in the event that I'm defrauded.
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by dogecoinbase 6y ago
One of my favorites is in POSIX date format strings: %p locale's equivalent of either AM or PM %P like %p, but lower case
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by dogecoinbase 6y ago
If the code is the contract, each of those actors is individually liable as a tortfeasor.
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by dogecoinbase 6y ago
Please re-read my comment four posts upthread. It's possible that this code wasn't in production; if so, there were known vulnerabilities left open for months.
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by dogecoinbase 6y ago
At the time of that fork, the Ethereum website literally said "the code is the contract". Then, when someone found a perfectly legitimate use of that code that the creators failed to anticipate, they forcibly altered the contract
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by dogecoinbase 6y ago
All of the code was released today. Up until earlier today, the most recent public commit on the repo was https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server/commit/3432529f9c... , the commit immediately prior to the
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by dogecoinbase 6y ago
If this code was _not_ in production, they had known vulnerabilites: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server/commit/3432529f9c... There is no interpretation of these events that's a good look, especia
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by dogecoinbase 6y ago
Fantastic, thank you for the response (I also found out where Luke was headed and it seems like a much more positive development overall)! Looking forward to the announcement with additional detail.

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