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by fwlr 4y ago
Eve if Moore’s law is dead, it lived way longer than any law claiming a doubling every two years has a right to. Compound annual growth of 41% per year for 40+ years is astonishing.
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by fwlr 4y ago
To be concrete, the concern isn’t that the phone check people are going to steal important data from my phone, it’s that they are going to lose my phone. I have backup and recovery systems but they are not seamless and not complete, someth
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by fwlr 4y ago
I’ve worked on and with SOTA facial recognition, there’s largely two separate claims about the intersection of facial recognition and racial discrimination. One is that it’s inaccurate on minorities, and the other is that it’s used to targe
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by fwlr 4y ago
I experimented with focus modes a while back and found them lacking. Does what it says on tin but I guess I was after Do What I Mean, i.e. I wanted my phone to figure out what was important for me. Maybe I’ll revisit them!
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by fwlr 4y ago
Obviously it would be worse if the valet started using my wallet and passport and business banking to steal from me, but it would still suck if they merely threw it all out the window.
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by fwlr 4y ago
There are bars with Faraday cages built into the walls to achieve this effect, here’s one https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-sussex-36943686.amp It seems like it’s probably legal. Might want to provide a reception-ava
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by fwlr 4y ago
Yes, but not before removing my wallet and passport and briefcase that has all my logins to my business’s internet banking written down on a sheet of paper inside.
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by fwlr 4y ago
“My cofounder needed me to 2FA our Stripe login and I couldn’t” I’m guessing the issue was that the request to 2FA was sent to the founder’s phone and thus they didn’t see it. It would take some testing but perhaps it’s possible to take adv
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by fwlr 4y ago
I looked but I could not find a good write-up of the actual systems under discussion. “Large-scale, video-based” data fed through AI of some kind, details unspecified. Main points raised in defense were that it could identify unattended lug
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by fwlr 4y ago
>So grow your own filter I did! I combine the fluff of the PR with the edge of the negative reply and they cancel out, leaving me free to analyze the info that remains.
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by fwlr 4y ago
(I edited my comment as you were replying, sorry about that.) If the reflexive maximally-negative complaints are contradicting the actual information presented, they had better come with strong evidence or I’m dismissing them (and I do find
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by fwlr 4y ago
It’s no more or less tiresome than a press release is itself. Whatever the material contents, a press release has “positivity” set to 1.0 (or as close to 1.0 as permitted by law and professional standards). This upsets the balance of the wo
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by fwlr 4y ago
My first thought was “I wonder if Alpaca 7B could generate a plausible counter-notice”. Probably not, but I bet if GPT-4’s weights were leaked it could defend itself against DMCA claims.
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by fwlr 4y ago
For what it’s worth, I agree with you. If you manage to include shrapnel in your thumb drive bomb design it becomes much more lethal.
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by fwlr 4y ago
A bullet is a bad comparison because guns are uniquely fantastic maximisers of the damage potential of explosions. What a gun does is take the entire explosion and concentrate it into one particular direction, it’s like a laser chamber fo
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by fwlr 4y ago
The first USB thumb drive I could find on Amazon was a Sandisk with dimensions of 7 x 41 x 17 millimetres. That gives it a total volume of just under 4.9cm3, which would be a maximum of 8.5 grams of C4, or just under 1/3 of an ounce. H
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by fwlr 4y ago
Speaking to your computer is just as valid as typing into it! I have auditory processing issues, mentally processing speech takes up a significant fraction of my cognitive resources and I don’t really have the ability to just tune it out. C
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by fwlr 4y ago
“developers can verbally give natural language prompts.” One more reason to demand remote work. I really do not want to be sitting next to the guy who spends 8 hours talking to his computer.
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by fwlr 4y ago
Being able to charge at home for daily driving should drastically cut down on the number of trips one has to make to gas stations / charging stations.
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by fwlr 4y ago
It’s not petty or ludicrous to ask for messaging about climate change to be slightly kinder, or to come with a bit of empathy for how exhausting the messaging is. It is petty and ludicrous to say that if someone is bothered by the messaging
651.
by fwlr 4y ago
That’s one I’ve heard, another is “square it and then multiply by 3/multiply by Pi”. The lowest estimate method I know of is simply multiplying by Pi, which is why it was amusing to read civil engineers casually mentioning they add jus
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by fwlr 4y ago
https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/delhi/anti-modi-pos... This seems like the most relevant link. Seems like it’s “bad thing related to free speech happened in India”, don’t know if that meets HN’s stan
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by fwlr 4y ago
This line jumped out at me: “Anyone who’s ever guesstimated the cost of anything knows to tack on an extra 15% for caution”. Struck me as amusing given that conservative estimating in software uses a factor of Pi, not 1.15.
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by fwlr 4y ago
There might be other algorithms that can take advantage of quantum computing to break symmetric cryptography (although the paper does argue we should expect it is unlikely these algorithms exist). My understanding is there’s a fair bit of q
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by fwlr 4y ago
Oh, that’s actually way worse than I thought! It’s not that these apps have some kind of undo feature or are aiming for non-destructive editing, and that’s not what users expect - the apps actually are attempting to perform redaction and th
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by fwlr 4y ago
So, Acropalypse is “people use image snipping and markup tools to redact images, but those tools often allow the unredacted images to be recovered”? Yeah, that’s a pretty big violation of the implicit expectations of users.
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by fwlr 4y ago
They wanted to move to 8.0.0 on curl’s 25th birthday, so they made the smallest possible breaking change they could (changing which environments curl can build in), thus justifying a major version bump.
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by fwlr 4y ago
If you read my original comment more closely you’ll see I have no trouble with the complexity of the reality of climate change, and what I am taking issue with is the annoying method of communication of predictions about that reality, commu
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by fwlr 4y ago
I commend them on pushing back on LLM hype and hope their book gets published in a timely manner… but damn I’m also glad that I am not the one writing it, since I fear many of its claims will go the way of IBM President Thomas Watson’s infa
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by fwlr 4y ago
Alright, so my analysis was correct, good to know. I stand by my claim that Noah is analyzing the bet in a very unorthodox manner, in order to claim it’s a “sure loser” when it’s actually just a bad bet and not what people would usually thi

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