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841.
by hansvm 2y ago
For images in particular, hardware attestation fails in several ways: 1. The hardware just verifies that the image was acquired by that camera in particular. If an AI generates the thing it's photographing, especially if there's a
842.
by hansvm 2y ago
The provider (landlord) and payer (tenant) being two distinct entities is part of the problem, but the other part is that the landlord actively hides that sort of information. If you ask how much water costs, they'll likely not answer,
843.
by hansvm 2y ago
No. That would give the president the power of a king, something the founding fathers tried hard not to do.
844.
by hansvm 2y ago
> I don’t know what exactly all of this is pretending to prevent. Pick your fallacy: - We've spent billions of dollars on this stuff. Surely we wouldn't have done that unless it worked. - We've spent billions of dollars on
845.
by hansvm 2y ago
That's only a problem if your favorite method of representing uncertainty is in-band signalling via a technique like significant figures.
846.
by hansvm 2y ago
The last time I did anything like this (it was for CPU linear algebra code designed to run in very heterogeneous clusters), I first came up with a parameterization that approximated how I'd expect an algorithm to perform. Then, once fo
847.
by hansvm 2y ago
I've lived in a few dozen cities (most very, very rural) in the US, and The Bay has, by far, the worst electricity out of any of them. We have longer outages as a planned practice than I'd have from ice storms knocking down half t
848.
by hansvm 2y ago
I'd disagree slightly, insofar as the author would probably be fine with a makefile for the problem at hand. The thing you're solving is runbooks/documentation being high-toil and slightly harder to automate than they should
849.
by hansvm 2y ago
I'm more anti-object than most people, and this doesn't look terrible to me. You have a sequence of imperative steps, and they're represented with two levels of nesting rather than one. So long as nobody fucks the thing up mo
850.
by hansvm 2y ago
That'll obtain the right average but won't have the same pairwise relations as an independent, unbiased coin. That's probably easiest to see if you imagine approaching an infinitely biased coin (100% heads, 0% tails). Your st
851.
by hansvm 2y ago
I doubt there's proof (much like how China harvesting organs from certain races and religions didn't have solid proof till recently), but it's in the right ballpark. 50+ journalists are killed (and documented as such) each ye
852.
by hansvm 2y ago
Right, but the problem they were describing was storing the "hash" in a hash table, not storing the item using a hash. For that, it absolutely matters, and the fact that it was a 128-bit hash IMO isn't good enough because the
853.
by hansvm 2y ago
Based on currently available public estimates, Google stores around 2^75 bytes, most of that backed by a small number of very general-purpose object stores. A lot of that is from larger files, but you're still approaching birthday-para
854.
by hansvm 2y ago
Not believing an explanation for dark matter seems prudent. It's just the name we've given to a certain set of observations not matching how we believe the universe works. We're still piecing together the details.
855.
by hansvm 2y ago
> limit has been picked up (72) There's nothing wrong with a limit. The problem is that the library silently does the wrong thing when the limit is breached, rather than failing loudly.
856.
by hansvm 2y ago
Yeah, the fact that I can't have my mouse in the normal position and scroll the actual article was a problem 10 times or more while trying to read the thing...
857.
by hansvm 2y ago
> valid, 128 bits The birthday paradox is a thing. If you have 128 bits of entropy, you expect the 50% mark to be proportional to 64-bit keys, not 128 bits. 64 bits is a lot, but in my current $WORK project if I only had 128 bits of entr
858.
by hansvm 2y ago
Kind of. He also spent $120m in taxpayer money to spend nearly a quarter of his first term golfing. He wasn't the most active president I've ever seen.
859.
by hansvm 2y ago
> same cost of doing business In aggregate, sure, but people make personal decisions for personal reasons, not because of aggregates. Early in my career I had an opportunity that looked like a 92% chance (based on stats of previous peopl
860.
by hansvm 2y ago
Wait, we're opposed to illegal drugs and letting _who_ exactly inject his own code into the treasury?
861.
by hansvm 2y ago
> global to your whole program Zig automatically does what most languages call LTO, so "whole program" and "compilation unit" are effectively the same thing (these error indices don't propagate across, e.g., dyna
862.
by hansvm 2y ago
I agreed with you either way, but I'm currently at a loss as to whether this is a for/against take on rust.
863.
by hansvm 2y ago
Interpreting it charitably, it's like what happens with maternity leave. If you have 1 employee who needs to go on leave, you're required to pay benefits (maybe a salary), the work she was doing still needs to be done, and you hav
864.
by hansvm 2y ago
It's completely different. If I start writing an itertools library with comptime inlining and my favorite selection of other features, completing map/reduce/take/skip/... exactly how I want them to look, LLM autocom
865.
by hansvm 2y ago
"Yes, of course, I'm using AI at every single opportunity where I think it'll improve my output" <<never uses AI>>
866.
by hansvm 2y ago
It's not a perfect analogy, but if you want to put yourself in the shoes of the people making it: 1. Rust is an immensely complicated language, and it's not very composable (see the async debacle and whatnot). On the simple<-&g
867.
by hansvm 2y ago
This should be easy enough to solve. Cut the hours back to something sane, and as much as possible time the airport closures in ways that affect the ruling class. You get bonus points if their jets are also delayed during normal taxiing and
868.
by hansvm 2y ago
In Trump's first term he had one of the lowest rates of fulfilling campaign promises of any president. I was caught off-guard by him actually appearing to go through with this.
869.
by hansvm 2y ago
People like Musk and Andreesen getting involved are evidence that you're about to see fraud and overreach that concentrates power and resources in their hands instead of the American people. No matter what you think about Trump and whe
870.
by hansvm 2y ago
Most of HN has seen San Francisco. I doubt they'd look down too much.

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