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by jamespwilliams 4y ago
This isn’t true - this crossword was published last week, and ChatGPT’s knowledge of the world ends in 2021.
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ChatGPT vs. a Cryptic Crossword(jameswillia.ms)
135 points by jamespwilliams 4y ago|122 comments
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by jamespwilliams 4y ago
How do you explain how it knows the output of the first Python expression in this article, if not by understanding it? Let alone the fact that’s it’s running in a simulated virtual machine, and the other examples presented in this article,
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by jamespwilliams 4y ago
> I just cracked the imaginary virtual machine's root password using John The Ripper https://twitter.com/nejk0/status/1599186423760183296
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by jamespwilliams 4y ago
I find it hard to believe that it’s seen that exact code online along with the output. It’s quite an unusual expression. Also, it does not matter that the code takes 30 seconds to execute — I’m not claiming that the model is executing the c
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by jamespwilliams 4y ago
The IP for bbc.com included in the output is in a netblock owned by the BBC: https://ipinfo.io/AS2818/212.58.224.0/19-212.58.224.0/25
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by jamespwilliams 4y ago
The fact that it’s able to understand the Python code and come to the correct answer is pretty astonishing in itself, let alone the rest. The progress in this area is insane. If you’d have told me a week ago this was possible I would absolu
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Mozilla moves to distrust the TrustCor CA(groups.google.com)
198 points by jamespwilliams 4y ago|64 comments
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by jamespwilliams 4y ago
If you squash you decrease the granularity of your git history, though.
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Tailscale Security Bulletin TS-2022-004(tailscale.com)
3 points by jamespwilliams 4y ago|0 comments
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Security concerns with the e-Tugra certificate authority(ian.sh)
159 points by jamespwilliams 4y ago|94 comments
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Show HN: DNS-over-Ping(8)(github.com)
3 points by jamespwilliams 4y ago|0 comments
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Government urged to investigate report Liz Truss’s phone was hacked(theguardian.com)
3 points by jamespwilliams 4y ago|0 comments
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by jamespwilliams 4y ago
Obligatory mention of https://twitter.com/virginmedia/status/1162756227132198914 (in 2019!!)
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by jamespwilliams 4y ago
As far as I can see (Chrome’s cert viewer), the cert is for *.cctld.uz, cctld.uz (which doesn’t match uz alone). Do you see different names in the cert?
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by jamespwilliams 4y ago
Oh interesting, thanks! I fixed the script and ran the TLD list through again, in case this meant I missed some, but none of the affected TLDs have A records. I'll update my post to mention your comment.
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Shortest URLs on the Internet(jameswillia.ms)
489 points by jamespwilliams 4y ago|195 comments
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by jamespwilliams 4y ago
You might find https://www.givedirectly.org interesting
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Protohackers(protohackers.com)
3 points by jamespwilliams 4y ago|0 comments
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by jamespwilliams 4y ago
The same is true of DigitalOcean, fwiw. Shutting down machines used in production with no notice, outside working hours. I don’t know why these companies don’t care - they’re massively shooting themselves in their feet. Incidents like this
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Hazel v3 Preview(twitter.com)
1 points by jamespwilliams 4y ago|0 comments
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by jamespwilliams 4y ago
The attack Twilio suffered is almost identical to the recent attack against Cloudflare: https://blog.cloudflare.com/2022-07-sms-phishing-attacks/ (even down the wording of the text messages, which are nearly identical)
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by jamespwilliams 4y ago
> 13 root nameservers exist There are 13 root nameserver IPs, but there are actually about 1500 root nameservers. Anycast addressing is used so that multiple root nameservers can use the same IP (requests to a root nameserver IP will be
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by jamespwilliams 4y ago
> i have stuff literally written a deacade+ ago, still working without issues Maybe this works if you run your Perl in the exact same environment the whole time, or if you're writing stuff on a very small scale and don't need t
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by jamespwilliams 4y ago
I read https://twitter.com/eastdakota/status/1545259828972584961 , came to HN to see if there was any discussion, then saw HN was down… spooky
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by jamespwilliams 4y ago
https://github.com/jamespwilliams/neovim-go-nix-develop The above is my attempt to create a minimal Neovim configuration that uses treesitter and nvim-lsp (albeit only for Go). It uses Nix, so if you have Nix installed
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by jamespwilliams 4y ago
I think it was originally developed and maintained by Shopify, but was then handed off to the nix community
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by jamespwilliams 4y ago
This brought https://github.com/Shopify/comma to mind
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Haskle(haskle.net)
4 points by jamespwilliams 4y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Set up a Go Neovim development environment in one command using Nix(github.com)
3 points by jamespwilliams 4y ago|0 comments

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