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by kmoser 2mo ago
The article states that it was the government who remained nameless, not the person who brought it to Microsoft. Given that this request was not related to national security, they really should publish the name.
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by kmoser 2mo ago
AI;DR https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49336573
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by kmoser 2mo ago
> It was a fun little project; the speed of the trains affected the horizontal compression of the images. A few years ago I took a photo out the window of a Shinkansen going 150 mph and was amused that everything in the foreground tilted
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by kmoser 2mo ago
I can think of a couple of solutions: 1. Glue a US $1 bill to the spine and take them to court when they destroy it. 2. Send them a license to use the book, with the condition that if they fail to return it within 30 days, they owe $1M. (He
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by kmoser 2mo ago
Do you mean firstlast1@gmail.com was shown in the PDF? That may just mean somebody forgot to type the numbers when they sent the email.
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by kmoser 2mo ago
This is why I never use Gmail. All the spam filters in the world won't stop other people's emails from reaching me. (Oh, and Google's spam filters are pretty bad: they routinely route messages to the spam folder, even when th
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by kmoser 2mo ago
What leads you to believe they're being sent to firsnamelastnamenumbers@gmail? And by "sender" do you mean the human at the keyboard sending the email, or their email client? I can see how a human might forget to type the num
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by kmoser 2mo ago
That's on par with this (apocryphal) translation of "The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak" <=> "The vodka was good, but the meat was rotten."
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by kmoser 2mo ago
It's easy with Firefox: Right-click frame, select This Frame > Open Frame in New Tab. But I get your point; there should be a one-click link to these pages, especially since some of them don't allow themselves to be opened in a
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by kmoser 2mo ago
You would think. But that's not always the case: Florida residents face driver’s license denials over mismatched documents https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FSwv_D8gxw (Now, it's Florida, which may partly explain t
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by kmoser 2mo ago
> In their paper, the researchers outline a range of fixes for the vulnerability they've uncovered, starting with removing the connector in the vulnerable port altogether, or plugging it with epoxy. If you can safely disable the por
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by kmoser 2mo ago
That is trading one problem for another: when the name on your birth certificate doesn't match the name on your government issued ID, certain other government entities tend to deny you services.
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by kmoser 2mo ago
They see it as a win because you've still been using their site for a decade now, and every time they advertise their app there's still a non-zero chance you'll relent, but if they stop pushing their app, that chance drops to
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by kmoser 2mo ago
I have a framed copy on my office wall of this story from the NY Times, August 13, 1981: https://www.nytimes.com/1981/08/13/business/business-digest-...
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by kmoser 2mo ago
I worked on a project in 1990/1991 (pre-WWW) that involved making the phone book electronically accessible. For development my client purchased CD-ROMs containing the White Pages from the entire NYC tri-state area (NY, NJ, and CT), mak
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by kmoser 2mo ago
Why wouldn't those various interests just complain about the next area being surveyed? Why would they stop after the first?
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by kmoser 2mo ago
Destroying art generates income for the workers paid to destroy it.
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by kmoser 2mo ago
How about Titanic II?
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by kmoser 2mo ago
The government has appropriated Banksy's artworks (e.g. the police sentry box), and could sell them. If the sale of those artworks exceeds the cost of cleaning others, then the government has netted a profit, which takes the monetary a
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by kmoser 2mo ago
> Remove it when the domain is no longer for sale. The convention has no “not for sale” value; absence is the only way to say no. Since most domains that are for sale don't currently have such a record, it would be wrong to assume t
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by kmoser 2mo ago
The author exhibits the same starry-eyed ideals that people tend to get when trying to explain away the simplicity of designing an "intelligent" agent (for any definition of "intelligent"): they think they can just provi
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by kmoser 2mo ago
> 1970s personal computers were "controlled" by the likes of Richard Stallman. Who are you talking about? Richard Stallman is all about allowing anybody to freely run their own software on their own hardware.
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by kmoser 2mo ago
Today's state-of-the-art AI systems are the equivalent of late 1970s personal computers: bulky and expensive, but wildly more powerful than what came before. And look what happened: tech improved by orders of magnitude, and eventually
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by kmoser 2mo ago
> When the article says "he was found guilty" what does that even mean? "found" implies there was evidence. IANAL but to be "found guilty" means you are determined to be, in the eyes of the law, guilty. Actu
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by kmoser 2mo ago
The prosecution certainly could have done a comparison, but it seems they just went with the matching username and figured it was a slam-dunk (which it turned out to be). It's very possible the defense was never even made aware of thos
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by kmoser 2mo ago
Some people enjoy reading flowery words and intricately nuanced language; those who enjoy writing in that style should continue to do so, and reap the rewards of a similarly inclined audience.
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by kmoser 2mo ago
I wonder what opportunities exist for a malicious actor to intercept the data flow and substitute it with their own, either for the purposes of devaluing someone else's cow or to increase the value of their own--or even to generate fak
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by kmoser 2mo ago
This is a variation of Parkinson's Law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_Law : "Data expands to fill the space available for storage."
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by kmoser 2mo ago
To be technical, what he read wasn't prompt, it's part of the AI's response to the prompt. But yes, it's a giant tell that politician used AI to write his speech, and he didn't thoroughly edit the response when prep
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by kmoser 3mo ago
A happy middle ground might be a designated billboard zone (e.g. Times Square), with billboards outside a certain area being outlawed, or restricted by size. But the Devil is always in the details: how would businesses advertise their prese

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