lazaroclapp

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by lazaroclapp 9y ago
Cloud isn't less secure than on-prem if you are your average software startup or non-tech company, which, for many reasons, is unlikely to go all out on on-prem security. Commodity cloud should be less secure than on-prem, if you are
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by lazaroclapp 9y ago
> Do you have any evidence such a market exists? Yes. I have evidence there is a market for this, consisting of 1 or more persons, willing to pay at least $0.00. Not every OS needs a 1-2 billion users install base.
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by lazaroclapp 9y ago
Well, it is technically possible he is at the national average income (not the median wage) and lives in a place where rent is way more affordable than the cities most of HN lives in. U.S. GDP per capita is $55,836.79. That is $44,558 after
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by lazaroclapp 9y ago
That the wealth of a more educated society compounds, likely in super-additive fashion. Basically, the idea is that a society full of educated people is wealthier as a whole and thus in your own interest. In the short term, it is easier to
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by lazaroclapp 9y ago
Sure, but then, you also need strict W^X memory protections, without exceptions (kernel included), since malware in memory of a device that doesn't often reboot is dangerous enough. For example, the very best malware for network device
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by lazaroclapp 9y ago
Yeah, I am aware. The problem is that using, say, CompCert might result in less security in practice, since although the compiler transformations are verified, code written in C is usually more prone to security issues. It also puts the bur
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by lazaroclapp 9y ago
Pretty sure you can build an X-Ray/MRI control software in Rust on top of seL4, and do lightweight verification (or, even better: hardware breakers of some sort) around issues like "will output lethal doses of radiation". Tha
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by lazaroclapp 9y ago
In offense of these medical devices, they should never have been running Windows or any general purpose OS in the first place! A lot easier to guarantee security if the entire thing is a well tested 10-50KLOC Rust daemon on top of seL4. I a
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by lazaroclapp 9y ago
From the abstract: "Our main finding is that the developmental curve of the estimated algorithmic complexity of responses is similar to what may be expected of a measure of higher cognitive abilities, with a performance peak around 25
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by lazaroclapp 9y ago
Installing software from a USB drive is within the reach of most normal teens and young adults in the developing world. So, sneakernet -> IPFS -> Wikipedia is a viable path so long as blocking the IPFS protocol, over all reasonable tr
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by lazaroclapp 9y ago
Not the only possibility, specially given the level of the attacks. But, would you be surprised if it was the Russians nonetheless? Geopolitically speaking, they are pretty high up in a short list of nations that benefit enormously if the E
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by lazaroclapp 9y ago
And that's exactly how you end up with Nazis... "after Hitler, our turn". The time for voting further left was the previous round of the election, unfortunately.
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by lazaroclapp 9y ago
Sure, but, I mean, will we get it sooner if private companies are not working on it at the same time as public research institutions are? If we don't have access to the tech because it is being hoarded, or because it does not exist, th
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by lazaroclapp 9y ago
Fortunately, over a long enough time scale, it doesn't matter, the technology will eventually leak out of their control. If they come up with incremental medical treatments, well, then they will be under patents and initially only avai
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by lazaroclapp 9y ago
Wait, 'thousands of users'? I though Whatsapp daily user base was nearing a billion by now... so, is this a very rare failure or...? Because honestly, if it's a total outage, then it this is likely on the order of the entire
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by lazaroclapp 9y ago
> If your business model requires collecting data that would not be conscionable to hand over to the government upon demand, you should seriously reconsider your business model. This is not reasonable in many cases, though. It is surpris
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by lazaroclapp 9y ago
Pretty much nobody looks up to the Bay Area for architecture... Online retailers on the other hand are pretty much weather independent. Also, usually not based in the Bay Area at all. The big two "primarily e-commerce" businesses
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by lazaroclapp 9y ago
"Do what I mean" is correct in that it reduces super-human AI to the same category of other human technologies: as good or as bad as whatever we choose to do with them. "Coherent extrapolated volition" might be preferabl
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by lazaroclapp 9y ago
Sure. Question is: how many other discoveries await today such that we, collectively, as a species, already have all the puzzle pieces, but haven't yet put them together? An AI as smart as your average grad student, but which somehow c
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by lazaroclapp 9y ago
No. It means you could program an AI to a) make paperclips and b) increase its own intelligence. Assume you program (a) incorrectly (in the sense of lacking the appropriate safeguards about when not to make more paperclips) but (b) correc
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by lazaroclapp 9y ago
Peaceful coexistence is one of those things where its desirability to society goes beyond personal preference. Not saying that there is no cost that is too high to pay for coexistence. However, in general "but they don't want to c
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by lazaroclapp 10y ago
I guess it is a good thing this is not a 'smart pacemaker' manufacturer or similar... But in all seriousness, I wonder at which point the decision to rescind an IoT 'service' becomes unacceptable. Obviously doing so with
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by lazaroclapp 10y ago
Actually, it is not hate speech to disagree with the Jewish religion or specific customs (that is protected instead by freedom of religion, which is a different argument, and an important one, but probably not with the same weight as basic
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by lazaroclapp 10y ago
How is that not an exception, though? The test 'whether the speech will provoke immediate face-to-face violence' is still a restriction on free speech, albeit an extremely circumscribed one. Which is exactly what we were talking a
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by lazaroclapp 10y ago
Are you sure about that? I am usually a pretty strong free speech advocate, up to toeing the line of being a free speech absolutist at some points in my life (of the: "nuclear weapon blueprints posted online are just as valid speech as
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by lazaroclapp 10y ago
Wonder if they will be able to launch it a third time, though, since it seemed it did get a bit more damage on entry this time around. Either way, impressive. Btw, does anyone know how reusable these things are expected to be in the near te
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by lazaroclapp 10y ago
It also has to do a bit with whether or not other lifeforms inhabit the place. Mars is unlikely to have any life on it, and certainly no pluricellular life without some extensive terraforming. If we ever get to that point, the discussion ov
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by lazaroclapp 10y ago
Sure. Which is why Last Pass makes you safer if you use it for the long tail of rarely used non-critical passwords. The problem is once you are using Last Pass for those, it becomes more and more tempting to use it for passwords that actual
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by lazaroclapp 10y ago
But dogs are animals, just like humans are. They share way too much with us to be a reliable model for predicting non-human AGIs behavior: an evolved drive for self-preservation, a notion of pain or pleasure, etc. An AGI has no intrinsic re
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by lazaroclapp 10y ago
A lot of what constitutes wanting something or having a panic attack if it doesn't get it, when talking about animals, is an evolved survival mechanism. It is also in some way a result of the tools at hand: hormones such as adrenaline

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