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571.
by ls612 1y ago
I could be wrong or misinformed, but I thought part of the passkey spec included some kind of remote attestation mechanism to facilitate vendor lock-in (ie Google could say its account passkey is only valid if stored in Chrome's passwo
572.
by ls612 1y ago
Don't passkeys still have tons of vendor lock-in attached? A password I can put into any password manager I want and transfer it to a different password manager and neither the password manager company nor the company for which I made
573.
by ls612 1y ago
Yeah the IRB is concerned about things like medical research. You are absolutely allowed to lie to psych research participants if you get approval and merely lying to research subjects is considered a minor risk factor.
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by ls612 2y ago
Who’s going out of their way to optimize for random HNers informal benchmarks?
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by ls612 2y ago
How will you operate a secure payment system without cookies?
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by ls612 2y ago
There’s probably nothing wrong with using fossil for the last 15% of generation for at least our lifetimes. As well as for things like airliners and rockets where energy density is king.
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by ls612 2y ago
The state literally requires me to censor if you ask. I can’t speak freely what I know about you under pain of state punishment.
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by ls612 2y ago
All court records are not copyrightable so once one person gets a document from PACER they are free to upload it to things like RECAP. Allegedly PACER is only allowed to charge enough to cover the infra costs of operating it, and has a pret
579.
by ls612 2y ago
Someone outside Europe should make a search engine that only shows records that Euro politicians don’t want the public to see. The idea of the “right to be forgotten” is horrifying and straight out of 1984, thank god once again for the Firs
580.
by ls612 2y ago
Reuters realizing in 2025 what gamers knew in 2016. That’s the mainstream media in a nutshell.
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by ls612 2y ago
It probably isn't wildly lower today, we know of at least five or six big supernovae in the Milky Way in the past millennium. For 200B stars in our galaxy the size normalized rate implied by that would be like one ever 300 years. So if
582.
by ls612 2y ago
I would think satellite observations would have thoroughly mapped the immediate subsurface by now regardless of it being hard to explore conventionally.
583.
by ls612 2y ago
In many ways the spasms we have seen globally the last few years are all downstream of the lockdowns and their damage.
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by ls612 2y ago
It gives the rule setters leverage over the masses. “Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime”
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by ls612 2y ago
Actual progress in biopharma is mediocre until it isn’t. Just look at weight loss drugs for an example.
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by ls612 2y ago
as political movements is the operative clause in my statement.
587.
by ls612 2y ago
Every meme in history could be classified as a “derivative work” and DMCA’ed.
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by ls612 2y ago
This strikes me as someone on the left complaining that they fucked around and now they are finding out. I don’t mean this in a malicious way but the lack of self reflection and perspective is staggering.
589.
by ls612 2y ago
He has a point that in a society with strong legal protections on freedom of expression, copyright is one of the main tools the state has to stop expression that is deleterious to the ruling class.
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by ls612 2y ago
Weed is much more intoxicating than alcohol in my experience.
591.
by ls612 2y ago
These changes I’m describing occurred after 2017, likely at least in part due to this vulnerability.
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by ls612 2y ago
I’m pretty sure that the modem on modern iPhones can only access a small memory address range and that this is cryptographically enforced by the Secure Enclave. So an exploit in modemland doesn’t allow reading unencrypted info (since everyt
593.
by ls612 2y ago
what is the substantive difference between googling "filter records in dataframe by regular expression in Julia" vs asking ChatGPT/Grok/Claude the same thing (to name a totally non-random example I've been working w
594.
by ls612 2y ago
By this logic Google Search couldn't exist. Except that Google won those cases.
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by ls612 2y ago
Probably a lot less dream than true FSD. SpaceX has operational reusable boosters. People have flown operational 'reusable' spaceplanes with tile based heat shields. Heck Starship itself successfully re-entered and soft-landed in
596.
by ls612 2y ago
Do Larry and Sergei still control a supermajority of voting shares? If so then ultimately they call the shots if push comes to shove.
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by ls612 2y ago
The same way Linux does. By being an independent nonprofit that all the big players in the web space fund because it is in all of their interests to do so. Whether such a model can work without a man like Linus Torvalds though is an open qu
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by ls612 2y ago
It’s only a fallacy when dealing with logical relations under certainty. Once uncertainty and probability is introduced the slippery slope just is relating Bayes’ Rule in plain English.
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by ls612 2y ago
It was decrypted on my authority as the author by virtue of whatever license the Hacker News TOS requires in order to store and transmit my posts to the public.
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by ls612 2y ago
It’s very concerning that Starship failed twice in almost exactly the same way. That suggests some broader failure at Spacex to root cause the issues.

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