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by michaelt 1y ago
The people dealing with classified military secrets are such Chatty Cathys they can't help but blab about upcoming airstrikes to random strangers, so we need to prevent them from talking to strangers? If that's the case, shouldn&#
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by michaelt 1y ago
Every time I hear people talking about ensuring software correctness, it reminds me of this story: https://horningtales.blogspot.com/2006/09/exhaustive-testing... A university group in the 1960s finds a vendor-sup
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by michaelt 1y ago
In some areas, with declining attendance and a reluctance to close any churches, many priests perform mass at multiple churches. This is especially true in rural areas, where the density of churches was established in the pre-car era.
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by michaelt 1y ago
The $1599 M5 Macbook Pro: Good enough for a guy who thinks a 12-year-old MacBook with 8 gigs of ram is "still perfectly usable" :)
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by michaelt 1y ago
In ~2020, it was: Attacker sends an imessage containing a PDF imessage, like most modern messaging apps, displays a preview - which means running the PDF loader. The PDF loader has support for the obsolete-but-part-of-the-pdf-standard image
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by michaelt 1y ago
> Also why the sudden interest? Amazon Alexa snips have been used before in court/investigation and this is not new. As I understand it, some people treat chatgpt like a close personal friend and therapist. Confiding their deepest
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by michaelt 1y ago
Many western countries make dying slowly with Alzheimer’s very expensive, by the standards of normal families. Between doctors, nurses and lawyers you can burn through a million bucks in five years easily. And most families don’t have a mil
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by michaelt 1y ago
> 2. Suspicion, if someone is using the machine dozens of times per month—who needs that many social-media signups or whatever? Anyone who visits pornhub and doesn't want to open an account?
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by michaelt 1y ago
In my country there's a multi-airline API for booking plane tickets, but the cheapest of economy carriers only accept bookings directly on their websites. If you want to make something that can book every airline? Better be able to n
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by michaelt 1y ago
If they've done 500k units, "based on a respun Uno" almost certainly means "there's a atmega328p on the PCB, a 16MHz crystal, and some points granting access to the serial and reset pins"
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by michaelt 1y ago
1. example.com is not on the HSTS preload list 2. Because you normally visit example.com using an incognito window, your browser hasn't cached the redirect to SSL, or the address bar suggestion, and you haven't bookmarked the site
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by michaelt 1y ago
If I was running an intelligence agency and was given my choice of conscripts, I wouldn't hand my intelligence secrets to people who resented being forced to be there; or to mouthy people I thought might blab about it after the end of
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by michaelt 1y ago
> If that can be faked, are you saying that those private keys are compromised? As I understand it, the big idea behind Confidential Computing is that huge American tech multinationals AWS, GCP and Azure can't be trusted. It is ha
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by michaelt 1y ago
> This made sense because SGX design followed security best practices, namely, you should minimize the size of the trusted computing base. More code that's trusted = more potential for mistakes = more vulnerabilities. So SGX envisi
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by michaelt 1y ago
> But if it's pushed to all users, wouldn't we expect a researcher to notice? Think of the security a games console has - every download arrives encrypted, all storage encrypted, RAM encrypted, and security hardware in the CP
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by michaelt 1y ago
I can't speak for the OP, but I have customers I still support, because they supported me many years ago when I was a teenager taking my first steps into industry. Does it make me money? Barely a cent. But I can spare a hour or two a y
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by michaelt 1y ago
Well, the big money is in becoming a leader in a field before it's hot - making the big payoffs very speculative. In the mid 2000s, natural language modelling was a joke and the best performing ML systems for sentiment analysis wou
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by michaelt 1y ago
Most phd programmes are very, very low fat when it comes to salaries. An academic CS department has to attract PhD level talent in hot areas like ML while only paying $30k a year.
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by michaelt 1y ago
I don’t follow this stuff in depth but if the arrests are part of a "a sustained campaign of harassment and abuse against one or more named individuals" by the police that sounds worse IMHO?
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by michaelt 1y ago
Here in the UK, the government wants: * ID checks for social media (to protect children) * A digital ID card, allowing ID check records to be provably linked to the original ID document (to prevent illegal working) * The police arresting pe
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by michaelt 1y ago
Yes, you can do that. The thing is, that'll apply to all your employees, no matter how junior. And it also extends to countries with extradition treaties to the US; holiday in the the Dominican Republic? You can be arrested and extradi
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by michaelt 1y ago
> As I understand it, OpenAI and Anthropic have both wisely decided to make sure he has up to date info because they know he'll write about it. And the wisest part is if he writes something they don't like, they can cut off t
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by michaelt 1y ago
> it's a slow path to monetize OpenAI if they don't support some kind of channel to get paid by the sell-side. Seems like an express route to irrelevance, to me. If I wanted AI-generated shill reviews, written without laying
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by michaelt 1y ago
If you have a sufficiently broad definition of 'product', then yes. Millions of people are passionate about brands like the "Dallas Cowboys" and "Star Wars" and will dress up in costumes and go to events with l
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by michaelt 1y ago
> every single person really did have a different 20% they cared about. I have always wondered what would happen if someone had to invent spreadsheets from scratch, today. Would conditional formatting and pivot tables get removed, beca
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by michaelt 1y ago
But they're only a proscribed group because the cabinet decided it was politically convenient to proscribe them. It's not like these guys are the Taliban or the IRA, though some of them did chuck some paint on some planes. So a pe
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by michaelt 1y ago
In this instance the article does say "An ambitious Pentagon plan to field thousands of cutting-edge drones to prepare for a potential conflict with China has [...] struggled to find software that can successfully control large number
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by michaelt 1y ago
Still, detracts from the glory of "the fastest single-core CPU in the world on PassMark"
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by michaelt 1y ago
> I'm just trying to figure out how you even cheat on chess, You use a chess engine to tell you the best move - you can run a chess engine on a modern phone that will easily best the world's top human chess players. The simpl
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by michaelt 1y ago
> A Brit can pass a RTW check without a drivers license or a passport - paper birth certificate is also acceptable, as neither a drivers license or a passport a mandatory. Getting those can be expensive for some people while this ID is

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