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by mmooss 2mo ago
For those seeking the source: > The researchers presented their results at the "ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security" (CCS) in Taipei. This citation at the bottom might be the paper: Julian Todt, Felix Morsbac
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> "By observing the propagation of radio waves, we can create an image of the surroundings and of persons who are present," Notice that it doesn't matter if you are using Wifi. If you're in a city, I doubt there are m
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Just a comment on the narrative: > wBlock by an MIT student is open source It's funny to me that some find that narrative appealing. Here's another narrative: Many of those MIT students go on to be SV founders and employees who
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That assumes people mistrust LLM output, which is a perspective inside the HN bubble. Outside, almost everyone I know - including highly educated people - takes even Google's search LLM output as fact, without a second thought, and eve
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Sometimes you can use a semicolon where you use an em dash, but that's only coincidence: They serve different functions and usually you can't. Rae bought all the candy at the store - Milky Way, Reese's, M&Ms, everything
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Thanks ... 1. So we can't score the first paragraph (or similar-sized block), and not short texts? Not deal-breaker, but a limitation. 2. Doesn't the score vary by each AI system state - its model, programming, harness, etc.? Clau
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For SynthID and similar solutions, there is much I don't understand ... Here's what I grasp: The AI system scores each token and then selects tokens based on those scores. If we encode something in the token selection routine (&#x
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> This is probably the biggest value from going to college ... It's a popular argument that doesn't make it's point very explicitly nor offer any support for it, but the main point is that college education itself has no v
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You haven't supported your claims at all. That you turn to name-calling and provocation makes it seem more likely that you have nothing to stand on. > you own the state .. the state doesn't owe you anything .. its first duty is
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They plainly, explicitly welcome it: "Recently the OpenSSH team have received a large number of security bug reports, many of which are findings from AI models or made with AI assistance. While many AI reports are determined not to hav
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Maybe you're missing something. The sin is dismissing that even if you don't intend to pursue it. Especially when others say they see more - see my original comment. Often, when I don't see something I later find I was look
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Go back up the thread and explain how it helps national security. So far there is no explanation of it. > national security > free market capitalism Also, claiming 'national security' is an old excuse to do anything. The cur
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The backlash itself may not mean much; it's what comes next that matters. If you want to regulate this, strike now while the iron is hot: Meta and everyone else with experience knows that, for disruptive technologies, backlash is the s
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Whatever, but I'm saying they aren't trying. Understanding art, beyond the surface, takes work. Something in it provokes people, often a good signal.
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> It has no subtext, poses no real questions (Reddit nailed this: "war is bad, innit?"), and pursues only "coolness". I can't read your mind but that sounds like the usual response to artwork that someone doesn&#
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> Anduril Industries is not a second rate company Then they can compete successfully with non-US companies and protectionist tariffs are useless.
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Yours is the non-sequitur: I responded to a claim that the EU was 'top-heavy', which I interpreted as 'economic output is concentrated in a few countries'. Regardless of GDP growth, Germany and France output far more tha
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That doesn't seem to address the prior comment ? > over time it allows other players (inside of that country) to fill that void .. and develop their own home grown solutions .. By eliminating competition, it forces Americans to subs
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> there a lot of micro-nations in eastern Europe that have outsized influence over the union as a whole Would you give an example of when that has happened? > It just seems like the EU is too top-heavy The EU intentionally admitted ma
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> the Pentagon’s most secure electronics would be made by the Soviet Union under Kremlin supervision What electronics here are among the Pentagon's most secure? Why would the Pentagon have to buy LIDAR from a Chinese company? Will w
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> trite brand of sub-tour-poster stencil work, most of which would be too on-the-nose for a Rage Against The Machine reissue cover. Art makes questions: It's both stencil-like and precisely, powerfully executed; it's both obvio
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> It basically holds up your butt while you walk There's also a second major benefit. Some amateur theory: There are two main advantages to wheels generally: A) Hold up your butt (support weight), and B) reduce friction with the gr
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Are you claiming there are evolutionary differences to race?
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> animals have evolved perceptibly in my lifetime ? Which animals? Evolution requires orders of magnitude longer time spans. I doubt we're perceptibly different (in any genetic sense) than Homo sapiens from 200,000 years ago. I&#x27
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> I don't even know how you have heard the voices of lower HHI people. Talk to them, like everyone else. > What is happening is wealthy Californians moving to Texas Maybe that's who you talk to. :) Seriously, wealthy Califor
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When will the public figure out that many IT exploits are the result of malpractice by developers and network adminstrators, and the businesses employing them? We're building and operating bridges that we know will collapse. Our produc
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This argument matches a HN (and IT world) idea that the law is algorithmic or autistic. If Italy's government wanted to enforce that law, I'm sure they could. If the law banned selling beer without a license, you can't sell a
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That might be considered an intended result of the rule - encouraging more non-alcoholic drinking.
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What are you calling astroturfing? If anything, it would be the comment upthread. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49127343
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69,000 EUR is a lot in the Netherlands? It's a very rich country. It's hardly extravagant. > And NGO people I know are mostly idealistic college kids who want to do good. Lots of creepy guys too This is just gossip about anecdo

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