octoberfranklin

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by octoberfranklin 5d ago
People don't care about things unless/until they become part of the Omnicause.
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by octoberfranklin 5d ago
So what? They have Cloudflare. "SSL removed here"
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by octoberfranklin 5d ago
Most doctors don't want to be business owners. Then they should work for the doctors who do. Also, I don't think they're particularly opposed to owning their practice. I can understand them not wanting to manage a busi
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by octoberfranklin 5d ago
I'm surprised that medical practices can be owned by anybody other than licensed physicians. In most states a law firm's owners must all be individuals licensed to practice law (i.e. lawyers). Why not the same thing for medicine?
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by octoberfranklin 7d ago
we'd still have editor that only support one language properly Emacs supported zillions of languages before LSP. Zoom out.
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by octoberfranklin 7d ago
Both of these things can be true.
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by octoberfranklin 7d ago
Enter hell: LSP assumes that it's the source of truth, but you still need to access the filesystem yourself, and do it in a synchronized way LSP is an example of utterly horrid technical design. Stop letting Microsoft design protocol
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by octoberfranklin 7d ago
If you think trusted computing is a defense against nation-state attackers, we inhabit totally different realities.
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by octoberfranklin 7d ago
This guy footnotes.
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by octoberfranklin 7d ago
There will always be an arms race between safe-crackers and safe-builders. This is dismissive and glib. And it's the wrong lesson. You wouldn't say this about symmetric cryptography. AES-encrypted ciphertexts from 25 years ago
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by octoberfranklin 8d ago
Treasuries Have Become Badly Unappetizing for Foreign Central Banks & Governments "Badly" is used to modify participial adjectives ("written", "organized"), not plain property adjectives like "unappe
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by octoberfranklin 8d ago
The whole thing smells like somebody trying to pull an LLM-fueled Sokal Hoax on the programming world.
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by octoberfranklin 8d ago
The problem is that vibe coding makes it possible to build a substantial solution before learning enough about the problem to recognise that a much better solution exists. We need a catchy name for this phenomenon.
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by octoberfranklin 10d ago
Independent publishers can't afford to run an ad network. You aren't independent. You work for the BigTech company that serves ads on your site.
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by octoberfranklin 11d ago
I'm curious what people are sending to Claude that is so secret. The proof to the Navier-Stokes problem.
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by octoberfranklin 11d ago
The main image seems to allow deep/direct links: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HSNXaLrW4AEnwuB?format=webp&name...
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by octoberfranklin 12d ago
wtf did i just read
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by octoberfranklin 12d ago
New is never normal. I stopped reading when the author became overwhelmed by their compulsion to blame everything in the universe to the current US president.
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by octoberfranklin 12d ago
It won't protect you from the insurance agencies; they demand a DL ID# and a VIN. And you are required by law to purchase from them. And they're stautorily exempted from a whole boatload of privacy laws, like HIPAA.
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by octoberfranklin 12d ago
404 -- Apparently AI destroyed this website.
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by octoberfranklin 13d ago
Goblins?
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by octoberfranklin 13d ago
People are definitely finding new things to use the models for, and orchestrating increasingly large swarms of agents in useful ways -- every single day, especially the last few months. But the basic single-NN frontier capability has been p
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by octoberfranklin 13d ago
What you describe is Tao's rebuttal of #2. I fully agree with him there. It's his rejection of #1 that makes me sad.
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by octoberfranklin 13d ago
The first assumption [1. AI really did solve a problem in mathematics] is wrong because to really solve a mathematical problem, providing a mere answer (even if formally certified) is not sufficient. This subjective attitude turns mathema
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by octoberfranklin 14d ago
AI KYC.
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by octoberfranklin 14d ago
This story's comments are heavily astroturfed. Just compare with the comments on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49639408
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by octoberfranklin 17d ago
Exactly the same thing that's been happening with vulnerabilities and bugfixes the past few months. I fear that AI is going to cause ossifying secrecy in many fields, much like what happened semiconductor design the past 10-15 years.
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by octoberfranklin 17d ago
> https://cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/statement.pdf This really need to be a top-level story on HN.. I asked whether the model had been trained on, or had access to, our sessions in Codex, into which we had been putting
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by octoberfranklin 2mo ago
I disagree. If it were not user hostile the days before BIOSes were cryptographically signed the SMM code would have no reason to disallow the kernel modifying or replacing it. Like `insmod` lets root-in-userspace modify kernel-privilege-
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by octoberfranklin 2mo ago
It certainly is a vulnerability, because SMM is a higher privilege level than root. (The fact that there is such a thing as a higher privilege level than root is what annoys people).

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