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by olliej 2y ago
I still don't understand how anything these students did was wrong, and how anything ICE did was not fraud. My understanding from back when this first came out was: 1. ICE created a "university" and made it as real appearing
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Um, the entire intent of these "AI" systems is explicitly to reproduce copyrighted work with mechanical changes to make it not appear to be a verbatim copy. That is the whole purpose and mechanism by which they operate. Also the i
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There are already documented/recommended timings for lights. The whole point that people are bringing up is that there are a large number of documented examples of municipalities explicitly giving intersections with red light cameras s
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by olliej 2y ago
Isn’t the problem that many municipalities give different orange light times for signaled intersections for those with and without cameras, so causing more accidents (people hard braking unnecessarily), and then entrapping people (do you po
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%n strikes again. I believe that by default on osx %n is only respected if the format string is in readonly memory, I thought the default in Linux was to just ignore it?
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This sounds like constructive dismissal, which is illegal. Labelling laying people off as them “quitting” is also illegal.
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The issue here isn’t things being “verifiably secure”. languages like js and lua run in a sandboxes environment where the only functions and operations that are permitted are those explicitly added by the host environment. Those sources lan
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The problem isn't just new projects, the problem is all of the _existing_ code. "Just rewrite it" is not an answer, even Mozilla - who created rust for the specific purpose of replacing C++ in gecko was not able to simply rew
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by olliej 2y ago
Sorry I think my phrasing was not great. The goal of CT was not to make staged distrust of a CA possible (that's just a happy coincidence). It was to make it possible to detect CAs misissuing certificates, which includes CAs back datin
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There are some issues that are bad, but most of these issues with the _certificates_ are minor. The problem is that to be a CA in the root stores you agree to (and entrust voted in support of) a pile of rules, and entrust demonstrated a com
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This kind of thing was one of the reasons CT was introduced :D
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with or without the Boeing Starliner Max still attached? :D
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This provides useful context for the other story about revoking a key breaking all their services. I wish there was a mechanism on HN to link related (but different) stories - beyond people in the comments I mean. I think it would be especi
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by olliej 2y ago
That looks like a regular necklace to me, of a fairly generic choker variety that is popular today and was popular 20 years ago. I see nothing explicit in that necklace. Maybe to you it does have some additional meanings, hell maybe it does
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by olliej 2y ago
Wait what is the problem with the profile pic? I literally just see a normal person’s profile pic? Are they meant to be corporate/employer logos or something? I need you to be super clear here because her profile pic looks like pretty
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by olliej 2y ago
Push/prompt gating security (or most things) is bad - a lesson we keep learning[1] for myriad UI issues. One thing I would say though is while it's technically bad that this person hit "approve" after being bombarded wit
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by olliej 2y ago
Which implies the type is not compatible with the built in collections? Or have they moved aware from equals?
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Why is it not? The blog post states “BigDecimal is a class in Java used to represent floating-point numbers with arbitrary precision” Which means that the order should not semantically matter. That said even if the order necessarily does ma
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There are many levels to this. The inherent problem of constant attentiveness being extremely challenging means that most relevant authorities say a life guard should not be on duty for more than an hour at a time, and they should have at l
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Compilers can remove the memset if they can show it is overwritten prior to use (though C and C++ UB could technically make it possible to skip padding they don’t), or it isn’t used (in which case we go back to non-zero’d memory again which
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by olliej 2y ago
The whole point is that they are not _constantly_ monitoring, because again it’s not something people are physiologically capable of. The difference in aircraft autopilots is that if you take 5 or 10 or even 30 seconds to notice an issue, y
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To clarify on the physiologically impossible bit: 1. The NTSB and FAA both found repeatedly, as have pretty much every other study - academic or otherwise - that people _cannot_ focus on watching a task without actually being involved in or
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Self drive mode is fundamentally unsafe. This bullshit where companies are allowed to say “the driver must always be in control”, is just that. Either it is self driving, or it is not. You cannnot make a product that is physiologically impo
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Exxon Valdez?
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While I still think presenting LLMs as "intelligent" is nonsense, I think this issue is interesting given the goal of these LLMs is just to produce a statistically plausible stream of text, it's always just a matter of constr
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Is this a specific Tesla issue (to be clear I dislike Tesla immensely, it's a company named after someone who's inventions were stolen, that was then stolen by a quintessential middle manager who's success is entirely from bi
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Yeah the bulk of the time it doesn’t matter. The only places it really matters are if you have stronger perf requirements, or dislike stupid amounts of UB.
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Right, so next time I commit a crime and am caught all I have to do is pay the “cost” of the crime. That’s why when you’re caught shoplifting all you have to do is go back to the checkout and pay and there are no further consequences.
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3 years for repeated counts of attempted murder (the fact that US police default to executing people is a separate issue, but he knows that that is the behavior so it's no different from shooting into a neighborhood and claiming you we
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Also the only reason the prices of “natural” diamonds are high is because of intentionally constricted supply

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