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by panarky 2y ago
In my experience Waymo cars handle all sorts of unmapped and unpredictable situations very well. New construction sites, merging lane closures, detours, accidents, road signs that have been defaced or knocked down, malfunctioning signal lig
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by panarky 2y ago
It's curious that only one HWRNG can be current at once. Because adding more sources of randomness, even if they're lower quality, can't reduce the total randomness. If the quality of HWRNG-A is 400 and HWRNG-B is 600, the qu
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by panarky 2y ago
I've taken hundreds of Waymo rides in SF, LA and Phoenix and the car only needed assistance one time when it got stuck in the middle of a protest.
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by panarky 2y ago
People who are gullible enough to buy shady timeshares are gullible for other scams too.
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by panarky 2y ago
Settings -> Privacy Uncheck the box labeled "Allow websites to perform privacy-preserving ad measurement". Easy peasy.
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by panarky 2y ago
Back in the day, Yahoo Finance provided anonymous message boards for each publicly traded company. Someone with an anonymous handle was posting all kinds of (accurate) shit about my company. He wasn't using his real name in the forum,
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by panarky 2y ago
The "safety" filters used to make Gemini models nearly unusable. For example, this prompt was apparently unsafe: "Summarize the conclusions of reputable econometric models that estimate the portion of import tariffs that are
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by panarky 2y ago
You can also say "hey google fast forward four minutes" instead of unlocking the phone and trying to hit that tiny button eight times.
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by panarky 2y ago
Activists fighting an autocratic regime use a large social media site to recruit, coordinate and publish so they can reach the broadest number of people possible. The billionaire owner of the site supports the strongman leader and provides
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by panarky 2y ago
An autocratic regime of a large nation locks up its critics and other undesirables in camps. 100,000 activists who haven't been caught yet switch to Tor for anonymity. For $60,000, the regime monitors Tor for a year, identifies 6,500 a
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by panarky 2y ago
> what is the probability that someone randomly chooses three nodes that you own. The answer is less than 0.14%. You calculated the probability that a specific person randomly chooses three nodes of the 1,000. But that's not the
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by panarky 2y ago
It's legible both ways.
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by panarky 2y ago
I don't know the density of PETN and I'd prefer not to fire up a VPN to run that search at the moment, but let's assume it's something like 1.5 g/cm³ So 20 grams of the stuff would occupy 13.3 cm³ Which is equivalen
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Cloud CISO: preparing for post-quantum cryptography(cloud.google.com)
1 points by panarky 2y ago|0 comments
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by panarky 2y ago
> how much time learning how to search saves >>> you do need to break down the problem into smaller chunks so GPT can reason in steps To search well, you need good intuition for how to select the right search terms. To LLM well,
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by panarky 2y ago
Translation: "Intelligence teams should search for bad guys planting bombs in the road. Then special forces should work with other units to destroy them."
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by panarky 2y ago
Exactly. LLMs will sometimes be inaccurate. So are humans. When LLMs are clearly better than humans for specific use cases, we don't need 100% perfection. Autonomous cars will sometimes cause accidents. So do humans. When AVs are clear
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by panarky 2y ago
Having worked within military and intelligence communities in the US, I'd say those metaphors demonstrate far greater clarity of thought than milspeak acronym-soup: "SOF units in the AO must integrate C4ISR assets in CONOPs, synch
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by panarky 2y ago
"That's just how the internet works" is nonsensical when AI is changing how the internet works. Just because the tradeoffs of sharing on the internet used to work before AI, doesn't mean those tradeoffs continue to be
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by panarky 2y ago
> breaking bank apps It's not popular to say because Google is everyone's favorite villain, but those banking apps are far, far greater privacy threats. A typical user session on the Chase website or mobile app might make a c
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by panarky 2y ago
A great way to learn something is to listen to a conversation among two to four well informed and articulate people, where each person has a memorable personality and each person has a different perspective about the topic. This Google Illu
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by panarky 2y ago
In the same way that corporations are people, my friend, AI-generated and AI-voiced summaries of works by real people are also people, my friend.
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by panarky 2y ago
This article is a particularly relevant example of why there's broad support in the US for gutting the national government, eliminating entire departments, cutting those that remain by large percentages, and replacing the nonpartisan e
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by panarky 2y ago
I'm sorry, but no, most ransomware attacks are not caused by admins giving their ignorant and irresponsible end users root access to everything. Most ransomware attacks start by phishing an end user who already has appropriately limite
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by panarky 2y ago
Really thought they'd upgrade from 12MP to 48MP on the telephoto. iPhone 16 Pro matched the Pixel's 5x optical zoom, but weirdly it remains stuck at 12MP.
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by panarky 2y ago
"Insanely good ideas"? With the months of nonstop and over-the-top hype of "Apple Intelligence" these all seem underwhelming. Even in the idealized world of demoware there's no killer feature, not to mention that no
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LLMs Are Superhuman Forecasters [pdf](drive.google.com)
3 points by panarky 2y ago|0 comments
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"FiveThirtyNine" a superhuman AI forecasting bot(safe.ai)
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by panarky 2y ago
The cool thing about authoritarians is that they don't even attempt to base decisions on a solid foundation of settled law, or even a consistent ideology. That's why we get bizarre contradictions like these "free speech"
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You Do Have Some Expectation of Privacy in Public(eff.org)
7 points by panarky 2y ago|0 comments

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