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by px43 2y ago
Sysadmins are also people. Also I've been pushing for informative security scoring for publicly used services for over a decade. If you're in the field, it's pretty obvious which services are at high risk of being breached, b
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by px43 2y ago
> no such thing as computer security There absolutely is for anyone who cares to use it. That sort of defeatist mindset is super counterproductive, and ends up putting more people in harm's way. We're talking about people choos
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by px43 2y ago
AI writes filler text. Most people expect some level of filler in the things they read, to transition them from one concept to the next, but of course nothing can be all filler, or it's completely pointless. I suspect that an LLM would
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by px43 2y ago
Maybe allow it to take newly collected data and fine-tune the base model with it, maybe once a day or so.
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by px43 2y ago
Is there a non-Apple way to do this? It seems natural for Google news to step in here, but somehow Google News just keeps finding ways to get worse. I stopped using it when it kept showing me the same fake news shady WordPress blogs hosted
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by px43 2y ago
I think that shame is likely worse than anger, though parents worldwide use shame as a method for controlling their kids. Hopefully in the future kids are given more tools for how to recognize and deal with shame.
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by px43 2y ago
Her was a movie with an AI assistant who talked like a normal human rather than an intentionally clunky "bleep blorp" dialect that lots of other movies go with. They even make fun of this in the movie when he asks her to read an e
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by px43 2y ago
It's only training if it remembers it after the conversation is over.
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by px43 2y ago
Better super conductors is some top tier democratizing tech. It means cheap fusion reactors for every home, which could give every family nearly unlimited access to electricity. This means people anywhere in the world could have environment
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by px43 2y ago
Better superconductors means better magnets, which means cheaper fusion. Some modest improvements in high temperature superconductors from MIT is allowing Commonwealth Fusion Systems to scale down ITER from being a 65 billion dollar five st
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by px43 2y ago
Why do I see moats constantly framed as a good thing? Tech should be about empowering people to do great things, not maximizing the extraction of value from users. Anyone should be able to catch up with anyone else. Anything that preven
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by px43 2y ago
This is possible in any market scenario where there exists buyers and sellers separated by a physical medium bound by the speed of light. Front-running is a fundamental property of market dynamics.
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by px43 2y ago
I have a question, a Burmese friend of mine in college some years back refused to accept the renaming to "Myanmar" since that was apparently done forcefully by the military junta who took control. I think he had just moved to the
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by px43 2y ago
I wonder when it will be able to understand that there is more than one human talking to it. It seems like even in today's demo if two people are talking, it can't tell them apart.
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by px43 2y ago
Then you can tell it to do that. It will use whatever intonations you prefer.
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by px43 2y ago
That's just the toxoplasmosis speaking :-D
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by px43 2y ago
The DOJ will make whatever claim they feel like to extend their surveillance apparatus as far and wide as possible.
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by px43 2y ago
I've been primarily using end to end encrypted self destructing chats for maybe 20 years at this point, especially for work stuff. Why should other people's poor data hygiene put my data at risk?
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by px43 2y ago
Why is it that so many people need to die in the name of safety?
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by px43 2y ago
When someone asks how to make a yummy smoothie, and the LLM replies with something that subtly poisons or otherwise harms the user, I'd say that would be pretty bad.
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by px43 2y ago
AKASH is doing pretty well, have you looked into them at all? https://akash.network/gpus/ More of a decentralized compute marketplace rather than a PoW/emission mechanism, but if general compute is what you'r
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by px43 2y ago
Yeah I was mining hundreds of BTC per day on an Athlon 2200. That was the low kilohash era.
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by px43 2y ago
Because they gained physical access to the machines holding the coins? Surely you understand the difference there right? If all of your money is being held by random companies, it's not really your money is it? Cryptocurrencies give yo
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by px43 2y ago
You're talking about Gridcoin. It didn't do too great economically, for reasons that become obvious when you think about it for a while. It was a great way to fund research, but you can't actually build a global economy on BO
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by px43 2y ago
No, GPUs are literally millions of times less power performant than equivalent ASICs for sha256 mining. In the GPU days, mining was talked about in terms of megahashes per second, and ASIC miners these days are talked about in terms of terr
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by px43 3y ago
Tons of companies out there still do "culture fit" interviews because they are very intentionally trying to hire a mono-culture.
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by px43 3y ago
DEI is a counterweight to unconscious bias, which, as far as I've seen, is still way more of a factor in hiring than DEI.
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by px43 3y ago
> a cryptocurrency exchange / hedge fund is not subject to even a fraction of the regulations banks are? US ones are. Shady ass casinos in the Bahamas like what SBF was running aren't though. Exchanges like Coinbase have been o
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by px43 3y ago
For some reason what really sticks out to me is how when you zoom out, you always come out of a different part of the circuit, so it doesn't feel like the normal repetitive fractal, you're seeing all the parts of the machine from
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by px43 3y ago
Eh, no. Are you familiar with MUSCULAR? It was in the Snowden leak. Basically Google kept telling the NSA to fuck off, so the NSA dug a hole and tapped some fiber to exfiltrate clear text communications between data centers, which was appar

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