rockskon

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by rockskon 4mo ago
I'm aware of a relative lessening of cultural aversion in the bay area of having anything to do with the DoD, but what of substance has changed on the gov side, really? I'm aware of DIU and of greater outreach efforts to the bay a
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by rockskon 4mo ago
> This isn’t true. They literally do this all the time. They just need funding. This is also true for biotech. Thus the sentence I immediately followed the one this was made in response to where I said "They tend to die in that time
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by rockskon 4mo ago
I primarily alluded to AI because of obvious reasons, but yes - Cloud computing and related service products are also good examples. But there's a great deal of department needs that don't revolve around information processing inf
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by rockskon 4mo ago
I question what specifically you're referring to. Yes, Hack for Defense is a decade old now. But the DoD famously had not done much business with area startups for many decades outside of very specific success stories like the CIA&#x2
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by rockskon 4mo ago
A tiny number of enormous companies capturing the department revolving around one specific technology doesn't sound like it's bridged the acquisitions gap between Silicon Valley and the military.
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by rockskon 4mo ago
That's about as culturally relevant to Stanford as talking of people who lived through the great depression. The DoD doesn't get to neglect relationships with a community for decades and then talk of how much in common they have
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by rockskon 4mo ago
Well - it's not exactly a surprise that all these non-American countries engage in un-American practices. It's much more concerning when said practices are undertaken by the U.S. Just because other countries do something isn'
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by rockskon 4mo ago
Does the average person think this? Perception of what other people think doesn't always line up with what they actually think.
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by rockskon 4mo ago
HN has its own share of enticement/manipulation - most recently with regards to AI. Plenty of variants of "people who don't use AI will be left behind" are sprinkled around various threads about AI. It's an attempt
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by rockskon 4mo ago
Don't underestimate the capacity for the problem to get significantly worse.
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by rockskon 4mo ago
I do question at what point AI could be useful as a teaching aid. The quality of LLMs depends heavily on, among other things, how you word your questions. Knowing the correct questions to ask is not something most students know how to do gi
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by rockskon 4mo ago
Of course - it's SEO's fault that Google search frequently ignores words in your queries. It's SEO's fault that Google frequently prioritizes giving you results that are semantically or thematically related but ultimatel
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by rockskon 4mo ago
*2024, not 2014
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by rockskon 4mo ago
I did Google this. It seems to be a small number of banks doing this right now. A far cry from "all banks". Maybe we'll get there eventually? But you should be more wary about making such absolute claims.
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by rockskon 4mo ago
I've found that framing topics like this as primarily a pretext for different motives is a sure-fire way to be ignored by people you may want to convince. As always, the goal in convincing others is to take someone from their current u
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by rockskon 4mo ago
Trusting untrustworthy companies aside, that doesn't resolve the issue of hacked facial recognition data. Even back in 2014, malware was coming out that steals facial recognition data directly from smart phones themselves. https:&#x2F
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by rockskon 4mo ago
Do you have proof of this? This comes off as conjecture.
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by rockskon 4mo ago
A bank's security camera feed isn't likely to be sold to dozens of companies. It is all but guaranteed for Internet-based facial recognition services. Hacked facial recognition data already is reportedly being used by scammers to
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by rockskon 4mo ago
Asinine requirement by whatever risk management firm they use. A selfie provides nothing in terms of lasting security while simultaneously adding permanent risk.
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by rockskon 4mo ago
Isn't AI routinely making significant mistakes in analyzing medical imaging?
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by rockskon 4mo ago
"Their lawyers will win" is plainly wrong assumption if something is clearly illegal.
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by rockskon 4mo ago
That's their problem that they're trying to make my problem. I don't care about their problem. It's their problem, not mine. They should not make their problem into my problem.
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by rockskon 4mo ago
In the 2010's, there was an instance of a late-teens/early-20's girl targeted by a group of too-online people for a racist chat log made when she was around 12 or 13 years old. The people went after her dad's business t
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by rockskon 5mo ago
In response to someone in another thread who argued against personal privacy, who said "Why do people feel they can behave in a way that can be blackmailed", I responded with the following: --- Yeah, how dare someone do or say any
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by rockskon 5mo ago
I recall at an old place of work, the security office having a poster on the wall that said something to the effect of "if your facial biometrics get compromised, you must change your face". Silly as they were trying to be, the co
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by rockskon 5mo ago
While I agree with your claim that it is likely the number of third parties info is being routed to is likely related to per-query economics, I want to note that ZKP are not magic. They tend to either be worthless at preventing fraud or re
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by rockskon 5mo ago
They will be disruptive to your life if you, as a U.S. citizen, refuse to unlock your phone on the U.S. border. But it is my understanding they cannot constitutionally mandate you provide a passcode to unlock your phone. But they may confi
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by rockskon 5mo ago
Expanding the scope of it is new.
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by rockskon 5mo ago
Perhaps you should ask your super secret source how he reconciles statements from several generations of NSA leadership, the IC Attorney General, PCLOB, and FISA Court that the NSA regularly acquires U.S. person communications "inciden
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by rockskon 5mo ago
The sad thing is....talking with LEOs that cause panics like this when they're apologizing after the fact....they have zero consideration for doing anything relating to schools taking action on their public statements and statements

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