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by sowbug 5mo ago
There's nothing wrong with those technologies, but they won't address this kind of crime. Scammers aren't looking to defeat or even challenge voice identification. They're looking for that one person who's having a
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by sowbug 5mo ago
I didn't downvote you, but I suspect you're getting downvoted because your recommendations wouldn't address the actual threat described in the article. This is the process the scam likely used: 1. Dial random phone numbers. 2
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by sowbug 5mo ago
You can never be sure that duplicated information is destroyed, but if you combine SSS with a dead-man's switch protecting an asymmetric private key, you can periodically invalidate a set of shares. As a bonus, when you refresh the sha
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by sowbug 5mo ago
It's the same idea as how GPS works. Fun to see someone's eyes light up when they get why that third satellite is needed to fix a 2D position. (Actual GPS is a little more complicated than that because the real system needs accura
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by sowbug 5mo ago
An important qualification: if you rented as a kid, and now your kids are old enough to rent, your maybe-not-horrible experience is dated and probably no longer applicable. Apartments have largely gone corporate, and I assume also been take
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by sowbug 5mo ago
And the worst of another world: hyperlocal politics.
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by sowbug 5mo ago
Reprinted with proper capitalization: The general sentiment on open-weight models is something like this: they can approach the frontier, but will always lag a little behind. Because reaching/surpassing the frontier needs large pools o
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Consciousness might be a fundamental feature of reality, like gravity(spacedaily.com)
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by sowbug 5mo ago
You could do that, but then either you're asking users to install a native app, which isn't very "webby," or you're shipping something with Firefox that isn't based on web standards*, which absolutely isn'
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by sowbug 5mo ago
I believe those are two ways of describing the same thing. If you're able to book some fab capacity, that means you get to decide what the fab does with the next wafers in the queue. From your sibling comment, I think you're inter
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by sowbug 5mo ago
Yes. I wish my parents had been more nuanced in their advice about debt. Carrying a revolving balance is way different from borrowing to buy a home, for example. I was proud to pay off my mortgage early, but missed out on nearly 20 years of
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by sowbug 5mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons Step 1. Exploit the commons. Step 2. Shut the door.
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by sowbug 5mo ago
And in cases like this, the actual perpetrators typically don't pay a cent out of their own pockets. Instead, the city or county indemnifies the defendant, either directly or through insurance. Which means that taxpayers (possibly incl
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by sowbug 5mo ago
That's a corollary of the Jevons paradox, isn't it? Six months ago I was watching every line of my LLM's code generation like a hawk. Now I give it a few assignments before bed and wake up to see what's live from the CI&
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by sowbug 5mo ago
Putting on my Pollyanna hat... Or it could make it a lot cheaper, if the server were developed entirely on open-source infrastructure from the start. Hopefully the actual game logic would be developed entirely in-house, making it easier to
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by sowbug 5mo ago
I'm imagining a chart with two lines. Both have to do with verifying humanity online. The first line shows its cost. It increases dramatically over time. The other line shows its value. That one declines gradually, then falls off a cli
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by sowbug 5mo ago
There is hardly a bright line between real and fake. An influencer is just a person who rents out their identity. Can you imagine getting a real PR from a human engineer you trust, but the description says "This pull request was sponso
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by sowbug 5mo ago
For this use case, that's a virtuous proof-of-work requirement.
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by sowbug 5mo ago
Is that $200M with the prompt cache at five minutes, or one hour?
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by sowbug 5mo ago
That price is even more wholesale than wholesale. Apple designed the chip and manufactures it with TSMC, as one of TSMC's best customers (currently #2 to Nvidia). Qualcomm offers the Snapdragon X series, which in theory could be compet
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by sowbug 5mo ago
This defendant was convicted of possessing CSAM. Before that fact causes you to lose sympathy for the case, note that almost every significant criminal case affirming constitutional rights involves a defendant who did something unsavory, if
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by sowbug 5mo ago
Who would run the cloud side, or at least the networked backup service?
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by sowbug 5mo ago
Not necessarily neurogenesis, but evidence of neuroplasticity: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48030098
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by sowbug 5mo ago
Imagine AI had never happened, but you had set a personal goal to write your last line of code in exactly five years. You can manage coders, you can write a novel about coding, you can run a yoga school for coders. You just can't code
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by sowbug 5mo ago
Fair enough, perhaps I'm easily impressed. :)
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by sowbug 5mo ago
No particular channels or videos come to mind, but here are a couple good ones (with timestamps to skip the intro fluff): https://youtu.be/0LSG5uIdqJc?t=190s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUyetZ5RtPs&t
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by sowbug 5mo ago
Watching skillful SMT soldering on YouTube fascinates me in a way that helps me understand the ASMR videos that the kids watch these days.
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by sowbug 5mo ago
Security will be a wedge to restrict the sophistication of open-weight and local LLMs, just as it's been used to demonize and restrict cypherpunk technologies.
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by sowbug 5mo ago
Yep, it's a never-ending escalation.
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by sowbug 5mo ago
If it's a tree, it's easier to prune an entire branch that's gone bad.

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