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by thwarted 3y ago
Yes, for network related activity. Peep. https://github.com/the-real-neil/peep Previously discussed on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33017337
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by thwarted 3y ago
In a code signing system, the public key would be tied to a developer, and they could rotate their private key to sign their app. That's also not how PKI works. The private key and the public key are tied together, by the very math
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by thwarted 3y ago
The trouble is, security fixes (generally) don't get backported to older branches. Even if the security fixes were backported, it would produce a new version of the older branch, and requires an update in order to actually use it. I
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by thwarted 3y ago
Incidentally, I expect this is also the reason Google allows subsequent uploads without the key. They don't want someone to lose their extension when they lose their private key. They don't want someone to "lose their exten
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by thwarted 3y ago
The extension ID is derived from a private key that the developer uploads with the first upload to the app store, and the ID will change if any subsequent uploads include a different key.pem in their zip file (but if there is no key.pem th
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by thwarted 3y ago
Just like how (it used to be) that writing good content would rank high in search results. But writing good content is hard. So we'll kid ourselves into writing good content for LLMs. Which is equally hard, but we'll feel like
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by thwarted 3y ago
Object stores like S3 work similarly, the entire path is to an object, and unless there is data at a path, the path doesn't exist. And you don't need to create the prefix before storing something with that prefix. That the tooling
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by thwarted 3y ago
And an AI based system wouldn't correct that, it would only make it even more opaque.
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by thwarted 3y ago
It's because the Departments of Insurance have to understand the price formulas. Neural networks are infamously hard to interpret, so we would have to reform regulations before we can use neural nets. I'd like to know that the m
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by thwarted 3y ago
"Soon to be a major motion picture by Cabana Boy Productions" Anyone else remember this from the computer magazine ads from the Necromancer C64 game?
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by thwarted 3y ago
While reading your comment I was reminded of the much touted key capabilities of the Video Toaster (late 80s), it's character generator and chromakey, used to do exactly that: overlaying text on video, for a fraction of the cost of wha
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by thwarted 3y ago
producing geniuses is not a billion dollar industry The concept of producing a specific kind of human being an industry or not is like something out of "A Brave New World".
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by thwarted 3y ago
This is implied by "average", assuming it's understood that a filesystem's primary unit is the "file".
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by thwarted 3y ago
You'd think ISPs would do their darnedest to make it so they don't have a way of knowing what content is flowing over their pipes, to help avoid accusations of contributory infringement. My understanding is that ISP don't w
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by thwarted 3y ago
I've watched a few reviews where the claim is "multiple 4k monitors", and even on Apple's site it says "More pixels than a 4K TV. For each eye.". But any virtual monitor is going to be scaled down, and with &q
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by thwarted 3y ago
Has there ever been a union that pushed for lower compensation for it's members? A union advocating/negotiating for as much as it can for its members is exploiting its position in the same way.
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by thwarted 3y ago
In our case, our kids (now aged 15 and 12) were getting B’s and high C’a, but were both scoring single digits on standardized tests for math, English and science. Can you expound upon "scoring single digits on standards tests" a
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by thwarted 3y ago
Can entities inside the simulation get info about your CPU architecture? (From HAKMEM): Item 154 (Bill Gosper): The myth that any given programming language is machine independent is easily exploded by computing the sum of powers of 2. I
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by thwarted 3y ago
It starts with the almost pornographic display of advanced weaponry and logistics deployed to deliver a pizza The opening chapter takes on a whole different meaning when you consider it as a heavily embellished self-narrative by a guy who
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by thwarted 3y ago
phone beeps with SMS message from CEO "Can you buy $1000 worth of egift cards and text me back with the redemption codes? Our jobs depend on this. I'm in a very important meeting, otherwise of so it myself, left my private key a
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by thwarted 3y ago
A LLM is a Markov chain with billions of associations and weights. A Makov chain is an LLM of maybe a few dozen associations and weights (so an LM, without the first L). The difference is in the data structure and the size of the atoms&#x2F
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by thwarted 3y ago
Not everyone spends their free time contributing (to major nonetheless) to open source projects. and elsewhere in these comments, we see: I would expect candidates for programming jobs to demonstrate first class ChatGPT or other code cop
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by thwarted 3y ago
> They would all agree to put the code in the public domain, and they would all just, you know, basically make money by selling scanners. That was the idea. It's no different than giving away the razors to create demand for, and s
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by thwarted 3y ago
Good thing Ryan's tweet is about the ratio of the number of ships diverted from their normal route (orange dots vs black dots), not about the absolute distance. "Look at how much orange there is". It's implied (and well
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by thwarted 3y ago
Yeah, that's what I gathered too. But if you can't find the output, output that is implicitly associated with a process tree as in this example, it is effectively lost. And even if you could find it, that it's disassociated
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by thwarted 3y ago
There's also Benford's Law, which is related to the growth of numbers, which is used to detect fraud. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law
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by thwarted 3y ago
I can't make heads or tails of either of those answers, and they seem to contradict each other. The output capturing is all to the same file descriptors, this is the way resources are inherited on fork (and there's no redirection
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by thwarted 3y ago
https://linux.die.net/man/1/chvt But, yes, I get what you're saying. A physical interaction that can not be, or is extremely difficult, spoofed via software would be valuable here.
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by thwarted 3y ago
> The infidelity example I used was actually part of one of the many HIPAA training classes that I've attended over the years. In the (real life) example the nurses were gossiping about the case in the elevator. It happened that a
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by thwarted 3y ago
While divorce may be culturally relevant, I read the phrasing > What if that treatment occurred while the spouse was on a six month military deployment? as indicating that the STD treatment would be kept from the spouse. While each in

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