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by ummonk 2y ago
China is the one major power that doesn't seem to engage in extraterritorial assassinations, so by default I'm more inclined to at least trust that the Chinese state won't ever decide to activate a kill switch against me.
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by ummonk 2y ago
Looking at pictures of mangled devices, it would seem to confirm that they were Motorola Gold Apollo pagers. In which case they just used standard alkaline batteries which would rule out a malware targeting the battery, and confirm it was a
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by ummonk 2y ago
It's absurd that this was flagged and pushed off the front page. Either it was a supply chain attack with explosives installed, or this was a hack that caused battery explosion. Either way this is extremely relevant to Hacker News.
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NLRB Orders Starbucks to Reopen Two Closed Ithaca Locations(cornellsun.com)
2 points by ummonk 2y ago|0 comments
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A Startup Utopia Became a Nightmare for Honduras(foreignpolicy.com)
9 points by ummonk 2y ago|0 comments
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FB partner admits phone microphones listen to people talk to serve better ads(inshort.geartape.com)
58 points by ummonk 2y ago|33 comments
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Calif. tech companies see laid-off workers as 'table scraps,' recruiters say(sfgate.com)
38 points by ummonk 2y ago|35 comments
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by ummonk 2y ago
They sent a team to the ICPC 5 years ago and ranked 8th: https://cphof.org/standings/icpc/2019
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by ummonk 2y ago
Since you're too lazy to use google: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-space...
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by ummonk 2y ago
If they expect someone named Chris Smith to have a better command of English than someone named Kim Ji-hoon, then arguably that might indeed be illegal discrimination.
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by ummonk 2y ago
North Korean engineers aren't nearly as scary as a "Trust and Safety" company founded by ex-CIA operatives.
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by ummonk 2y ago
That is the correct default. Every day users are far more likely to accidentally lose their data than to run into government snooping.
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After lab wouldn't use antivirus software, US accuses Georgia Tech of fraud(arstechnica.com)
3 points by ummonk 2y ago|4 comments
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by ummonk 2y ago
It’s purely anecdotal on my part but I have an ever increasing proportion of nontechnical acquaintances telling me how they discovered they can use ChatGPT to save large amounts of time drafting emails, writing reports, etc. (something whic
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by ummonk 2y ago
Most of the other 95% of companies that say they aren’t using AI to produce goods or services will still have many employees who’re using LLM services for help drafting emails, documents, reports, etc.
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by ummonk 2y ago
It's ironic because one could make similar first principles arguments against both non-competes and union security agreements.
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by ummonk 2y ago
It's the Northern District of Texas. This ruling was inevitable from that court, regardless of the legal merits. The important question is what the rulings will be as the case makes its way up the appeals process.
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by ummonk 2y ago
Whether and to what extent AI can be monetized is an open question. But there's no question that LLMs are already seeing extensive use in everyday office work and already making large improvements to productivity.
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Research AI model unexpectedly modified its own code to extend runtime(arstechnica.com)
12 points by ummonk 2y ago|1 comments
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by ummonk 2y ago
Something is wrong with your browser. Here is what the font sample page actually looks like: https://pikwy.com/web/66ba462a0f6f4a66106b0a6a
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by ummonk 2y ago
As opposed to Blink / WebKit, which ultimately descend from the 25 year old KHTML?
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by ummonk 2y ago
I primarily use Safari on Mac / iPhone because it's integrated with iCloud Keychain. I also use Brave because it's the only browser with which I've been able to screenshare streaming sites for group viewing without getti
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by ummonk 2y ago
Most likely they were collecting it all to make debugging easier.
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by ummonk 2y ago
The interesting thing is that apparently there were still unassimilated Denisovans in Eurasia 48,000 years ago.
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ChatGPT is better at generating code for problems written before 2021(ieeexplore.ieee.org)
59 points by ummonk 2y ago|46 comments
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by ummonk 2y ago
How do they know the butterflies didn’t, say, hitch a ride on a cruise ship with a flower garden?
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by ummonk 2y ago
Precisely the point. Chaos wasn't impactful on the relevant timescale for large scale dynamics like El Nino, and shouldn't be blamed for our previous inability to predict beyond 12 months.
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by ummonk 2y ago
Current SOTA (which this is apparently matching) is AI based.
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by ummonk 2y ago
Yet another example of people blaming chaos when it’s not the relevant limiting factor. If chaotic behavior manifested at a sufficient level on the 18 month time scale to preclude forecasting El Niño, neither the back of AI models nor the n
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by ummonk 2y ago
Aren’t you leaving out the initialization in your recursive example though?

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