986aignan

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by 986aignan 1mo ago
Now I'm curious if it's possible to make a data track that has at least some resemblance to actual music. That could be an interesting challenge if it can't obviously be ruled out.
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by 986aignan 1mo ago
It's been unevenly rolled out, but is mostly Google using attestation to tighten their grip. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48143997
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by 986aignan 1mo ago
> Of course, now that video editing is cheap and difficult to spot, who knows if your evidence will make much of a difference. Maybe you could use a trusted timestamping service to stamp keyframes or stills from your video while you&#x27
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by 986aignan 2mo ago
> LLMs (I believe) _can_ be trained to not plagiarize. They do not have to be original, nor to use public domain training-data, they just have to give attribution (which, as far as I can tell, requires little more than a corpus and a sta
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by 986aignan 2mo ago
I ran into the same problem with Firefox, except viewing it directly works. It turns out the server is using referer checking and I've got referer disabled. Compare the following curl invocations: curl 'https://fab
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by 986aignan 2mo ago
There's an issue on the FluxEngine git repo that may be related to this: https://github.com/davidgiven/fluxengine/issues/75 At the end of the thread, David Given reports that some PC floppy drives drop p
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by 986aignan 4mo ago
It's difficult to say anything about experiential/first-person consciousness as we don't know what it is. Some say it doesn't exist and everybody is a p-zombie. That aside... As you mention, there's a problem where
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by 986aignan 4mo ago
There's a hard problem in either case, I think. If the mind is supported by or comes from the physical world, then the hard question is "why is there something it is like to be me"? If the physical world is supported by or co
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by 986aignan 4mo ago
> Rovelli is arguing (I think) that we need to fundamentally view consciousness as a natural phenomenon - albeit one that is extremely complex and poorly understood. But you can view consciousness as a natural phenomenon without being re
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by 986aignan 4mo ago
Largely, I think, because devs are given too powerful computers. It's easier for companies to "fix" or preemptively had off performance bugs by giving developers high-end computers than to spend extra development time truly f
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by 986aignan 4mo ago
> They get blocked by Recaptcha, I think. I think SV was asking what onion services, which can't really use recaptcha, do to prevent the DDoS storm. And I would imagine the answer is obscurity, since the dark web isn't nearly a
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by 986aignan 4mo ago
If it's just a contact form on some random site that isn't particularly valuable to spammers, a bespoke solution like hidden input fields, obfuscation, or some kind of token calculated client-side by JS will probably work just as
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by 986aignan 5mo ago
Certain esters have been found to be much safer (in mice, at least): > The glutathione hepatic values in mice obtained by intraperitoneal injection of the ester are superimposable on controls and the oral LD50 was found to be greater tha
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by 986aignan 5mo ago
There's a broader law: If it needs to insist on what it is, it probably isn't. E.g. "People's Democratic Republic of Foo".
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by 986aignan 6mo ago
The code lets you shoot yourself in the foot in a lot more ways than a spec does, though. Few people would make specs that include buffer overflows or SQL injection.
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by 986aignan 6mo ago
That sounds like a good way to get extreme short-term optimization. Say a particular finetune prioritizes profits right now and makes recommendations like "cut down on maintenance, you can make up for it later with your increased profi
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by 986aignan 6mo ago
The Rivest methods in the CSR13 paper - ThreeBallot, VAV, and Twin - seem to be relatively simple. Not directly applicable to online voting, though, but perhaps they would be simple enough to prove to the people that regular voting has no v
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by 986aignan 8mo ago
Not all answers are conducive to such subtle manipulation, though. If the user asks for an algorithm to solve the knapsack problem, it's kind of hard to stealthily go "now let's see how many Coca Colas will fit in the knapsac
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by 986aignan 8mo ago
I wish there were some kind of file search for the Wayback Machine. Like "list all .S3M files on members.aol.com before 1998". It would've made looking for obscure nostalgia much easier.
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by 986aignan 10mo ago
I'm surprised that the article doesn't mention the peroxidase hypothesis[1]. Has it been disproven? [1] https://tmedweb.tulane.edu/pharmwiki/doku.php/acetaminophen
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by 986aignan 1y ago
The problem is that if what "really counts" is too vaguely defined, then it's hard to pin down and argue the point. Virtual memory probably isn't what you meant, but take something like user privilege separation. It&#x27
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by 986aignan 1y ago
IIRC, you could use asymmetric cryptography to derive a site-specific pseudonymous token from the service and your government ID without the service knowing what your government ID is or the government provider knowing what service you are
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by 986aignan 1y ago
It is possible to take this too far, though - consider the OpenAI IMO proofs[1], for instance, and compare them to Gemini's.[2] [1] https://github.com/aw31/openai-imo-2025-proofs [2] https://arxiv.org&#
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by 986aignan 1y ago
At some point, I would imagine the distinction between capital and land becomes blurry, though. Economic rent can be had from either if the barrier to competition is high enough. Domain names are a good example, because as skissane said, yo
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by 986aignan 1y ago
Even if that is true (and I'm not saying it is), practical limits on handling the combinatorial complexity, or variety if you will, severely limits its use. No realistic fist-fighter has the information required or the processing capab
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by 986aignan 1y ago
Monte Carlo simulations would be the obvious example.
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by 986aignan 1y ago
Couldn't you replace the CCD with an adapter, connect the adapter to the video out of a computer, and then use the camera to "take a picture" of your already edited picture? It seems to me that any "paper trail" sch
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by 986aignan 1y ago
The axioms just state what criteria the Swiss system (but not the Icelandic) obeys. You don't need to know them in order to vote in Iceland any more than you need to know that first past the post fails the Condorcet criterion in order
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by 986aignan 1y ago
You might need some kind of MMP part if you want it to be truly proportional. If the voters can only rank about ten candidates before it gets unwieldy, that would give an effective 9% absolute threshold. A party that gains 8% support everyw
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by 986aignan 1y ago
And even that notwithstanding, they could use a solar foci telescope. It's kind of a pain to orient, but it /does/ give you extreme magnification.

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