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Private Cloud Compute Security Guide – Documentation(security.apple.com)
2 points by djoldman 8h ago|0 comments
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Beijing hits back at Anthropic CEO's call to curb China's AI development(apnews.com)
9 points by djoldman 2d ago|6 comments
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by djoldman 13d ago
> It must be impossible for AI to: make purchases you did not intend, send messages you did not intend, and access information you did not want to share. Hrm. I'd say that all of these things are possible when using services of comp
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by djoldman 13d ago
If aaa.bbb.name is registered, then bbb.name cannot be registered. bbb.name can ONLY be registered if it is not already registered AND there are no 3rd levels registered on bbb.name currently. https://manage.whois.com/kb&#x2
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by djoldman 16d ago
No need to be sorry. My "no worries" comment was a bit tongue-in-cheek. Who knows how far the tech will go or how cheap it will get.
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by djoldman 16d ago
I mean the FBI / cops.
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by djoldman 16d ago
Presumably they mean HFT / "locals" / "sell side." These folks compete in a reasonably zero-sum game.
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by djoldman 16d ago
> "Snapchat’s algorithm didn’t get the humor." Presumably, the actual text of the message was reviewed by a human? So the human(s) didn't get the humor either? EDIT: by "humans" I mean the FBI / cops.
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by djoldman 16d ago
No worries in the long run; similar to the "energy crisis," new inventions and technology will mitigate the issue: Quantum Compass: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_compass Also see: https://w
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by djoldman 22d ago
Credit card companies make 3/4 of their revenue from interest. From Capital One's 10k, Net Interest Income vs. Total Net Revenue: 2023: 79.5% 2024: 79.8% 2025: 80.2% https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Arch
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by djoldman 23d ago
> The format itself is incredibly terse, designed for a world where disk space and network bandwidth was at an extreme premium. Modifying the format is hard, you often have to zero out sections and add new ones since it is packed so tigh
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Phoenix tried a reflective coating on black asphalt; noon surface heat fell 12°F(economictimes.indiatimes.com)
36 points by djoldman 24d ago|54 comments
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by djoldman 24d ago
> I gave it the hardest real task that fits on one machine: reverse-engineering a commercial app's license check... Respectfully, tasks that allow for explicit straightforward true/false or done/not-done tests are not the
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by djoldman 24d ago
"I can't wait to run this new sota model locally. I'll just use the quantized version that is certain to be better than [other model I'm running]." This is fast becoming one of my top old-man-yells-at-clouds pet pee
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by djoldman 27d ago
oh my. Looks like NoScript is way better than what I've been using. Thanks! https://noscript.net/
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by djoldman 27d ago
Not the same as: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils Although I could see them benefitting.
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by djoldman 29d ago
> How would you design a system that simultaneously achieved all these goals: > Rapid sending of messages > Careful checking of the content of messages > Ability to quickly target a specific geographic area > Inability to mis
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by djoldman 1mo ago
Did you find much difference in inference latency or throughput between baseline and PCA?
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by djoldman 2mo ago
You might want to try what I do: run JS in allowlist mode: https://github.com/maximelebreton/quick-javascript-switcher By default, I don't run into these problems and save a lot of compute!
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by djoldman 2mo ago
Just FYI, the bigger companies all allow you to block crawlers via robots.txt: # Block Anthropic (Claude) User-agent: ClaudeBot Disallow: / User-agent: Claude-SearchBot Disallow: / User-agent: Claude-User
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The SEC Pays a Texting Fine(bloomberg.com)
3 points by djoldman 2mo ago|0 comments
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by djoldman 2mo ago
> As for drawn child porn, involving fictional characters (i.e. not CSAM), it is legal in certain jurisdictions. Notably, America, where the 1st Amendment errs on the side of creative expression As I noted in another comment: Currently t
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by djoldman 2mo ago
Currently it is explicitly against the law[0]: (a)In General.—Any person who, in a circumstance described in subsection (d), knowingly produces, distributes, receives, or possesses with intent to distribute, a visual depiction of any ki
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by djoldman 2mo ago
Meh, I assume "possession" (of drugs) is how the law is worded because otherwise law enforcement would have to catch someone in the act of using or distributing, which must be much harder to do. Mere possession of a substance is s
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by djoldman 2mo ago
I am not a lawyer. There is something ironic about US laws that attempt to prevent crime A by outlawing action B. For example: * A: physical sexual abuse of children. B: possession or distribution of CSAM * A: drug trafficking or tax
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by djoldman 2mo ago
Love this. Whoever made this, please make a "proportion" column somehow! I would like to know which has the most complexity per total volume or weight (it's less surprising that huge items have high complexity).
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by djoldman 2mo ago
The variation in prices of staple foods between different stores has exploded in Chicago. For what it's worth, Aldi is significantly cheaper for many items. It's gotten a lot busier there too.
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by djoldman 2mo ago
For day-to-day programming work, have you seen a difference in the quality of output between (Opus 4.6 / GPT 5.2 / GPT-5.3 Codex) and the current (GPT-5.6 / Fable) that justifies the price increase ? My intuition says that t
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by djoldman 2mo ago
Initially I assumed it to be negligible but the numbers are actually very close! I calculate around a 3% drop in speed (from 60mpg) for holding an average sized book out of the window. That's surprising to me. It's not quite right
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by djoldman 2mo ago
> ... you should worry that your car is going fast. Only if we know of an intervention that will likely slow the car down and the risks+cost of that intervention justify the benefit. Otherwise, we worry without purpose. EDIT: I will say

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