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One woman's Tesla was remotely controlled by an abusive ex-partner(theguardian.com)
73 points by gradschool 8d ago|34 comments
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Ask HN: How to Relicense an Old Project
3 points by gradschool 26d ago|2 comments
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by gradschool 27d ago
I use a distinct key for each remote account. Although it's meant to be infeasible to infer a private key from a public key, distinct keys give me another layer of defence in depth in case an attacker ever finds a way to do it. Another
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by gradschool 1mo ago
A great science fiction premise could be that a technologically advanced adversary genetically engineers mirror life people to work as spies and saboteurs at wiping out the rest of the population so they can have the world for themselves, b
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by gradschool 1mo ago
I'm assuming a finite alphabet and a finitely axiomatizable proof system per convention. I can't think of an uncountable set of propositions in which each can be written as a finite string of symbols, so that's what I was mis
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by gradschool 1mo ago
I'm aware that very smart people have thought carefully about all this, but I still can't help thinking that this argument is unnecessarily complicated. It seems to me that a proof is something that can be written down as a finite
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by gradschool 2mo ago
Being obtuse comes effortlessly to me, I'm afraid. My comment pertains specifically to the kind mathematics that has no applications as a rebuttal to what I read as the author's main claim it will inevitably decline as a human end
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by gradschool 2mo ago
I don't move in these circles but the way I picture it is that higher mathematics in its purest form has no applications but is rather a medium of creative expression among a select few. How is AI generating voluminous opaque proofs of
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by gradschool 2mo ago
I got a UGREEN DXP6800 about two weeks ago on which I installed FreeBSD, and was just noticing today how slow the USB is when I saw this article mentioning a possible explanation (like ten times slower than when I plug the same external SSD
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by gradschool 2mo ago
> Imagine if border guards seize money willy-nilly. no need to imagine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_United...
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by gradschool 2mo ago
> This has even extended to fictional CSAM such as AI generated stories and pictures. Peripheral to your comment, there is an argument against AI generated CSAM that no one seems to be making so allow me. AI will do the same for CSAM as
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by gradschool 2mo ago
The problem as stated seems ill posed to me. If Santa wakes up when either quorum is ready, then it's never true that both are waiting unless they arrive simultaneously. Either that's a zero probability event that can be safely ig
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by gradschool 2mo ago
Learning stuff can be done on your own any time. The best use of your time in college is to cultivate professional contacts. Keep an eye out for professors who appear to be in charge of research projects with outside funding and volunteer t
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by gradschool 2mo ago
Not to be alarmist, but suppose a galactic federation judges that humans in their current state of development will pose a danger to other civilizations when they imminently attain warp capability, so as a safety precaution they need to be
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by gradschool 2mo ago
I blame it all on one guy. What if that plonker who broke ranks on the English side during the battle of Hastings after the English had successfully held the high ground against the French all day stayed in bed that morning, and William the
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by gradschool 3mo ago
Story time. In college 40+ years ago my housemate wanted to impress this girl by inviting her to write an important paper of hers with a looming deadline on his computer with WordStar instead of her usual methodology involving a typewriter.
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by gradschool 4mo ago
Inform them that you've put the answer key to their upcoming final exam on a poorly secured EC2 instance or s3 bucket. This technique serves a variety of students in different ways. Those who have no idea what you mean get a valuable i
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by gradschool 4mo ago
A small leak can sink a ship. The fake dollars weren't knowingly accepted. If public confidence in the value of money is lost, we're all in big trouble. The Secret Service was right to pursue the case zealously.
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by gradschool 6mo ago
I don't know about y'all, but this paradox was resolved to my complete satisfaction in a blog post some years ago, I believe by Scott Aaronson, though I can't find the link. If the predictor has such a good success rate, then
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by gradschool 7mo ago
inspired by a recent thread on here, a usability testing service for apps and websites where the testers are old people
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by gradschool 8mo ago
Take it to a charity shop or thrift store near you that accepts donations of electronics so that it finds its way to some smart kid who wants to teach himself or herself about computers.
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by gradschool 8mo ago
For another example of betrayal, one of the cronies in Katherine the Great's court always gave a dog to his girlfriends whenever he started a new relationship. Then if the dog ever greeted some other guy familiarly, he inferred he was
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by gradschool 9mo ago
I worked for a company that made dedicated FPGA based hardware for high frequency trading by deep-pocketed customers. You can certainly implement trading strategies running directly on the board with crazy fast turnaround times, but if a re
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by gradschool 10mo ago
FreeTube [1], and yt-dlp [2], especially in combination with a ready supply of VPNs. Switching them around to avoid being blocked by Google reminds me of adjusting the tuner for better reception on an old analog tv. Infant me might have ima
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by gradschool 10mo ago
It happened to me too, and I was unable to verify myself by any acceptable means due to being based in a country other than that of my passport. Having been redirected somewhere else for the identity verification onboarding, I think the pro
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by gradschool 10mo ago
That cloud of laser-cooled beryllium ions would probably be great for overclocking.
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by gradschool 10mo ago
I have, and the technical support representative at Proton confirmed it, but not without implying that it was my fault for using rclone. I asked the official recommendation for Linux users to do automated or scriptable backups onto a Proton
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by gradschool 11mo ago
I know everyone says SK combinators can express any computable function, but I don't get it. How do we write this function foo in terms of SK combinators alone? Is there some obvious programming trick I'm missing that makes it tri
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by gradschool 11mo ago
Former backblaze customer here, the trick is that you can't copy and paste your password as one might do with a password manager. You have to type it manually so that the web page can interactively tell you how strong the password is g
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by gradschool 11mo ago
tl;dr: If a computer could have an intelligent conversation, then a person could manually execute the same program to the same effect, and since that person could do so without understanding the conversation, computers aren't sentient.

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