habeanf

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by habeanf 8mo ago
Shameless plug: At baseshift.com we're building a solution to this. We generate isolated clones of production databases and expose operational control of clones via MCP (start/stop/reset). This provides agent autonomy for dev
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by habeanf 3y ago
To be clear, it didn't take my keys. It generated a wallet to which I sent my bitcoin, which was then promptly sent somewhere else.
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by habeanf 3y ago
> Mistake #1 : switching to an even more closed computing environment, where user has strictly no control I've been with Google Nexus and Pixels for many years, roughly starting with the Nexus One. Ironically, I switched from an iph
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by habeanf 3y ago
When I installed it, it was the #1 organic search result. Other commenters report seeing the same app as #2 organic search result. Just because an account is newly created does not make their first post FUD. Their story is precisely what ha
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by habeanf 3y ago
Yes, but how does following the tx trail help me in any way? They've moved the BTC a few times since the wallet sent it to them.
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by habeanf 3y ago
I didn’t put a seed phrase into the app. I created a new wallet in it and transferred the btc to it.
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by habeanf 3y ago
Others have reproduced it, see others comments. Perhaps for them the ranking changed slightly but the fact is a scam app is ranked as high as serious companies. Gmail / Google are open, the App Store is closed and supposedly vetted and
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by habeanf 3y ago
If only there was a website I could use to contact other like minded people where they could vote on posts they like and discuss them in comment sections. Oh, wait
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by habeanf 3y ago
How am I supposed to prove I didn't seek the app out? What level of proof do you expect? Do you expect me to create a brand new apple account, replace the one in my phone (which might require wiping it?), and then search again, just to
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by habeanf 3y ago
> (1) How much more valuable do you think it is to the scam app developer to appear at the top of the search results than for a legitimate wallet developer? Well, the scammer got CAD $150k out of the reddit guy I linked to and I lost a s
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by habeanf 3y ago
Posted above the screen recording: https://streamable.com/y5nhy7 > You can't escape personal due diligence and "it was top ranked!" has never been that. On one hand that's a fair point and I should&#x
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by habeanf 3y ago
Fair enough. I removed it and recorded the screen again: https://streamable.com/y5nhy7
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by habeanf 3y ago
Here is a screen recording including this hacker news post + your comment & and a switch to the app store with the search phrase. The first result is the scam app. I scrolled down so you can see where serious apps are in the list of res
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by habeanf 3y ago
I just took a screenshot of the app store about an hour ago: https://pasteboard.co/bZ7qQvAzYggy.png
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by habeanf 3y ago
It wasn't a promoted result, it's an organic search result, and it's still there!
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by habeanf 3y ago
In hindsight, this is quite obvious. Coming from years of using Google Pixels I just got used to trusting the search results. I've never hit a fraudulent app when searching in the Play Store. I trusted apple that at least the top 5 res
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by habeanf 3y ago
Honestly, I got lazy, and that's on me. I was using the standard bitcoin wallet app on android. It did seem weird I can't restore the wallet I backed up in the android app, but the android app github doesn't point to an app s
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by habeanf 3y ago
You're right, I shouldn't trust a random app. Also, it's pretty much my first serious foray into Apple land. I trusted Apple's search results. There are multiple apps, far more mature and backed by serious developers, th
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by habeanf 3y ago
You're right, and I've done both. My review doesn't appear in the list of reviews. What's crazy is that a scam app is the #1 organic search result for 'bitcoin wallet', above blockchain.com and coinbase.
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Scammed by the top result for 'Bitcoin wallet' in Apple App Store
242 points by habeanf 3y ago|150 comments
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by habeanf 8y ago
Nice work! If I'm not mistaken, the root requires morphological disambiguation, which may change depending on the context/phrase in which the word is observed. This is an active area of research in Morphologically Rich Languages (
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by habeanf 9y ago
RIP
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by habeanf 9y ago
Yoav's response to general criticism https://medium.com/@yoav.goldberg/clarifications-re-adversar...
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by habeanf 9y ago
Yoav's response to Yann https://medium.com/@yoav.goldberg/a-response-to-yann-lecuns-...
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by habeanf 9y ago
Accompanying response by Yann LeCun on FB: https://www.facebook.com/yann.lecun/posts/10154498539442143
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An Adversarial Review of “Adversarial Generation of Natural Language”(medium.com)
3 points by habeanf 9y ago|3 comments
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by habeanf 10y ago
Google's SyntaxNet (as of Andor et al 2016) achieves state-of-the-art accuracy for dependency parsing without RNNs.
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by habeanf 10y ago
> Adding electronics (or worse, software) adds a huge amount of attack surface. The attack could be at any point from the CPU-internals to the software. You're missing the point. The voting protocol is built in such a way that you c
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by habeanf 10y ago
That's not a valid argument. Nothing is secure from all known threats. The question is how (in)secure is the system. In this case, the voting protocol doesn't provide a means of verification. Secure voting protocols have been arou
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by habeanf 12y ago
I won't be at ACL this year, maybe next. My advisor will be there though (Reut Tsarfaty).

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