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by lambdaone 1y ago
Fascinating work. I'm in the process of reading David Graeber's The Dawn of Everything, so this is timely for me.
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by lambdaone 1y ago
It's an entertainment article, and doesn't make any claim to be anything else. I'm not sure what you would prefer in its place; can you give any examples of what you would consider to be a suitable treatment of this topic?
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by lambdaone 1y ago
I was there. I drew the artwork for the poster for the talk that got pinned up on noticeboards around the univrsity. I met Conway a handful of times, mostly at DAMTP, and he was always interesting, always with new ideas.
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by lambdaone 1y ago
I feel the words "might" and "some" are doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence. The downsides of tariffs, though, are not hypothetical.
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by lambdaone 1y ago
Either local solar panels, grid power, or a combination of both, yes. And of course solar panels can also indirectly "store" power by simply reducing demand on hydro resources during the day, allowing water to back up for night-
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by lambdaone 1y ago
In spite of all of this, Cycorp is still in business, and have pivoted to healthcare automation, including apparently insurance denials. I wonder if the full Cyc knowledg base will ever end up being released to the public domain, or whether
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by lambdaone 1y ago
Generation and storage definitely should go hand in hand, but I think the Pakistani authorities' desire is simply to have something better than the alternative of not having it. At least Pakistan has plenty of hydropower installations
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by lambdaone 1y ago
This is fascinating. As the article says, sometimes the most unglamorous things can be among the most interesting.
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by lambdaone 1y ago
It's not just Wikipedia - the entire rest of the open-access web is suffering with them. I think the most interesting thing here is that it shows that the companies doing these crawls simply don't care who they hurt, as they activ
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by lambdaone 1y ago
This is why Rust is the leading alternative to C/C++; it was designed from the start to both call and be called from other languages to enable progressive migration, rather than requiring an incompatible and impractical big bang change
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by lambdaone 1y ago
There is some really promising-looking work on using a mixture of LLMs and formal proof techniques and/or unit testing to perform reliable and idiomatic translation from unsafe to safe languages. See, for example, https://ar
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by lambdaone 1y ago
It's already been demonstrated to be insufficient; otherwise Apple software would now be impregnable. That's not to say these protections are a bad idea; they should be universal as they substantially reduce the existing attack su
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by lambdaone 1y ago
From the cited paper: "These four types of integrity, do not establish memory safety, but merely attempt to contain the effects of its absence; therefore, attackers will still be able to change software behavior by corrupting memory.&q
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by lambdaone 1y ago
I don't doubt that most of the gazillion of so lines of legacy C++ will never be rewritten. But critical infrastructure - and there's a lot of it - most certainly needs to be either rewritten in safer languages, or somehow prov
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by lambdaone 1y ago
Possibly enables him to stand, according to the article - several other patients weren't helped by the treatment, and in the case that showed a positive effect the researchers currently can't eliminate the possibility of natural
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by lambdaone 1y ago
You can see a lot of open mouth/tongue stuff being skipped. Dealing with the tongue and the inside of the mouth is a huge problem with this sort of visual dubbing. Using traditional techniques, you can model teeth and gums as rigid bod
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by lambdaone 1y ago
This seems to be the research group involved: https://www.med.keio.ac.jp/gcoe-stemcell/english/member/okan...
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by lambdaone 1y ago
and here: https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/east-asia/article/3303473/jap...
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by lambdaone 2y ago
Illegal commerce, money laundering, and speculation seem to have more than sufficed over that period
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by lambdaone 2y ago
All of which is fantastic, until you can't trust Apple because they are under a secret obligation to disable that feature. Non-programmable hardware gating the I/O lines or power isn't hackable in the same way.
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by lambdaone 2y ago
I'm quite surprised that they use a secure exclave to control the physical camera LED - this is absolutely massive overengineering to do something very simple. A tiny bit of hardwired dedicated logic integrated into the camera module w
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by lambdaone 2y ago
The traction I'm looking for is discussion of this issue by technically knowledgeable people. Something is happening here which potentially affects the majority of the population of the UK, and the tech community by and large seem to b
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by lambdaone 2y ago
More: the Treasury Committee is investigating, and has sent letters to all the CMA9 banks: https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/46590/document... https://www.openbanking.org.uk/glossary&#x
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Major UK banks hit by payday digital banking problems again(computerweekly.com)
7 points by lambdaone 2y ago|5 comments
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by lambdaone 2y ago
Yes, this has been submitted to HN before, and hasn't gained any traction. But this isn't the first time something like this has happened, and simultaneous outages like this are not something that is likely to happen by chance. Th
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by lambdaone 2y ago
Let's not let the best be the enemy of the good. Malicious actors who disregard CAA would first have to have gone through the process of accreditation to be added to public trust stores, and then would quickly get removed from those tr
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by lambdaone 2y ago
Lloyds, Halifax, Bank of Scotland and TSB are all subsidiaries of the same organization, so will likely share infrastructure. But First Direct (which I believe are part of HSBC), Barclays, and Nationwide are not, and I believe are all unrel
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by lambdaone 2y ago
According to the Register, it's Lloyds Bank, Halifax, TSB, Nationwide, First Direct, Bank of Scotland, and Barclays. Interestingly, all the banks seem to have the exact same notice on their websites about this. (See https://
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Payday from hell as several UK banks report major outages(theregister.com)
4 points by lambdaone 2y ago|3 comments
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by lambdaone 2y ago
Multiple UK banks are simultaneously reporting outages on their online banking sites and apps. Interestingly, they all seem to have the exact same message of their websites about this. None of the reporting on this seems to report a cause f

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