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by plopilop 2mo ago
I have seen https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/mnsc.2023.00314 as an example. > Despite the limitations in size and speed of today’s quantum computers, our algorithm provides quantifiable liquidity savi
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by plopilop 2mo ago
I'm not even there for my employer. I have compiled a list of ~20 different inventory/CBOM solutions and I cannot even fathom how to move to the next step other than picking a few vendors at random and ask them for a demo, but the
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by plopilop 2mo ago
Man, the CBOM is such a pain. There is no standardised format yet (let alone efficient tools for crypto discovery), nobody knew what it was one year ago but now every client is asking ours anyway.
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by plopilop 2mo ago
There has been a lot of new stuff over the last few years. For instance, breaking RSA or ECDSA is requiring much fewer logical qubits than previously thought, and thus fewer physical qubits as well. Progress in error codes, quantum processi
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by plopilop 2mo ago
Y2K devs had it easy, they knew the bug would arrive and when. The problem with PQC is not that nobody knows when a CRQC (cryptographically relevant quantum computer) will appear, but that by the time it appears, you are already ~10 years t
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by plopilop 2mo ago
Don't quote me on this but I once heard that in the EU you always need to confirm purchases, ie. you cannot have the Amazon 1-click system. But in general, yes, having a confirmation dialog on important buttons is good UX; similarly as
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by plopilop 3mo ago
Pretty sure this is wrong. Code pénal, art. 434-25, translated with deepl. "Any attempt to publicly discredit a judicial act or decision—through actions, words, writings, or images of any kind—under circumstances likely to undermine th
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You probably don't need private PKI for internal infrastructure(certkit.io)
3 points by plopilop 3mo ago|3 comments
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by plopilop 3mo ago
My point is that flashy presentations already were an issue before the rise of LLMs. The evaluation of a hackathon relies on presentations and subjective opinions rather than pure benchmark of technical assets, there is nothing new under th
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by plopilop 3mo ago
10 years ago I won the only hackathon I participated in (not by choice). The jury was especially impressed in our report with the AI section. That part was a bunch of technobabble that I wrote, more or less saying "in the future the sy
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by plopilop 4mo ago
Seems like the blog succumbed to the HN hug of death (`Actioning this file would cause "jbkempf.com//blog/2026/dav2d/" to exceed the per-day file actions limit of 160000 actions, try again later`), is ther
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by plopilop 4mo ago
You usually do secret sharing in a finite field because computers don't like real numbers. The size of your share is a point (x, y), x can be small (typically log n in case of n participants), y is a random point in the field. Since Sh
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by plopilop 7mo ago
What I write down is usually a quite literal dump of my brain. I have a problem, and rather than keeping it in my head, I write it down, and force myself to continue writing about the topic to force myself trying to find solutions, rather t
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by plopilop 7mo ago
I mean, the example you link is probably an engineer doing their job of signalling to hierarchy that something went deeply wrong. Of course, the lack of action of Facebook afterwards is a proof that they did not care, but not as much as a s
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by plopilop 10mo ago
A long time ago I read "the good Brahmin" from Voltaire: https://www.online-literature.com/voltaire/4411/ Basically, the story goes that the good brahmin, for all his wealth and intelligence, is miserabl
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by plopilop 11mo ago
You can defend a lot of atrocities by arguing "for the greater good" and comparing to uchronic hypotheticals. I could as well argue that without Rome, the greek democracies would have been much more prevalent, and lead to modern d
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by plopilop 1y ago
Agree. I tried the first 3 examples: * "Rubber bouncy at Heathrow removal" on Google had 3 links, including the one about SFO from which chatGPT took a tangent. While ChatGPT provided evidence for the latest removal date being of
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by plopilop 1y ago
None of these were in your initial law. Furthermore, karma is also addictive.
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by plopilop 1y ago
You have banned Google, Reddit, and HN.
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by plopilop 1y ago
Oh, I know that strong emotions increase engagement, outrage being a prime candidate. I have also no issue believing that FB/TikTok/X etc aggressively engage in such tactics, e.g. [0]. But I am not aware of FB publicly acknowledgi
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by plopilop 1y ago
Sooo... Should we ban Google too? It is also ordering the contents of its research results with algorithms. Similarly, HN and reddit order the contents of their front page with some algorithms, and in the case of Google and Reddit, the algo
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by plopilop 1y ago
Websites use ready-to be used cookie banners provider by their advertisers. Who have all the incentive to make the process as painful as possible unless you click "accept", and essentially followed the model that Facebook pioneere
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by plopilop 1y ago
Cookie consent popovers were the deliberate decisions of company to create the worst possible compliance. A much simpler one could have been to stop tracking users especially when it is not their primary business. Newer regulations also man
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by plopilop 1y ago
> As I understand it right now, HME is a weaker form of encryption, but perhaps still strong enough to be a worthwhile tradeoff for the use cases being discussed. Exactly. Homomorphism was first seen as a weakness in encryption, since it
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by plopilop 1y ago
I mean it seems clear that Meta did not pirate the content to watch/read it. However, I guess according to the ruling you could pirate anything you want (but no seeding), produce a shitty haiku based on what you pirated and then claim
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by plopilop 1y ago
As the article mentions, fully homomorphic encryption is insanely slow and inefficient. But I have to say that it is a relatively new field (the first FHE scheme was discovered in 2009), and that the field has immensely progressed over the
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by plopilop 1y ago
How is that any different than people programming for fun?
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OpenSSH 10.0 [postquantum ML-KEM is now default key exchange](openssh.com)
3 points by plopilop 1y ago|2 comments
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by plopilop 2y ago
The hegemony of software only accepting . has de facto pushed the standard everywhere for computers, but here in France I still write with a comma, but type with a dot. A few years ago Excel and some other softwares started to be locale dep
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by plopilop 2y ago
> When have gun laws ever stopped a shooting? Have you heard of Australia? https://www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2018/03/13/gun-l...

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