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Going Dark, and the era of law enforcement hacking(blog.cryptographyengineering.com)
461 points by vslira 1mo ago|249 comments
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by vslira 2mo ago
Speaking for myself (and I bought Hillel's recently published Logic for Programmers): It's not clear to me which formal method I should use. I'm certain the answer is "there's a different best one for each situation
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by vslira 2mo ago
The issue seems to be with the expectation that personal enrichment and subjective aesthetic appreciation should be socially instead privately funded
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by vslira 2mo ago
I don't consider myself an open weights supporter, but it's a bit of a bummer that if there's any novel search technique discovered by the model throughout this finding, it's possibly locked behind ant's reasoning s
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by vslira 2mo ago
It's not number of houses, it's number of houses where people want to live. "house prices would not be increasing in areas of population decline" -> the causation could be running backwards: a family of 2 (maybe 2 ret
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by vslira 2mo ago
I use it to write instructions, obviously. I thought everyone was using C-g on Claude Code
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by vslira 2mo ago
If the EU as a system has an undemocratic backdoor it's descriptively correct to call it undemocratic. Not to play too hard on the HN user stereotype, but you wouldn't call a computer system that is mostly secure other than a know
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by vslira 3mo ago
What’s the meaning of skeuomorphic design for a generation that has never worked with the original physical artifacts they’re based on, though?
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by vslira 3mo ago
Where do I sign to show my opposition to this change? Hide My Email has been essential to keep my digital life protected from abusive mail lists and frankly one of the features that make me associate icloud with a premium service
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by vslira 3mo ago
Yes it is bad, but if you believe some version of the most extreme forecasts of this tech then a government paying attention and doing some stupid things may be better than one that doesn't pay attention and is letting it rip. I'm
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by vslira 3mo ago
This ban in particular is probably the wrong decision, but now we're in the timeline where the USG is actively involved in AI model deployment which I think is a positive development within Amodei's beliefs. And I say this unironi
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by vslira 3mo ago
> The short version is that I don’t let AI agents work unsupervised on my code. I treat them like participants in a mob programming session instead of autonomous developers. I wonder if OS maintainers would have a leg up in defining work
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by vslira 4mo ago
It may not be useful to anyone outside, but it's possible that one of the goals is institutional learning (that is, embedding the knowledge in how to build LLMs in an organization). Even though it's nominally the national library
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For Residents of Jurisdictions with Age Verification Laws(dianne.skoll.ca)
3 points by vslira 4mo ago|1 comments
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by vslira 4mo ago
Maybe specialists have a higher bar than consumers, and as a design consumer he's right about the design, and the designer is right about the code, if "being right" means "understanding what the end customer will think a
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by vslira 4mo ago
Regardless of one’s opinion about AI, from a product perspective this seems somewhat similar to the dev using his 48gb ram machine and latest iphone to test an app that will be used by consumers with entry-level devices
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by vslira 4mo ago
People like to blame social media for this kind of bullshit, but social media is just the vector. Just this week I read a "study" because someone claimed on social media that it was made by (Public, famous) Unis A, B and C and rep
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by vslira 4mo ago
I don't think the following is a great idea for many reasons, but it's an idea that has been on my mind for a while and I'd like to share it to hear some thoughts: Germany has (used to have? I don't follow this closely)
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by vslira 5mo ago
Hm, that’s a multinomial classification with a very high cardinality. It’s really weird it works. I’m sure it does as the author states, but for how many authors (out of the whole web) does this work?
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by vslira 5mo ago
> In France cars are torched if the pension age is raised. Democracy is… an organized group toppling decisions made by popularly elected representatives within the confines of the law?
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by vslira 5mo ago
I don’t think Americans would enjoy the alternative of defaulting on that debt, or the counterfactual of not having raised that debt in the first place But yeah, having to pay your debts do suck
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by vslira 5mo ago
I think this might depend on where you intend to sell them. I think in life plus 50 countries (Egypt, China, many others) it should be out of copyright already. IANAL, so consult one before doing anything.
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by vslira 5mo ago
I haven't done it myself, using game engines as UI frameworks is not unheard of :)
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by vslira 5mo ago
He wasn't fudging anything, his phrasing was > ~18% of their working age people *do not have jobs* Which is a correct interpretation of participation rate. His theory on the causes may be off, but his numbers weren't
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by vslira 6mo ago
Glad you mentioned this possibility Countries have centuries of experience providing attestation services through notaries. Germany is even infamous for requiring them for things that would sound ridiculous even in Brazil (both movie and co
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by vslira 6mo ago
This is brilliant! Thank you for creating it
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The day an Al taught me how to hack my own company(substack.com)
3 points by vslira 8mo ago|0 comments
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by vslira 9mo ago
According to the article itself, ARR’s definition is clear and strict: annual and recurring. This means that “margin” doesn’t factor in, so I don’t think calling these AI companies’ revenue GMV is all that sensible either. I do agree the ma
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by vslira 9mo ago
Funny name given that Sauron infamously didn’t prevent a break-in Btw: isn’t lotr out of copyright in death of author + 50yrs countries? Where’s the legal Chinese movie trilogy?
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by vslira 9mo ago
> It’s art that bursts the seams, demanding that the world bend to it and not the other way around, refusing to comply with the arbitrary bounds of property law—those meaningless slips of paper meant to legally confer ownership of land,

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