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NSA and IETF: Fairness

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147 points·by WatchDog·قبل 4 أيام·191 comments

Panthalassa – Ocean-2 [video]

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3 points·by WatchDog·السنة الماضية·0 comments

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WatchDog
·قبل 3 ساعات·discuss
If you are worried about the ethics of using a company laptop to do personal work, you might be taking it a bit far, what damage does this do to the company?

If you are worried about the company claiming rights over your personal work, then it is prudent.
WatchDog
·أمس·discuss
The US constitution is one of the few constitutions that _does_ grant rights[0].

[0]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Bill_of_Rights
WatchDog
·قبل 8 أيام·discuss
That's fair. Is there any indication as to if xAi trains on private profiles?
WatchDog
·قبل 8 أيام·discuss
Whatever you think about X's image generation models, I don't see how it is related to the petition that the EFF is opposing.

Is generation of non-consensual imagery really a privacy issue?

If someone publishes a real naked photo of you, that was acquired without your consent, that would be a privacy issue.

If someone generates a naked photo of you, even if it looks identical to a real photo, it's not your private data.
WatchDog
·قبل 29 يومًا·discuss
For all the complaints like this that I see about AI generated websites, the complaints rarely come with counter examples of what a good human generated alternative should look like.

The authors blog design is perfectly functional, and I'm not suggesting that it needs any changes, but it also isn't a particularly impressive piece of web design.
WatchDog
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
Building up karma only requires that on balance one's contributions are popular.

Many accounts will contribute constructively on topics that are technical or objective, but then become more antagonistic on controversial or political topics.

So long as they don't severely break site rules, it's unlikely that they will be subject to major moderator action.
WatchDog
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
Those that spend all day posting on HN aren't always the most hinged.
WatchDog
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
Do these containers share a common kernel? Or are they each ran in a separate VM?

Edit: It's a VM per container. https://github.com/apple/container/blob/main/docs/technical-...
WatchDog
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
Lot's of countries already require this but it's trivially by-passable just by using a roaming capable SIM from a country that does not require it.
WatchDog
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
"First run" certainly exists in web apps, it's just running JS in a browser rather than a shell script on a developer or CI machine.

There is plenty of malicious stuff you can do from the browser.
WatchDog
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
> disparate projects as Valkey and Lua

Lua is often heavily used in Redis/Valkey, if you are interested in porting Valkey, it makes sense to also port Lua, they aren't "disparate".
WatchDog
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
By the same token, you aren't entitled to see the website content.
WatchDog
·قبل شهرين·discuss
Your theory about token density seems reasonable, but your data doesn't seem to really match it.

Very little difference between TypeScript and JavaScript, which are essentially the same language, just one has more tokens.

Functional languages like Clojure and OCaml are pretty dense, I would have expected them to feature lower.

Kotlin is in some ways a more token dense version of Java, yet Kotlin leads, and Java is almost last.
WatchDog
·قبل شهرين·discuss
I think it's absurd to pretend like you can know how a stranger thinks.

If I had to predict either way, I would guess that it is significantly AI generated, but that isn't the same thing as being sure.

Almost every link submitted to HN has a comment about the content being AI generated, many of which are not, I would rather talk about the "tells" rather than make confident assertions that I can't prove.
WatchDog
·قبل شهرين·discuss
It might be, I'm not sure.

The code is interesting though, it's not minified, it's very readable, and nicely indented with lots of comments.

The curated data center list is just some inline JSON.

The javascript uses var instead of let or const, I'm not sure if this is just style choice, or there is some code post processing.

It doesn't use react, AI seems to almost always opt for react for front end design, unless told otherwise.
WatchDog
·قبل شهرين·discuss
> ...I never will do is cross the "just business"/"personal" line with anyone I may or am working with.

Just in an interview situation, or you will just never be open to a personal friendship with anyone you ever work with?
WatchDog
·قبل شهرين·discuss
If you want LLMs to have knowledge of the Norwegian language, wouldn't the most obvious thing to do be to build a good training dataset and make the dataset widely available? Why go to the expense of training your own model, especially when it will be inferior to state of the art models.
WatchDog
·قبل شهرين·discuss
Any kind of radio control should be discounted when attacking a US carrier fleet, they will just be jammed.

Autonomous optically guided missiles/drones would fare better, but those are still vulnerable to being blinded by laser systems like HELIOS[0], and of course being shot down by anti air missiles or CIWS.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Energy_Laser_with_Integra...
WatchDog
·قبل شهرين·discuss
If the suggested political impact of this music is to be believed, the music might be one of the biggest environmental disasters of all time.

Germany has been pretty widely criticized for decommissioning it's nuclear power program, only to replace it with Russian oil.
WatchDog
·قبل شهرين·discuss
There a million ways that malware can persist without root.