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SSH-Keysign-Pwn: Reading Root-Owned Files via a Ptrace Logic Bug

needhelp.icu
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The UK's Answer to DARPA Wants to Rewire the Human Brain

wired.com
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mbeavitt
·4일 전·discuss
This is simply not true, advances in basecalling and using Duplex give you >Q25
mbeavitt
·지난달·discuss
I really don’t understand why this social credit concept has become so widespread. It does sort of exist but not in the big government breathing down your neck kind of way.

Here’s an example - you can rent e-bikes and power banks at low cost, they are everywhere. If you don’t return an e-bike or power bank after using it, not only will that company charge you, but you’ll likely get blacklisted from renting more, even at other companies.

This is a good thing, no???
mbeavitt
·2개월 전·discuss
Yeah for many cancers, CAR-T is the cure which is insane and cool. We just need to make it cheap enough that everyone can benefit…
mbeavitt
·2개월 전·discuss
Haha this is cool, it reminds me of the simple.wikipedia.com alternatives to English language pages. Is there an about page linked somewhere? I’m wondering if the images are AI generated or if someone handmade all of this
mbeavitt
·2개월 전·discuss
I wonder - everyone keeps talking about brain drain and how impactful it is, but is it quantifiable?
mbeavitt
·2개월 전·discuss
In 6 months we’re gonna see a HN thread: “I bought ask.com for £250k - here’s what I did with it”
mbeavitt
·3개월 전·discuss
These kind of project reports showing consistent breakthroughs and clearly a finger on the pulse of what users are encountering as pain points are a good indication that the Asahi team are real pros :)

Look forward to switching back to Asahi full time soon!!
mbeavitt
·3개월 전·discuss
Honestly I've been doing a lot of image-related work recently and the biggest thing here for me is the 3x higher resolution images which can be submitted. This is huge for anyone working with graphs, scientific photographs, etc. The accuracy on a simple automated photograph processing pipeline I recently implemented with Opus 4.6 was about 40% which I was surprised at (simple OCR and recognition of basic features). It'll be interesting to see if 4.7 does much better.

I wonder if general purpose multimodal LLMs are beginning to eat the lunch of specific computer vision models - they are certainly easier to use.
mbeavitt
·5개월 전·discuss
Having briefly experienced weight loss drugs - and the bliss of that constant “EAT!” voice in your head just going quiet - I’m pretty convinced most humans have a genuine genetic predisposition to overeating.

And when you zoom out to the population level, the “we’re all autonomous individuals” argument gets a lot shakier. Like yeah, at the individual level you have agency, you make choices, fine. But at scale? We are absolutely at the mercy of whoever has figured out how to tickle our monkey brains in just the right way to get us buying their fattening food.
mbeavitt
·5개월 전·discuss
if you read the article...

Instead of discarding stock, companies are encouraged to manage their stock more effectively, handle returns, and explore alternatives such as resale, remanufacturing, donations, or reuse.

I guess remanufacturing/reuse might be the intended solution if it's absolutely not to be worn.
mbeavitt
·6개월 전·discuss
> Don't take criticism from someone you wouldn't take advice from.

The funny thing I find about criticism is that you actually don’t have a choice about whether or not it affects your future actions. Criticism that I have dismissed has persistently come back to haunt me, perhaps via my subconscious.