malf
Re:Becoming physically immune to brute-force attacks (2021)
on Monday October 28, 2024 @02:49AM (#41968355)
This is why it annoys me when journalists say P!=NP is about scheduling flights.
Re:How to pwn a billion dollar VC firm using inspect element
on Saturday July 20, 2024 @11:28AM (#41017145)
If I leave other people’s stuff that I promised to take care of on the street and it gets stolen, I would be to blame.
Re:LeftoverLocals: A vulnerability that allows data recovery from GPU ...
on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @04:12AM (#39025283)
> It's a solved problem on the CPU side of things
Is it? gestures at pile of cpu bugs
Re:Ethernet over HTTPS Protocol
on Saturday December 30, 2023 @09:19AM (#38815441)
I always assumed you had to talk your way into some committee to submit one of these. Apparently it’s wide open. But why do it? Resume padding?
Re:Daily Coffee Habits May Affect Brain Plasticity and Learning
on Sunday November 26, 2023 @06:04AM (#38420732)
> common sense
75% of people surveyed drink coffee every day?
Re:Shellcheck finds bugs in your shell scripts
on Friday November 24, 2023 @11:05AM (#38405305)
Some people may prefer that to “oh no, Steam did rm -rf $typo/“
Re:Intermediate sci knowledge associated with overconfidence and negat...
on Thursday September 14, 2023 @02:13PM (#37512644)
This page tries to send expensive SMS messages.
Re:Getting to Statistical Significance on a Shoestring Traffic Budget
on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @02:42AM (#37493027)
“Using modern experiment frameworks, all 3 of ideas can be safely tested at once, using parallel A/B tests (see chart).”
Nooo! First, if one actually works, you’ve massively increased the “noise” for the other experiments, so your significance calculation is now off. Second, xkcd 882.
Re:Fairphone 4–the repairable, sustainable smartphone–is coming to the US
on Sunday July 09, 2023 @10:40AM (#36654832)
SO had a fairphone. Broke screen. Turned out the screen replacement module was vaporware.
Re:Microsoft Research: Fully In-Place Functional Programming [pdf]
on Monday June 26, 2023 @03:32AM (#36476786)
Noob question: the Top type here is exactly the Node constructor of the stree type. It seems useful to declare a type that is “this ADT, but limited to these constructors”, but even Haskell seems to avoid it. Why?
Re:Everything that uses configuration files should report where they'r...
on Sunday June 25, 2023 @04:06AM (#36465953)
strace -e open
Re:Llama.cpp: Full CUDA GPU Acceleration
on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @04:16AM (#36307182)
I think it was 2x total speedup vs previous version, which already used gpu for “most” things, so the real speedup is 2/(1-most), which could be a lot.
Re:Math Has Changed the Shape of Gerrymandering
on Thursday June 08, 2023 @07:04AM (#36239900)
It’s not football. The parties will balance, sure, but the policy, uh, hyperplane will have shifted.
Re:HeadSculpt: Crafting 3D Head Avatars with Text
on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @02:54AM (#36209134)
The mustache beefed up to fill in for Homer’s nose in profile. Mwah.
Re:Bytes Are All You Need: Transformers Operating Directly on File Bytes
on Sunday June 04, 2023 @03:06AM (#36183676)
Obligatory four-letter comic: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/the-chinese-room
Re:A Flexible Type System for Fearless Concurrency
on Sunday May 14, 2023 @04:05AM (#35936257)
I thought the days of “opening a pdf freezes IE for several seconds” were long past. What makes this painful for you?
Re:Why Oatmeal Is Cheap: Kolmogorov Complexity and Procedural Generati...
on Saturday April 29, 2023 @05:44AM (#35751497)
The choice of computer is just an additive constant.
Re:Local License Key Verification
on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @05:34AM (#35698264)
I remember some tool or other used 128-bit RSA back in the day.
Re:91% of ML Models Degrade over Time
on Friday April 14, 2023 @02:58AM (#35566370)
> Another critical decision is that they only investigated pairs of model-dataset with good initial performance.
groan
Re:Mastodon Hit 10M Users
on Monday March 20, 2023 @03:30AM (#35228369)
The blacklist is visible on the about page of each instance. Feel free to go sample a few. The first one I tried had literal swastikas in the user name of the first post. It went downhill from there.
Re:Partnering with Fastly–Oblivious HTTP relay for FLEDGE's 𝑘-anonymit...
on Wednesday March 15, 2023 @08:55AM (#35167584)
It’s not immediately clear what stops me from preparing k-1 sybils?
Re:Launch HN: Blyss (YC W23) – Homomorphic encryption as a service
on Wednesday March 15, 2023 @02:41AM (#35164719)
Same problem as “hash the PIN code”, an attacker can run the algorithm for Alexa-1M.csv.
Re:Giannis Antetokounmpo put $250k into 50 different banks (2022)
on Sunday March 12, 2023 @05:25AM (#35118249)
To get the sale? It seems to have worked. Truth is orthogonal.
Re:Leveraging Rust and the GPU to render user interfaces at 120 FPS
on Thursday March 09, 2023 @05:26AM (#35079928)
That’s odd. I remember using it in the 90s. It’s the obvious way to do things if you don’t like small objects.
(Also GPUI seems to be retained, so completely unrelated.)
Re:All Books and Science Publications Are Available in IPFS
on Monday February 27, 2023 @03:37AM (#34954293)
Is this a copy of libgen or just a frontend with a tip jar?
Re:Researchers fool self-driving cars with stickers on street signs (2...
on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @09:46AM (#34881747)
I assume https://xkcd.com/1958/ (2018) was in response to this.
Re:I Thought I Was Saving Trans Kids. Now I’m Blowing the Whistle
on Sunday February 12, 2023 @12:25PM (#34764695)
> “The overall mortality for sex-reassigned persons was higher during follow-up“
Higher than population average. Do you have any evidence that it is higher than people who are denied treatment?
Re:Twenty five thousand dollars of funny money
on Saturday December 03, 2022 @12:07PM (#33845003)
type robotname = string & {_robotname_marker:true}
or some variation. The marker does not actually need to exist.
Re:Emotionally Intelligent People Use 3-Word Phrase When Criticised
on Monday November 28, 2022 @08:23AM (#33773311)
Wait, are writers incentivized to get “scrolls” now?!
Re:NopeCHA: Captcha Solver
on Monday November 28, 2022 @04:15AM (#33771357)
“If it were truly AI, then they would make more money offering their own CAPTCHA service instead of a CAPTCHA-breaking service.”
Please elaborate.
“workers (ie humans)”
Do you know what we call a process that takes tasks from a queue?