sbdaman

Not in a snarky way but who is the target market for this?

>During our analysis of the Controlium platform, we observed that the source code mentioned an endpoint called “/csv-download”, which accepted start and end date parameters. When we sent normal HTTP GET requests to this endpoint without any password, special headers, or authentication token, we received logs showing which users had logged in to Controlium, and from which IP addresses.

Absolute morons.

Maybe it's just a COVID time blending together effect but it still blows my mind how quickly we went from "automatic audio transcriptions are not even worth having on" to "an hour of audio transcribed in 13s locally."

Pre-pandemic it seemed like even the very best in class auto-transcription features were just unusably bad. I guess that was like 7 years years ago though.

>Beauty is subjective.

Yes.

>Nothing is "genuinely beautiful".

Not sure.

>You can't just call something beautiful

Yes I can.

>and have everyone agree that it is in fact "beautiful".

Of course not.

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It's because he's not a philosopher and is wading into a long-standing philosophical debate and hand-waving away all the actual issues in contention.

Physicist writing on the hard problem of consciousness. It's like a caricature of annoying physicists.

It predicts what you are going to type as you type. It has a tendency to add words to the end of a message when you hit send.

Keep autocorrect on and turn off predictive text. Makes the experience way better.

Given it's set to generate random pages on the site, is there even any possible explanation for this that isn't sketchy?

I've shared this on YN before but I'm a big fan of this piece by Kenneth Taylor (well, an essay pieced together from his lectures).

The Robots Are Coming

https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/kenneth-taylor-robots-...

"However exactly you divide up the AI landscape, it is important to distinguish what I call AI-as-engineering from what I call AI-as-cognitive-science. AI-as-engineering isn’t particularly concerned with mimicking the precise way in which the human mind-brain does distinctively human things. The strategy of engineering machines that do things that are in some sense intelligent, even if they do what they do in their own way, is a perfectly fine way to pursue artificial intelligence. AI-as-cognitive science, on the other hand, takes as its primary goal that of understanding and perhaps reverse engineering the human mind.

[...]

One reason for my own skepticism is the fact that in recent years the AI landscape has come to be progressively more dominated by AI of the newfangled 'deep learning' variety [...] But if it’s really AI-as-cognitive science that you are interested in, it’s important not to lose sight of the fact that it may take a bit more than our cool new deep learning hammer to build a humanlike mind.

[...]

If I am right that there are many mysteries about the human mind that currently dominant approaches to AI are ill-equipped to help us solve, then to the extent that such approaches continue to dominate AI into the future, we are very unlikely to be inundated anytime soon with a race of thinking robots—at least not if we mean by “thinking” that peculiar thing that we humans do, done in precisely the way that we humans do it."

>but when you multiply it, it becomes significant.

Does it?

There is also a widespread cellular outage. It's very, very difficult (near impossible) to reach anyone in the country right now.

The title here suggests they're watching you shop and entering items into a list as you go (which would be ridiculous). It seems to actually just be low-paid workers spot checking to ensure the "algorithm" got it right?

Sorry?

Never thought I'd see CP24 on HN

For fun: run your local government's site through this.

You can buy a Roku remote for like $5.

Surprisingly nice website.

What the hell is a Chief Evangelist?

Yeah. If you were decently high ranked in any popular video game at the time, you had to make sure you didn't share a username between Skype/the game, or you'd be DDOSed endlessly.

Does anyone remember Skype resolvers? They were incredibly popular from like 2011-2014.

Interesting name choice

Etsy store generator

I wasn't criticizing any of the companies I listed.

I work in post-sec and this is very common practice. There are few key players that tend to capture the majority of schools in the States/Canada for specific tech solutions. Blackboard/Canvas/D2L for LSMs, Shibboleth for SSO, Duo for 2FA, Cisco AnyConnect for VPNs.

tech solutions in the field tend to be incredibly low risk given the size and make-up of the anticipated users (enterprise services with thousands of employees and tens of thousands of students). For public institutions, there's the added element of public sector risk avoidance.