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When have you last been to a protest? Besides us nerds on hackernews, no one visits a website nowadays.

Also many "violent" protesters are organized, and even more so have to be to stay as safe as possible.

Robots don‘t steal and don‘t want a raise.
Re:When AI Costs More Than the Engineer on Monday July 06, 2026 @04:29AM (#48802093)
VC mostly, since Anthropic is not profitable.
Re:ArXiv's Next Chapter on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @04:19AM (#48743702)
We usually do conferences in cryptography/security, and most of them have page limits: CCS, USENIX, NDSS, S&P, CRYPTO, EUROCRYPT all have page limits (some allow appendices, which reviewers are not obligated to read).
They don‘t even hide it anymore.
Re:German Autobahn speed limit would bring €1bn in benefits on Monday November 27, 2023 @07:29AM (#38431512)
I would.
> they draw a naked picture of a classmate and share it, should that be illegal too?

I don‘t see the argument here. What you describe is sexual harassment and should be illegal.

Re:YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin on Sunday October 29, 2023 @03:47PM (#38061982)
Ad Blockers are special glasses that allow the wearer to see an empty area where the ad is supposed to be.

I believe people should be allowed to wear the glasses they want.

At least he kept his cult real
Yes, if you count the emissions for the stuff manufactured in China for (not only) european customers.

If you look at consumption-based emissions[0], China is at 7 t per capita, which is 8 t less than the US, 2 t less than Germany and about par with Denmark, Slovakia, and England.

0: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/consumption-co2-per-capit...

I tried, didn‘t find a source. Where are they based?
Re:IBM unveils 433 qubit quantum computer on Friday November 11, 2022 @03:30AM (#33558437)
There was a time when people used to say these things about conventional computers, remember the 50s?
Re:IBM unveils 433 qubit quantum computer on Friday November 11, 2022 @03:30AM (#33558429)
There is no known polynomial time algorithm for TSP. AFAIK there are quantum algorithms for TSP with quadratic speedup in comparison to the brute force method (still exponential though).

The one thing quantum computers are (currently and theoretically) able to solve efficiently is the factorization problem, but are very much limited by low qubit number, i.e. engineering problems.

Re:Facebook reportedly laying off thousands of employees on Thursday October 06, 2022 @03:51AM (#33105640)
The results are the same: your company has one employee less and you have one employer less.
Re:AirPods Pro (2nd Generation) on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @06:39PM (#32758095)
I don’t think we should discuss throwing away two AA batteries worth of ewaste every 2 years.

Do you consume meat or dairy?

Don‘t think about microwave vs. stove. Instead, do the following:

1. stop buying meat

2. stop eating meat

3. stop buying dairy-based products

4. stop eating dairy-based products

5. stop eating eggs, honey, fish

6. use public transport, if possible

7. don‘t fly, if possible

Congrats, you now are an environmentalist.

That's an interesting question! Disclaimer: In my current research, I'm focusing on steganography on ML-based lossless channels. Not an export on image-based steganography.

As far as I know, image based steganography usually uses random noise added to a cover image and a preshared key to decide which noise is actually encoded information. Since printers and scanners are a lossy channel, the noise will deteriorate. So I think this is a hard problem -- this might be possible with some kind of error correcting code as used in QR codes and alike (or maybe even use QR codes as the cover channel)

The paper this project is based on is the starting point for my thesis. I have found little discussion about this project (and have not found a posting to HN about it), even though I think it shows a very interesting approach to text-based steganography.