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It was likely a fake mutual interest and they hoped "elonmuskwhm" would watch the videos so they could gather some data about them. That's how I interpreted it anyway.
Re:NY Times issues DMCA takedowns of Wordle clones on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @02:48PM (#39620437)
Gross. Reminder that NYT ripped off the 'connecting walls' of Only Connect, though their version—Connections—is low quality in comparison. PuzzGrid[1] does it better, for anyone who plays Connections.

[1] https://puzzgrid.com/

Re:The Naz.API Credential Stuffing List on Friday January 19, 2024 @03:19AM (#39052944)
Has there ever been a Netflix breach (on public record anyway)? I'd be more wary that your machine was infected, from my experience naz.api logs are mostly from infected machines.
Re:The Naz.API Credential Stuffing List on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @12:26PM (#39030677)
Ha, it was working fine moments before I posted the comment, times out for me now too. Try revisiting later on, it definitely works great. From what I remember it was essentially created as a "fuck you" to Peter Kleissner, the creator of https://intelx.io/, who charges exorbitant prices to search breaches.
Re:The Naz.API Credential Stuffing List on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @12:03PM (#39030373)
The leaked dataset Troy refers to wasn't the real Naz.API list, and the "illicit.services" website Troy says is defunct is actually online at https://search.0t.rocks/. You can use this to see if you're in the real Naz.API dataset (which is way scarier than the data shared on breachforums). Those who are particularly interested can abuse the wildcards for search to scrape passwords associated with some email/username and create their own Naz.API "mirror" (as far as I know, there are only a handful of people with access to this dataset), though the rate-limiting may prove to be an irritating obstacle. The site owner may find issue with this too, as it certainly wasn't intentional, but when I tried it a few months back it worked perfectly.
Unless they somehow cured GPT-3's schizophrenia and this model is a significant upgrade I'm not buying it - no matter how good it is at proving trivial mathematics theorems in the style of Eliot or whoever. Too often I have dealt with "The answer to your question is X. Oh, sorry, you are right, the answer is actually Y. Oh, it is good of you to ask for a proof, sure I can prove the answer is Y, I used this (hallucinated) method described in this (hallucinated) paper. Oh, sorry, you are right, I cannot find any evidence that the method and paper I mentioned earlier actually exist, oops!".
How To Solve It by Polya changed my mathematical life re proofs.
Did you cover proof by induction? This technique is one that is most likely to click with CS types.
Re:Advent of Code 2021 on Sunday November 21, 2021 @03:05PM (#29299223)
Unrelated but your automated chess board[1] is wonderful. Good work!

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ScFtkWvHW8

Re:Amazon recruiter invites CTO of Azure to apply for SDE II on Thursday November 11, 2021 @11:11PM (#29196234)
A similar and absurd story[1] I remember from last year:

"I saw a job post the other day. It required 4+ years of experience in FastAPI. I couldn't apply as I only have 1.5+ years of experience since I created that thing."

[1] https://twitter.com/tiangolo/status/1281946592459853830

Re:Platonism in the Philosophy of Mathematics (2018) on Thursday October 21, 2021 @01:57AM (#28940859)
>At what point does one apple and another one apple become two apples? Is a matter of distance? Likeness?

Perhaps I am misinterpreting, but it seems to me like this would occur whenever you formed a coherent question. "How many apples are there?" would be insoluble, whilst "how many apples are there in this room?" or "how many red apples are there resting on that table?" would result in an answer belonging to the set of naturals.

Re:Ask HN: Is HN having problem keeping up today? on Monday October 04, 2021 @03:29PM (#28751008)
Do you have any idea why it's so much more responsive?
Burnell brushed this off herself during an after-dinner speech[1]. Title and description aside, the video is a decent watch.

[1] https://jila.colorado.edu/~ajsh/astr2030_12/sn/Bell.html

Re:Strengthening our workplace with neurodiverse talent on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @05:35AM (#27970439)
I get it, but I am wary of this brewing corporate FETISHISATION of 'neurodivergence'. The UK government held a similar recruitment scheme a year ago[1] - headed by Dominic Cummings - which is no surprise since he is very much in touch with this culture. Of course, he uses SFW synonyms of mental ailments: weirdos, oddballs, wild-cards, etc. It's almost as if these people recently watched Rain Man (1988).

[1] https://dominiccummings.com/2020/01/02/two-hands-are-a-lot-w...