> Shouldn't this problem show up in a much larger portion of the population? Casual awareness of studies on this suggest that it DOES show up but the symptoms (lowered immune function, seasonal depression, bone issues)…
Do you have a cell phone? Do you use Wifi? Do you use an ISP who, in the last few decades, has performed any form of interception or traffic-tampering? I hazard that the answer to all three of those is "yes".
The near-universal use of TLS and the absurd ceremony we go through to ship root CAs everywhere is all premised on the idea that MITMs are not terribly difficult. The entire reason one can rest easy as they connect to…
If your argument is that we should stick rather closer to the RFCs and wire-level truths when explaining TLS and the eMuhdra situation to laypeople, I wish you all the best in your endeavor. I find that communicating…
The private key is a red herring, it is not used for "encryption" as such. The certs are used to validate website identity, whereupon key agreement is performed to establish a symmetric key that has nothing whatsoever…
> they are trying to maximize screen space. Ironic to say on hackernews which shows massive whitespace in the margins-- and if I try to widen my tab sidebar it actually indents the margin rather than eating into it. One…
It's hard to explain partly because when you explain this thing we've done with TLS and PKI, it sounds a little insane. > "We set up a system where every government and a bunch of random banks and IT companies in the…
EC, not RSA. RSA would *never* allow something like that. It would need to be a 3, 5, or 7, since a prime is required.
Of course it's AI generated, its a benign, beige opinion being drummed up as some incredible insight. You can use Awk on plaintext? Incredible! No one has ever in the last 15 years of journald debates ever mentioned…
If it were easy to see what's a number and whats a string, type confusions a la YAML's fun wouldn't exist: Is "no" a string, a country, a boolean? Is 0 a boolean, a number, or char[48]? This is specifically an area that…
In almost all of these cases, it is both: the labs are operating the agents, while developing them, and committing their CFAA felonies in the process.
"The law" already exists, civil suits are a thing, and we no more need targetted AI regulation than we need targetted truck-rebar-incident regulation. These incumbent labs are angling for regulatory capture by stirring…
By what yardstick should we then measure the DoEd's performance-per-dollar, or determine whether it represents "waste"? Because it seems to me that a chief indicator that waste likely exists is an inability to show ROI.
> There isn't really much waste in federal spending I do not believe anyone who has consulted in federal IT or worked on contracts is capable of making such a statement. All of the motivations for all parties are…
> Old people don't have that because they Aren't insane. When did the industry put the onus on the user to understand how the computer works? What happened to the old days of Xerox PARC's HCI studies putting the user…
> I dislike how it is 'developers first' and not 'users first', There are user-centric and dev-centric Linux distros. Windows is "Microsoft cloud onboarding" centric, and the experience has been dramatically degrading…
The arguments in this thread-- amounting to "it's a good general practice because I happen to like it" (rather than "it is a sane / discoverable / usable default") are precisely demonstrating why these issues exist. UX…
And this guy gets to rescind his license for nonpayment.
If I can be so bold as to chime in, perhaps "fundamentally flawed" because it's design means it will never be more than a very clever BS engine. By design it is a stochastic token generator and its output will only ever…
Many governments do have laws like this, called "sunshine laws". Enforcing them can be difficult though, and often enough they fail to achieve the transparency that is their goal while also substantially hindering…
It seems wildly shortsighted as well. I think everyone here is pretty clear how they would ethically view such a thing, but view it from NIST's (/ NSA's) perspective for the sake of argument. Maybe there's a specific…
If the system is not catching "I am a language model", I have zero confidence in its ability to detect crackpottery, much less more insidious things like P-hacking.
What percentage of papers in your average, reputable journal have been replicated? And how can one easily determine, while looking at a particular paper, whether it has been replicated? And whether those doing the…
This is both a little off-topic and a little out of my expertise, but shouldn't the file descriptors in the query function be closed?
A system that generates plausible, seemingly authoritative information, but often makes hard to detect errors ranging from minor to outright lies is dangeorous. This goes double when the information is either difficult…
> Shouldn't this problem show up in a much larger portion of the population? Casual awareness of studies on this suggest that it DOES show up but the symptoms (lowered immune function, seasonal depression, bone issues)…
Do you have a cell phone? Do you use Wifi? Do you use an ISP who, in the last few decades, has performed any form of interception or traffic-tampering? I hazard that the answer to all three of those is "yes".
The near-universal use of TLS and the absurd ceremony we go through to ship root CAs everywhere is all premised on the idea that MITMs are not terribly difficult. The entire reason one can rest easy as they connect to…
If your argument is that we should stick rather closer to the RFCs and wire-level truths when explaining TLS and the eMuhdra situation to laypeople, I wish you all the best in your endeavor. I find that communicating…
The private key is a red herring, it is not used for "encryption" as such. The certs are used to validate website identity, whereupon key agreement is performed to establish a symmetric key that has nothing whatsoever…
> they are trying to maximize screen space. Ironic to say on hackernews which shows massive whitespace in the margins-- and if I try to widen my tab sidebar it actually indents the margin rather than eating into it. One…
It's hard to explain partly because when you explain this thing we've done with TLS and PKI, it sounds a little insane. > "We set up a system where every government and a bunch of random banks and IT companies in the…
EC, not RSA. RSA would *never* allow something like that. It would need to be a 3, 5, or 7, since a prime is required.
Of course it's AI generated, its a benign, beige opinion being drummed up as some incredible insight. You can use Awk on plaintext? Incredible! No one has ever in the last 15 years of journald debates ever mentioned…
If it were easy to see what's a number and whats a string, type confusions a la YAML's fun wouldn't exist: Is "no" a string, a country, a boolean? Is 0 a boolean, a number, or char[48]? This is specifically an area that…
In almost all of these cases, it is both: the labs are operating the agents, while developing them, and committing their CFAA felonies in the process.
"The law" already exists, civil suits are a thing, and we no more need targetted AI regulation than we need targetted truck-rebar-incident regulation. These incumbent labs are angling for regulatory capture by stirring…
By what yardstick should we then measure the DoEd's performance-per-dollar, or determine whether it represents "waste"? Because it seems to me that a chief indicator that waste likely exists is an inability to show ROI.
> There isn't really much waste in federal spending I do not believe anyone who has consulted in federal IT or worked on contracts is capable of making such a statement. All of the motivations for all parties are…
> Old people don't have that because they Aren't insane. When did the industry put the onus on the user to understand how the computer works? What happened to the old days of Xerox PARC's HCI studies putting the user…
> I dislike how it is 'developers first' and not 'users first', There are user-centric and dev-centric Linux distros. Windows is "Microsoft cloud onboarding" centric, and the experience has been dramatically degrading…
The arguments in this thread-- amounting to "it's a good general practice because I happen to like it" (rather than "it is a sane / discoverable / usable default") are precisely demonstrating why these issues exist. UX…
And this guy gets to rescind his license for nonpayment.
If I can be so bold as to chime in, perhaps "fundamentally flawed" because it's design means it will never be more than a very clever BS engine. By design it is a stochastic token generator and its output will only ever…
Many governments do have laws like this, called "sunshine laws". Enforcing them can be difficult though, and often enough they fail to achieve the transparency that is their goal while also substantially hindering…
It seems wildly shortsighted as well. I think everyone here is pretty clear how they would ethically view such a thing, but view it from NIST's (/ NSA's) perspective for the sake of argument. Maybe there's a specific…
If the system is not catching "I am a language model", I have zero confidence in its ability to detect crackpottery, much less more insidious things like P-hacking.
What percentage of papers in your average, reputable journal have been replicated? And how can one easily determine, while looking at a particular paper, whether it has been replicated? And whether those doing the…
This is both a little off-topic and a little out of my expertise, but shouldn't the file descriptors in the query function be closed?
A system that generates plausible, seemingly authoritative information, but often makes hard to detect errors ranging from minor to outright lies is dangeorous. This goes double when the information is either difficult…