antientropic (u/antientropic)

antientropic commented on Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton [pdf] nobelprize.org/uploads/20... · Posted by u/drpossum

pantalaimon · a year ago

the economics prize is not 'official', it was established by the Swedish National Bank in honor to Alfred Nobel.

antientropic · a year ago

The economics prize is listed on nobelprize.org ("the official website of the Nobel Prize") along with the other Nobel prizes, so I don't think you can justify calling it "unofficial".

Perhaps if the ACM renamed the Turing Award to "The Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Computer Science", the Nobel Foundation would let them get away with it.

antientropic commented on European court rules human rights violated by climate inaction bbc.co.uk/news/science-en... · Posted by u/jaggs

misja111 · a year ago

But why Switzerland? They have taken some climate actions, although they of course could have done more. Why not sue major offenders like India or Russia, just to name a few, who could actually make a difference to world climate? Or if you want to stay closer to Europe, sue some country that still uses coal plants, like Poland, Germany or Slovakia. It all feels quite hypocrite to me.

antientropic · a year ago

Because the plaintiffs are Swiss. Who else should they sue? Similar cases have happened elsewhere, e.g. the Urgenda case in the Netherlands.

Pointing to the inaction of other countries as an excuse for one's own inaction is a weak argument. Good luck suing Russia. (They were actually a member of the Council of Europe until 2022, so this decision would have applied to them...)

antientropic commented on European court rules human rights violated by climate inaction bbc.co.uk/news/science-en... · Posted by u/jaggs

constantcrying · a year ago

>b) Last time I looked on the map, India was not in Europe.

There is an international court of human rights. How often was India found guilty there?

>Either you're arguing in bad faith, or you don't understand that this might help pushing governments to take stricter measures.

I am 100% convinced that there is nothing which makes you object more to climate protection than a foreign entity trying to compel the government you control to "do more".

And even if. When will India/China act? How many International court of human rights ruling will that take?

antientropic · a year ago

> There is an international court of human rights.

There isn't. There is the ICJ, which handles disputes between states, and the ICC, which handles war crimes etc. and definitely isn't going to judge climate legislation.

antientropic commented on What We Watched: A Netflix engagement report about.netflix.com/en/news... · Posted by u/helsinkiandrew

thebradbain · 2 years ago

For anyone else wondering “why they’ve decided to do this”—

This is an outcome of the WGA strike negotiations. Now writers (and actors, and anyone else) can use this information to better negotiate their worth with studios, rather than it being 1-sided. All other streaming services should be following suit soon.

https://www.wgacontract2023.org/the-campaign/what-we-won

> Streaming data transparency: Companies agree to provide the Guild the total number of hours streamed, both domestically and internationally, of self-produced high budget streaming programs (e.g., a Netflix original series). Aggregated information can be shared.

antientropic · 2 years ago

Your quote left out "subject to a confidentiality agreement". Streamers are not obliged to make this information public, and I don't expect companies like Amazon to do so since they're extremely secretive about viewership numbers.

antientropic commented on Is the Physics of Time Changing? wired.com/story/physics-o... · Posted by u/fortran77

GnarfGnarf · 2 years ago

Time does not exist. It is simply an abstraction to describe the relative movement of matter. Every way we measure "time" involves the movement of matter: sun dial, pendulum, spring & gears in a mechanical watch, vibrations of electrons in an electronic watch.

When you say that an hour has elapsed, it simply means the earth has rotated 15°. When you go 60 mph, you have moved 60 miles while the earth has rotated 15°.

The past is the way things were before they moved. Our memory is an image of the way things were arranged before. Time is a creation of the mind.

If there were no matter, there would be no time.

antientropic · 2 years ago

How would you define "movement" without reference to "time"?

antientropic commented on AWS IPv4 Estate Now Worth $4.5B toonk.io/aws-ipv4-estate-... · Posted by u/atyvr

irrational · 2 years ago

I’ve been hearing about ipv4 running out and the need to move to ipv6 for so many years/decades, but it keeps not happening. I’m wondering if anything will change in my lifetime.

antientropic · 2 years ago

> but it keeps not happening

The article you're responding to is a dramatic demonstration that it has happened: Amazon's IPs would not be worth $4.5B if we hadn't run out. It requires us all to ration a resource (namely numbers) that should be near-infinite and essentially free.

antientropic commented on 50TB IBM tape drive more than doubles LTO-9 capacity blocksandfiles.com/2023/0... · Posted by u/voxadam

vlovich123 · 2 years ago

What’s the point of reporting compressed capacity? Isn’t data typically compressed at rest, negating any value of the disk doing it?

antientropic · 2 years ago

Because nobody has yet bothered to sue them for false advertising, so they continue to get away with it.

antientropic commented on X.org Security Advisory: Security issue in the X server lists.x.org/archives/xorg... · Posted by u/HieronymusBosch

yeenieee · 3 years ago

What other options are there?

It's the only systems level language with a formally verified compiler afaik.

rust is a no go because you can't trust the compiler's output (remember, we can't trust people to write correct code, so we obviously can't trust the compiler writers either).

antientropic · 3 years ago

The vast majority of C programmers do not use a formally verified C compiler, and most of them wouldn't care about that anyway.

From a security perspective, demanding a formally verified C compiler is rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. Switching to a safer language like Rust will do much more to improve security, even if the compiler is not verified.

antientropic commented on Breaking all macOS security layers with a single vulnerability sector7.computest.nl/post... · Posted by u/afrcnc

noduerme · 3 years ago

>> Process injection is the ability for one process to execute code in a different process

This is the kind of absurd, foundation-shaking statement that, as someone who's been coding since I was 7 (in 1987..) feels purely nauseating. Although I sort of know the answer, my first question is how did we reach the point where something so fundamental could be so insecure and distributed to so many people?

antientropic · 3 years ago

This is what happens when a new security model is retrofitted onto an existing one.

In the original Unix security model, there was no security concern with this (except maybe for chroot environments): it didn't allow a process to do something it couldn't otherwise do, since all processes owned by a uid had exactly the same rights. Now that we've started sandboxing user processes in various ways on macOS and Linux, that's no longer the case, and we suddenly need to crack down on useful tools like strace and gdb.

antientropic commented on Germany Ends Ban on Abortion Advertisement nytimes.com/2022/06/24/wo... · Posted by u/5Qn8mNbc2FNCiVV

rafram · 3 years ago

Not really - the US isn’t an especially litigious society and that myth was created by large corporations to cause a chilling effect on justified personal injury lawsuits: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/24/americ...

antientropic · 3 years ago

Not a very convincing article, since it presents some statistics about the US (e.g. "only 10% of injured Americans ever file a claim for compensation and only 2% file lawsuits") but does not compare them to other countries, so we can't tell whether the US is more or less litigious than the rest of the world.

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