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dr_hooo commented on Yann LeCun raises $1B to build AI that understands the physical world   wired.com/story/yann-lecu... · Posted by u/helloplanets
pama · 6 days ago
You underestimate academia. Any academic that reads these two sentences only focuses on the first one: He has a named chair at Courant. In Germany, being a a Prof is added to your ID card/passport and becomes part of your official name, like knighthood in other countries.
dr_hooo · 6 days ago
No true regarding the IDs, only PhD titles can be added. Not job descriptions. Source: academia person in Germany.
dr_hooo commented on EU Council approves Chat Control mandate for negotiation with Parliament   techradar.com/vpn/vpn-pri... · Posted by u/mseri
halJordan · 4 months ago
"High risk" providers will be obligated to "contribute" technologies "to mitigate." Seems like a doublespeak way of saying enforced decryption or enforced backdoors.
dr_hooo · 4 months ago
Sadly, another attempt will likely be made at some point. At least the regulation is quite explicit:

> This Regulation shall not prohibit, make impossible, weaken, circumvent or otherwise undermine cybersecurity measures, in particular encryption, including end-to-end encryption, implemented by the relevant information society services or by the users. This Regulation shall not create any obligation that would require a provider of hosting services or a provider of interpersonal communications services to decrypt data or create access to end-to-end encrypted data, or that would prevent providers from offering end-to-end encrypted services.

dr_hooo commented on LLMs are steroids for your Dunning-Kruger   bytesauna.com/post/dunnin... · Posted by u/gridentio
habibur · 4 months ago
I think it's ok. When wikipedia arrived, everyone was up in arms that people are learning from something that's open for anyone to edit.

But it rectified itself.

The same thing happened when Internet arrived. "Don't believe anything you read on the Internet."

I guess the reaction was same when printed media arrived.

But the thing is, things get better over time.

dr_hooo · 4 months ago
> The same thing happened when Internet arrived. "Don't believe anything you read on the Internet."

Isn't the saying "Don't believe *everything* you read on the Internet."? Which is quite different (and still holds today).

dr_hooo commented on Show HN: TutaCrypt, post-quantum encryption protocols for securing emails [pdf]   tuta.com/resources/docume... · Posted by u/Tutanota
dr_hooo · 2 years ago
I was all for post-quantum crypto until I heard the news about SIKE being broken with a simple computer.

How will you make sure this does not happen to the algorithms you chose?

dr_hooo commented on Meta Thinks Your Privacy Is for Sale. Would You Pay 120 Euros a Year   tutanota.com/blog/meta-pa... · Posted by u/dotcoma
startages · 2 years ago
I know many people will disagree, but, apart from Meta/Facebook, how anyone expects to use a service 100% free with 0 compromise? Running any business online comes with a lot of spending, especially when the userbase starts growing. If there is a way to make money out of this service and keep it running without having the users pay, it would running ads at least. European union is throwing rules that makes no sense and I'm sure it will effect their statup ecosystem in the future compared to other countries where things like GDPR are not required.
dr_hooo · 2 years ago
Question is whether they will stop tracking you, even if you pay.
dr_hooo commented on A 1990 experiment to test whether we could discern life on Earth remotely   nature.com/articles/d4158... · Posted by u/sohkamyung
boredemployee · 2 years ago
I wonder if in other places (galaxies and planets), the atoms could behave differently thus creating other forms of life. But I have no idea if that makes any sense.
dr_hooo · 2 years ago
From my understanding, there is a strong assumption backed by observations that matter and physics work the same way everywhere in our universe.
dr_hooo commented on Meduza co-founder's phone infected with Pegasus   meduza.io/en/feature/2023... · Posted by u/Klaster_1
dr_hooo · 3 years ago
Could you provide some information on the Victoria Neuland thing?
dr_hooo commented on Coffee in a Can   one-from-nippon.ghost.io/... · Posted by u/kizunajp
e12e · 3 years ago
Always struck me as a weird descrepency in William Gibson's "Idoru":

> (...) His computer there, a featureless black cube. A shallower shelf of the juice-carton board supported a pale blue microwave, unopened ramen bowls, and half a dozen tiny steel cans of coffee.

> One of these, freshly microwaved, was hot in Chia's hand. The coffee was strong, sugary, thickly creamed. She sat beside him on the lumpy bed ledge, a padded jacket wadded up behind her for a cushion.

I mean, you can't (well shouldn't) microwave a steel can, right?

dr_hooo · 3 years ago
Microwaving steel isn't really a problem, as long as it is not just a very thin layer (can confirm)

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