Anyone can generate an alternative chain of sha256 hashes. perhaps you should consider timestamping, e.g. https://opentimestamps.org/ As for what the regulation says, I haven't looked but perhaps it doesn't require the system to be actually tamper-proof.
Readit Newskanzure commented on Show HN: Open-Source Article 12 Logging Infrastructure for the EU AI Act · Posted by u/systima
kanzure commented on New accounts on HN more likely to use em-dashes marginalia.nu/weird-ai-cr... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
Advertisers are more willing to spend money to promote content than an individual is willing to do the same...
Having multiple different distribution channels can solve that problem. Advertisers cannot monopolize all distribution channels simultaneously because of the costs involved (it would be like someone trying to buy the whole economy).
kanzure commented on New accounts on HN more likely to use em-dashes marginalia.nu/weird-ai-cr... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
This feels like an existential threat to HN, and to the general concept of anonymous online discourse. Trust in the platform is foundational, and without it the whole thing falls down.
Requiring proof of identity is the only solution I can think of, despite how unappealing it is. And even then, you'll still have people handing their account over to an LLM.
I really struggle to imagine a way around it. It could be that the future is just smaller, closed groups of people you know or know indirectly.
Another option instead of using identity is to use proof of work or hashcash such that anyone who thinks a comment is valuable can use some hash rate to upvote it. It doesn't matter how the content was generated, only that someone thought it was important, and you can independently verify this by checking how much hash effort went into hashing for that comment. This also does not require any identity either.
Another project simply paused external contributions entirely: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46642012
Another idea is to simply promote the donation of AI credits instead of output tokens. It would be better to donate credits, not outputs, because people already working on the project would be better at prompting and steering AI outputs.
kanzure commented on Tldraw pauses external contributions due to AI slop github.com/tldraw/tldraw/... · Posted by u/pranav_rajs
That's interesting; another project stopped letting users directly open issues: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46460319
kanzure commented on Show HN: OSS AI agent that indexes and searches the Epstein files epstein.trynia.ai/... · Posted by u/jellyotsiro
Grok is arguably not uncensored, it’s re-aligned to a specific narrative lane.
“Uncensored” is simply a branding trick that a lot of seemingly intelligent people seem to fall for.
Wait, is abliteration actually just a branding trick? That doesn't sound correct.
kanzure commented on Why users cannot create Issues directly github.com/ghostty-org/gh... · Posted by u/xpe
Personally, I dig it! Selected parts from linked page:
"""Unlike some other projects, Ghostty does not use the issue tracker for discussion or feature requests. Instead, we use GitHub discussions for that. Once a discussion reaches a point where a well-understood, actionable item is identified, it is moved to the issue tracker. This pattern makes it easier for maintainers or contributors to find issues to work on since every issue is ready to be worked on.
This approach is based on years of experience maintaining open source projects and observing that 80-90% of what users think are bugs are either misunderstandings, environmental problems, or configuration errors by the users themselves.[...]"""
I proposed something similar for bitcoin: https://gnusha.org/pi/bitcoindev/CABaSBax-meEsC2013zKYJnC3ph...
someone already posted this idea at least 8 years ago:
> someone July 13, 2017 at 9:59 pm: if the bacteria can be made sensitive to different frequencies of light (like with rods and cones), and if the cell can be programmed to consider one wavelength a clock signal, another wavelength a data signal, perhaps it can become a cheap synthesizer for DNA fragments, optical UART to DNA bacterium
https://hackaday.com/2017/07/13/movie-encoded-in-dna-is-the-...
And then about (transcript) 1 year and 7 months later on Feb 13 2019 we have Thomas Shaddack saying 12:32 PM
>@thethoughtemporium i am nurturing a thought of light-controlled dna or rna printing. a variant on transcription, but with light pulses to energize the given nucleotide addition. it's a bit far in the left field, kind of an artificial anoparticle/"enzyme" that'd absorb at five wavelenghs, have one for each nucleotide (add to the growing chain on illumination), and one for reset (to prevent longer light intervals from making polynucleotides).
https://hackaday.io/event/163454-open-source-biology-and-bio...
Sometimes DARPA is real slow on identifying good ideas. (more than 8 years later today...) better late than never.
The most obvious route would be to first break up the task into subgoals which can be pursued in parallel:
1) achieve working ab initio and,or in silico simulation of reverse transcriptase
2) achieve working ab initio and,or in silico simulation of relevant proteins and molecules in phototransduction cascades (retinals, opsins, ...)
then:
3) analyze the phototransduction cascade in simulation and using current knowledge of known mechanisms, predict how to change wavelengths for phototransduction cascade, predict how to change end result (a conformational change, etc.)
4) analyze the reverse transcriptase and use current understanding of the mechanisms to change codon tables implemented by reverse transcriptase, analyze which conformational changes are responsible so it doesn't need the RNA input.
then:
5) test small modifications to observe shifts in wavelengths etc to verify the simulation from 2)
6) test modifications to reverse transcriptase: basically swap some elements in the usual correspondence (codon tables) between RNA and DNA bases, to verify the simulation of the reverse transcriptase
then assuming multiple teams were working either on the reverse transcriptase OR on the phototransduction:
7) form random pairs of teams and have each pair of teams try to combine their experience and workflows to achieve a single cell transducing light signals to DNA.
Oh it's much older than 8 years... here is one such proposal from 2011: https://groups.google.com/g/enzymaticsynthesis/c/6GZT8zFNOfo...
I myself was bitten by a radioactive grad student in 2008 that was obsessed with this idea at the time, and have since learned that almost every major household name lab PI has thought about this in one form or another.
kanzure commented on Super Mario 64 for the PS1 github.com/malucard/sm64-... · Posted by u/LaserDiscMan
Its incredible to how compltely unwatchable modern youtube norms are, to me at least. I feel like youtubers now aim almost exclusively for the 12-18 demographic. I mean, this person is doing some kind of character or affectation instead of using a normal voice. Everything is some kind of grift or character or PR or persona now it seems. I understand they do this to get viewers, but its just depressing how much more content I'd enjoy if the PR gimmicks and lowest-common-denominator tricks were stopped.
I just saw techtips Linus interview Linus Torvalds and the constant manboying and bad jokes was just embarrassing and badly hurt the interview. I really wish people like this would turn it way, way down. I think we all love some levity and whimsy, but now those gimmicks are bigger and louder than the actual content.
To me this sounds like a computer-generated voice for obvious pro-privacy reasons for this kind of project. If it bothers you, then maybe work on better voice synthesis tech! I assume it sounds not-leading-generation because it was locally rendered but I could be wrong.
Instead, what we're likely going to get are "voice agents" calling each other when we could have just used email instead...