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> not with even with your computer would I run VeraCrypt This has got to be the most surprising encryption-related comment I've ever read from you. Please tell us what you're think…

> TD Bank Quite the opposite in the case of TD Bank. They sued Plaid in 2020. “The bank said in the court filings that the Plaid interface dupes consumers into believing they are e…

To everyone who doesn’t know how Plaid works: You give your banking username and password directly to Plaid, and it keeps it (so it can continue to login). I don’t understand how a…

I agree with construction and auto repair, but why psychology and psychiatry? If there's anything that's perfect for LLMs, it self-diagnosis and self-treatment by chatting with the…

I also tried some searches and couldn't find anything except references to this very Hacker News question. I'm going to nominate this as a candidate for the Mandela Effect (or at l…

> "Everyone knows. But if we filtered it all out properly, our revenue would drop 40% overnight, and investors would have a meltdown." The word "revenue" above doesn't sound right.…

When AI ends up running everything essential to survival and society, it’ll be preposterous to even suggest pulling the plug just because it does something bad. Can you imagine the…

This sci-fi thing goes as far back as the 1983 movie WarGames, where they wanted to pull the plug on a rogue computer, but there was a reason you couldn’t do that: McKittrick: Gene…

What you say is true. But I find it funny that we can prevent expensive highly-targeted individual bugging by using a ubiquitous worldwide realtime tracking and surveillance system…

Let's think about possible applications of audio-video recorders camouflaged to look like something in the form factor of credit cards: - Induce your target to apply for a certain …

Before the Berlin Wall fell, East Germany, the communist side, was the German Democratic Republic . (West Germany was the Federal Republic of Germany .)

The 20 countries that Anthropic won't do business with: Afghanistan Belarus Central African Republic China Congo, Democratic Republic of Cuba Eritrea Ethiopia Iran Libya Mali Myanm…

> All of this software, from the individual processes to the OS itself, were the work of a single software developer. They left AECL in 1986, and no one has ever revealed their ide…

In that case, how about using extremely trivial encryption (eg., XOR every byte with 0x3B) and on the website give a one-line perl command to decrypt. Now it's random data and not …

> AI and robotics nullify any comparative advantages low wage countries had If we project long term, could this mean that countries with the most capital to invest in AI and roboti…

> These cryptographic systems were not designed by the sculptor himself but by Edward Scheidt, who retired as chairman of the CIA’s Cryptographic Center in 1989. The article left m…

> Almost everything you sort out into a recycling bin gets dumped in the ocean But the articles don't say that. They say that a lot of plastic is unsuitable for recycling and is th…

It is unknown whether the digits of pi contains every single finite sequence of numbers. But the Champernowne Constant does[1]. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champernowne_con…

> Get Terminator out of your head. A real AI take over is likely something we probably can't imagine. Indeed, robotic bodies aren't needed. An ASI could take over even if it remain…

FYI for everyone: This is not about Machine Learning. It is about a programming language called Standard ML where ML stands for Meta Language[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…

This brings up the question about whether there are hereditary information transmission methods other than DNA. There are so many things we ascribe to “instinct” that might be info…

Related to this, pin tumbler locks on doors should be installed so that the bitting (i.e., the teeth on the key) face up when inserting the key. If you follow a standard orientatio…

> We need a USSR or something like it Well good news: the PRC (China) will be the needed existential threat within 10 years.

I stumbled on an April 1950 article predating and predicting the H-Bomb: "Production of the hydrogen atomic bomb has been ordered by the President of the United States. Within one …