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ekns

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    The real solution is in principle easy: separate data from metadata https://kunnas.com/articles/the-content-is-the-attack-surfac...

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    Comment #47947560

    Fair point. I've added a clarification that the structural constraint holds across civil law, common law, and hybrid systems. Thanks.

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    Comment #47947480

    I get it, it's not ideal. Yet there is no one else doing this work so I put effort where I think it's most neglected - which isn't fully refined prose, imo.

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    Comment #47947146

    Interesting indeed! What have you learned from the patent space and what kinds of questions can you answer after perhaps solving that domain?

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    Show HN: LawVM, a compiler for replaying amendment acts into point-in-time law

    I built LawVM to demonstrate that human-written amendment acts can be compiled into auditable point-in-time legal text-state without rewriting law as code. In a country like Finlan…

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    Comment #47753832

    I call it LawVM - interpret amendment statutes as "programs" and verifiably replay them to obtain actual consolidated i.e. current law as it stands (or where ambiguous, surface tha…

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    Comment #47633098

    There is a simple way to mitigate prompt injection. Just check metadata only: is this action by the LLM suspicious given trusted metadata, blanking out the data

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    Comment #47233838

    Interesting. I've been just now exploring something related or tangential, but for Finnish governance (why not all countries eventually). Idea: Pull in all related docs and stateme…

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    Comment #46115899

    Author here. Thanks for the corrections. I revised the essay, my priors were off. Added Good Samaritan data (zero successful CPR lawsuits in 30 years), duty-to-rescue statutes acro…

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    Comment #40055474

    Wow, that's a lot of security fixes. If there were so many security bugs, that would suggest that there's a lot more still to be found. Probably going to look into sandboxing the b…

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    Comment #39234509

    Power consumption is one side of the coin. The net utility is another: - With sufficient demand-scaling, Bitcoin incentivizes more power generation capacity since it's the buyer of…

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    Comment #38024127

    This one is not about chirality. Instead, they re-engineer DNA to be made from entirely different bases, thereby obtaining immunity from all extant viruses.

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    Comment #37819619

    When I was living in Edinburgh, I encountered the corner case of the upper levels of an apartment building having a different postcode from the lower levels. Everything online used…

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    Comment #36246627

    Wearing those disposable masks causes a lot of this. I'm apparently allergic to polyester so I notice this from sofas and uncovered mattresses and various other materials that (to …