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Dibby053··on Chinese chipmaker shares surge 470%
What do you base this prediction on? It seems very unlikely, unless by SOTA you mean the current SOTA.
Dibby053··on French firefighters face 'pyrocumulonimbus' for first time
For context on why this region is burning so easily: the Landes and Médoc are huge, artificial pine forests created in the 19th century under Napoleon III to drain and reclaim what was considered an inhospitable wetland, where shepherds famously walked around on stilts. Pine resin and needle litter makes it exceptionally flammable, and being an uninterrupted monoculture on flat land it lacks natural barriers to stop the fire from advancing.
Dibby053··on Producing ammonia and fertiliser using wind power in Morris, Minnesota
So, synthesizing both comments: state-backed infrastructure funding + deregulated free-market buildout = rapid expansion
Dibby053··on I wrote an bash enumerator because I was sick of xargs
It's possible the tool is useless and a consequence of not reading the manual, but it could just be the tool is nice but the examples are too simplistic.

In any case, toxicity aside, publishing a command line project and having someone dismiss the examples with shell oneliners is also a valuable lesson, and I don't think it will make him a worse developer.

Dibby053··on I wrote an bash enumerator because I was sick of xargs
Some of these are wrong, as standard shell globs don't traverse directories. For instance the first example should be:

    ls **/*.sh
I think that would work in Bash just as well as using find.

But yeah, even in POSIX it feels redundant when we already have find, seq, grep and whatnot.

Dibby053··on EEG shows brain can simultaneous encode two speech streams
In school, our teachers made us take turns reading the textbook. When it was my turn, I focused entirely on how my voice sounded, trying to match my cadence and tone to the punctuation. The moment I finished the paragraph, I would have to quickly re-read it in silence just to understand what it actually said.

I think I still can't read a non-trivial text aloud while trying to make sense of it at the same time. I need the two streams just for one text.

Dibby053··on No leap second will be introduced at the end of December 2026
By "we" I mean ~everybody, as the Gregorian date with year 1 as the (wrongly dated?) birthyear of Jesus Christ is the standard for most domains in international communication.

>You don't think there aren't already application domains that have to account for relativity differences between reference frames?

Of course, GPS for one. My point is about the legacy of it all. Long time after those satellites are down, some future astronomer will be translating timestamps between GPS time and UTC, entirely aware of leap seconds and atomic time and whatnot, just to make sense of 21st century observations.

Dibby053··on No leap second will be introduced at the end of December 2026
Timekeeping is timeless. We count the number of orbits around the Sun from a specific guy's birthday 2000 years ago, our 12 months are named after rulers of an empire that hasn't existed for almost as long, and weekdays are named after the pagan gods that guy replaced. I don't know why there are 7 days in a week, but supposedly there are 86400 seconds in a day because some Bronze Age people liked the numbers 60 and 12.

Even if one day humans have to account for relativity in their commute, their woes will pale in comparison with those of the poor soul who has to add support for it in a C library that only understands (now, 128-bit) Unix timestamps.

Dibby053··on Remote Attestation
Have the CPU and the security chip derive their private keys from physical unclonable functions (to prevent extraction), let them exchange public keys once during manufacture, and from that point onward encrypt the SPI bus.

This is what some smartphones seem to do. I don't know if server motherboards do it but it would help a lot against this kind of attack.

Dibby053··on OpenPrinter
>or other pressure on them

Counterfeiting was a big worry as high-resolution color printers became cheap. They did it motu proprio just like today ~all AI gen services watermark their outputs.

Dibby053··on Markets are competitive if and only if P != NP
So markets can only be (perfectly) efficient or competitive, not both at the same time. Largely theoretical but it tracks common sense!
Dibby053··on Spain Orders Blacklist of Palantir from Public and Private Companies
One in a million?
Dibby053··on Spain Orders Blacklist of Palantir from Public and Private Companies
Right up until some kid named "Bobby Tiananmen" makes the whole database delete itself ;)
Dibby053··on Spain Orders Blacklist of Palantir from Public and Private Companies
>foreigners are a bit more likely to be loyal to the government

Yes, to their own government! Both China and USA have laws to force companies to insert backdoors. These laws have been enforced numerous times. If you think this is a smaller risk than doing things nationally, then indeed you're basically arguing that Spain is Somalia, there are separatist forces roaming around, the country can't enforce its own laws and the government needs to sell everything to foreign governments to stay in power. This is not the case (for now).

Dibby053··on Spain Orders Blacklist of Palantir from Public and Private Companies
They seem to have been granting contracts to manage all kinds of critical data to Huawei's Palantir equivalent lately, so it's probably less about security risks and more about the current source of the bribe money.

If they cared about security they would not outsource this kind of stuff to foreign companies. Spain is not Somalia, why not let Indra do it?

Dibby053··on Apple 'Hide My Email' vulnerability reveals peoples' real email addresses
My guess would be it has nothing to do with email itself. Maybe it's some iCloud API that accepts obfuscated emails but returns the original email in the response, or an ID which can be used to retrieve the iCloud email from another API endpoint. Could be as simple as an "add contact/friend" feature in some Apple product (like a mail client, or a file sharing service) that resolves the obfuscated email to the original iCloud account.
Dibby053··on European ISPs Want Rightsholders Held Accountable for Overblocking Damage
>The phrase is a paraphrasing of a dictum, or non-binding statement, from Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.'s opinion in the United States Supreme Court case Schenck v. United States in 1919, which held that the defendant's speech in opposition to the draft during World War I was not protected free speech under the First Amendment of the United States Constitution.
Dibby053··on Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days
Take a look now.
Dibby053··on Daisugi, the Japanese technique of growing trees out of other trees (2020)
Looks more advanced than simple pollarding. I have never seen this kind of straight, tall tree tops in Europe. If it exists I would like to know!
Dibby053··on Historical memory prices 1960-2026
One could also blame crypto and AI (they're clearly responsible for some of the volatility in the graph), but I can see the curve flatten in the 2010s, just as Moore's law ended.
Dibby053··on DSpark: Speculative decoding accelerates LLM inference [pdf]
People who donated to OpenAI in its early years might disagree on that.
Dibby053··on Millimeter wave technology drills 100 meters into granite
>They have the absolute simplest model for nuclear fission that I can imagine

Agree. What I don't understand is: why has it never been done before? They can't possibly be the first to come up with this idea, which doesn't seem to rely on any novel technology.

Dibby053··on In memory of the man who put red and green squiggles under words
I think everybody likes to be part of something big. I would definitely be proud of having worked on something so well-known.

This feature is from a different time, though. The people working at big tech these days clearly don't care as much about the output of the stuff they work on.

Dibby053··on Epidurals are a miracle technology
To add to this, C-section rates seem to be significantly higher in private hospitals, when compared to public hospitals.
Dibby053··on The Reversal Curse: LLMs trained on "A is B" fail to learn "B is A"
"A is the B" does entail "the B is A", because "the" establishes an identity/bijection.
Dibby053··on How we run Firecracker VMs inside EC2 and start browsers in less than 1s
No mention of the tools/methods used to do the profiling, I think that would be the most interesting part.

Also a bit surprising that a checkpoint with the browser running wouldn't just work. Is this some quirk of firecracker?

Dibby053··on Apple's weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness
>no data can be exfiltrated.

Well, that depends on the other apps you have installed. Unless things have changed in newer versions, apps with no networking can still do IPC, so any app can for example use Cronet to make network requests via Google Play Services, regardless of the toggle, as long as sandboxed Google Play Services has network permission.

Dibby053··on How to earn a billion dollars
If they don't get to choose, they already gave up control in an earlier stage. Just as with going public, they're relinquishing partial or total control of their company and this is a moral decision.

If you make a successful crowdsourced reviews website by building trust over time with contributors and users, and by any mechanism it ends up getting owned by an advertisement company that makes a business out of making it pay-to-win, should you not be held responsible?

I'm not talking about legal responsibility here, just moral responsibility. Ideally the former should follow the latter but it's not always the case.

Dibby053··on How to earn a billion dollars
>One can't be held responsible for unethical things done by his creation once it's sold.

In a free market everybody can choose to sell or not, who to sell to and under which terms. Therefore, he should be held morally responsible for giving away control of his creation to the wrong people, or for not ensuring his creation can't be turned into something bad.

Dibby053··on Let's Encrypt bans certificate usage in any US sanctioned territory [pdf]
All they can do is disable support for certain ccTLDs, but other than that, it's unenforceable.

That's why many tech companies echo these laws overtly and with a lot of fanfare... They know they have no real control over who uses their services, so this is a way to signal their good faith and best effort in advance, in case they end up caught up in some foreign cyberbullshit.

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