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[ my public key: https://keybase.io/bendews; my proof: https://keybase.io/bendews/sigs/nu6pkXwZRUdY09Mceh237uEIN2bO6vT3DLHXRqE4mTs ]
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bendews··on Asus Bike Booster
I have a heap of ebikes, all 250w and 25km/h limited. A Bosch performance line motor on a MTB going up a steep hill is effortless compared to a budget shimano motor where it can barely make it up no matter how much effort you put in to pedalling. Torque makes a big difference.
bendews··on RSI Simulator
Interesting that revenue only exceeded costs once AGI was invented
bendews··on Una GPS smart watch – Repairable, USB-C charging, developer-friendly
I take photos underwater (<2m) with my iphones all the time, all the way back to the iphone 6, never had any issues.
bendews··on Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities
That's the conundrum isn't it? Anyone that posts their datasets would be immediately sued/blocked/boycotted to oblivion due to the obvious and blatant data theft, not to mention IP and copyright issues.
bendews··on I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit
By my calculations 100k could get you 18 5090's + compute to host them, or 18 96gb Mac mini's. You can get a lot of context window and users out of that setup.
bendews··on Claude Code runs Git reset –hard origin/main against project repo every 10 mins
This HN account is also by the same user as github, this submission may be AI created. I wonder if they've let **claw run loose over their whole online presence and this is the result.
bendews··on Data centers in space makes no sense
If any single country tried to create a whole production chain to single-handedly manufacture modern computer equipment it would be on the order of decades to see any result. Doing it on the moon is just not realistic this century, maybe the next one. Although i don't think the economics would ever work out.
bendews··on Ask HN: Is anyone doing anything cool with tiny language models?
Is this along the lines of rewind.ai, MSCopilot, screenpipe, or something else entirely?
bendews··on Cyber Scarecrow
Hmm my Namecheap domains keep the location details even with WHOIS privacy enabled. To be fair they are 7+ years old so maybe something has changed in that time?
bendews··on Cyber Scarecrow
Lol, this website is registered to someone in Iceland, despite the assurance that it is a "security researcher living in the UK". I'm sure the results from this experiment will make a cool blog post about pwning tech savvy folks.
bendews··on An analysis of the Rabbit R1 APK
my M1 Macbook air can run LLM's pretty well.. worse specs than the latest iPad Pro (and iPhone pro wouldn't be too far behind).
bendews··on Why did we wait so long for the bicycle? (2019)
That photo you have provided is from a temple in Indonesia, and the Indian temple story you have summarised is regarded to be false, the carving in question was likely added during renovation during British rule.
bendews··on Facebook just started requiring EU users to choose: privacy or €9.99/month
unless the account isn't important - don't. By the time you have a setup that isn't at the mercy of ISP outages, blackouts, misconfigurations etc. you have invested a load of time and money for not much gain.
bendews··on Show HN: Mathesar – open-source collaborative UI for Postgres databases
Nothing constructive to say other than this is amazing. A very common idea but rarely done this well, great job!
bendews··on Australians scour desert for dangerous radioactive capsule smaller than a penny
NYT does not have any reach in Australia, and especially so with the population that lives around where the capsule was misplaced.
bendews··on Jailbroken iOS can't run macOS apps – I spent a week to find out why (2021)
The developer has to enable running on Mac, but for those that have they run really well. Most feel perfectly native even though they were designed for iPad.
bendews··on Why do new cars look like wet putty?
> Wraps can be a cheaper option, but they also have a very different look than automotive paint.

The only people that notice the different look are those who "know", wraps serve the purpose for 95% of people at a fraction of the cost.

bendews··on Smartphones wiped out 97% of the compact camera market
Even the iPhone 14 Pro with its very much upgraded camera can only *just* start to be within the same league as a standalone camera when it comes to dynamic range. Noise performance, detail resolution etc. are all still woefully inadequate. In any instance, a phone camera can take amazing shots (especially when in great light) but a very long way from being equal. Everybody has a different threshold for "good enough" however and they have met yours.
bendews··on Amazon Alexa is a “colossal failure,” on pace to lose $10B this year
Amazon (the marketplace) invests it's revenue aggressively, although this serves as a loss on paper there is still a benefit to generating that revenue in the first place as it serves as investment dollars for other parts of the business
bendews··on SEC Claims All of Ethereum Falls Under US Jurisdiction
Completely see where you are coming from now - absolutely agree.

On your second point - where I am coming from is that there is nothing stopping countries from creating laws which introduce these powers and outlaw methods to avoid the new legislation. No it doesn't work with the current architecture. But we absolutely can end up in a situation where there is a U.S Ethereum chain where all nodes are legally required to follow updates/forks to the chain as they occur, caused by various court orders to reverse transactions etc. At this point the consensus can go whichever the government likes because those operating the nodes would want to be participating in the current legal chain.

bendews··on SEC Claims All of Ethereum Falls Under US Jurisdiction
Right - but nothing is stopping them from making that law. Countries aren't simply going to adhere to a digital currencies protocol or allow it to avoid regulation because otherwise it goes against the "community spirit".

Here we are talking about the hypothetical situation of the U.S claiming complete jurisdiction of Ethereum. The U.S could make whatever laws it likes around the usage of Ethereum, legislate that all nodes have to adhere to these laws and job is done. The rest of the world can say "lolbye" and continue using it like nothing has happened, but in the U.S they would likely have to fork and create a new chain, and those who want to use it legally in the U.S would also have to use this new U.S-regulated chain. From there they can then implement processes to reverse transactions, introduce identification requirements etc.

bendews··on SEC Claims All of Ethereum Falls Under US Jurisdiction
> but they can't force you to decrypt it if the key is lost or you don't give in.

A very US-centric view is it not? Many places can force you to decrypt something by law. In fact the US does on entry to the country and can refuse entry if you do not comply.

> there ain't shit they can do to actually enforce that demand.

Watch forks become more commonplace and "official" forks being recognised and non-official forks being barred from use in any legitimate transactions. The courts will have the power to force blockchains to reverse transactions or other fraud this way - at a technical level still quite difficult but if it becomes law then solutions to make it easier will be created. Perhaps to cherry pick transactions just like you can cherry pick git commits.

bendews··on Facebook Is Deleting Accounts at the Direction of the US and Israeli Governments
Facebook already has similar functionality. Being in Australia, if I visit a large multinational companies Facebook page, it will redirect to the local page. Going to facebook.com/mcdonalds will redirect to facebook.com/mcdonaldsAU.

I'm sure they could make it redirect anywhere they want.

bendews··on The state of netbooting Raspberry Pis
Depending on the amount of nodes you’re wanting, it usually is better to just grab an Intel NUC and virtualise. Much smaller than a RPi cluster and much more powerful.
bendews··on iPhone Performance Degrades as Battery Ages
"Battery Life" (Free) on the AppStore is good for checking stats as well.
bendews··on Building a Home Lab for Offensive Security and Security Research
The author works as a Security Engineer for google, not saying credentials are the be-all-end-all but I think they are able to claim themselves as a security professional without too much worry.
bendews··on Yahoo Triples Estimate of Breached Accounts to 3B
It is when you have 3B records