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kirab

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Kira Backes https://nrwsoft.de
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kirab··on Google's Beyond Zero: Enterprise Security for the AI Era
You are confusing attack target and attack vector I think.

A vector here is the attack angle/direction. Of course I can shift my direction and then target another car.

kirab··on OpenAI mandates hardware-backed passkeys for Trusted Access Cyber members
> Cobranded YubiKeys

More interesting than that even, a tier of YubiKeys that does not exist outside of this cooperation.

The supported features sit between a YubiKey 5C and a Security Key C and I did not find any other way to purchase this tier.

kirab··on China vs. Taiwan: The Geography of an Unfinished War
> Taiwan policy is that China and Taiwan are the same country

This is as useful as saying both South Korea and North Korea have the policy that South Korea and North Korea are the same country. Which was actually true until a few years ago.

kirab··on Claude Code Remote Control
I only understood it after reading some of co_king_5’s other comments. This is Poe’s law in action. I know several people who converted into AI coding cultists and they say the same things but seriously. Curiously none of them were coders before AI.
kirab··on What I learned building an opinionated and minimal coding agent
According to dev tools this is a simple `hyphens: auto` CSS
kirab··on Efficient solar cooking that stores heat in sand
It even scales up to a whole town: https://polarnightenergy.com/news/worlds-largest-sand-batter...
kirab··on Show HN: TheProtector – Linux Bash script for the paranoid admin on a budget
I believe so, a human programmer would feel ashamed for adding comments like these:

  # Stop honeypots
  stop_honeypots
  
  # Stop eBPF monitoring
  stop_ebpf_monitoring
  
  # Stop API server
  stop_api_server
Source: https://github.com/IHATEGIVINGAUSERNAME/theProtector/blob/b1...
kirab··on Happy Birthday, GamingOnLinux – 16 years today
Microsoft started a huge Xbox "OS" push, against Steam Deck and Linux on Handhelds, and coincidentally they removed GamingOnLinux from Bing News.

Hmm..

kirab··on OpenAI O3 breakthrough high score on ARC-AGI-PUB
FYI: Codeforces competitive programming scores (basically only) by time needed until valid solutions are posted

https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/133094

That means.. this benchmark is just saying o3 can write code faster than must humans (in a very time-limited contest, like 2 hours for 6 tasks). Beauty, readability or creativity is not rated. It’s essentially a "how fast can you make the unit tests pass" kind of competition.

kirab··on OpenAI Said to Consider Transition to For-Profit Model
Extra Sources:

https://wccftech.com/openai-rushing-to-become-for-profit-cor...

https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/o...

https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/startups-tech/startups/open...

https://www.thestar.com.my/tech/tech-news/2024/09/26/openai-...

https://www.msn.com/en-ae/money/companies/it-looks-like-sam-...

also:

CTO leaving: https://x.com/miramurati/status/1839025700009030027

CRO (Chief Research Officer) leaving: https://x.com/bobmcgrewai/status/1839099787423134051

VP Research leaving: https://x.com/barret_zoph/status/1839095143397515452

kirab··on Hetzner introduces GPU server for AI training
You’re right, the billing is hourly (until you reach the monthly cap) but you also have this cancellation period. That’s weird?
kirab··on Hetzner introduces GPU server for AI training
Hetzner customer here. It’s a little hard to understand in the UX, but the price shown is the monthly max price.

It is actually paid by the hour.

The price per hour for this server is € 1.5980

more info: https://docs.hetzner.com/general/others/new-billing-model/

kirab··on Hetzner introduces GPU server for AI training
Hetzner customer here. It’s a little hard to understand in the UX, but the price shown is the monthly max price.

It is actually paid by the hour.

The price per hour for this server is € 1.5980

more info: https://docs.hetzner.com/general/others/new-billing-model/

kirab··on Bees and chimps can also pass on their skills
"an ability previously thought to be unique to humans".

This sentence.

I’ve read and heard it so many times now, that according to Bayesian statistics, I should correct my assumptions and assume that, in the end, we will find out that there is not a single thing that’s unique to humans.

kirab··on 525 Private jets departed Las Vegas after the Super Bowl ended
Agreed, took me 30 seconds to understand the point.
kirab··on Show HN: Tell YouTube Ads to Fuck Off
They do, AFAIK creators get much more money from Premium viewers than ad-supported viewers. And not just relatively, sometimes in absolute numbers as well.
kirab··on Textbooks are all you need
The English explanations you find first for emergent are not really fitting here. Interestingly the Germany explanation for the same word seems to be much better.

I'm pretty sure they mean emergent as in emergent gameplay.

Here's a good explanation for that:

> Emergent gameplay refers to complex situations in video games, board games, or table top role-playing games that emerge from the interaction of relatively simple game mechanics.

So emergent is not inherently surprising. Games like Dwarf Fortress or Rimworld have a lot of emergent complexity but most of it was not surprising.

So in the context of LLM it means that complex reasoning is emergent based on simple underlying mechanics.

And since we thought humans’ complex reasoning skills were very unique.. We are surprised by the emergence of it in LLMs.

PS: The explanation for "emergence" is much better:

> In philosophy, systems theory, science, and art, emergence occurs when a complex entity has properties or behaviors that its parts do not have on their own, and emerge only when they interact in a wider whole.

kirab··on Security.txt file now mandatory for Dutch government websites
No offense but I think you got the meaning of the record wrong:

https://community.cloudflare.com/t/keep-null-mx-in-addition-...

> Null MX does nothing to prevent spoofing. It is just to signal to mail senders that your domain does not receive email.

And I also found multiple other sources that specify that the null record only announces that the domain does not receive email. After some googling I didn't find a single source that shares your explanation.

kirab··on Security.txt file now mandatory for Dutch government websites
People can still malicously send emails in your name, even without an mx record.

Don't trust my word for this, have a look at CloudFlares article about this:

"How to protect domains that do not send email"

https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/dns/dns-records/protect-...

kirab··on Security.txt file now mandatory for Dutch government websites
Of course it's a security issue, because having neither SPF nor DKIM means that malicious actors can all too easily impersonate your email addresses and phish users with an email that apparently came from your domain.
kirab··on Eight things to know about large language models [pdf]
ChatGPT is not good when it needs to answer directly. If you let it lead itself to the right answer it's pretty good.

# Kira

I found this sequence: "0, done, 2, free, 4, hive"

Reason step-by-step about the pattern.

Consecutively continue the sequence with four more entries.

Consecutively reflect on your answer and fix mistakes in case you broke the pattern.

# ChatGPT4

After examining the given sequence, "0, done, 2, free, 4, hive", we can notice an interesting pattern. It appears that the sequence alternates between numbers and words that sound like numbers. Let's break down the pattern:

"0" is a number. "done" sounds like the number "1" when spoken aloud. "2" is a number. "free" sounds like the number "3" when spoken aloud. "4" is a number. "hive" sounds like the number "5" when spoken aloud. Given this pattern, we can continue the sequence with four more entries:

The next number in the sequence is "6". The word that sounds like the number "7" is "heaven". The next number in the sequence is "8". The word that sounds like the number "9" is "nein", which is German for "no".

So, the continued sequence would be: "0, done, 2, free, 4, hive, 6, heaven, 8, nein".

Reflecting on the pattern and the answer provided, the continuation seems to be consistent with the established pattern. We alternated between numbers and words that phonetically resemble numbers, resulting in the sequence "6, heaven, 8, nein" for the next four entries.

kirab··on Ask HN: Any solo game developers here?
They want a tight-knit group. Which is inherently exclusive but that's not the predominant attribute.
kirab··on Intel tapes out chips on 1.8nm and 2nm production nodes
Did you read the article? It's literally what Intel is doing.
kirab··on Ask HN: I'm 40 and feel my mental ability declining. Programming seems harder.
It took me 2-3 years to fully heal from my burnout. Allow yourself more time if it's only 7 months since you quit your burnout-inducing job. The improvement of my energy, my mental abilities and memory is breathtaking, mentally I feel like 18 again (though I am 35 now).
kirab··on Oversight body: Facebook can’t block ‘Death to Khamenei’ slogan
This is a 1:1 translation of the German News Article https://www.heise.de/news/Aufsichtsgremium-Facebook-darf-Slo...

But whoever translated it (automatically translated by ChatGPT?) did not translate "Tod dem" which is ironically the German translation of the Persian Slogan. So the translated article which is now in English makes it seem like Persians are talking German.

kirab··on What color is it?
Is Mac this ubiquitous nowadays on Hacker News?

This tool is Mac Only and that's mentioned neither here nor in the article. Only after reading the article, when you want to use the tool, and you scroll down to download it, you finally see that there's only one Mac only Download Button.

kirab··on Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative
It's interesting to see that you agree the most with the one term you are actually personally afflicted with.

Maybe it's the same for so many other terms when the people are actually affected?

kirab··on Journalists want to re-create Twitter on Mastodon. Mastodon is not into it
Same as every online service. There's always admins (even on Twitter of course) who can read the DMs (unless you have proper end-to-end encryption).

FYI: especially now that Elon Musk owns Twitter.. And fired everyone who is not loyal.. The idea of reading DMs of employees at competing companies is not far fetched at all.

kirab··on Pessimism is a barrier to progress
Yes of course! What I'm saying is that neither is better in all contexts. There's a lot of nuance.
kirab··on Pessimism is a barrier to progress
Optimism and Pessimism are viewed very differently in different Countries (Germany vs USA) and even Regions (Silicon Valley vs idk Utah).

Apart from that I think the article is mostly wrong. To make progress you need agency and self-confidence. The effects of Optimism and Pessimism are very context-dependent.

Just one example: A very driven and confident pessimist might be much more motivated to find a solution for Climate Change, because he knows for sure otherwise Earth is Doomed.

While a very driven and confident optimist in Politics might reduce Carbon Tax, because he knows for sure that Technology Companies will find solutions for Climate Change and they'll find it faster if they have more money.

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